http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...reg-sankey-sec-commissioner-gameday/73841286/
Sankey drives to the Birmingham airport, where a twin engine chartered flight awaits. Along with Steve Shaw, the SEC's officiating coordinator, and Herb Vincent, its associate commissioner for communications, he makes a one-hour flight to Knoxville for the Georgia-Tennessee game. Going to games isn't new, but the mode of transport is.
Until his promotion, Sankey traveled most weeks to SEC games as one of the conference's official representatives, but he either flew commercial or drove. Either way, he routinely fought traffic into and out of stadiums. Once, without a parking pass, he talked his way into a parking garage near Tennessee’s Neyland Stadium.
"Wear a necktie and carry a business card," he says, but then laughs. "It didn't work at Ole Miss."
That time, Sankey was turned away from a lot near the stadium. He wound up parking a mile away at a mall, then taking a shuttle to the game.
Sankey drives to the Birmingham airport, where a twin engine chartered flight awaits. Along with Steve Shaw, the SEC's officiating coordinator, and Herb Vincent, its associate commissioner for communications, he makes a one-hour flight to Knoxville for the Georgia-Tennessee game. Going to games isn't new, but the mode of transport is.
Until his promotion, Sankey traveled most weeks to SEC games as one of the conference's official representatives, but he either flew commercial or drove. Either way, he routinely fought traffic into and out of stadiums. Once, without a parking pass, he talked his way into a parking garage near Tennessee’s Neyland Stadium.
"Wear a necktie and carry a business card," he says, but then laughs. "It didn't work at Ole Miss."
That time, Sankey was turned away from a lot near the stadium. He wound up parking a mile away at a mall, then taking a shuttle to the game.
