The 2010 SEC Media Days are underway in Birmingham, Alabama. SB Nation’s own Spencer Hall is in attendance and will be updating this StoryStream with updates from the festivities throughout the day.
2010 SEC Media Days: The New Urban Meyer Sounds A Lot Like Old Urban Meyer
The lack of a fully functioning Internet continues to cause problems at the 2010 SEC Media Days, forcing SB Nation’s Spencer Hall to call me and dictate the following from Florida’s Urban Meyer time with the press, which included the word “neat,” his regimented bedtime, and even a smile.
Urban wasted no time in getting down to business. The Florida coach ran through a four sentence opening statement and immediately dove into questions like a man who’d rather be doing something more pleasant than press conferencing -- getting his fingernails pulled out, for instance, or perhaps sticking his head into a sack filled with live minks.
Like everyone else, he hates agents who jump the gun and contact players early, though he went a step further by mentioning how Florida counters the threat.
Read Article >2010 SEC Media Days: Mississippi State’s Dan Mullen Wins War Against Silence
Dan Mullen didn’t come in with the same entourage of adoring fans as Nick Saban, but the Mississippi State coach still flexed a words per minute rate that would make an auctioneer blush in addressing the spread offense in recruiting, the toll (or lack thereof) of being a new head coach, and what you can learn about a recruit from their Facebook page.*
High quality bullet points!
Read Article >2010 SEC Media Days: Nick Saban Asks How Agents Are Any Different From Pimps
Saban also sped through a series of talking points obviously organized as tightly as a well-coached Cover 2:
He began by asking for questions about 2010 only, noting that Alabama lost eleven starter, their kicker, their punter, and their entire defensive secondary.
Read Article >2010 SEC Media Days: Mike Slive Speaks; BCS Head Bill Hancock Performs Magic Tricks
The SEC Media Days has gone retro for 2010, or at least that’s the way I prefer to think of a complete internet outage at the SEC’s annual media circus. It helps keep the killing rage at bay, and turns an ISP meltdown into a festive, stylish ode to our journalistic forebears who had to work without a functional internet connection.
BCS head Bill Hancock’s appearance coincided with this complete internet outage, and just as well. He labored through a regurgitation of the BCS’s standard talking points with a PowerPoint presentation.
Read Article >2010 SEC Media Days: Alabama, Florida Kick-Off The First Day From Birmingham
SEC Media Days kicks off today, college football’s preeminent collection of people speculating feverishly about games that still like over a month and a half away from actually happening BOOYAH!
Leading off today is Alabama and coach Nick Saban. Rabid Crimson Tide fans weren’t in the lobby at 9 a.m. or anything ridiculous like that, nooooo. They were actually here at 8 a.m. camped out on the sofas a full five hours before anything resembling a Saban-like object was scheduled to walk through the door.
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