Lunchtime Grab Bag
October 9th, 2009 12:03 PM║ Posted By: John Pennington ║ Permalink ║ Tags: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
Here are a few more SEC notes and nuggets as we roll toward the weekend:
1. ESPN.com’s Chris Low has gone through the SEC’s weekly notes package and provided you with a “Did you know?” column on the league.
2. Every week there’s one storyline that arises from the SEC football weekend. Two weeks ago it was “when should coaches remove players?” This week it’s been the excessive celebration penalty. Jeff Lockridge of The Tennessean clobbers that dead horse in this column.
3. SEC commissioner Mike Slive said yesterday that there is no need to have a “public hanging” when officials make bad calls.
4. Jeff Schultz of The AJC makes his weekend predictions right here. I bet LSU fans like ‘em.
5. Here’s more on how the Atlanta Sports Council is wooing Georgia and Georgia Tech to play in the 2011 Chick-fil-A Kickoff game.
6. Here are the weekend predictions from The AJC’s Tony Barnhart.
7. Tommy Hicks of The Mobile Press-Register says it finally time to start playing the games that matter.
8. Charles Hollis of The Birmingham News has made his picks for this weekend’s games.
9. The first BCS rankings haven’t been released yet, but Seth Emerson of The State is already taking issue with the system.
10. Ron Higgins of The Memphis Commercial-Appeal ranks the teams of the SEC.
11. Geoff Calkins, also of The MCA, makes his picks for Saturday.
12. Pat Dooley of The Gainesville Sun shares his picks for the weekend.
13. Mark McCarter of The Huntsville Times writes that instead of banning the media from practice this week, Houston Nutt should have banned his players from reading their own hype this offseason.
14. In basketball news, you remember how John Calipari wrote escape clauses into the National Letters of Intent some of his Memphis Tigers’ signed? You know, the “if I go, you can come, too” clause? Well, those aren’t kosher anymore. (Actually they never were, but Coach Cal found and used the loophole.)
15. Finally, Doug Segrest of The Birmingham News has written an outstanding piece on America’s first nationally televised Saturday night college football game — the Alabama-Ole Miss game from 1969. Why the story even ties in Lawrence Welk and you just can’t beat that. A one-ah and a two-ah…
