Mike Slive (AP photo/Dave Martin)
SEC links for Thursday:
- SEC commissioner Mike Slive has too much to do to retire, writes Kevin Scarbinsky of the Birmingham News.
- Joe Medley of the Anniston Star writes that the SEC commissioner started off the proceedings with some big talk about academic reform and NCAA rules.
- Slive shows he wants to be out in front of the debate, says my H-L column.
- Slive wants to alter the landscape, writes Mark Schlabach of espn.com.
- The commish has ideas and they’re not stupid, says Gregg Doyel of CBS Sports.
- Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel argues that Ron Zook left Urban Meyer a better program at Florida than Meyer left Will Muschamp.
- Mark Bradley of the AJC doesn’t think Muschamp is the next Zook.
- South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier has his old swagger back after winning division title, writes Mike Herndon of the Mobile Press-Register.
- Spurrier knows that repeating won’t be easy, reports Jennifer Smith of the H-L.
- With former UK associate AD Scott Stricklin at the helm, Mississippi State pulls in a record $37.6 million in private donations, reports the AP.
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