Archive for July 27th, 2008

Tuberville @ Media Days on QB Situation

I quote Tuberville, verbatim:

This year, we’ll play two quarterbacks. But we will have one starting quarterback, a guy that everybody knows is our starter. It could change during the year, it might not. Obviously, it’s going to be a scenario, too, like we played in the bowl game, where Brandon Cox played and Kodi came in at certain times.I don’t know who’s going to be the quarterback. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Chris Todd was our starting quarterback. Kodi would be, as of today. Chris has worked very hard, as Kodi has. His shoulder’s much better. We’re going to need both of them. I want everybody to know that we will have a starter on the depth chart.

We’ll use two, maybe three. We’re probably going to have to use three, and we’ll have to see how that’s going to work out. Neil Caudle’s worked hard. I think Neil’s throwing the ball well. It could be a scenario like Brandon, him going in and throwing the ball in certain situations.

The quarterback situation is in good hands. I like what they’ve done this summer. Every time I’ve looked out the window, they’re out there throwing. The receivers have really raved about all the quarterbacks and how they’re throwing the football.

  To summarize:
1 ) Auburn will play two quarterbacks.
2 ) There will be one starting quarterback.
3 ) The starter might change.
4 ) The starter might not change.
5 ) Burns is the starting quarterback as of today.
6 ) Tuberville wouldn’t be surprised if Todd won the starting job.
7 ) Auburn might play three quarterbacks.
8 ) Caudle has a chance to play.

Miss State = BEST FLY OVER EVER

What the league might be like in 25 years?

SEC@100

Why wait to see what the SEC will look like at 100 years old? To consider the future, it helps to remember the past.

Twenty-five years ago, Bear Bryant died and the next SEC coaching legend, Steve Spurrier, was in the USFL; the SEC had 10 members; conferences couldn’t negotiate their own TV deals; the SEC football championship game was a decade away; and the SEC’s first black football coach wouldn’t arrive for another two decades. The SEC distributed $9.53 million to its members in 1983, compared to $127.2 million to 12 members in 2008. Imagine what 2033 will look like. We offer some fanciful but not implausible forecasts:

  SPURRIER CONCLUDES CAREER
The Young Ball Coach, Steve Spurrier Jr., nears the end of his distinguished football coaching career at Tennessee. Florida still kicks itself for letting another Spurrier get away.

SEC NETWORK
Talk in 2008 about whether the SEC would go to its own channel is laughable now. Every major conference has one. Fans regularly watch games on their computer and phone in addition to television sets.

SUITES EQUAL MONEY
Many SEC stadiums follow the NFL approach: Scale back in size and beef up luxury boxes, where more money can be made. Nonetheless, Bryant-Denny-Saban Stadium exceeds 100,000 and is the largest in the country.

DIVERSITY AT COMMISSIONER
Damon Evans, Georgia’s longtime athletics director while Mark Richt won multiple national championships, becomes the first black commissioner of the SEC. As usual with race, the SEC is near the end of the line nationally.

OPENLY GAY ATHLETES
After openly gay athletes come forward in professional leagues, the trend trickles down to colleges, even in the South. Vanderbilt, before leaving the SEC and being replaced by Louisville, produces the SEC’s first openly gay athlete in a major sport.

ROTATING SEC FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
Holding the game in Atlanta presents competitive and financial challenges because the Georgia Bulldogs won too often in the aging Georgia Dome. Other cities also host. Birmingham is not considered because it never built a dome and coaches are gun-shy of subpoenas.

HONORING MUSCHAMP
Will Muschamp, hired by Auburn after Tommy Tuberville, receives consideration as one of the greatest SEC coaches of the past quarter century. Winning Auburn’s second national championship makes him a legend.

REMEMBERING TUBBY
Thirty-five years since their most recent national title, Kentucky basketball fans remember Tubby Smith fondly. The 25-year reunion in 2023 helped put to rest some bitter feelings that lingered.

GREATEST SEC ATHLETES
The Birmingham News, now in digital form, picks the greatest athletes of the SEC’s first 100 years. Tim Tebow is No. 1. Old-timers argue for Bo Jackson. Without media guides, athletes from the SEC’s first 30 years are forgotten.

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