Ole Miss' Hugh Freeze has got some good food recommendations, and some opinions about the confederate flag and suspended star Laremy Tunsil. Here are his best SEC Media Day Quotes ON LAREMY TUNSIL "There's very little to report. We obviously will cooperate fully with, whether it's the NCAA process or the law enforcement process, we will cooperate fully with that. I'm very confident, like I said, in the way we do things and what we can control. I'm very confident in the person that Laremy Tunsil is too, and we look forward to that coming to a conclusion at whatever time is appropriate." ON Read more [...]

Nick Saban, the Alabama head coach, isn't blaming players for their lack of preparedness going into the 2014 College Football Play-Off semi-final loss to Ohio State. He's not blaming himself. Or his coaching staff. Nope. He's blaming the NFL. "I just felt like, in our experience last year, our team chemistry from the SEC Championship game to the playoff game was affected by something," he said. "I think that to have a December 15th deadline from when a junior can submit for a draft grade and then you get that assessment back sometime right before or right after Christmas, and then you have Read more [...]

LSU's dismissal of redshirt freshman defensive tackle Trey Lealaimatafao on Monday night showed that Les Miles actually has some stones. After his arrest for hitting a woman after she attempted to stop him battering her boyfriend, Miles immediately suspended the player - who had caused him disciplinary issues last year as well - and then dismissed him on Monday night. Of course, there are worries about LSU's depth, according to Bleacher Report. Lealaimatafao would have either seen time on the field or started for the Tigers, and now he's gone, there are holes. But there we go. LSU will Read more [...]

LSU defensive tackle Trey Lealaimatafao has been suspended by head coach Les Miles after being arrested for "simple battery and simple robbery", the Advocate has reported. The redshirt freshman was involved in a fight outside a Baton Rouge bar on Tuesday, where he dug through the pockets of a male victim after he and a group of other- unnamed- suspects, beat the man unconscious outside Reggie's Bar on Tuesday. Even if that wasn't enough, Lealaimatafao then punched the victim's girlfriend in the face with a closed fist as she tried to get in the way of the attack. He has been remanded Read more [...]

Alabama cornerback Cyrus Jones has had his charges of third-degree domestic violence dropped by the Tuscaloosa Police Department, after it was found out that it was Jones himself who called the police to ‘deescalate’ the situation.

Jones was arrested for smashing his girlfriend’s cellphone on the floor and using threatening behavior.

 

Auburn defensive end Elijah Daniel has been suspended after being arrested for theft.

According to AL.com, Daniel’s arrest came after a month-long investigation into a sequence of robberies at the university, in which phones and various items of jewelry were taken.

Daniel, DeNorris James and Khalil Sellers face four charges of property theft and four burglary charges, which AL.com adds “includes six felonies”.

Daniel managed 24 tackles and 3.5 stats in 27 games for the Tigers.

Nick Saban, the head coach of Alabama, has said that Jonathan Taylor will not be reinstated in Tuscaloosa despite the defensive tackle's girlfriend recanting her accusation of domestic violence on Saturday night. "That decision has already been made. He won't be back with us," Saban said in an interview with ESPN.com. The University added that Taylor won't be to continue studies as a student in Tuscaloosa either. "Jonathan Taylor is no longer a student at The University of Alabama and is not eligible for readmission." Taylor arrived on Alabama's campus as an early enrolee to the team after Read more [...]

  Nick Saban is stuck between a rock and a hard place in the Jonathan Taylor situation, and both sides don't look attractive to the Alabama head coach. It emerged on Monday that Taylor's girlfriend had recanted her story about being domestically abused, and she was arrested. Prosecutors are still convinced that something went on, and questions about that night vary. There's also been some really interesting comments from domestic abuse lawyers on Reddit about story recantation that you MUST look at, if you get the chance. Anyway, this has led people to wondering: "Well, if he's Read more [...]

Alabama has dismissed running back Tyren Jones after he was arrested in Tuscaloosa on Monday, continuing a horrible streak of arrests for the Crimson Tide. Jones - who was already on suspension from the Alabama team for "conduct not the standard of the Alabama football program" -was arrested for possession of marijuana after his car was stopped for speeding just before midday on Monday. The officer found the marijuana - as well as digital scales belonged to the man in the car with Jones, Brandon Lee Hansberry. Jones was charged with possession of marijuana second degree. This is the third Read more [...]

Nick Saban has apologized to the press for the way the Jonathan Taylor situation has worked out, but not for actually bringing the player to the school in the first place. "I'm not sorry for giving him an opportunity. I'm sorry for the way things worked out," Saban said at a press conference. "I'm not apologizing for the opportunity that we gave him. I wanted to try to help the guy make it work. It didn't work. So we're sorry that it didn't work and we're sorry there was an incident and we're sorry for the people that were involved in the incident. But we're not apologizing for what we did and Read more [...]