HOOVER, Alabama — SEC Media Days will come to Nashville in 2021, Commissioner Greg Sankey announced here Monday.

It will be held at the Grand Hyatt, set to open in fall 2020 at 1000 Broadway, at the new sprawling Nashville Yards site. SEC Media Days will be held in Atlanta in 2020.

Nashville Sports Council CEO Scott Ramsey said the SEC opened up bids for a three-year window, from 2021 to 2023. Nashville got the first year available, and the host for the other two years has not been determined.

SEC Media Days hosts football coaches, selected players and about 1,100 media members for the annual four-day event. AL.com estimated this year's event will bring about $1 million in spending on hotels, restaurants, retail and more to the Birmingham area.

"The SEC gave us the nod, so we're going to do SEC Media Days with a Music City style," Ramsey said, grinning widely and standing outside the main media room.

SEC Media Days has been held in the Birmingham area every year since its inception in 1985, except when it went to Atlanta last year. This week’s SEC Media Days is at the Wynfrey Hotel for the 18th time in the past 19 years.

Any NFL Draft elements used for SEC Media Days?

Nashville hosted the NFL Draft in April. SEC Media Days doesn't compare in size or scope to that event, but it still draws a lot of attention in the summer with more than 40 hours of exposure on ESPN and SEC Network.

Ramsey said Nashville already has "ideas, concepts, blueprints and options that have worked from other events" to present to the SEC.

Integrating country music is an obvious option. The location of multiple SEC Network sets probably won't be determined until the Grand Hyatt is complete and the Nashville Yards site is developed.

"Hopefully over the next year or so, we'll be able to announce those plans in waves," Ramsey said.

Plans to bring SEC fans to Nashville

There also could be plans for greater fan engagement. Eccentric Alabama fans always have added charm to SEC Media Days at the Wynfrey Hotel, but there have been few from other fan bases.

Nashville's location, presumably, would be a destination for fans of several SEC schools. SEC Fan Fest areas have been popular at the SEC men’s basketball tournament, which Nashville will host every year through 2035, except 2022. That year the women's basketball tournament will be in Nashville while the men's tournament will be in Tampa.

"It's the SEC's event, and we're the host. So it's up to them on what they want to do with the event," Ramsey said. "But having experience with the events we've hosted in the last five years gives them a lot of good opportunities."

Sankey had previously said the conference was considering Nashville, Dallas and Atlanta for future SEC Media Days. Nashville hosted the 2016 SEC Basketball Media Days on short notice when the league pulled out of Charlotte over the controversy surrounding the North Carolina "bathroom law."

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