SEC links for Tuesday:
David Brandt of the Clarion-Ledger on Mississippi State losing its DC: “Mississippi State is in the market for a new defensive coordinator after Carl Torbush left the Bulldogs for the same job at Kansas under new coach Turner Gill. Torbush spent one season at Mississippi State and was the highest-paid assistant on the football staff with a one-year contract that paid $260,000.”
Marc Weiszer of the Athens Banner-Herald reports that Georgia can’t land Bud Foster: “Foster said Monday that he spoke to Georgia coach Mark Richt, but is staying in Blacksburg and will get a new deal for remaining the Hokies’ defensive coordinator. Foster said he also talked to Florida’s Urban Meyer and Florida State’s Jimbo Fisher about coordinator positions, but things got most serious with Georgia.”
Seth Emerson of The State reports on Darrin Horn’s extension: “It took all of one year for USC athletics director Eric Hyman to be convinced that men’s basketball coach Darrin Horn deserved a raise. Monday, Horn was approved for a two-year extension to 2015 and a $300,000 raise by the USC board of trustees.”
Gary Laney of The Advocate reports on LSU’s win over SLU: “LSU went to a small lineup Monday against Southeastern Louisiana. With the way Tasmin Mitchell was playing inside, it didn’t need to be any bigger.”
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