SEC Media Days

Legacy · Jul 12, 2016

SEC Media Days is a summer tent revival like no other

If the Southeastern Conference were an actual religion, the SEC Media Days would be its annual tent revival.

Consider it the yearly call to worship for a sport a few people in the South might take a little too seriously. This time around, SEC Media Days begins on Monday and runs through Thursday at The Wynfrey Hotel in Hoover, Ala. How would someone describe it in one sentence? Shakespeare said it best, of course. The coach "struts and frets" on the dais for about an hour, and then is "heard no more."

If college football had a come to Jesus meeting, SEC Media Days would be the opposite of that. It's not important, but it's all important. Sound and fury, and all that jazz.

There are about 69.5 million Catholics in the United States. There are over 70 million subscribers to the SEC Network. So, it's kind of a big deal.

Folks in the Bible Belt like to call football a religion, but if the SEC were an actual form of theology, it's size would rival the country's largest denomination of Christianity. On Monday, all 14 sects of SECology come together at The Wynfrey for the religion's annual pilgrimage.

SEC media days: Times, TV schedule, streaming info for football media days in Alabama (NCAA)

Legacy · Jul 12, 2016

2016 SEC Media Days: The five best things to happen on Day 1, from socks to shade

Media Days are supposed to be fun, so we recapped the five best things that happened on the first day of SEC Media Days

2016 SEC Media Days: The three most interesting things to happen on Day 2

From a terrible Nelson Mandela comparison to Dan Mullen's stance on Jeffery Simmons, here are the best quotes from the second day of SEC Media Days

dublinirish · Jul 13, 2016

https://www.seccountry.com/sec/miss...elivers-tone-deaf-explanation-jeffery-simmons

Dan Mullen is a prick

Irish#1 · Jul 13, 2016

dublinirish said:
https://www.seccountry.com/sec/miss...elivers-tone-deaf-explanation-jeffery-simmons

Dan Mullen is a prick

and a dumbass.

PANDFAN · Jul 13, 2016

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Saban on Cam Robinson's status: was not charged w anything.The facts we've have were not what was advertised.. Sounds like no missed time</p>— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) <a href="https://twitter.com/BruceFeldmanCFB/status/753242615097753606">July 13, 2016</a></blockquote>
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koonja · Jul 13, 2016

I know it sounds like Saban is ridiculous for not sitting him out, but he preaches 'discipline' not 'punishment'. Says sitting him out hurts the team. I heard on the Audible what Cam has to do, and it's pretty intense. He has to ride along with police for like 30 hours, 20 hours of community service, and attend a class for like 2 hours a week throughout the season on gun abuse.

Not saying I disagree, but I get Saban's perspective.

NDdomer2 · Jul 13, 2016

Jonathan Allen said the goal for Alabama's defense is a whopping 10 sacks per game: "We have high standards and expect to dominate."

from espn

Legacy · Jul 13, 2016

Our Bama friends would have been more harsh if I remember correctly. Corrective action plans Taylored to the implications of the offense can be the best way to go in first time offenders.

Maybe he can pass along the idea to Miles.

PANDFAN · Jul 13, 2016

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Apparently Saban ripped into Finebaum off camera big time.</p>— Bill King (@BillisKing) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillisKing/status/753265246911991809">July 13, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">No video yet that I know of.</p>— Bill King (@BillisKing) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillisKing/status/753266366359203841">July 13, 2016</a></blockquote>
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PANDFAN · Jul 13, 2016

<blockquote class="twitter-video" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Full video: Saban goes off on Paul Finebaum<a href="https://t.co/3fhyqU9fiY">https://t.co/3fhyqU9fiY</a><a href="https://t.co/lazKcCfsPO">https://t.co/lazKcCfsPO</a></p>— FootballScoop Staff (@FootballScoop) <a href="https://twitter.com/FootballScoop/status/753267311277019136">July 13, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-video" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">ESPN goes to commercial, then Saban went off on Finebaum. This video & video of interaction <a href="https://t.co/3fhyqU9fiY">https://t.co/3fhyqU9fiY</a><a href="https://t.co/PR1XyuuaVr">https://t.co/PR1XyuuaVr</a></p>— FootballScoop Staff (@FootballScoop) <a href="https://twitter.com/FootballScoop/status/753270973206376448">July 13, 2016</a></blockquote>
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listen to the 2nd video

BGIF · Jul 13, 2016

AD jumps ship at troubled Missouri, increasing the challenge for Barry Odom

Dan Wolken, USA TODAY Sports 6:53 p.m. EDT July 13, 2016

HOOVER, Ala. — When the Southeastern Conference voted to add Missouri in 2011, it was widely viewed as a marriage of (television) convenience. Missouri wasn’t a major power in either revenue sport (no conference football titles since the 1960s, and zero Final Four appearances), didn’t represent a natural rivalry for any current member and isn’t even really in the South.

What it had, however, was the allure of two major markets in St. Louis and Kansas City with a lot of cable subscribers that could help get the SEC Network — still merely in the planning phase at that time — off the ground.

To date, though, Missouri’s biggest contribution to the SEC is in the off-field drama department. There seems to be an endless supply; enough that its athletics director decided Wednesday after 15 months on the job he’d rather give it a go at Baylor of all places.

Roughly an hour before first-year Missouri coach Barry Odom was set to make his debut here at SEC Media Days, USA TODAY Sports reported that Mack Rhoades, the man who hired him last December, had accepted the athletics director job at Baylor.

The same Baylor that just fired everyone — president, athletics director, football coach — after an investigation into how the school handled sexual assault complaints involving athletes. The same Baylor whose football program is going to lose two years of recruiting when the next coach comes in, setting it up for a significant fall from the national contender status it has grown accustomed to over the last few years. The same Baylor that is going to face years' worth of lawsuits, potential donor issues, enrollment struggles and potentially involvement from the Big 12 and NCAA.

So if Baylor is a complete mess at the moment, what does that make Mizzou?

Since taking advantage of a weak SEC East in making the championship game, here are the major headlines Missouri has had to deal with — all during Rhoades’ 15-month tenure:

►A boycott by the football team in November related to racial tension on campus, which helped speed up the resignation of the university system president.

►The sudden retirement of football coach Gary Pinkel, who is fighting lymphoma, after 15 seasons.

►The suspension of quarterback Maty Mauk, then dismissal following a video that surfaced on social media that showed him snorting a white powder.

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Missouri coach Barry Odom is calm in a sea of change

►A major NCAA infractions case in men’s basketball, which included a loss of scholarships and a postseason ban (though at 10-21, the Tigers weren’t a threat to make any postseason tournament in the first place).

►The removal of baseball coach Tim Jamieson, who had been at the school more than two decades.

►A Title IX investigation into allegations of verbal abuse by softball coach Ehren Earleywine, which prompted some players to release a statement that they were playing under protest.

That kind of constant athletic department dysfunction used to be Tennessee’s job. Now it’s Mizzou’s, which isn’t the job Rhoades thought he was inheriting.

Missouri fans will not remember him fondly or be able to cite a single major accomplishment under Rhoades, but it’s hard to get much done when your entire first year as an athletics director is spent putting out fires and your future is uncertain with the school’s administrative leadership completely in flux.

Missouri is in a rough place right now, and not just athletically. Enrollment and donations are down. Dorms have closed because the rooms aren’t being filled. The protests last fall, which were at least somewhat an outgrowth of the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., shined a spotlight on racial relations that has made recruiting African-American athletes and non-athletes even more challenging.

And those issues played a big part in why Missouri hired Odom, who, despite his obvious coaching talent, has a thin résumé for an SEC head coaching job.

Odom, who played linebacker at Missouri from 1996-99, wanted the job regardless of the athletics director. He was a star defensive coordinator under Justin Fuente at Memphis and returned to Missouri last season, where he led a top-10 defense. Even with the news of Rhoades’ departure breaking right before his SEC Media Days debut, Odom looked calm and in control. His performance should be reassuring to Missouri fans.

“(Rhoades) and I talked a lot last night just about opportunities in life and in general,” Odom said. “We’ve worked through a bunch of things in the last eight months together. But the direction and leadership of Missouri, I look forward to representing Mizzou. I look forward to representing and leading our football program and our athletic department, and we're going to go find a great one. I look forward to being involved with that and helping if they want my help.

“Mizzou is a special place and has been a really great place for a long time. And the future for our program and our university is really bright. You know, we need someone in that role that is looking forward to having a great vision on taking us to a new level of success.”

Still, without a solid and stable administration behind him, there’s little chance Odom can make this work. In years past, Missouri could have counted on one of the many disciples of former athletics director Mike Alden to come back and right the ship. But even members of that group will look at Missouri, in its current state, with a skeptical eye.

Missouri would do well to consider elevating Wren Baker, whom Rhoades hired from Memphis as his top deputy and is considered a rising star in the world of athletics administration. Missouri needs continuity, and Baker has both the intelligence, people skills and media savvy to make the best of a rough situation.

Though it doesn’t look good for Missouri to lose Rhoades to Baylor, all it takes is one good hire to get things turned around. If not, Odom’s opening statement here — “I hope that I have the opportunity to be here many, many times” — is destined to go unfulfilled.

dublinirish · Jul 14, 2016

Monroe Police public information officer Chris Bates laughed at the idea that the officers had football on their mind during the arrests of Robinson and Jones.

“I can tell you for a fact that the first officer on the scene is not an LSU fan,” Bates said Wednesday afternoon. “He hates LSU. He doesn’t like the color yellow or purple and gold. In fact, he’s a Florida fan. If you mention LSU around him, he throws up in his mouth. Most of our officers are LSU fans, but we have some who are Arkansas fans and Georgia fans and Alabama fans. And I’ll tell you this, the first officer did not even know those guys were players.”

Bates explained that the first officer noticed four men in a car at 1:30 a.m. in Forsythe Park, which was closed at the time.

“They were in plain view,” he said. “Our officer was doing his job. They were not supposed to be there. He called for backup, and the other officers arrived and made the arrest. We enforce the law based on the law.”

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