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Thursday, July 23, 2009

SEC Media Days: Part Deux

We're going to take a different tack while following Day 2 of the SEC's Media Days. I'll be posting frequent updates throughout the day but will not be live blogging the coaches. Check back periodically for posts.

So far, the SEC's coordinator of officials Rogers Redding is speaking on the stage. The only rule change that he highlighted was one on special teams. When a team is punting and the punter rolls out to one side to do a rugby style kick, it will no longer be roughing if the punter rolls outside of the tackle box. That might make a few coaches less likely to use that style of kicking if it basically gives the defense a free shot at the punter.

Here's today's order of coaches:
  • 8:40 CT: Georgia's Mark Richt
  • 9:40 CT: Alabama's Nick Saban
  • 10:40 CT: Ole Miss' Houston Nutt
  • 11:40 CT: Florida's Urban Meyer
So what came out of the first installment of media days? Here are a few links to our stories:
  • I had a story on Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen and the infectious energy he seems to have brought to a stark situation with the Bulldogs. Of all the first-day coaches, Mullen was definitely the most interesting.
  • In this notebook, commissioner Mike Slive reiterated his message to SEC coaches to clean things up when it comes to sniping each other in the media. He also addressed the secondary violations that grabbed headlines in the offseason. Also, there's an update on the Tim Tebow front, as in who didn't vote for him on the SEC's first team. No coach has fessed up yet, and it doesn't appear like anybody will. “I don’t know if you all are going to find the culprit,” Vanderbilt’s Bobby Johnson said, “but you can tell him it wasn’t me.” (Update: Richt just said he voted for Tebow as well)
  • Georgia writer David Hale (who blogs here) writes about Arkansas as a possible sleeper in Bobby Petrino's second year.

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