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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – To reach the main entrance of the Grand Hyatt Hotel where SEC Football Media Days are being held this week, the local DOT detours traffic three blocks north in a single lane traveling between concrete barricades, directs it into a U-turn, then brings it back three blocks…

Rival schools and states keep trying to one up one another on name, image and likeness rules, creating a complete mess. Something needs to change soon.

The NCAA and conference commissioners are exploring several changes to current recruiting policies, including letters of intent, the early signing period and the IAWP rule.

Even if it’s just a short-term solution, the country’s best conference opted for a softer path with a safer outcome in its eight-game football schedule.

College football’s premier conference committed Thursday to keeping an eight-game league slate, at least temporarily, ahead of the SEC debuts of Texas and Oklahoma.

A temporary eight-game format that accounts for the conference’s newcomers is under serious consideration at spring meetings.

For at least a year now, the SEC’s most powerful executives have explored paths to manage athlete compensation in a more regulated way.

Within the 11-state footprint of the country’s most dominant league, some schools have worked with state lawmakers to rewrite statutes to give them an advantage over neighboring programs.

The contentious issues could alter the landscape of secondary rivalries and future home games, leaving plenty to discuss in Destin, Fla.