SEC Headlines – 11/29/11 AM Edition
November 29th, 2011 11:29 AM║ Posted By: John Pennington ║ Permalink ║ Tags: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
1. Alabama’s Nick Saban wants BCS voters to be fair when picking the two best teams in the country. (Sidenote: Even Oklahoma State’s Mike Gundy said he’d have a hard time voting his Cowboys ahead of Bama.)
2. Auburn went to 4-0 last night, but Tony Barbee says he’s “not enjoying coaching their group right now.”
3. The University of Arkansas football team said their goodbyes as former teammate Garrett Uekman was laid to rest yesterday in Little Rock.
4. Les Miles believes safety Eric Reid will be ready to play when LSU faces Georgia on Saturday.
5. Gunter Brewer is Ole Miss’ one-man recruiting staff at the moment.
6. Mississippi State defensive tackle Fletcher Cox says he plans “on coming back” for his senior season.
7. Florida’s Billy Donovan locked up his 400th career victory last night.
8. Georgia’s assistants will be receiving bonuses for winning the SEC East… just weeks after an 0-2 start had folks thinking they’d be receiving pink slips instead.
9. John Calipari says Kentucky’s #1 ranking just puts a bigger target on the Wildcats’ backs.
10. Receiver Alshon Jeffery and guard Terrence Campbell both broke bones on Saturday, but they’re expected to be A-OK by the time South Carolina goes bowling.
11. This writer says Tennessee has become a bottom-tier SEC football program.
12. A Vanderbilt transfer led his new team — #11 Xavier — to an overtime win at #20 Vandy last night.
Looking forward to playing Mizzou next year as a new SEC East rival! It's going to be fun. Congrats on ending that Kansas series on a winning note BTW.
Thanks, was a cold nasty day. Really looking foward to the move, and think we can surprise a bit. . Will miss playing Kansas in Basketball, but the excitement here to join the best conference in the country is high. Honored to be a part of it, especially since we could brag last week that 1,2,3 in the nation were SEC Fooball programs. Looking foward to it, thanks for the congrats. Kansas is really bad 0-9 in the conference we sure darned better have won. :)
Scout2...
Posted the BCS standings yesterday.
Welcome to the league,
John
Sorry John, not enough coffee this morning.. Thanks.
"Anyone who doesn't win their conference has no business playing in the national championship" - Nick Saban, 2003
Someone's suckered you into believing a fake quote. He never said that.
This he did say in newspapers all over the country:
"I would be excited for our team if they had the opportunity to play for the National Championship. I think they deserve it, and I think they have worked hard. They have all made a tremendous commitment. We didn't do the things that we needed to do in the LSU game to win. If we got another opportunity to play whoever in the National Championship it would be great for the University of Alabama and all the people in our organization." -Nick Saban, 2011
ROLL TIDE!
I agree wholeheartedly that Bama deserves to be in the game. Somebody’s got to be there and who can make a legitimate case that they’re better? The only thing that burns my hide is that it’s a complete reversal of the justification used to keep Georgia out of the title game in 2007.
That's not a fake quote. He did say it.
Hey Mr SEC! You do a fantastic job, looking forward to reading many more MR SEC in the future.
Here's an update from Kansas City. MIzzou is ranked #25 in the BCS standings this week (young sophomore based team).
The Tiger Basketball team is ranked #13th in Both polls this week.
Thought it wouldn't hurt to get that out there for our new friends in the SEC.
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