Mike Slive
Mike Slive
Michael Lawrence Sliveis an American attorney and college sports executive. Slive is the former commissioner of the Southeastern Conference, a college athletics association. As part of his role as the SEC Commissioner, he served as the coordinator of the Bowl Championship Series for the 2006 and 2007 regular seasons. He was a member of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Committee through September 2009 and served as the chairman of the committee for the 2008–09 academic year. He has announced...
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Hurricane Katrina has devastated the lives of victims in four of the SEC's states, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi, and may continue to do so for months and years to come,
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He has resigned and will no longer officiate in the Southeastern Conference. If he had not resigned, he would have been prevented from officiating in this league.
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I just think a lot of good basketball is being played throughout the country. Without getting into specific teams or specific conferences, you see it and you do your best to monitor it, and in terms of selections it makes for a difficult challenge ahead of us.
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I'm the commissioner and I wanted everybody here on my media day. I'm disappointed he is not here.
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I'm happy. I'm especially happy because before the season started all my friends in the media pronounced us dead.
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I can't think that far ahead. Just having two of our teams at the Final Four is quite an accomplishment in itself.
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I don't want to deal in the world of speculation. But I don't see any significant changes. Then again, it's early in the day.
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The fascinating thing about the committee is that in the final analysis, you have to exercise your own subjective judgment. It's so easy to just latch onto numbers. You could have watched a team play whose numbers really don't truly illustrate how good it is.
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The conference didn't have to take any action of any kind,
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Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.
hope peace
Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.