SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey was one of those in attendance last week at the roundtable event hosted by President Trump, and when it was his turn to speak, he issued a stern warning to lawmakers that things cannot continue the way they have been in college sports.

While talking to Paul Finebaum, recapping what happened at the event, Sankey made some significant headlines by reiterating the fact that coaches in the conference are fed up with the NCAA being unable to enforce its own rules.

He said the conference is in discussions of ways they can govern their own member institutions and not be victim continuously to the NCAA’s lack of action.

“People are tired of talking about name, image and likeness,” Sankey told Finebaum. “They’re tired of talking about lawsuits. What they want is, in a way, what the President spoke of: I want to go back to when we focused on the fields, the tracks, the swimming pools — about the competition…I don’t think anyone on any campus wants the status quo to remain. In our league, by unanimous vote, we can’t go on as we are.”

Sankey seems to be echoing the same sentiment that fans have had for the last five years, though it remains to be seen if any actual action is taken from the conference. Self-governance may be the only way for enforcement to actually occur. It will certainly face its own legal challenges as well and hypothetically does not stop schools from other conferences from tampering with SEC athletes.

Regardless, it could be a step in the right direction to return things to some semblance of normalcy.