SEC East Headlines – 12/23/09
December 23rd, 2009 ║ Posted By: John Pennington ║ Permalink ║ Tags: Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
1. Former Vandy football player Mike MacIntyre’s first game as the head coach at San Jose State will come against… Alabama.
2. Tennessee freshman tailback Bryce Brown says his first season was “Better early than late.”
3. UT football players turned in their best academic performance since 2005 and will have all hands on deck for the Chick-fil-A Bowl.
4. Bruce Pearl hopes his team can turn the page from Saturday’s 77-55 loss at Southern Cal when they face North Carolina A&T tonight.
5. Pearl also says that he has “not been able to get (his team) to train.”
6. Columbia’s The State ranks linebacker Eric Norwood as the best Gamecock football player of the past decade.
7. There were some pretty good players on Carolina’s All-Decade team, too.
8. Steve Spurrier believes his team earned its highest GPA since his arrival five years ago.
9. Spurrier’s son Scott will begin his own coaching career at a Columbia High School.
10. Kentucky cornerback Trevard Lindley is hoping to end his career on the right note in the Music City Bowl. (Get it?)
11. DeAndre Liggins helped give the UK basketball team a lift on defense Tuesday night.
12. Liggins has been in John Calipari’s doghouse all season and he won’t get into why.
13. DeMarcus Cousins is learning to keep his emotions in check.
14. Coach Cal has no problem with his team’s talk of an undefeated season… because he started it.
15. The hot Christmas gift in the Bluegrass State is a black “UK2K” t-shirt.
16. Georgia’s football team avoided running gassers at the end of yesterday’s practice because Brandon Boykin sang part of a Christmas carol in front of the team.
17. Mark Richt has no problem with the idea of up to 40 bowls… or 5-7 team being allowed in. Spoken like a true coach.
18. The Bulldogs will report in Shreveport tomorrow afternoon.
19. Bryan McClendon’s first year as Georgia’s running backs coach was a pretty tough test.
20. In basketball news, Georgia hosts Florida Atlantic tonight.
21. Bulldog Ricky McPhee is earning praise with his defensive play.
22. Urban Meyer is about to head into the most critical offseason of his Gator tenure.
23. At least he’s happy with his team’s attitude heading into Christmas break.
24. And finally, Mike Strange of The Knoxville News Sentinel lays out just how far each SEC team is from 2,000 wins (Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee and Vanderbilt are the only schools over the 1,400 mark) and predicts that another league school won’t match Kentucky’s feat until the year 2030.
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