0 comments by Matt Zemek on 7/18/2014
This past Monday at SEC Media Days, SEC Commissioner Mike Slive once again reiterated his desire to see the five power conferences gain more decision-making autonomy in collegiate athletics. Friday morning, the NCAA moved the ball in that very direction. * “Autonomy saw some changes as well, including: a refinement of the list of items […]
0 comments by Terry P. Johnson
The subject of the Power 5 conferences came up briefly at SEC Media Days, causing many fans to ask, “What does this mean?” The tweet below provides a pretty good example. Here’s how autonomy could work: pic.twitter.com/0pg0udsZtE — Inside the NCAA (@InsidetheNCAA)
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SEC Media Days are over. It’s time to take stock of the league with a couple of Friday roundtables. Check out a coach-centric Arkansas and Auburn roundtable here. Also see contributor Kevin Causey’s “Flashback Friday” post on the first SEC Championship Game from 1992. 1. Which team is more likely to bounce back with a […]
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SEC Media Days have finally ended after four full days of press conferences and radio row marathons. One comment that drew notice at the event in Hoover, Ala., was a little jab by Arkansas head coach Bret Bielema at the situation facing Auburn coach Gus Malzahn and quarterback Nick Marshall. During his podium session on Wednesday, […]
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The SEC was front and center this week with their media days circus. What better way to cap off the week than to look back at a game that changed college football, the inaugural SEC Championship Game. The year was 1992 and believe or not, the game was not held at the Georgia Dome. The […]
0 comments by Jonathan Biles on 7/17/2014
It’s Alabama day at SEC Media Days, the most crowded day on the schedule at the Hoover, Ala. event. Any time Alabama coach Nick Saban is scheduled to attend, the tiny lobby gets filled to the brim, bringing out fans that run the gamut from rational people to Ring Hat Man. A new face in […]
Gary Pinkel has coached the best short-field team in the SEC over the past two seasons. Missouri has squeezed more production out of this one stat than any other SEC team since the start of the 2012 campaign.
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Senior Texas A&M defensive back Deshazor Everett was going through the car wash earlier this week at SEC media days and had stopped to get hosed down by Mark Packer of SiriusXM College Sports. “What are the differences between the players in this league and the Big 12?,” Packer asked. It seemed like an odd […]
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As we learned yesterday, Alabama will play USC on Sept. 3, 2016 in the Cowboys Classic in AT&T Stadium, the shining, shimmering football monolith in Arlington, Texas. The Alabama-USC rivalry has been dormant for a few decades but it remains historic. The Crimson Tide currently hold the winning record of 5-2 over the Trojans, but […]
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0 comments by Terry P. Johnson on 7/16/2014
I absolutely love SEC Media Days. While it can turn into a circus pretty quickly, it also produces some pretty humorous bits. Nothing demonstrates this point better than the hashtag #ControversialThingsRichtMightSay. Here’s a zinger that gets several of Georgia’s foes: I like the color orange
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Even though Johnny Football is off the to the NFL, there are still plenty of QB stories to go around in the SEC. Consider the following tweet:
This is what Les Miles must feel like when his team averages at least four yards per carry in a game. No team has a higher winning percentage in such games since the 2005 FBS season.
0 comments by Matt Zemek
At SEC Media Days on Wednesday, LSU head coach Les Miles — one of the foremost media stars in the conference — took the podium and gave a relatively bland presentation. Yet, even a quiet afternoon by The Hat’s standards still provides a few choice quotes, and this was no exception. The clear highlight of […]
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On Wednesday at SEC Media Days in Hoover, Ala., College Football Playoff executive director Bill Hancock explained how this new system will work. Well, at least, he tried to. Here’s a simple summary of Hancock’s presentation, in six tweets: The summary is clearer than anything Hancock said, that’s for sure. Wait — don’t tweet that. […]
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UCLA has owned one of the cleanest and best football uniforms in college football for decades. The Bruins have a uniform as simple — and as cherished — as Penn State, Alabama, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and other schools. There was never a need for improvement; the point went without saying. However, companies just have to try […]
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One more entry to be filed under “college football officiating madness” (or “college football thought police”) for the 2014 season: You can’t make this stuff up. Hopefully, players will find creative ways to make the end zone a hotel of happiness… but not lead officials to litter their “hotel rooms” with more laundry. The potential […]
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Eight men out? No — eight men out on the field. That’s what college football wants to try to do more of. SEC Media Days began on Wednesday with a look at various rule and procedural changes for the coming season. Here are two tweets that will help you to get up to speed. First, […]
