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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Media Days schedule

I'm up fairly early today, so I figure I might as well post a little information about the upcoming Media Days (it's just eight days away). And just for fun, my guess as to what might be the most frequently written stories from each day...

Wednesday, July 23
1:10 Florida (Urban Meyer, Tim Tebow, Phil Trautwein)
1:10 Mississippi State (Sylvester Croom, Wesley Carroll, Jamar Cheney)
3:10 LSU (Les Miles, Brett Helms, Tyson Jackson)
3:10 Vanderbilt (Bobby Johnson, Reshard Langford, George Smith)
Prediction: Lots of Tebow love on this day. I'll bet my life they even set him up at the front podium in the big media room (like they did with Darren McFadden last year) rather than at the side tables like they do with most all of the players. Interestingly enough, Florida's bringing two offensive players, which pretty much goes along with the 2007 Gators' philosophy that you don't actually have to play defense to win. There'll also be a significant number of LSU stories, mostly about how they'll fare with Jarrett Lee at QB instead of Ryan Perrilloux. But Tebow rules the day.

Thursday, July 24
8:40 Alabama (Nick Saban, Antoine Caldwell, Rashad Johnson)
8:40 Georgia (Mark Richt, Mohamed Massaquoi, Jeff Owens)
10:40 Ole Miss (Houston Nutt, Peria Jerry, Michael Oher)
10:40 Tennessee (Phil Fulmer, Arian Foster, Adam Myers-White)
Prediction: They loaded a bunch of interesting stuff into this day. Of course it starts with Saban mania, and I'd imagine a significant amount of ink will be devoted to how the Tide will perform in Year 2 of The Process. There'll be some stuff thrown at Georgia's kids about national title expectations, but they picked two good guys to bring in Massaquoi and Owens because I'm pretty certain neither of them will say anything crazy. And then you've got the Houston Nutt first-year-on-the-job angle from Oxford and defending SEC East champ Tennessee. So mostly Saban with a sprinkling of stuff from a couple of teams that should be a good bit better than Bama this year.

Friday, July 25
8:40 Auburn (Tommy Tuberville, Jason Bosley, Sen'Derrick Marks)
8:40 Kentucky (Rich Brooks, Jeremy Jarmon, Dicky Lyons)
10:40 Arkansas (Bobby Petrino, Elston Forte, Jonathan Luigs)
10:40 South Carolina (Steve Spurrier, Jasper Brinkley, Kenny McKinley)
Prediction: Count on most of the hackiest columnists going with the juxtapositioning of Tommy Tuberville being followed by Bobby Petrino on Friday. It's an easy angle. I'm sure we'll hear more than enough of that the week of Oct. 11, when Petrino's Hogs come to Auburn, as well. So you'll have that, some more about Petrino and what Arkansas will do on offense and then they'll bring out the closer, Steve Spurrier. You can write whole stories with just the amusing things he'll say from the podium. He's pretty much the star of the show every year and I'd be surprised if things are any different next week.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I just wanted to take a moment to tell you Auburn fans how lucky you are to have David Ching as your beat writer and blogger. Until recently, he was writing and blogging for UGA football. His UGA blog was the best. Period. He always put in tons of time and effort into the blog, and it was very evident to us readers.

David, you will be greatly missed. Thank you. If you ever get the chance to be the UGA writer again, we'll be glad to have you back! Good luck in your new job.

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