2006 SEC Football Media Days

Head Gator Snaps Back
The Morning News - A large group of reporters, at some times more than three deep, crowded around a table that Chris Leak sat at inside the Wynfrey Hotel.

Academic Concerns Dogging Auburn Amid High Expectations
The Morning News - Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville admits his strong point isn’t X’s and O’s.

Auburn hoping to better handle favored status this time
AP - Tommy Tuberville is understandably wary of the preseason hype surrounding Auburn, but past experience hasn’t made him paranoid.

Who’s LSU’s starting quarterback? Don’t ask
AP - LSU coach Les Miles can’t escape the quarterback question, not even in Iraq or his own bedroom.

Spurrier keeps scribes in stitches at SEC Media Days
WholeHogSports.com - South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier knows how to work a room.

Rocky Bottom: Fulmer, Vols Hoping For Turnaround After Tough 2005
The Morning News - In each of his first 12 seasons as Tennessee’s head coach, Phillip Fulmer led the Volunteers to a bowl game, including the 1998 Fiesta Bowl in which the Volunteers beat Florida State to win the national championship.

Spurrier enjoying trying to make Gamecocks contenders
AP - Steve Spurrier has already helped South Carolina end a couple of historic droughts, but he isn’t quite ready to pronounce the Gamecocks Southeastern Conference contenders.

Wanted: A Starting Quarterback
The Morning News - Alabama’s Mike Shula was the first coach to step up to the podium, look out on the large gathering of reporters and address his quarterback situation.

Manic one day
Commercial-Appeal - Georgia defensive end Quentin Moses went to the dry cleaner Tuesday to retrieve the suit he had picked out to wear to SEC Media Days. “It wasn’t ready,” he said.

Brooks hoping for season without ‘what-ifs’
Herald-Leader - Kentucky Coach Rich Brooks’ appearance was probably a surprise to many observers, since Brooks’ future was constant fodder for speculation during UK’s 3-8 season last fall.

Georgia among SEC teams hunting a quarterback
AP - Georgia coach Mark Richt doesn’t find solace in the fact that plenty of other Southeastern Conference teams are also breaking in new quarterbacks.

Bulldogs confident despite heavy player losses
AP - Georgia defensive end Quentin Moses isn’t fretting over the Bulldogs’ latest talent exodus, even though the defending Southeastern Conference champions lost 15 starters.

‘Bama players motivated by skepticism
AP - Ramzee Robinson knows there are plenty of skeptics who don’t think Alabama can manage a repeat of last season.

Amid cupcakes, SEC sees Arkansas-Southern Cal as pretty good
AP - Go ahead and circle the Arkansas-Southern Cal game on the football schedule for this fall: It should be a good non-league game amid the steamy heat of the Southeastern Conference race.

SEC issues not tackled by coaches
Tennessean - Comments you will not hear from coaches during the SEC Media Days that run through Friday.

SEC starts football circus
Commercial-Appeal - When the Southeastern Conference staged its first football media days in 1979, the event was a quaint gathering at the then-Birmingham Hilton, just up the road from the league offices.

Miles gives usual play on words about QB
The Advocate - LSU football coach Les Miles probably saw the question coming last year at his first Southeastern Conference Media Days. He was quick to answer whether he is a believer in a two-quarterback system.

SEC media days features no new coaches, few QBs
AP - Even the ol’ ball coach is old news now. The Southeastern Conference Media Days kick off Wednesday without a new coach to introduce — or in the case of South Carolina’s Steve Spurrier reintroduce — himself to league reporters.

SEC media prepares to devour Days
Nashville City Paper - During the dog days of summer, two things motivate media people more than anything else. Free food. And actual news to report.

Plenty of questions for ACC, SEC teams
ajc.com - The ACC and SEC kick off their preseason football meetings this week. Here’s one guy’s guess at what the most frequently asked questions will be. We threw in the answers for free.

The best time of year is now
djournal.com - Unofficially, college football kicks off around noon on Wednesday with the start of SEC media days in Birmingham. Or to be geographically correct, Hoover.