One-Liners For 7/8/09

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These are your morning news and notes from Carolina to Louisiana and all SEC points in between:

As we told you last week, athletic director Mike Hamilton says don’t expect to see Tennessee in black football unis.

The UT athletic department will be giving $1 million from the SEC’s tv money back to the academic side of the school each year for the life of the new contract.

One down, one to go: suspended cornerback CC Waterback — I mean CC Whitlock — has been cleared for reinstatement by South Carolina’s AD, but he’s still waiting on word from Steve Spurrier.

Gamecock football players are asking if their new strength coach is “serious, or is this guy crazy?”

ESPN.com’s Chris Low has studied each SEC schedule and found what he believes to be each team’s most dangerous road game.

The annual Kentucky-Indiana basketball game could be returning to Indianapolis.

The shuffling appears to be complete… so here’s your final 2009-2010 Kentucky basketball roster.

Game times for four Georgia football games are now set.

Have Georgia’s black football jerseys become a jinx?

The AJC’s Junkyard Blawg recalls the best games ever played at Sanford Stadium.

Georgia basketballer Trey Thompkins continues to star for Team USA’s Under-19 team.

Florida receiver Riley Cooper has until August 17th to decide if he wants to sign to play baseball with the Texas Rangers or return to the Gators’ football team.  (I’m guessing he’s using the football angle as leverage against the Rangers and will probably sign to play baseball.)

Former Georgia basketball coach (destroyer) Jim Harrick “surfaced” at a basketball camp yesterday.

The attorney for Renardo Sidney says the NCAA’s interviews with the player and his family “went extremely well.”

Sidneys’ camp still must send some more information to the NCAA, but the families’ attorney believes the whole process should be wrapped up “within the next several weeks or so.”  (It better be, Sidney has to enroll at Mississippi State by August 24th.)

Ole Miss basketball players Chris Warren and Eniel Polynice have been cleared for full workouts… signaling that their rehab for knee injuries is complete.

In football news, 24 from the Rebels’ controversial signing class of 37 are enrolled in Oxford for summer school.

Troubled defensive back Jamar Hornsby is NOT one of the players enrolled.

The Rebels’ kickers tied at #19 on The Jackson Clarion-Ledger’s list of “most important players.”

Alabama linebacker Rolando McClain comes in at #13 on The Gainesville Sun’s rundown of the SEC’s best players.

Alabama’s season opener against Virginia Tech at the Georgia Dome is a sell-out.  No surprise here.

Nice idea here: Mike Herndon of The Mobile Press-Register uses the title of a different Michael Jackson song or album to sum up several SEC topics.  Hey, it’s July, what do you expect?

Auburn has hired Scott Carr as a new senior associate athletic director.

I would think that Auburn fans saw enough of Kodi Burns last year, but here’s a new profile of the Tigers’ signal-caller.

Arkansas has a Texas man heading up their high school athlete relations department.  Say it ain’t so.

DJ Williams has a good shot at becoming the Razorbacks’ first ever All-American tight end.

Arkansas’ incoming freshman linebacker Terrell Williams is profiled here.

Frank Broyles talks about Jack Mitchell — the coach he replaced at Arkansas in 1957 — following the 85-year-old Mitchell’s death of cancer on Sunday.

Utah senator Orrin Hatch actually wants the Justice Department to investigate college football’s Bowl Championship Series for what he believes are violations of antitrust laws.  ‘Cause the Justice Department doesn’t have anything better to do.  Here’s hoping this clown gets voted out next time around. 

If you want to see just how stupid Hatch and his cronies — your elected leaders — can be… read this column which includes a transcription of some of yesterday’s exchanges.  It sounds like a fifth-grade conversation.  Ridiculous.

Houston Nutt and the Ole Miss football team will be featured in a new reality show called “Gridiron U” which, if done correctly, could be a recruiting boon for the Rebs.

College football is more than a sport in the South… it’s part of the culture.

Here’s a preview of the SEC’s upcoming Media Days event along with some preseason football prognostications.

And finally, Tony Barnhart of The AJC draws some conclusions from the many preseason magazines now on the market.