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DEL.ICIO.USSEC coaches vote for early signing day
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A few things worth noting here at the SEC Spring Meetings:
1. Coaches vote on early signing period: The idea of an early signing period for football, probably in late November, keeps being discussed at these meetings. The idea is to provide an opportunity for guys to sign after their senior season instead of having to wait until the national signing date, which is the first Wednesday in February. The coaches voted 9-3 in favor of a proposal that would allow schools to sign players for one day on the Monday before Dec. 1.
The rationale for the rule is that more and more players are committing early and would like to sign and avoid the final six weeks of recruiting. It would take pressure off coaches if they didn’t have to sign their entire class on one day.
Urban Meyer is against it. “Kids are being pressured too early as it is,” Meyer said. “We should be taking more time, not less time, to evaluate these guys.”
Nick Saban is for it. “I just think we spend too much time and money babysitting guys who have already committed to us who want to sign. Let those guys sign and let’s spend our time and money recruiting the ones who have not made a decision.”
Phillip Fulmer said he could be talked into it. “I’m coming around to the idea. If there was a way to let the guys sign early and get them off the board, it would simplify the final weeks of recruiting.”
Bobby Petrino of Arkansas is against it: “I just don’t think it helps a school like Arkansas. We got here in December and were able to change some minds of some young men in our state. Had there been an early signing period those kids might have been already signed. I just don’t think it’s a fit for us.”
The idea still has to be approved by the league’s athletics directors and sent to the NCAA in the form of proposed legislation. The odds are still very much against it.
2. The Prez asks about Stafford: Georgia coach Mark Richt met with President George W. Bush on Monday when he returned from the Middle East. Now the president is a baseball man who formerly owned the Texas Rangers. But he is also a proud Texan. So he asked Richt about his quarterback, Matt Stafford, a native of Dallas.
“The President wanted to know how we were able to get a quarterback out of Highland Park High School. “I just told him that we were happy to have Matt on our side.”
3. Tuberville’s Lucky Seven: Only in the state of Alabama could this be an issue.
Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville was with Richt in the Middle East and on their last night they joined forces to coach a flag football game among the troops. When Tuberville’s team won 14-12 the players lifted the coaches on their shoulders. At the encouragement of the soldiers, many of whom were SEC fans, Tuberville lifted seven fingers in the air.
The news and photos of the gesture quickly made it to the other side of the world. Needless to say, the reference did not go unnoticed in Tuscaloosa. Auburn has won six straight games against Alabama and Tuberville, one of the better PR coaches around, has gigged the Crimson Tide faithful after each game by holding up the appropriate amount of fingers. After the streak got to four, Tuberville actually has some “Fear The Thumb” T-shirts printed.
Think that photo won’t come up in November when Auburn will be going for its seventh straight win over Alabama?
“Shoot, we were just having fun,” Tuberville said.
In case you’re making plans, that game is Nov. 29 in Tuscaloosa.
4. Will there be five years of eligibility? The Big 12 is sponsoring legislation to give football players five years of eligibility. That would eliminate red shirting, where players simply sit out their freshmen season and then get to play four years.
“It makes sense because there are guys that you hold back who could help you at least on the special teams,” Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer said. “You could also use those guys when you get to November and your team is starting to get banged up.”
The odds of passage, however, are slim because college presidents are hesitant to make an eligibility rule that applies to only one sport. And there is reason to believe that if players received five years of eligibility, the coaches would eventually ask for an increase of their current 85 scholarships. That won’t happen.
Florida coach Urban Meyer had a different take on this issue.
“I’m not sure it really helps a school like Florida because most of the guys we bring in we plan to play right away,” he said. “We don’t always do it but that’s the plan. The athlete at this level is rarely going to stick around for five years.”
5. Some early SEC TV: We’ll probably get an announcement today or tomorrow but here are four games that you can probably mark on your calendars right now.
Sept. 13: Georgia at South Carolina, CBS Sept. 20: Florida at Tennessee, CBS Sept. 20: LSU at Auburn, ESPN Nov. 1: Georgia vs. Florida (Jacksonville), CBS.
Also, don’t be surprised if CBS does a double header on Oct. 11 with Florida-LSU in Gainesville and Georgia-Tennessee in Athens.
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Comments
By Spike
May 29, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this
What about UGA vs. LSU?
By Roswell Ed
May 29, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this
What is the big deal?
Shouldn’t the fact that Tubs took the time to visit the troups in Iraq be the big story?
Most Bammer fans have to use their fingers to count anyway.
In fact I heard that Bammer men had trouble counting over 21!!
I wonder what Saban was doing while Tubs was visiting our nation’s best?
I would guess trying to teleconference with some hot shot 5th grade receiver.
WDE!!
By Munson's Call
May 29, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this
Funny that Petrino says an early signing period isn’t a good fit for Arkansas. Doesn’t he mean it won’t be a good fit for the next school he coaches at? I’m sure when he does leave Arkansas it will be the toughest decision of his life.
By shane #1
May 29, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this
1- I am all for an early signing day. Anything that would lessen recruiting hype is a good thing. I am also not suprised that Meyer is against it, he won’t be able to steal recruits that have commited to other schools. 2- Why does it matter to Bush? Was He recruiting for Yale? 3- Bama fans are soooo sensitive! 4- I would vote no on this one. The red shirt program is great for college football, especially for qbs and o linemen. These are difficult posistions and most kids are not ready to play as true freshman. I believe the red shirt system brings Us a better brand of football. Starting Kids too early would lessen the level of play, much like when the NBA started taking kids too early. 5- I hope the SEC doesn’t start it’s own network unless they keep the same distribution system. I would hate for some fans to miss seeing Their team because Their Cable system doesn’t carry CSS or FSN. Maybe the SEC should just buy a network, like Notre Dame did. I love it when the Domers talk about being all for academics!
By REGGIE BALL
May 29, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this
Lay off saban …. he can’t help it if he thinks he was the one that gave moses the ten commandments …. I love the idea about the early signing period. I also hope we get the SEC TV
By Haywood Jablowme
May 29, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this
Slow news day, huh, Tony?
What catches my attention about this section is the fact that you found a way to get Urbam Cryer and Nick $atan to the front of the line in your story again. I guess nothing stirs the pot like these two, huh?
Maybe the President should worry more about how to win the war, or how to solve the high fuel prices, and worry less about how Mark Richt managed to get a player out of Dallas. Jeez, it’s not like UGA hasn’t had a gerat athlete out of Texas before. Anyone remember Terry Hoage? Texans are just like Bama fans….they think an athlete must be off his rocker if he doesn’t want to play for Texas…..just as Bama fans believe the same thing.
I dont think Coach Tubbs was dissing Bama by having 7 fingers in the air. I think he was just signaling 7 points for the score his flag football team put up. Besides, the way the Bammers talk on this forum, one would think they never lost a game to Auburn….much less lost 7 in a ROW to one team. My GOD!! How many Bama coaches does THAT streak encompass?
Yawn…..wont happen. Even if it did, what’s to stop the kids from still leaving after 3 seasons?
I expect the TV execs are wetting their pants right now thinking about how they can get all these SEC games on the air….In the words of Ric Flair….”Whether you LIKE it or don’t like it, learn to LOVE it…..bercause it’s the BEST thing going TODAY!!! WHOOOOOOO!!!!” That phrase best describes SEC football….the best thing going today.
By UnderDawg
May 29, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this
Roswell Ed, male Bammer fans can count all the way to 24 if they remove their shoes and their pants….females are stuck at 21, though.
By UnderDawg
May 29, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this
OOPs, sorry, I mean they can count to 23 if they remove their shoes and pants.
By tech-hater
May 29, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this
Maybe Bush SHOULD be recruiting for Yale. I think the last great player they had was Fred “Twinkletoes” Flintstone, right? Oh wait, that was Prinstone, not Shale, er I mean Yale.
By shane #1
May 29, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this
UnderDawg, I am glad You cleared that up. I was begining to wonder about the male population in Our Sister State to the west———- and about You!
By BuckheadBill
May 29, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this
I thought that he held up 7 fingers to help the players get the correct number on team on the field.
By SecIsFootball
May 29, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this
Hey Roswell “Obsesses with Alabama” Ed….Saben was doing the same thing that Lebo was doing when Mark Gottfried was visiting out troops. Get over yourself and stop making every post on here about Alabama. The Aubsession is pathetic!
As for his holding up 7 fingers, he was playing the crowd. No big deal at all.
By Miles
May 29, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this
George W. Bush is a baseball man. It is from this fact that we can derive his inability to think critically and act morally. On a brighter note, Destin, Florida looks nice today, i.e., a high of 82 degrees with scattered thunder storms, winds out of the southwest at 7 miles per hour, and 69% humidity.
By AltamahaDawg
May 29, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this
Aubsession, good one.
By CarolinaJacket
May 29, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this
Go for the early signing!!! Then, maybe the other conferences will follow.
By Atlanta Gator
May 29, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this
The proposed rule would be a good addition, and would probably be good for both the programs and the already committed players. It would allow the recruiting staffs to separate the sheep from the goats at a much earlier stage of the process, and focus on only the truly uncommitted players without having to worry about someone poaching on their existing verbal commitments. Frankly, it would also help 18 year-olds and their parents overcome the temptation to play to the cameras in the undignified manner that has become all too typical of national signing day.
Yup, the President is a sports fan from Texas, and Stafford played high school ball in Dallas. Nor surprise here.
Lighten up, Tide fans. Tuberville is right; it is only a game. Young men of college age and a little older are fighting and dying for their country in very inhospitable places. College football is supposed to be fun. If holding up the 7-finger salute is the nastiest gesture anyone ever made about a rival’s program, the world would be a better place.
Five years of eligibility is a bad idea. A better idea would be making all freshmen athletes focus on academics rather than sports for their first year. It would be good for the programs and good for the student athletes. That will never happen though, as long as college football is the exclusive minor league for the NFL; until there is a real professional minor league where talented athletes can play without having attended college, they will never be able to put the freshman eligibility genie back in the bottle.
Good games——I’m ready. When does the season start?!
By butt helmet
May 29, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this
Who’s George Bush?
By Joe Mac
May 29, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this
Too much of a big deal has been made of Tuberville’s fingered salutes. Can’t people have fun with one another? It ain’t a big deal. People who make a big deal of it need to get a life.
By Bob
May 29, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this
I surmise that the same people crying like babies over Tubervilles seven fingers are the same people that cry about Georgia’s harmless excessive celebration penalty and black jerseys. There are some serious nancy boys watching SEC football these days. It is THAT popular. Figure skating must really be hurting from the loss of this audience.
By Cabbagetown Dawg
May 29, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this
The early signing period is an excellent idea. There are thousands of kids who know where they want to go before their senior year so why not let them go ahead and sign ASAP so they don’t get hasseled anymore.
Also, it rewards the coaching staffs who are better at early evaluation of talent. It’s no surprise that coaches like Saban and Richt want the early period while a coach like Meyer does not want the early signing period.
I think another benefit would be to eliminate a “Dwayne Allen situation” where if a recruit commits during the summer and then does not sign in November, that tells the coaching staff they are going to get shafted and will have time to move on to someone who does want to play at that school. This would take out a lot of the stupid games and dishonesty that goes on in this business.
By plus one
May 29, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this
Stafford came to UGA because no team in Texas wanted him
By Cabbagetown Dawg
May 29, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this
Plus One, I have to disagree with you on who offered Stafford. I just checked his Rivals profile and the Longhorns did offer him along with Oklahoma, Ok State, Michigan and Florida State.
Also, I’m sure Mike Leach in Lubbock wouldn’t have turned Stafford away, and I’m pretty sure we could say the same for the coaching staffs in Waco, Houston, Dallas, College Station, Ft Worth and El Paso as well as Austin.
By Spike
May 29, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this
Haywood.. Number 5 is classic!! Keep on GATA!!
By BamaDon
May 29, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this
I think it is funny what coach Tubbs did!! If Saban put 5 fingers in the air, it would probably mean 5 more millions added to his suitcase. Mommy said that if you can not say any good thing about somebody, then you better not say any thing? Can you hear the cricketts in the back ground Auburn fans!! I better get off the computer before mommy beats my butt!! ROLL TIDE!!
By Gen Neyland
May 29, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this
Atlanta Gator
Re: your 1145 post
1) I’d never let my goats mingle with filthy sheep
2)CMR should have asked GWB about McClellan
3)I agree
4)After 3 years, there are student-athletes who see no degree in their future. Those that leave early with one are probably in the minority
5)Our season begins 01SEP @ 2000 hrs on ESPN vs UCLA out there…Yours begins 20SEP Atop Rocky
By Roswell Ed
May 29, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this
SECisFootball:
I’m equal opportunity.
Just ask Ramble On, M, ACC fans, the thUg fans, or any dawg… or …dawg.
Typical Bammer though. It’s all about us.
I grew up in Atl and never experienced Al envy or hate.
I went to AU, my family is from Valley and I’m writing this from Lake Martin as we speak. Ain’t too many Bammers to hate around these parts of Al now is there?
The only ones with Bama swag around here are the ones bussing tables or picking up the trash.
Oh wait that is most Bama fans anywhere you go.
Alabamas never really done anything past the time I was about 10 and I really wasn’t paying too much attention to anything besides riding bikes and playing sandlot football then.
By Spike
May 29, 2008 1:31 PM | Link to this
Haywood, I am thinknig I would. I bet UnderDawg already has.
By Roswell Ed
May 29, 2008 1:41 PM | Link to this
Gen Neyland:
If you wanted to sell books would you?
A. Write one that talks about him being in agreement with Bush about everything and maybe sell a few thousand books.
or
B. Write a book that every misguided Marin County Hot-tuber will read just so they can feel better about themselves and their pussycat socialist ideas?
Guess which one he chose.
When is Hussain going to take up McCain’s invitaion to visit our troops in Iraq and see the progress that has been made?
Ask Tubs what he thought of his trip. Nothing but positive.
By the way here is the Hussain clock.
872 days and counting.
www.gop.com
Maybe while he’s over there he can set up a meeting with Castro, Chavez and whatever that crazy arse Iranian dudes name is. They can all hold hands and sing Kum Ba Ya.
I’m sure he can also get his fill of what he called the prettiest sound in the world.
The Muslim call to prayer.
YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA
That is music to the ears.
Have I ever mentioned that I hate Liberals/Socialists?
By Haywood Jablowme
May 29, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this
Fake Spike….I am thinking you would, too….or you would at least hold it under your tongue until the swelling went down. Or you would at least drag a long wet kiss across it…..and all this without even the common decency to give a reach-around.
WOW….you can’t beat the Marine Corps for coming up with good terminology to describe something, huh?
By UnderDawg
May 29, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this
Roswell Ed…..Have you ever wondered WHY the people in the Middle East are so angry all the time? Probably BECAUSE of the YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA that they are likely forced to hear 20 times a day blaring from a PA speaker nailed to a pole. Think about it. Would you be angry if you were forced to hear “RAMMER,JAMMER YELLERHAMMER, GIVE EM HELL ALABAMMER” blaring from a PA speaker nailed to a pole 20 times a day? Yeah, I thought so….
By Tom Davis
May 29, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this
Bush should be more concerned about the war he artificially created and not football players from Texas.
By tech-hater
May 29, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this
Haywood, thats funny right there…I dont care who ya are….Are you sure you’re not really Gunnery Sergeant Hartman from “Full Metal Jacket” ?
By spike
May 29, 2008 2:15 PM | Link to this
Fake Spike… Is that the best you can do? Come on, you can do better than that. Moron.
By Spike
May 29, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this
Oh Haywood, you have such a way with words. I just knew you were a member of the Q-nation. I am so glad you have come out. Now if we can just convince UnderDawg to join us, we can do it Bammer style. Oh Haywood, I love you so.
By Haywood Jablowme
May 29, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this
Sorry to disappoint you, fake Spike, but no, I am not a member of the “Q” nation that you fondly refer to. (from experience, no doubt, or else why would you bring it up?) That kind of thing must be an accepted “alternative lifestyle” wherever you are from. My experiences come from the lovely Phillipines, where the ladies there know how to show a Marine away from home a real good time. All this for 20 bucks a month to boot!
I am sure the experience is a sour one for you though….especially whenever you felt the whiskers on your nether regions from that trick named “Destiny” that you picked up because you thought he/she was the most beautiful thing walking down Peachtree Street…..only then did you discover he/she had an appendage attatched that you didn’t know he/she had. Queer (no pun intended) how those experiences tend to make someone like yourself “come on out”, so to speak.
By Jumbo
May 29, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this
Surely the TV folks have LSU-UGA penciled in too. The defending nat’l champs against one of the favorite for 2008.
By NCT
May 29, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this
Stafford isn’t a native of Dallas. He’s a native of Tampa.
By Spike
May 29, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this
Oh Haywood, you know Destiny so well, and your description is so, so vivid. Destiny really must be our beloved UnderDawg. I like the Phillipines as well. Can we go there? Oh Haywood, you are my main Marine. Pleas take me!!!
By Cuz
May 29, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this
I must have hit the wrong button and made it into the gay/political blog. Sorry, got to look for the football blog. Cuz, hopelessly heterosexual since 1959.
By CarolinaJacket
May 29, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this
Jumbo, why are you writing something that actually has to do with football? But you surely should be right.
By Cuz
May 29, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this
Fine by me, less phone calls around the holidays.
It was a joke, learn humor, your life will be alot less stressful.
They went for two and got it, an eight point score. Yeah, Tuber knew what he was doing, who cares but a bunch of disgruntled Bama fans. Bama fans need to be gruntled more.
No, no, no. Let them learn to study first so that don’t pull a Pulpwood Smith, who now drives a pulpwood truck full time.
Does this one even need a comment. Guess the rest will be on ESPN or whatever Jefferson/Lincoln has evloved into.
By Haywood Jablowme
May 29, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this
Fake spike….I am soooo devestated by your moronic replies. Surely you can do better than that. Take the “gag” put of your mouth before you talk to me again.
By Cuz
May 29, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this
evloved, I sound like the rest of the blog, should have proofread before I hit post, EVOLVED.
By bamafan1
May 29, 2008 3:38 PM | Link to this
Hey Roswell Ed….You suk. If you were two young to remember bama was kicking aubruns arse. you will soon return to being our little beaitch!
By UGAFAN777
May 29, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this
URBAN CRYER LIES TO THESE KIDS TELLING THEM THEY WILL ALL START RIGHT AWAY. THATS WHY THE TRANSFERS ARE COMING MORE AND MORE.
By Haywood Jablowme
May 29, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this
Cuz….You are on the right blog. Some idiot chose to make it into something else. Hopefully, I have dispatched he/she/it from here.
By Haywood Jablowme
May 29, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this
bamafan1….use spell check. About what I would expect from a graduate of the fine school system over in Alabama. By the way, how is that viagra prescription working out for you?
By Spike
May 29, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this
Oh Haywood, what a studmuffin you are!! Attempting to intimidate me and give me orders. I have a bit that will fit you perfect, while I use my whip. It looks as though you have proven to be the “man” I thought you were. Instead of the Phillipines, you must have been the manly fake marine of Peachtree. Oh Haywood, do not disappoint me. Be my Bammer man.
By Spike
May 29, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this
Fake Spike… At least while you are humiliating yourself, learn to spell correctly. You better put your Star Trek uniform on, get your laser sword warmed up, put your Darth Vader helmet on and go to “Q-Nation” blog with the other girly men. Only a gay caballero like you would know soemthing like that.
By Cuz
May 29, 2008 4:18 PM | Link to this
Haywood, thanks for your service. As my brother rightly informed me, once a Marine, always a Marine. There is no such thing as an Ex-Marine. He never made it to the Philipines so he never ran into the lbfm’s. Have a good day sir.
By Spike
May 29, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this
sorry.. something. My bad.
By Cuz
May 29, 2008 4:41 PM | Link to this
Bamafan, have you heard that St. Nick has decided to change the elephant mascot to a wooly mammoth. He has come to realize that Bama football is extinct.
By TW
May 29, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this
Liked the Dawgs alot better before Bush’s name/face started appearing next to our coach. What this country needs is a better head coach - I can understand Bush wanting to hang with the winners, just don’t see the value in it for Richt…
By Cuz
May 29, 2008 5:29 PM | Link to this
TW, it is kinda like what Ronald Regan used to do after speaking at a dinner as President. He would go back to the kitchen and greet and meet the staff. One of his aides pointed out to him that it was highly unlikely that any of the people he was meeting had voted for him. He said, Ronald Regan is not meeting these people. The President of the United States is meeting them. And one day they will tell their children that the President took the time to thank them for the work they did that night, not Ronald Reagan. It is the dignity of the office, not the office holder. Even if whomever I choose to vote for does not become President and the other candidate does, they will still be my President, whether I agree with their views or not. I will always respect the office, whether I agree with the office holder or not. The coaches were invited to meet the President. It just happened that the office holder is George Bush. I imagine that one or more did not vote for him. It was an honor that they did not refuse, nor would I no matter who is the office holder. And as my favorite Bama player of all time said, “That’s all I got to say about that.”
By mexdawg
May 29, 2008 5:48 PM | Link to this
How many days before kickoff?I’m not sure I’m gonna make it.When do the football magazines come out?When will September ever get here.Why can’t we play year round?
By TW
May 29, 2008 5:59 PM | Link to this
Cuz - Well said. However, when the President willfully uses and abuses our patriotism, he deserves to lose our respect, regardless of what it says on his office door. If Bush had been the head coach at any SEC school, he would have been shown the door after the first game. Real shame we care more about our football than we do our military. But your right, ‘nuff said about all that. Go Dawgs!
By Paddy
May 29, 2008 6:01 PM | Link to this
Is Petrino still at Arkansas? I heard he left to coach wrestling at Old Dominion U. Can’t keep track of that great coach and person. Understand it was a real difficult decision for him, had to consider his family. What a PUTZ.
By shane #1
May 29, 2008 6:25 PM | Link to this
Paddy, do You know the difference in Petrino and Pertino? They are both Italian, both start with P and end with O, the difference is what’s on the inside!
By shane #1
May 29, 2008 6:34 PM | Link to this
Sorry, that was supposed to be Paterno and Petrino, damn, I hate to blow a joke!
By John
May 29, 2008 6:36 PM | Link to this
I find it funny that Meyer and Petrino are against an early signing period. Both of them know that they will have to work on recruiting instead of stealing recruits committed to other schools. Meyer takes the cake when it comes to recruiting. He seems so much like a slime-ball to me, and yet he convinces these young men that he is the coach to get them to the promised land of the NFL. I find it sad that he will give a scholarship to a kid and then take it away when a better kid at the same position comes along. His negative recruiting will come back to haunt him someday.
By hmmm
May 29, 2008 7:04 PM | Link to this
Am I the only one who wants to make a joke about Saban saying he wants to spend his time and money better when it comes to recruiting. I assume he means more money for web cams and not “spending money” while on campus
By Cuz
May 29, 2008 7:44 PM | Link to this
How about a webcam for cheerleading practice. If I am a recruit, I would rather check out the babes that are going to think I am Mr. BMOC than talking with Mr. Life Like Hair. I wonder if Saint Nick has Kung-fu grip also.
Tony I agree with your column, the SEC is loaded with great teams this year. Man we are going to kill each other. When bowl season comes up and we get paired against another coference, in the words of another great American, “I pity the fools!”
By CarolinaJacket
May 29, 2008 8:03 PM | Link to this
I am the first to admit that the SEC is loaded and the top football conference, but just remember the words of Buddha who said, “arrogance leads to failure.” When you think that you are so much better than the rest of the world, it sometimes comes back and bites you in the rear end.
By spike
May 29, 2008 8:23 PM | Link to this
Only a Tech fan would cite Buddha as authority on a football blog.
By War Eagle
May 29, 2008 8:47 PM | Link to this
I am not a Coach Myers fan, but love his quote,” when you have great players with great coaches and play in a great venue, that is SEC”.UGA, Auburn, LSU, Tenn, Florida and others Petrino Nutt,Spurrier and Crooms,NOT BAD for non conference opponents and SEC title hopeful.
By Obnoxious Georgia Fan
May 29, 2008 9:57 PM | Link to this
I am the first to admit that the SEC is loaded and the top football conference, but just remember the words of Buddha who said, “arrogance leads to failure.” When you think that you are so much better than the rest of the world, it sometimes comes back and bites you in the rear end.
SEC arrogance isn’t anything new. Its been around for decades, just like the SEC’s dominance. If it were going to bite us it would have happened by now. Sounds more like wishful thinking on your part more than anything.
By Gen Neyland
May 29, 2008 11:24 PM | Link to this
Roswell Ed
Just got in from my gig at the Waffle House. Read your 1341 post. With McC throwing GWB under the bus, just not smart. Either McC is trying to distance himself from a Senate hearing or he just wrote his resume for a job teaching civics in a NYC HS…now back to football…
By clay
May 30, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this
Whether they sign early or not coaches are going to put tremendous pressure on them. Maybe earlier signing will give the kids some relief so that they can enjoy their senior year of high school.