COLLEGE STATION, Texas — COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said Saturday that combining the TV rights of all conferences to sell together wouldn’t serve as a quick fix for college sports and might not be a fix at all.Sankey, speaking before the Florida-Texas A&M football game, outlined why he doesn’t think the pooling of TV rights — an idea that has drawn attention lately — is a good idea. His comments are a direct rebuke of an idea proposed by Texas Tech’s billionaire head of regents, Cody Campbell, who said earlier in the week the idea of combining the rights is being held back because “the conferences are all represented by commissioners who are very, very self-interested.”“Just as we did for expansion, just as we did for our last media rights negotiation, we’ll prepare for our future as the Southeastern Conference,” Sankey said. “I also think it’s important to understand there’s not some tweak to the Sports Broadcasting Act. The interest of networks, the interest of professional leagues, go well beyond just college sports. And that has to be acknowledged as opposed to simply observe (that) here’s a quick fix.”A bill in Congress co-sponsored by Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., calls for a rewrite of the 1961 Sports Broadcasting Act, which forbids the conferences from combining their TV rights. Campbell supports that element of Cantwell’s recently introduced SAFE Act. In his presentation Thursday to …
