For the time being anyway, we're going to break some SEC football links out of the sidebar at left into separate daily posts.
Here's some for 8-16-08:
- Kevin Scarbinsky of the Birmingham News points out that, according to the cover of Forbes Magazine, Alabama's Nick Saban is the most powerful coach in sports. That is if you consider someone who is one-game over .500 in his current job a powerful coach. I guess if you go by salary, Saban is pretty darn powerful.
- Just to be helpful, the Birmingham News has created a calculator so that you can compare your salary to that of Saban's salary.
- Over at South Carolina, The State reports that Steve Spurrier plans to play seven quarterbacks in today's scrimmage. That's right, seven. And this from the ol' ball coach who said that he didn't see any reason why Tommy Beecher wouldn't be the Gamecocks starter all year long. That was until Beecher struggled in practice this week.
- The Tennessean reports that in the dogs days of training camp, Vandy coach Bobby Johnson is trying to walk the fine line between contact and rest for his Commodores.
- Wally Hall has been making the rounds at SEC sites, and this one finds him at Auburn. He writes on Kodi Burns, who could be the starting quarterback in Tony Franklin's offense.
- You would think that Georgia might fear injury when it comes to having star tailback Knowshon Moreno line up to take punts. But Chip Towers points out that Desmond Howard returned punts. So did Reggie Bush. Mark Richt wants as many touches for Mr. Moreno as possible, apparently.
- Turns out, I'm not the only one who has noticed that there have been a lot of ACL injuries this SEC pre-season. ESPN's bloggers are on the medical case.
- Tuscaloosa News reporting that Alabama could end up playing Virginia Tech in 2009 after all. If true, you have to hand the Crimson Tide some credit. They open with Clemson in Atlanta this year. Add the Hokies next year.
