Posted: Friday, May 18, 2018 1:06 pm
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Updated: 1:08 pm, Fri May 18, 2018.
Associated Press |
Mike Slive, the former Southeastern Conference commissioner responsible for bringing Missouri and Texas A&M to the league in 2012, died Wednesday in Birmingham, Alabama. He was 77. A cause of death was not provided by the SEC.
Slive retired in 2015 after 13 years as commissioner amidst a battle with prostate cancer. He replaced Roy Kramer as SEC commissioner in 2002, coming from Conference USA to help clean up an SEC that was beset by NCAA compliance issues. Soon after, the SEC became the most powerful conference in college football, winning seven straight national championships and landing television contracts that have made the league one of the two richest in all of college sports.
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