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Georgia Bulldogs 2012 Title Hopes Still Intact Despite Suspensions
The Georgia Bulldogs might be the favorite to win the SEC east come preseason prediction time, but Mark Richt’s team will have to earn everything it accomplishes early in the 2012 season. Just weeks after starting cornerback Sanders Commings was suspended for the season’s first two games, a report from Dawgpost.com indicates senior safety Baccari [...]
TweetTexas A&M Running Back Transfer Denied Hardship Waiver
Brandon Williams, a recent transfer to Texas A&M, was denied a hardship waiver by the NCAA and won’t be eligible for the 2012 season. The Brookshire, Texas native signed with Oklahoma as part of the Sooners’ 2011 recruiting class but transferred closer to home in December. His defection from Norman initially left Bob Stoops thin [...]
TweetNew Nick Saban Contract Still Leaves Him Underpaid
Don’t get cheap on me, Alabama. I know $5.3 million a year seems like a lot — that’s about a million bucks per foot and an extra $100,000 per inch — but the reality is that, despite a raise that makes Nick Saban the highest paid head coach in college football, he’s still underpaid. This [...]
TweetNick Saban High School Fails But Tide Coach Earns Contract Extension
Two national championships in three years at Alabama reaped Nick Saban an extension and nearly immortalized his name at a Montgomery high school. As for the money, the former LSU and Miami Dolphins head coach becomes the highest-paid coach in the country in 2012 at $5.3 million. He’d previously trailed Mack Brown at Texas in [...]
TweetSEC Spring Football Preview: Tennessee Volunteers
2011 Record: 5-7 Returning Starters: 19 Key Losses: Tauren Poole, Malik Jackson, Austin Johnson, Ben Martin, Matt Simms Breakdown: Another losing season in Knoxville has head coach Derek Dooley firmly on the hot seat entering the 2012 season, but for the first time since Dooley arrived in Tennessee, the Volunteers have depth and experience throughout [...]
TweetPicture: Roll Tide Championship Chicken
People are wired a bit differently in Alabama. Early in life they’re taught a version of the color spectrum that includes Houndstooth and Bear Bryant — God rest his soul — would be nominated for sainthood if the residents of Alabama had any idea what Catholicism was. (They’s awl just a buncha God-fearin’ Southern Baptis’ [...]
TweetSEC Spring Football Serves as an Appetizer to the Real Thing
The parking lots outside of SEC football stadiums seem remarkably clean this time of year. The air isn’t nearly as toxic as it will be this fall — the smells of 80,000 plus can be quite unpleasant at times. Things are definitely different in the spring, but thank goodness there is football. Winter has been [...]
TweetEx-Gators QB Arrives In Jacksonville, Is Benched, Leaves
A national title-winning quarterback at the University of Florida made a triumphant arrival in Jacksonville, sparking Floridians to wonder if a championship was in the near future. Unfortunately for Chris Leak, his tenure with the Jacksonville Sharks may include one game. A veteran of NFL and CFL rosters, Leak caught on with the defending Arena [...]
TweetFormer Maryland QB Danny O’Brien Visiting Ole Miss
Randy Edsall is accomplished at running off players from Maryland. Ole Miss has proven it is willing to accept anyone that performs at a level above a junior varsity level. And because of those two truths, former Terrapins quarterback Danny O’Brien and left tackle Max Garcia are visiting Oxford. According to Bruce Feldman of CBS [...]
TweetMissouri QB James Franklin Needs Surgery
Missouri enters the SEC in 2012 with an opportunity to win the East division. Gary Pinkel will have to prepare for that possibility without his starting quarterback for the rest of spring practice. No drowning your sorrows in jumbo glasses of Merlot, Gary. After diving for a fumble, an act that Drew Brees scarily performed [...]
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