Saturday, August 15, 2009

SEC Football Blogger

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 08:36 PM PDT

Phillip Fulmer is BACK… on CBS. No he won’t be back on the sidelines, but Phillip Fulmer will definitely make his presence known in SEC football this year. Love him or hate him there’s no denying that Fulmer was a great coach for Tennessee. How can you deny it when he left with a 152-52 record?

Fulmer may have left Tennessee after a less than wonderful 2008 season, but he is returning to the SEC to make his presence known. He will be working with CBS on two new SEC-oriented shows this fall. CBS will be broadcasting the SEC Tailgate pre-game show and the SEC Post-Game Show. Fulmer will appear on both of these shows for CBS. This will be Fulmer’s second outing with CBS. He served as a commentator for CBS’ coverage of national signing day in February.

I will definitely be interested to see how this works out for CBS. Choosing Phillip Fulmer to appear would be similar to choosing Steve Spurrier. Most SEC football fans either love him or hate him, there’s not a lot of in between. Like it or not though he’ll still be around as part of SEC football this fall.

Hat tip Paul Gattis

The SEC Newsbrief (And what you need to know.)

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 07:02 PM PDT

The SEC Newsbrief (And what you need to know.)

There are several bits of information that I want to talk about. But since my headspace is feeling a mite bit cluttered? We’re going to share thinks that are happening today in the news and what you need to know about them. And yes, there will be sarcasm.

1) Did you know Florida is going to lose to Arkansas?

It’s true! Tony Barnhart said it’s the biggest trap game in the SEC. And while he is one of the sharpest minds in college football, and I don’t mind an easy post or two. It belies the point. If you go looking for trap games, you’re not going to find them. It’s the Matrix Theory. If you’re looking for a trap game, you must first understand that there is no trap game.

But it’s obviously Kentucky. OBVIOUSLY.

2) The shambling corpse of Chris Todd has returned!

He’s the man who got Tony Franklin fired by general incompetence. He’s the man who made Kodi Burns look good by comparison. He wasn’t in the two-deep conversation in the preseason magazine that I bought. But he’s won the job to run Gus Malzahn’s fast pace offense.

You and I know that this isn’t exactly the result Auburn football is hoping for. But Gene Chizik won five games at Iowa State. Who am I to argue? I have no stake in Tyrik Rollison.

Hat tip: Lots to choose from, but I’ll go with the JCCW

3) Mississippi State may swing another 3-2 game this year.

All reports out of Starkville is that the offense is struggling. Chris Low is reporting that the Bulldogs still have a dead heat at quarterback between Chris Reif and Tyson Lee. And it’s not in a good way either. Dan Mullen didn’t keep score in their first scrimmage. It wasn’t exactly a bad thing.

If somebody doesn’t come out and take this (and Freshman Tyler Russell may be behind, but with the general malaise of QB1 and QB2, he’s not that far), this team is bound to struggle, and my theory of Dan Mullen as Ed Orgeron will start to come to pass.

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