For many of the people who follow college football, and college athletics, closely, the 2021 announcement of Texas and Oklahoma’s plans to enter the SEC could b
e described with many words.Three years later, SEC Network personality Paul Finebaum was front and center for bothwelcoming themselves into the SEC as the athletic calendar turned on the first of July.
“In many ways it was surreal,” Finebaum said. “We’ve been talking about it for three years and counting down every day on the network. But still, it was almost hard to believe Sunday night, standing up looking down over, I don’t know, 40-50,000 people mulling around, that this moment in time had finally arrived,” Finebaum said.
Finebaum is as SEC as you can get. The author spent much of his early career in Birmingham, Alabama, writing about the southeastern conference. Now, Finebaum hosts his own show on SEC Network, throwing out takes and opinions related to the conference. Now, in 2024, the SEC has made its biggest shift in conference history.
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