Tag: SEC East

The SEC: Why you should root for each team

Hello, Mr New SEC fan. You’re looking for a team to root for, and here at the SEC Football Blog we’d like to give a guide. For the record, all of our fanbases get loaded and cook good food before a game on a Saturday. Our fans are obnoxious and quasi-respectful. Our stadiums are monstrous theaters, and our players are generally pretty great. Know this: The school you root for will probably get into trouble with the NCAA – college football’s governing body – at some point, and you’ll try and deny that your guys pay players. It’s not true. They do. Oh, and don’t talk to people about politics, and y’all will be fine. Enjoy your Saturdays in the

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A note to the incoming Alabama football athlete

  You wouldn’t know that a below-average sized, thinning-haired, 69-year old male who last played the game when your grandparents were alive, would be able to coax you – the giant among giant on the high school football stage – enough to go and play in a State that to most people would be one they wouldn’t want to visit, let alone live.   And yet year after year, the Pied Piper of Tuscaloosa brings the Gods of American High School into campus and gets them to sign on the dotted line. So here’s a letter to that class. You could replay this letter for many of the major programs, by the way. ***** If you come to Tuscaloosa, you’ll

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Tennessee hires Josh Heupel as new head coach. What’s next?

Tennessee has hired former UCF head coach Josh Heupel as its new head coach. Danny White – who is now Tennessee’s AD – was formerly Heupel’s boss at UCF. He’ll be paid $4 million-a-year on a 6-year deal. He said on his press conference: “I believe in a very, very bright future for Tennessee football. I believe that there’s a minor speed bump that we’re going through, but the kids that are in our program right now and the kids that are being recruited are going to have a chance to play and chase championships.” First of all, we know that Tennessee fans would have loved a ‘bigger name hire’, but what self-respecting head coach would want to walk into

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SEC East Schedule: Georgia vs Clemson leads the way

It’s Christmas morning. The SEC has released it’s 2021 Football Schedule. Here’s the one for the East. There’s a big game in Charlotte to open the season….. FLORIDA Sept. 4 FLORIDA ATLANTIC Sept. 11 at South Florida Sept. 18 ALABAMA Sept. 25 TENNESSEE Oct. 2 at Kentucky Oct. 9 VANDERBILT Oct. 16 at LSU Oct. 30 vs. GEORGIA (Jacksonville) Nov. 6 at South Carolina Nov. 13 SAMFORD Nov. 20 at Missouri Nov. 27 FLORIDA STATE GEORGIA Sept. 4 vs. Clemson (Charlotte) Sept. 11 UAB Sept. 18 SOUTH CAROLINA Sept. 25 at Vanderbilt Oct. 2 ARKANSAS Oct. 9 at Auburn Oct. 16 KENTUCKY Oct. 30 vs. Florida (Jacksonville) Nov. 6 MISSOURI Nov. 13 at Tennessee Nov. 20 CHARLESTON SOUTHERN Nov. 27

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So who IS Tennessee?

This week Tennessee’s new AD Danny White – fresh from the University of Central Florida – has been trying to hire a new head coach. The rumor is that he’s already got one, and Tuesday’s press conference will tell the world that they’ve hired [add name here]. But my question: How are the real Tennessee?  THE BAD NEWS The NCAA is going to be up your ass There’s no kinder way to put this, but it’s very possible that if all the Jeremy Pruitt coaching violations are as true as they’ve been written, we might not have a UT Volunteers program worth looking for at least 3 or 4 years. It might not be death penalty scale, but it might

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Pruitt fired as Tennessee coach for ’cause’

Jeremy Pruitt has been fired by the University of Tennessee after an investigation into recruiting violations. It certainly will help the university that they won’t have to pay the extra money under the $12 million he was owed as part of the contract. AD Philip Fulmer will also ‘retire’ as well. ESPN reported: “Sources told ESPN that Tennessee’s recruitment of Amarius Mims, the No. 3 offensive tackle and No. 19 player overall in the 2021 ESPN 300 rankings, is part of the inquiry“. It is under no coincidence – nope, none whatever – that Pruitt compiled a 3-7 record in 2020, highlighted by a record loss against Kentucky – a year after giving him a massive pay raise and contract

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SEC Championship Game Preview + Other Games

It’s SEC Championship Game weekend, which would normally have us all focusing on CBS and watching the game, but guess what? There are other games. The Texas A&M vs Tennessee game is actually a more important game than the shindig in Atlanta. If Texas A&M beats Tennessee and Ohio State either struggles or doesn’t beat Northwestern in the Big Ten Championship Game, or if Notre Dame ‘does the double’ over Clemson in the ACC Championship Game, a win for Texas A&M over Tennessee would put the Aggies in the College Football Play-Off for the first time in the Aggies history. As for the game in Atlanta, Florida was so piss-poor against LSU that it’s hard to work out how they

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