COME ON: Greg Sankey MUST OK 24-Team CFB Playoff EXPANSION for GOOD of SEC or Risk MASSIVE Failure

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🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

SEC power struggle dominates headlines as conference spring meetings kick off in Destin. Can Commissioner Greg Sankey recover after being outmaneuvered by the Big Ten on College Football Playoff expansion, or is the SEC risking self-sabotage with its new nine-game schedule? The playoff debate heats up: 12 teams not enough, 24 too many—where will the stalemate end, and how will ESPN’s resistance shape the future? Eric Cain analyzes Tennessee Volunteers’ crucial path in the Chapel Hill Regional, spotlighting tough matchups against North Carolina, East Carolina and VCU in a pitching-heavy bracket. Get insider perspective on the Vols’ thin margin for error, key player updates—including Landon Mack and Reese Chapman’s potential return—and prospects for advancing. Plus, Eric Cain fields pressing mailbag questions on Tennessee’s recruiting battles, NIL strategy, and favorite war movies, all while keeping the focus sharp on the SEC’s most pivotal week of the year.

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0:00.0	All eyes on Destin for the SEC spring meetings and Greg Sanky needs to go ahead and accept the feet and move on.
0:10.0	You are locked on balls. Your daily podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers.
0:18.0	Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:23.6	Thank you, Tuesday morning, everybody.
0:25.0	Welcome into Lockdown Falls.
0:26.5	Hope you guys had a great Memorial Day with friends and family,
0:29.5	remembering the reason for that day.
0:31.8	Welcome back in here to Lockdown Falls.
0:33.6	Big show coming up here today.
0:35.1	Mailback questions is the 7 number 3,
0:37.2	breaking down the Chapel Hill Regional for Tennessee Baseball as the two-seed,
0:41.5	host seed, North Carolina.
0:42.8	What does all that have entail for the volunteers coming up on Friday?
0:46.4	That's in segment number two.
0:47.8	But first, the SEC spring meetings begin today.
0:50.9	They'll be held this week in 38, Destin, and you've got athletic directors,
0:55.5	you've got chancellors, you've got presidents, you've got Greg Sanky, you've got head coaches.
0:59.9	Everybody's going to be down there in Destin for the spring meetings. It's, you know, it's a topical
1:05.4	week every single year. Honestly, it feels like not a whole lot is really said or really accomplished at the SEC spring
1:12.1	meetings to be completely honest with you, this year is going to be different because not only
1:16.3	is this the focal point of the Southeastern Conference, but college football, all lies
1:21.2	are going to be on Destin to determine what the SEC is going to be doing in terms of college
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