“Not Realistic”: ESPN’s Paul Finebaum Gives Unfiltered Take on Kirby Smart’s SEC Proposal

Following last week’s discussion among B1G leaders, a possibility of self-governance was whispered in the SEC meeting this week. Georgia head coach Kirby Smart was quite vocal about it, saying he isn’t “afraid to break away.” However, ESPN’s Paul Finebaum doesn’t think that it would happen.

“I heard an idea floating yesterday,” said Finebaum during his May 27 appearance on Get Up. “You have to go back 60 years to where the NFL and the AFL were separate, and they met in what is now called the Super Bowl. I don’t think it’s realistic right now.”

“There are so many people here unhappy with where we are, and it’s so complicated. A year ago, when we talked, everybody was talking about the house settlement. Remember that, saving college sports? I had a college president tell me yesterday, ‘We are worse off today than we were.’ So that’s why you’re hearing this type of talk right now.”

“I don’t think it’s realistic right now, but there’s so many people here unhappy with where we are.”

—@finebaum on the possibility of the SEC branching out on their own pic.twitter.com/vDvGtShoP5

— Get Up (@GetUpESPN) May 27, 2026

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