Category: LSU

2014 SEC Preview: Can Auburn make it two straight SEC Championships?

The 2014 SEC season is nearly upon us, so it’s high time (no pun intended, Nick Marshall) that we start our round of 14 SEC previews with the Auburn Tigers. We were thinking about starting with favorites Alabama, or the Yell Boys at Texas A&M, but we realised that we do previews, we start with the Champions – and those were the Tigers, who beat Missouri in a 59-42 shoot-out in Atlanta. Anyway, here’s your preview of the 2014 Auburn Tigers. LAST SEASON This was an incredible season to be an Auburn fan. ‘War Eagle’ finished 12-1 and 7-1 in the SEC, with their only loss coming at LSU. They beat Alabama and Georgia in stunning circumstances, with ‘Kick-Six’ and

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Safety de-commits from Florida…and flips to UGA

Safety Deontai Williams has de-committed from Florida, and instead has set his sights to play for Georgia. The 6-0, 175lb Williams, who hails from Trinity Christian Academy in Jacksonville, FL, was rated 3-stars by 24-7sports.com, who were the first to report the news. Georgia’s new defensive co-ordinator Jeremy Pruitt was given the credit for ‘flipping’ Williams. Williams was also given offers by LSU, Kentucky, Mississippi State, Notre Dame, Louisville, Boise State, and Purdue amongst others. Louisville had been named early leaders. Williams follows up from the commitment of 6-3, 190lb WR Shaquery Wilson from Coral Gables, FL. Vanderbilt, Arkansas, Virginia and Louisville were among the teams to have offered Wilson, a 3-star player.    

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Texas A&M DB arrested

Texas A&M DB Victor Davis has been arrested in his hometown of Rosenberg, Texas, according to Facebook. Rosenberg Police showed a picture of Rosenberg’s Shoplifters, and Davis was displayed there, having been ‘cuffed for shoplifting from a Kohl’s in the area. No further information has been given on the arrest. 6-1, 178 lb Davis redshirted in 2013 with the Aggies. Davis was rated a 3-star DB by 24-7Rivals.com, and was rated the 28th player in the whole of Texas. Aggie website ‘Good Bull Hunting’ first found the story, and remarked that this arrest would probably have been pretty meaningless if the team hadn’t had disciplinary problems earlier in the season.    

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Top-rated LB de-commits from Alabama

Linebacker Leo Lewis has de-committed from Alabama, various reports have said. Lewis, who comes from Brookhaven, MS, is the top-rated inside linebacker in the nation according to 247-Sports.com, and ranks as the 3rd-best overall player in the whole State of Mississippi. The player is 6 ft 3 and weighs 225 lb. He de-committed from Alabama on the same day – July 14 – that he went to a camp at Mississippi State. Lewis has had 20 interests, including Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Tennessee and Texas A&M, as well as Clemson, UCLA, Notre Dame, Oklahoma and Florida State.

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SEC Media Days: Our Quick Coaches’ Press Conference Awards

Now the SEC Media Days are in the book, we’re giving 14 awards to our head coaches’ press conferences. Our award for “Most God-Like” is easy, though. It’s to Commissioner Mike Slive, because he’s God, Ali and The President and you aren’t. So without further ado: STRANGEST PRESS CONFERENCE: Les Miles (LSU) – I mean, who in the hell goes on vacation in Austin, talks about the weather a lot, then declines to mention anything about the strangest thing that happened to him in all of 2013 – the fact that he let his team vote on whether to keep a running back who punched somebody, instead of simply booting him? Or was this just Les being Les?  MOST MALCOLM GLADWELL-LIKE

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Kentucky head coach uncertain over QB position

Mark Stoops and Nick Saban share the same problem: They are both uncertain as to who their QB will be when the season starts on Labor Day weekend. Now, that’s about all Kentucky’s head coach and Alabama’s head coach have in common going into the 2014 season. Many people figure Kentucky will finish last – again – in the SEC East. The same people think Alabama will finish first and go to the first College Football Play-Off as the SEC’s representative. Oh, and both teams have a SEC losing streak. Alabama’s is 1. Kentucky’s is……16. “We’re still unsettled on who the starter is going to be,” Stoops said. “But I’m very confident that we’re going to improve at that position.”

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Hugh Freeze: Ole Miss not yet a total SEC team

Hugh Freeze came into the SEC Media Days a pretty happy guy. His Ole Miss team was coming off monster wins (for the program, at least) against Texas and LSU, as well as a bowl victory. He’s recruited strongly – even in the face of Alabama. He started off his press conference with a somewhat sharp word for another SEC rival: “One good thing about Media Days is Coach Spurrier isn’t talking about Ole Miss as much, wanting to play us every year.  Maybe that’s a good thing“, referencing Spurrier’s comments from 2012 about schedules where he said: “If I made the schedule, Georgia’d be playing LSU and we’d be playing Ole Miss.” But still, he told the assembled media

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Mark Richt comes out combative over Georgia drug rules

Mark Richt is used to criticism as head coach of the University of Georgia. Every year people place him on the hot-seat for either not beating South Carolina, or not beating Auburn, or losing a game they should win, or not beating a team by enough, and 2015 won’t be any different – although after beating Clemson and LSU, maybe the seat’s a LITTLE cooler. Richt’s also had his fair share of criticism about Georgia’s drug policy, which has seen the school suspend or boot a number of players over his time between the hedges. However, at the SEC Media Days in Hoover, AL, he was unrepentant. He said: “We don’t want our guys to do drugs, okay? I don’t

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Nick Saban: I was not offered $100m by Texas

Nick Saban, head coach at Alabama, arrived at the SEC Media Days in the face of an eventful offseason. Firstly there were the rumors that he might be leaving Tuscaloosa for the bright lights of Austin and the Texas Longhorns. Today there was something going around that UT and its board of regents were preparing a $100m offer for him to dress in burnt orange in 2015 and beyond.   He said: “Well, I didn’t have any conversations with them.  Nobody offered me anything.  So I guess if I didn’t have any conversations with them, I didn’t have very much interest.  I think the University of Texas is a fantastic place, and they’ve got a lot of wonderful people there,

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Arkansas HC Bret Bielema takes it slow at SEC Media Days

Arkansas Bret Bielema had an interesting 2013 – one which had his wife talking about a Wisconsin loss and ‘karma’ (and one that backfired!). His Razorbacks finished 3-9, including going winless in the SEC. In February 2014, he sounded off about player safety, campaigning in a change in the rule for hurry-up offenses – one that would slow them down. He called the hurry-up offences “death certificates”, referencing the death of Cal football player Ted Agu during preseason workouts. Cal’s system is all about the hurry-up offense. So in the SEC Media Days in Hoover, AL, it was hardly surprising that he had his opinion on such things – as well as a bunch of others. Earlier, Missouri coach Gary

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