2010 SEC Media Days: Off The Football Field, Anything Can Happen

First, this is a press corps, and they’re going to be locked in a room with laptops clicking away for three days straight with access to caffeine, recirculated air, and in short bursts the coaches and players from each school. Compare this to other conferences and their one day affairs, and you are looking at a herd of people desperate for storylines and action.

Second, the players make for better entertainment than is advertised since coaches bring players with them who are both comfortable in the limelight and able to function well in the public square. Sometimes this is a Tim Tebow performance, a one man soundbite machine who spilled out easy copy effortlessly, and sometimes it’s Dicky Lyons, the Kentucky wide receiver whose long, rambling narrative of a dream he had involving Matthew Stafford and his girlfriend was a surprise hit with stunned reporters.

As we count down to the SEC Media Days for football, which will kick off on Wednesday when Alabama coach Nick Saban takes to the podium, we’re going to check in with various SEC team bloggers from around SB Nation, as well as hear from SBNation.com’s own Spencer Hall.

First up, we’ve got Brandon Larrabee, who in blog life goes by cocknfire and co-manages Team Speed Kills, the SB Nation blog devoted to covering the SEC. He’ll be live-blogging each of the coaches’ presentations as part of TSK’s coverage of SEC Media Days.