Defensive back Josh Holsey from Creekside High School in Fairburn, Ga., has committed to Auburn.

Holsey announced his choice on Tuesday afternoon. He chose the Tigers over Georgia, LSU and Virginia Tech.

Holsey is Auburn’s fifth commitment for the 2011 class.

1. SI’s Andy Staples is out with his post-spring Top 25. Oklahoma is his top choice.  Six SEC schools make the list.

• #3 – Alabama
• #4 – LSU
• #8 – South Carolina
• #13 – Arkansas
• #18 – Auburn
• #22 – Mississippi State

Both Georgia and Florida, writes Staples, just missed the cut.

2. With those rankings in mind, doesn’t seem a stretch to call South Carolina the best team of the SEC East.

3. Arkansas loses a basketball scholarship.

4. Alabama’s Trent Richardson has a lot of motivation this year.

5.  Q and A with incoming Georgia freshman linebacker Ray Drew.

6. Former Georgia kicker Kevin Butler: “Bowl games are everything you think they are…. fun, exciting, a great sense of pride for the University and gifts!”

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7. The next NCAA-sanctioned sport -cheerleading?

8. Want to own a sports team? New York Mets “bleeding cash”  - may lose $70 million this year.

9.  Some amazing pictures. Looking down at Joplin, Missouri.

10. Stat of the day: Oprah Winfrey has 6.5 million viewers. Judge Judy has 7 million.

1. Make it a trifecta for Tennessee – changes in the football, basketball and now baseball programs.  Not good for AD Mike Hamilton.

2. John Adams: “How does Hamilton still have a job?”

3. The Sporting News has LSU as its preseason #1 in college football.

4. Georgia’s post-spring depth charts. Some reaction here and here.

5. Auburn offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn welcomes the challenge of three starting quarterbacks in three seasons.

6. Former Auburn player Mike McNeil – lawsuit and evictions to go along with allegations of attempted robbery.

7. Former LSU defensive tackle Drake Nevis works out in Baton Rouge and waits for the lockout to end.

8. How Les Miles spends his summer vacation.

9. The busy life of Nick Saban – he’s been in movies, he’s got his own statue and now he’s introducing former NASCAR drivers at their Hall of Fame inductions.

10. Long before Jim Pyburn was an assistant at Georgia, he was a two-sport star at Auburn. Pyburn died over the weekend at the age of 78.

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11. The secrets of bad behavior at ESPN are no longer so secret. A lot more here.

12. “College football teams play bowl games for the same reason they do almost everything schedule related. It serves ESPN’s purposes.”

1. Harvey Updyke tells ESPN he wanted to get caught. Also here.

2. Former Alabama running back Demetrius Goode has transferred to North Alabama.

3. Former Georgia assistant coach Jim Pyburn is dead after a long illness.

4. Florida wants impact linebackers.

5.  Should the SEC just eliminate divisions for all sports but football?

1. SEC Commissioner Mike Slive: “”The First Amendment will be alive and well in Destin.”

2. Just how big a problem is oversigning?

3. An incoming freshman who could be South Carolina’s starting left tackle by fall.

4. Kevin Scarbinsky likes the idea of an Alabama/Auburn alumni scrimmage game to raise money for storm victims.

5. What motivates the top running back recruit in the state of Alabama.

6. How much are schools willing to pay for recruiting information? Alabama doled out $218,000 to recruiting services over the past three years.  At Auburn, the bill came to $99,000.

7. What’s the cost of an Auburn scholarship?

8. Cam Newton channels Justin Bieber.

10. The Rivals All-Senior basketball team. Two of the players are from the SEC.

11. A clean sweep for the Florida Gators this year.

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12. More expansion talk – from the Big East conference

13. “I miss it to this day,” – 74-year old Tom Osborne on his love for coaching.

14. Is Atlanta a lousy sports city?

15. The 10 states where Wal-Mart is everywhere.  No surprise – five of the 10 are in SEC country.

Defensive back Josh Holsey from Creekside High School in Fairburn, Ga., will announce his decision at 3 p.m. eastern time on Tuesday.

Holsey is considering Auburn, Georgia, LSU and Virginia Tech. Auburn had been considered the favorite to land Holsey. Is that still the case?

“Um, they’re about even,” Holsey told Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Georgia will be an interesting school to watch. Holsey has said in the past he grew up a Georgia fan, but the Bulldogs were slow in their recruitment of Holsey.

He visited Georgia’s campus in April without receiving a scholarship offer from the Bulldogs. At the time, Georgia’s coaches asked Holsey to return to camp in June to audition for an offer. The coaches have since changed their mind, offering Holsey a scholarship and making a strong push in recent weeks.

Holsey said the slow recruitment by Georgia shouldn’t hurt the Bulldogs’ chances in his recruitment.

“Right now, I don’t really know,” he said. “It’s OK. It didn’t really matter. So no, it’s all good, it didn’t hurt their chances.”

Linebacker Dillon Lee said the same on May 12 before he announced his college choice. Georgia was late to offer Lee, who ended up committing to Alabama.

After Lee committed, he admitted that Georgia’s slow pursuit hurt the Bulldogs’ recruitment.

“You know, they just came in too late,” Lee told the AJC. “They came in real late.”

Georgia will hope Holsey doesn’t have the same feeling.

1. 10 questions for Kentucky sports.

2. John Calipari likes his team.

3. Q and A with SEC commissioner Mike Slive.

4. Extending the definition of a scholarship would cost an estimated $2,000 to $5,000 per player.

5. Kevin Scarbinsky on Trevor Lacey: “Alabama didn’t just sign the best player in the state. Alabama signed the best player in the state away from the other SEC school in the state. Alabama signed the best player in the state away from two of the premier programs in the nation.”

6. Mississippi State AD Scott Stricklin doesn’t sound crazy about changing the format of the SEC basketball tournament. More on the possible changes here.

7. The LSU basketball team wins again in Italy.

8. It’s time for the Tigers to honor former coach Dale Brown.

9. A lot of SEC coaches were stalking the sidelines at an Alabama high school spring game.

10. A late bonus for the Ole Miss defensive backfield.

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11. College coaches are sounding the alarms about street agents.

12. Former Florida Gator Joakim Noah has become a mentally tough pro player.

13. Ways to radically reinvigorate the game of golf.

14. Drake wins a college football game in Africa.

1. SEC Brag-O-Meter: The Best Programs Of The Past 8 Years

2. New Gator Wide Receiver Story Likes Katy Perry, Doodoo

3. Is Tony Woods Headed To Kentucky?

4. Drawing The Battle Lines In The SEC’s Upcoming Oversigning Fight

5. Lawsuit Against UM Could Be A Groundbreaker

1. Bruce Pearl and the Maine Red Claws?

2. Felony charges dropped against Rebel signee Tobias Singleton

3. Jon Solomon:  ”This isn’t about giving athletes salaries. It’s about letting athletes buy meals, do laundry, purchase school materials, and cover medical expenses not covered by their university. It’s about doing the right thing.”

4. Cam Newton on jersey #2: “I really don’t care. It’s just a number to me.”

5. The Nick Saban Foundation gift to tornado victims.

6. Former Georgia Bulldog Jake Scott and his legendary career.

7. Aflac is your new Heisman Trophy sponsor.

8. Along with North Carolina’s Roy Williams, Kentucky coach John Calipari honored at Dick Vitale’s charity function.

9. Calipari told Brandon Knight it was time to go to the NBA.

10. The LSU Tigers basketball team is 5-0 on its tour of Italy.

11. With heralded recruit Trevor Lacy in the fold, should coach Anthony Grant be worried about a one-and-done?

12. Lockouts aren’t just for the NFL.  Potential NBA rookies like Florida’s Chandler Parsons have to prepare for them as well.

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13. The nation’s leading passer, receiver and rusher return this fall. Can they repeat?

14. Five storylines to watch at the Preakness today. Predictions.

15. Remembering the Macho Man.

Following up on comments made by Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany earlier this week, SEC commish Mike Slive told CBSSports.com yesterday that he too would be willing to discuss the idea of increasing the value of athletic scholarships to cover “the full cost of attendance.”

Delany’s comments at the Big Ten’s annual meetings in Chicago — that his league had discussed paying student-athletes more than the scholarship money they now receive — have brought reactions from all across the college landscape, in fact.

Slive responded by saying, “I have long thought that we should revisit the limitations on the current scholarship model and perhaps expand it to cover the full cost of attendance” and not just room, board, books and tuition.  “I look forward to that discussion.”

Fellow BCS commissioners Larry Scott and Dan Beebe have also chimed in on the topic.  “I fully support studying the impact of increasing the grant-in-aid package for student-athletes,” the Pac-12′s Scott told CBSSports’ Dennis Dodd.  “We have not had any discussion on earmarking funds for this purpose.”

“This is a topic that BCS commissioners discussed at recent meetings and one that we agreed to review with our respective member institutions at spring conference meetings, which I intend to do at the upcoming annual Big 12 meetings,” Beebe said.

In other words, the Big Ten isn’t necessarily taking the lead on this issue as Delany seemed to suggest by removing the lid from this topic.

Also, while many fans and pundits are saying “It’s about time,” and “This is a good thing for college sports,” in reality this could be a case of the rich simply attempting to get richer.

Certainly, the commissioners of America’s largest conferences would like to help their student-athletes.  We at MrSEC.com aren’t questioning that fact.  But who outside the wealthy BCS conferences can afford to pay athletes more money — especially if more money is to go to all the athletes on a campus?

If the NCAA did go along with a plan from one or more conferences to pay their athletes — and the NCAA would have to sign off on such a plan before any extra cash started changing hands — then those leagues that can’t pay more money would be at a clear disadvantage on the recruiting trail.

Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson has said: “Whether or not it is fiscally feasible might differ from institution to institution.  Air Force could not legally do it and the same might be true of others.  Paying athletes raises drastic tax questions, not to mention the whole amateurism concepts under which we currently operate.”

And there are still more financial and legal considerations to take into account, as ACC commissioner John Swofford pointed out to ESPN.com’s Joe Schad. 

“Could it be limited to only revenue-producing sports?  I’m not sure we would want to do it.  And from a legal standpoint, how does it mesh with Title IX?  I think we’re a ways from getting there,” Swofford said.

Yes, we are.  But Delany and the Big Ten appear to have gotten some positive press out of pitching the idea.  The SEC and other major leagues are saying they are open minded, too.

But everyone might want to hold off on popping the champagne just yet.  For even if something does eventually come to pass, it could be that the haves will only be putting greater distance between themselves and the have-nots.