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Top safety Jamal Peters has decided to commit to Mississippi State over Alabama, LSU and Florida State. The four-star player from Bassfield, MS, decided to stay at home despite going to LSU and Ole Miss on unofficial visits. Peters, who is 6-3 in height and weighs 200 lbs, has been rated the top high school player in Mississippi by 24-7Sports.com, had 28 offers, including Georgia, Texas A&M, Tennessee, Ole Miss and Florida State.
Read moreLinebacker Leo Lewis has de-committed from Alabama, various reports have said. Lewis, who comes from Brookhaven, MS, is the top-rated inside linebacker in the nation according to 247-Sports.com, and ranks as the 3rd-best overall player in the whole State of Mississippi. The player is 6 ft 3 and weighs 225 lb. He de-committed from Alabama on the same day – July 14 – that he went to a camp at Mississippi State. Lewis has had 20 interests, including Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Tennessee and Texas A&M, as well as Clemson, UCLA, Notre Dame, Oklahoma and Florida State.
Read moreNow the SEC Media Days are in the book, we’re giving 14 awards to our head coaches’ press conferences. Our award for “Most God-Like” is easy, though. It’s to Commissioner Mike Slive, because he’s God, Ali and The President and you aren’t. So without further ado: STRANGEST PRESS CONFERENCE: Les Miles (LSU) – I mean, who in the hell goes on vacation in Austin, talks about the weather a lot, then declines to mention anything about the strangest thing that happened to him in all of 2013 – the fact that he let his team vote on whether to keep a running back who punched somebody, instead of simply booting him? Or was this just Les being Les? MOST MALCOLM GLADWELL-LIKE
Read moreMark Richt is used to criticism as head coach of the University of Georgia. Every year people place him on the hot-seat for either not beating South Carolina, or not beating Auburn, or losing a game they should win, or not beating a team by enough, and 2015 won’t be any different – although after beating Clemson and LSU, maybe the seat’s a LITTLE cooler. Richt’s also had his fair share of criticism about Georgia’s drug policy, which has seen the school suspend or boot a number of players over his time between the hedges. However, at the SEC Media Days in Hoover, AL, he was unrepentant. He said: “We don’t want our guys to do drugs, okay? I don’t
Read moreNick Saban, head coach at Alabama, arrived at the SEC Media Days in the face of an eventful offseason. Firstly there were the rumors that he might be leaving Tuscaloosa for the bright lights of Austin and the Texas Longhorns. Today there was something going around that UT and its board of regents were preparing a $100m offer for him to dress in burnt orange in 2015 and beyond. He said: “Well, I didn’t have any conversations with them. Nobody offered me anything. So I guess if I didn’t have any conversations with them, I didn’t have very much interest. I think the University of Texas is a fantastic place, and they’ve got a lot of wonderful people there,
Read moreAlabama has confirmed that it will play Southern California in Arlington on September 3rd, 2016. The game will be part of the Cowboys Classic at Cowboys Stadium, and feature two of college football’s biggest powerhouses. And if he stays in a job up to then, it could also feature Lane Kiffin, ‘Bama’s offensive co-ordinator and former head coach of USC, before he was fired during last season. BOTTOM LINE: It’s a great bowl-to-start-the-season game, but personally we would have preferred a home-and-home between the two schools. Alabama in Southern Cal would have been amazing, as would the Trojans visiting Tuscaloosa. JerryWorld’s just a little stale.
Read moreAlabama defensive linesman Jarran Reed has been arrested and charged with DUI by police in Tuscaloosa, according to various reports. Reed, who transferred to Alabama from East Mississippi Community College in the Spring, had a blood alcohol content of 0.13, above the limit of 0.08. “Reed was driving a white 2011 Dodge Charger, according to a TPD news release, when an officer saw him collide with another vehicle at 1:50 a.m. while backing out of a parking spot. Reed attempted to exit the parking lot, but the officer stopped him, the TPD release stated. The incident occurred in the 2400 block of University Boulevard, or the City Fest lot in Tuscaloosa. A field sobriety test was conducted when there was smell of
Read moreAlabama has its 18th commitment of the 2015 class – T.D. Moton, a defensive tackle from Louisiana. The 6ft-2, 310lb player from Woodlawn HS in Shreveport, LA is ranked the 11th player in the state, the 21st DT in the country, and 271st player overall. Moton was recruited by LSU, Florida State, Texas A&M, Arkansas, Notre Dame, and Mississippi State. Moton initially committed to Mississippi State on November 16th, and then de-committed on January 10th. Moton then paid unofficial visits to Texas A&M before going on Alabama’s camp on June 1st and committing on June 2nd. Moton announced the commitment on his Twitter.
Read moreOther SEC head coaches than Florida Gators coach Will Muschamp have spoken on the scheduling issue. This is what they had to say. Nick Saban (Alabama): “I don’t know that we have a choice sometimes. We can’t just call people up and say, ‘We want to have a game.’ It’s not like setting up a golf game. I call up three of my buddies and say you guys want to play and you play Sunday morning. Then everybody says, ‘Yeah, I can play.’ You ever try to schedule a game? Do you know (what) goes into that? It’s very difficult to do home-and-home with quality teams. To be honest with you, you almost have to buy games to get people
Read moreIt’s 99 days to go until the college football season starts, and we’re pretty excited. So excited, in fact, that we’re ranking all of the entrances/pregame traditions in the SEC. And we’re not talking about tailgating! 1. Running Through The ‘T’ – Tennessee Neyland Stadium. Night. The crowd has already drunken itself to a stupor. The Pride Of The Southland Band forms a T. The team runs through it. 2. ‘War…..Eagle’ – Auburn Not EXACTLY the entrance, but letting Spirit The Eagle out as the crowd screams “War Eagle” is one of the best traditions in sports. Spirit The Eagle then hitting a luxury box in 2011 might just be one of college football’s greatest highlights, though. The 2013 entrance was pretty cool, though. 3.
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