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SEC links for Monday:
- Paul Gattis of the Huntsville Times reports that the SEC is the class of the NFL draft, again.
- Dave Hooker of the Knoxville News-Sentinel reports that, by NFL draft standards, Tennessee’s talent hit a historic low.
- Hooker also profiles new Tennessee football assistant Ed Orgeron.
- Wally Hall of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette writes that Arkansas basketball fans demand improvement.
- Birmingham News columnist Kevin Scarbinsky writes that Auburn is just glad Matthew Stafford is gone.
- Seth Emerson of The State reports that South Carolina had seven players drafted, most since the draft was shortened to seven rounds in 1994.
- Tim Tucker of the AJC reports on the rest of the Georgia draft after Stafford.
- Maurice Patton and Mike Organ of the Tennessean report that Vandy’s D.J. Moore followed the Chicago pipeline.
- David Climer of the Tennessean writes that the BCS has little role in the NFL draft.
- David Jones of Florida Today writes on the Gators’ Cornelius Ingram, drafted in the fifth round by Philadelphia despite missing all of 2008 with a knee injury.
- Cecil Hurt of the Tuscaloosa News on the future of Bama’s Andre Smith in Cincinnati.
- David Brandt of the Clarion-Ledger reports on Ole Miss baseball’s series win over Georgia.
