Auburn preview: Will Hugh Freeze launch the Tigers back into relevance?
How will Auburn fare in 2023 with its new head coach?
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The questions that you’d really like to ask each SEC coach
Every week, SEC head coaches come to the podium. And every week, they are thrown softballs by the members of the press. They are asked about quarterbacking situations, how they feel about practice, and in roundabout terms, what the situation is with certain players, who get themselves in trouble. But there’s a question (or two) that we’d like a SEC coach to answer this offseason. And won’t. ALABAMA: “Mr Saban, how did it feel when David Pollack said on air that Alabama’s crown has now been taken over Georgia on College Gameday when he was sat next to you? Were you more pissed off at Pollack or the College Gameday people, and why didn’t they give you the chance to
Read moreNew ’24 schedule sets up some SEC monster clashes
The arrival of Texas and Oklahoma may have people fuming about the teams voting not to go to a nine game schedule, but this hasn’t stopped the SEC from putting together some monster clashes for the 2024 year, which will lack divisions. THE ‘WE JUST WALKED INTO A CAULDRON’ TEAM Texas will play Georgia and Florida at home, while going on the road to Arkansas (who hate their guts) and Texas A&M (who hate them even more). There’s also the Red River Rivalry to boot. Oh, and they also travel to the Big House to play Michigan (Home dates with Kentucky and Mississippi State and a road game at Vanderbilt make it a bit palatable, but STILL). Oklahoma gets Alabama, Tennessee
Read moreThe SEC is going to vote for 8 games….sigh
The Southeastern Conference is going to vote for an eight game schedule (including one permanent opponent), and the fans are going to be completely screwed. BUT IT’S NOT ABOUT THE FANS, THE COACHES GENERALLY DON’T CARE There’s Kentucky’s Mark Stoops, who has openly campaigned for an 8-game schedule, has called it ‘unfair’ , we think simply because the Wildcats have Louisville in the Commonwealth Cup, and therefore it makes their schedule even more difficult. Nick Saban, who was a long-time advocate of nine games, has pushed the idea of an all Power-5, better non-conference schedule instead. In fact, his lack of support for something that would be better for his fanbase led to the Tuscaloosa News – Alabama’s version of
Read moreAlabama AD Greg Byrne should resign
Why Greg Byrne should resign as AD of the Alabama Crimson Tide.
Read moreAll Hail The Kings of the SEC!
“Long Live The King!” “Long Live The King!” “Long Live The King!” The damned British can’t stop yelling that today. Frankly, I’ve got too much of a hangover from the non-Mexican Mexican holiday of Cinco De Mayo, which gave me far too much excuse to get wasted on margaritas and eat at taco from which I am, ahem, not feeling great this morning. In my daze, I wrote down who were the 14 Kings of the SEC. We’re taking out the crazy boosters, because Texas isn’t here yet. Anyway, here we are: ALABAMA Bear Bryant: Bear Bryant’s “The Bear”. Nick Saban can bring 20 National Championships to Tuscaloosa in the next 20 years, but he ain’t The Bear, and he
Read moreSEC Spring Games: Quarterback battle season like no other
Georgia and Alabama’s QB battles aren’t sorted out – as aren’t a number of SEC schools. The most interesting is Ole MIss.
Read moreRanking the Coaches on The SEC Hot Seat
This year was a weird year in the SEC, because only one coach was hired in the offseason, and that was the utterly polarizing, utterly dislikable Hugh Freeze by Auburn. We mourned the loss of Mike Leach, but almost immediately DC Zach Arnett replaced him, and then got the permanent job. So who’s job is under pressure in the SEC. We go from 1-12. You can predicted No.12 pretty easily. But if you didn’t, it’s Kirby Smart. Sam Pittman (Arkansas): The whole “Yessirrrrr!” thing has suddenly gotten old. The pass defense was one of the worst that Fayetteville has ever seen, and the Razorbacks went backwards from a 9-4 season to a 7-6 season, with a 3-5 SEC record. This
Read moreDoes AD Mitchell’s leaving scream “Tampering”?
Looking at the SEC’s transfer portal wins and losses
Read moreThat was a Kirby-Stomping, Dawgs
At the start of this season, after Kirby Smart’s baptized Dan Lanning’s debut at Oregon with an annihilation in the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the Georgia coach about his former defensive coordinator’s team: “He knows we have better players. He’ll never say that, but he knows we’ve got better players.“ At the time, it sounded punch-in-your face arrogant, and prime bulletin-board material. Before the 65-7 beatdown of TCU, Kirby Smart was thinking the same thing. After the 65-7 beatdown of TCU, you KNOW Kirby Smart – although he probably didn’t admit it – was thinking the same thing. The talent differential was so wide that even what TCU brought it back within three (10-7), there was never panic stations for the Bulldogs.
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