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Greg Sankey: SEC Lands 2024 Media Day Foothold in Dallas

As Oklahoma and Texas transition to their new league next year, the SEC will let them begin in familiar territory.
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Greg Sankey: SEC Lands 2024 Media Day Foothold in Dallas
Greg Sankey: SEC Lands 2024 Media Day Foothold in Dallas

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Where else would Oklahoma and Texas attend their first SEC Media Days than Dallas?

Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey revealed Monday during his state of the conference address that 2024 SEC Media Days will be staged in Dallas, rather than typical Southern strongholds like Atlanta, Birmingham or Nashville.

The SEC's four-day media days event will be held July 15-18 at the Omni Hotel in downtown Dallas. It's the same hotel the Big 12 staged its media days as recently as 2016. 

Big 12 Media Days were at The Star in Frisco in 2017, and have been at AT&T Stadium in Arlington since 2018.

It's a good move by the SEC to welcome in its two new members and its reconstituted membership. But no doubt it feels like yet another encroachment by the SEC into Big 12 Conference territory. 

Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark spoke proudly last week in Arlington about the Big 12 re-upping with AT&T Stadium to host the Big 12 championship game through 2030 and other championship venues.

But the league that swiped two Big 12 members back in 2011 and 2012 and then took the two flagship members in 2021 now has announced its intention to stage its annual kickoff event deep in the heart of Texas and just a few miles from the Big 12's home offices in Las Colinas.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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