Author: Alex Haddon

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‘Bama Four’ Booted by Saban

The University of Alabama has announced that the four freshmen that were arrested a few weeks ago have been dismissed from the program. Linebackers  DJ Pettaway and Tyler Hayes were both charged with second degree robbery, and Brent Calloway, an H-Back, were charged with credit card fraud. Eddie Williams – a safety – was charged with both crimes. And things will look to get worse for Williams, who was also charged on Sunday with carrying  a gun without a license. According to a report on ESPN’s website, Deborah Lane, associate vice president for university relations said: “UA’s judicial review has been completed. The four students involved in the robberies on campus are no longer enrolled in UA.” Coach Nick Saban said: “Based

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Six reasons why Jadeveon Clowney WON’T to sit out 2013

Many congratulations, Tom Sorenson. You wrote an article about why Jadeveon Clowney should sit out the 2013 season, and you set yourself alight in the Twittersvere, the Facebookvere, and certainly, in the SEC. In his article, Sorenson basically said that he should sit out South Carolina’s 2013 season, because a) if it was any other sport, he’d be professional by now, and b) if he gets injured, he’ll cheat himself out of a big-time NFL contract, that’s definitely going to come to him in the draft of 2014. The reason why he’s got to play three years is the fact that the NFL’s rule “stipulates that a player must be at least three years removed from high school before he’s

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One of the ‘Alabama accused’ tweets his defense

Brent Calloway, one of the ‘Alabama Accused’, has defended himself on Twitter. The linebacker, charged of credit card fraud by Alabama police, tweeted his defense to Cardinals catcher Kyle Lamb:  “First it wasn’t a credit card and 2 I wasn’t even awake during the robbery you don’t kno what happened so dont try me dude”. In essence, Calloway is denying that he and his friends used a credit card (in fact, it probably wasn’t a credit card but an Alabama student card that students put money on and then they can insert it into a candy machine and get snacks from it) and has added that he wasn’t awake when the robbery happened. Interestingly enough, Calloway isn’t being charged –

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Four Alabama players arrested, suspended

Four Alabama Crimson Tide freshman football players have been arrested on robbery and credit card fraud charges. Linebackers  DJ Pettaway and Tyler Hayes were both charged with second degree robbery, and Brent Calloway, an H-Back, were charged with credit card fraud. Eddie Williams – a safety – was charged with both crimes. And things will look to get worse for Williams, who was also charged on Sunday with carrying  a gun without a license. All four players have been indefinitely suspended, said Alabama coach Nick Saban. Saban told a press conference: “The young men charged are indefinitely suspended as we continue to gather information and talk to the appropriate people.” According to The Tuscaloosa News, Pettaway, Hayes and Williams assaulted a student

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Most intriguing SEC players at the NFL Combine

To any outsider, you now understand why most good high school players want a chance to prove themselves at the SEC. If you’re good – and good enough to go pro – then you might get invited to the NFL Combine. 74 SEC players were asked to come. Thanks to Gamedayr for the list, without which this article wouldn’t have made it up here. Alabama (10) Quinton Dial, DE DJ Fluker, OT Nico Johnson, ILB Barrett Jones, OL Eddie Lacy, RB Robert Lester, FS Dee Milliner, CB Damion Square, DE Chance Warmack, OG Jesse Williams, DT MOST INTRIGUING: Eddie Lacy could be seen as the next Trent Richardson – particularly if he performs as well as he did in the

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National Signing Day (SEC East): Florida rules, but Georgia, do we have a problem?

There might have been a lot of headlines out west about the National Signing Day classes that Alabama and Ole Miss put together, but guess what? Florida’s was pretty darned amazing. Will Muschamp has the reputation as one of the best recruiters in the land, and he proved it with an excellent class. However, there are some deep questions about Georgia to answer, folks… CHOMP! CHOMP! CHOMP! THE MUSCHAMP EFFECT Among other thoughts from UF brass, Will Muschamp was hired to Florida for two reasons: 1) He’s a great defensive coach 2) He’s a great recruiter. After a fantastic 2012-3 season (marred slightly by an ignominious loss to Louisville), Florida needed to add some more depth on both sides of

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National Signing Day Round-Up (SEC West): Ole Miss rules, but Alabama’s excellence shines

This year was yet another banner year for SEC recruiting, with every side A year ago, you would say that there was no way on God’s green earth that Ole Miss would have had a recruiting day like this one. But Hugh Freeze took over, took the team to an excellent year which included breaking a SEC losing streak, beating your biggest rival, taking LSU, Vanderbilt and Texas A&M to the last second, and thundering through a bowl game – as favorites. HUGH FREEZE FRIES IT UP IN OXFORD Well, there seems to be some belief about the Ole Miss program, because No.1 player in the nation – defensive tackle Robert Nkemdiche, plus highly-touted offensive tackle Laremie Tunsil, wide receiver

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SEC players, coaches and fans’ tweet lives in 5 Words

There’s something amusing going around Twitter which is #MyLifeIn5Words, so we thought we’d think up a few for SEC players. Please add in your thoughts, too!! Jadeveon Clowney: Must eat the opposing quarterback #MyLifeIn5Words Nick Saban: Johnny Football. Revenge. September 14. #MyLifeIn5Words Johnny Manziel: All the fuss about Alabama? Puhleeze. #MyLifeIn5Words Les Miles: Am I really that mad? #MyLifeIn5Words Tyrann Mathieu: From hero to zero. Sorry. #MyLifeIn5Words Aaron Murray: God bless you, beautiful Athens. #MyLifeIn5Words Mark Richt (to UGA faithful): Love me or hate me today? #MyLifeIn5Words Hugh Freeze: The Blind Side and Jesus. #MyLifeIn5Words SEC fans: Fall Saturdays are for drinking. LSU Juniors: Let’s all go be pros! #MyLifeIn5Words Steve Spurrier: Must enrage my biggest rivals #MyLifeIn5Words Texas A&M fans: Johnny

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Ten big questions for National Signing Day

Like everyone else, we at the SEC Football Blog are really, really excited about National Signing Day on February 6th. Sorry we haven’t been covering “firm”, “less firm”, “wavy”, or “de” commitments hugely this off-season, but these are mad times for recruits, and quite frankly, we’re happiest to sit and wait to see where the chips fall on February 6th – our first reminder that yes, college football will be back in a few weeks time with the Crimson/White/Red/Black/Blue/Orange/Purple/Green/Rainbow games in April, before getting to the fun times of players arrests and ejections from campus. Anyway, there IS the important time of Signing Day. With five SEC schools predicted to be in the Rivals.com Top 10, we anticipate that things

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Question: Will anyone be able to keep up with the SEC?

A week after Alabama won the title, I was able to give myself a bit of a rest and reflect on what has been another successful National Championship Year for our conference. Or more’s the case, for Alabama. The conference put the critics to bed for another straight year as Alabama destroyed Notre Dame to lift the Crystal Football, cementing Alabama’s dynasty with their third win in four years. Barratt Jones can’t possibly achieve what he did in college in the NFL, can he (unless he’s drafted by the Patriots!)? But if we’re honest, it wasn’t a wonderful bowl season for the SEC, by any stretch of the imagination. Florida (on paper) should have pounded Louisville. Instead, they were pounded back.

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