SEC MEDIA DAYS: HIGHLIGHTS
Al.com deserves Pritzker Prize nomination for the monument they're building to SEC Media days, blogging and flogging the shit out of the proceedings with a pretty manic pace for journos, what with all the "fact checking" and "not using profanity" they have to do over there.
A few of the highlights, since it is OBC's day to crow over there. (BTW: the best part about Spurrier coaching South Carolina is the opportunity to anthropomorphize him as a rooster, an animal Spurrier's always kind of resembled, actually.)

Y'all listen up! Spurrier speaks. Click-clack.
Spurrier: "I thought we had done something when we beat Clemson," Spurrier said. "But then Kentucky beat them in the bowl game."
Houston Nutt: "I'm a former quarterback who loves to throw, but you have to do what your players do best," Nutt said. "If you came to practice, you'd say 'hmmm, No. 5, you'd better give him the ball. You do what is best with your players to give you the best chance to win."
Note: Houston Nutt's offenses have been at the bottom of passing rankings in the SEC for the past two years and over the past five have averaged a finish of 93rd overall in the NCAA's statistical rankings of offenses. He likes to "pass," if by "pass" you mean "running."
Spurrier, obviously buoyed by our ranking of SCar at #6: ""This year the goal is to win the SEC Championship."
Tuberville, whose team just reported three secondary violations to the NCAA, spoke today, as well as Rich Brooks of Kentucky, who kicked your cat on the way into the conference. We'll have quotes to follow, especially from Tuberville, who as the poor man's Spurrier should have some slightly less witty comments with slightly duller zingers built in for conference rivals.
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can’t tubbs just lay down? and sleep? using his big fat fuken ears for pillows…. lay down, son… lay down… sleepy time…
by Burt77 on Jul 25, 2007 5:34 PM EDT reply actions
Mike Leach, not Tuberville, is the poor man’s Spurrier. Tuberville is the homeless man’s Spurrier.
by Doug on Jul 25, 2007 5:38 PM EDT reply actions
The OBC tendered his resignation when hearing that the ACC holds media days at Pinehurst. He will be coaching Duke again starting this fall.
by Brian on Jul 25, 2007 5:43 PM EDT reply actions
Tubbs is like that whiney, meek uncle who comes around borrowin’ money from dad and bitchin’ about how the “System is stacked against him.”
by Hook'em Tide on Jul 25, 2007 5:44 PM EDT reply actions
I’d love to know what’s on the mind of the Orgeron.
by Jorgé the Bass Player on Jul 25, 2007 5:45 PM EDT reply actions
Boy, I just saw a tape of my interview thing Boy I tell ya. Boy. I say boy a lot.
by Houston Nutt on Jul 25, 2007 5:46 PM EDT reply actions
Tuberville is like that football coach who has only lost five games in the past three years, while winning an SEC championship and coach of the year honors. Fuckin’ Redneck…
by Bottagetta on Jul 25, 2007 5:55 PM EDT reply actions
5) Whatever it is, it’ll probably require invasive surgery.
by Oops Pow Surprise on Jul 25, 2007 6:00 PM EDT reply actions
Tuberville is like that coach that has to play piss-poor Bama teams five years in a row. Six in a row this year? Yawn.
by LemmeHearYaSayWarEagle on Jul 25, 2007 6:04 PM EDT reply actions
So far the highlight has been Nutt’s revelation that DMac dresses up for Halloween. Possible costume: broken big toe.
by Kyle on Jul 25, 2007 6:06 PM EDT reply actions
Tuberville is like that coach that lied to his team telling them he’d be carted off in a pine box when really he meant his stuff would be carted off to Lee County in a pine box when he signed that sweet contract…
Kettle bitches… KETTLE.
by PeterPumpkinhead on Jul 25, 2007 6:11 PM EDT reply actions
#5
I imagine The Orgeron will come to the podium wearing a singlet and will only take questions from “Mean” Gene Okerlund.
by PW on Jul 25, 2007 6:12 PM EDT reply actions
I hear Nutt showed up in a pimped out Crown Vic.
by The Last Dragon on Jul 25, 2007 6:16 PM EDT reply actions
Is Tuscaloosa a suburb of Miami because I also remember some new coach Sa-ban, King of Crimson, saying he would never leave the Dolphins
by LemmeHearYaSayWarEagle on Jul 25, 2007 6:17 PM EDT reply actions
Tubs is the most pissed off coach in the country that Bama fired Mike (dear in the headlights) Shula.
Enjoy your dominance while you can Barners.
by CHARLIE MURPHY on Jul 25, 2007 6:21 PM EDT reply actions
Lookame! I’m in a pissing match with Bammers. Football season is almost here!
by LemmeHearYaSayWarEagle on Jul 25, 2007 6:21 PM EDT reply actions
That’s my whole point LemmehearYa… There’s been a lot of “Man I hate that lying Saban” and I just wanted to point out, while true, he’s not the only one… in this state.
by PeterPumpkinhead on Jul 25, 2007 6:31 PM EDT reply actions
Dear in the Headlights…
That just became first choice in my fantasy football team-name pool. Thank you, Charlie Murphy…and the Alabama public school system.
by Dinknflicka on Jul 25, 2007 6:31 PM EDT reply actions
Dinknflicka, Charlie wasn’t talking about a large animal with antlers, he was talking about that guy who’s wife ran over him with her Mercedes.
by PeterPumpkinhead on Jul 25, 2007 6:33 PM EDT reply actions
ah, it is football season when my half literate brothers of the state of Alabama begin ragging on one another over whose coach is a bigger douche. War Motherfucking Eagle. i can’t wait for the blood letting and throat slashing to begin.
by suicidewatch on Jul 25, 2007 6:38 PM EDT reply actions
Sa6an took it too a whole new level of lying. The kind of lying that would make Bill Clinton say, “Whoa… I’m not sure about that guy.”
Hook ‘em Tide, I think we’ve all known a whiney, meek uncle like that. Of course in this particular case, that whiney, meek uncle has beaten your dad’s ass every Thanksgiving for the last 5 years. I’ve never met a whiney, meek uncle like that.
by HFS on Jul 25, 2007 6:45 PM EDT reply actions
Did it with the guy’s own daughter sitting in the car too, crazy bitch.
Also, Tubbs is the kind of coach that gets really defensive over minor slights on jovial internet message boards. Thanks overly sensitive Auburn fans.
oh yeah.
Fuckin’ Redneck.
by Kecalf Bailey on Jul 25, 2007 6:49 PM EDT reply actions
HFS, explain how “Sa6an took it to a whole new level”
That catchy blanket statement shit might fly with Colin Cowherd, but not here.
by Kecalf Bailey on Jul 25, 2007 6:51 PM EDT reply actions
My point is, the only difference between what Saban and Tuberville did is that you are a fan of one of them, and not the other. That’s why i dont make fun of Tuberville anymore…that and the whole past five years thing…8*(
by Kecalf Bailey on Jul 25, 2007 6:54 PM EDT reply actions
LYING……like secretly meeting with another team about taking another job.
by CHARLIE MURPHY on Jul 25, 2007 6:54 PM EDT reply actions
The main difference between what Saban did and what Tuberville did was that Saban belittled and condescended to people who dared to suggest that he might leave the Dolphins. So basically, they did the same thing except Saban was more of a jerk about it.
Otherwise, I agree with #26.
by bovinekid on Jul 25, 2007 6:58 PM EDT reply actions
In 38 days, ‘Bama and Auburn fans will jack yo’ thread.
by Herb on Jul 25, 2007 7:02 PM EDT reply actions
Just to note why I even out any comment on here to begin with.
A Buckeye Bragging on how great USC is?
Are you just glad TOSU hasn’t had to play them in the Rose Bowl here lately.
by CHARLIE MURPHY on Jul 25, 2007 7:04 PM EDT reply actions
Damn, don’t you Tide/Tiger fans have mutual blogs you can destroy? This is the National Champions Blog, show some respect. Sniff Smell that? That’s Footbaw Season Lawya.
by Stockman on Jul 25, 2007 7:18 PM EDT reply actions
fucking unreal….i’m sorry i even clicked on the replies.
by big d tide on Jul 25, 2007 7:27 PM EDT reply actions
Uh oh…looks like Clemson and Tommy are turning into the new UT & Phil. This is going to be fucking GREAT.
by robert on Jul 25, 2007 7:59 PM EDT reply actions
- TOSU does the home/away thing with the Condoms in ‘08-’09, and we can’t wait. I would rather lose to great teams-like Florida-than dick around with the YSUs and Gardner-Webbs of the world.
BTW, college football and heavy drug/alcohol use really beats the shit out of work and church.
by Jorgé the Bass Player on Jul 25, 2007 8:20 PM EDT reply actions
Sorry. I meant #31. My neglected infant is being a distraction.
by Jorgé the Bass Player on Jul 25, 2007 8:21 PM EDT reply actions
BAMA math for our little friends from da plains:
5 years in a row huge floppy earlobes
Join us next time when we divide 12 by 1—-(the answer will BLOW YOUR MIND!
by numberedhats on Jul 25, 2007 8:22 PM EDT reply actions
BAMA math for our little friends from da plains:
5 years in a row huge floppy earlobes
Join us next time when we divide 12 by 1—-(the answer will BLOW YOUR MIND!
by numberedhats on Jul 25, 2007 8:24 PM EDT reply actions
obviously I lack skills to post a freakin’ comment in its entirety—-
by numberedhats on Jul 25, 2007 8:27 PM EDT reply actions
Doug,
Usually I find your posts hilarious (even the ones about Auburn). However, in this particular case, I think you let your hatred of Auburn cloud your snarktasticness.
Tuberville and Richt are about dead-even on everything as far as their accomplishments- including their head-to-head record, so calling Tuberville “a homeless man’s Spurrier” seems a bit weak coming from you. Additionally, Tuberville has managed to defeat Florida twice, compared to Richt’s one, and unlike Richt, Tuberville never had the pleasure of facing [NAME REDACTED]- all of Tuberville’s UF contests being against OBC or Pope Urban.
FTR, I never blamed Saban for leaving Miami- how can you blame him? He made some poor management decisions for the Dolphins- decisions he INSISTED on having to make as a condition of him being employed there- not to mention the buying power $4M/year in T-town will get you. Yeah, he lied, but so did Tuberville when he left Ole Miss, I know.
by MiseanAUFan on Jul 25, 2007 8:37 PM EDT reply actions
Edit- (NAME REDACTED) was there in ’02.; Auburn lost in OT at the Swamp, where the Bulldogs never have to play.
by MiseanAUFan on Jul 25, 2007 8:51 PM EDT reply actions
Um, no Robert.
I will remind you what Tommy always says when he hears 2001, “I love that song. Every time I hear that song it means another victory.”
Seriously, if it wasn’t for you guys, we would have been the one to make the first futile, possibly but not probably, move on RR.
What are you guys calling Death Valley East these days? The CockPit or the Barnyard or something like that? Good Lord…
Just a reminder, I don’t know how old you are, but since you are on EDSBS, I am willing to bet that since you have been alive, you have not beaten us two years in a row.
See you in November…
by Coop on Jul 25, 2007 9:25 PM EDT reply actions
- 30
Nicely done…all we need is an imagine to go with it.
by tOSUBuckeyes on Jul 25, 2007 9:33 PM EDT reply actions
You guys catch this one?
Montana transfer Quinn arrested for speeding, DUI
Associated Press
Updated: July 23, 2007, 10:29 PM ET
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MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana lineman J.D. Quinn, who transferred from Oklahoma after being kicked off the team there, was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.
Montana coach Bobby Hauck didn’t release details Monday of the junior offensive lineman’s arrest, saying only that disciplinary action will be taken.
“As always, there will be firm disciplinary measures taken, and those measures will be handled within our football team,” Hauck said in a statement. “One of the disciplinary actions will include mandatory alcohol counseling.”
Missoula Police Lt. Mike Brady said Quinn was pulled over for speeding at 2:39 a.m. Sunday. Police records said Quinn was going 44 mph in a 35 mph zone.
“After the officer did the field sobriety test, he was arrested,” Brady said. “He was processed per standard procedure.”
Quinn was arrested for speeding and first-offense DUI, both misdemeanors, Brady said. He was taken to the Missoula County jail and later released on bail. Quinn appeared in court Monday and pleaded not guilty to both charges, a Municipal Court reporter said.
After-hours calls seeking comment from Quinn’s attorney weren’t immediately returned.
Brady said it appeared Quinn was driving by himself when he was pulled over and was cooperative during his arrest.
Quinn and Oklahoma quarterback Rhett Bomar were kicked off the team last August and lost a year of eligibility for being paid for work they had not performed at a car dealership. Both are eligible to play again this fall.
The NCAA said earlier this month that Oklahoma must erase its wins from the 2005 season and will lose two scholarships for the 2008-09 and 2009-10 school years because of the infractions. The NCAA said Oklahoma was guilty of a “failure to monitor” the employment of the players.
Oklahoma sent a notice of appeal to the NCAA last week.
by tim on Jul 25, 2007 9:38 PM EDT reply actions
#32, didn’t you see Auburn blow up the National Champs by like 10 points (and we opted not to go for the EP). Yeah, we can roll this joint.
Arkansas blogs – nope. Can’t touch those with a 10 foot pole. Fred Talley and DMac would run over our computers and separate us from Al Gore’s mightiest creation.
Speaking of the Poles, I hear they’ve started paying their football coach 4 million dollars.
by NewAZTiger on Jul 25, 2007 11:01 PM EDT reply actions
Tubby basically gave a big “FUCK YOU!” to all the media, as he usually does every year.
The fun has yet to begin, my fellow southeastern friends. just wait till Nick “Benny Hinn” Saban strolls on in, with his sea of rednecks, playing “pin the tooth on the bammer fan”.
Oh, and Less Miles, enough said.
Note to NumberedHats: (You should probably type with two hands, because there’s no need to use your one hand to jerk off with pictures of Saban 24/7. You can’t live on social security and food stamps forever. Get a fucking job, the world needs fast food cooks, my lawn needs mowing, and my car needs washing. Bammers just do jobs that illegals get tired of.)
by WarEagleBitches on Jul 25, 2007 11:56 PM EDT reply actions
Anyone else notice Houston Nutt taking the time to flaunt his nifty SEC Western Division Championship ring, stating that it’s a huge accomplishment and that nobody else got one of those?
Too bad the idiot didn’t get a chance to see Meyer, Fulmer, or Saban flaunt their national championshp rings while he was up there.
Pity us in Arkansas. We have a blithering idiot for a head coach who probably text messaged his charity worker/news anchor “friend” at least 4 times while he was up behind the podium.
by Nuttless in Arkansas on Jul 26, 2007 12:39 AM EDT reply actions
NewAZTiger… all I have to say is that we’re gonna make up for the blemish on our record and probably any other game we lose for the next ten years when we play you guys at the Swamp on September 29th. I don’t think there’s any other game I want to win so badly.
by omar on Jul 26, 2007 1:21 AM EDT reply actions
Omar, as long as UF is ranked in the top 10, AU has it in the bag.
by NewAZTiger on Jul 26, 2007 1:35 AM EDT reply actions
As long as Auburn has Brandon Cox as QB, they won’t make it out of October.
by omar on Jul 26, 2007 2:37 AM EDT reply actions
He did pretty well against the National Champs last year (in October) with a bum leg.
by MiseanAUFan on Jul 26, 2007 7:24 AM EDT reply actions
Omar, it’s a good thing we play UF in September.
by NewAZTiger on Jul 26, 2007 7:27 AM EDT reply actions
- Oh! 2 hand typing! But have you eva photo-shopped Saban’s face on Jessica Alba’s Body??—-yummy! And btw-I need a job too. Your not the only one with ‘bitches’ in their name that reads me like a book. wanna make nice?
by numberedhats on Jul 26, 2007 8:13 AM EDT reply actions
#41, I’m not impugning Tubbs’ coaching ability, I’m just saying I’m tired of him fancying himself anywhere near Steve Spurrier’s league when it comes to trash-talking and snarky sound bites.
Yes, Tubbs and Richt are more or less neck-and-neck when it comes to actual accomplishments during their respective coaching tenures . . . so why does Tommy run his mouth so much more than Richt does?
by Doug on Jul 26, 2007 8:16 AM EDT reply actions
The Orgeron is bringing Jerral Powe to do his talking for him.
by yoyofutbawl on Jul 26, 2007 8:30 AM EDT reply actions
Where is that [adjective redacted] Ohio state fan anyway? Was there a post of his that got deleted? Something about running USC smack? I’m bored with all this “Bama fans live in the past” “Tubbs lied too” trash talking. Maybe [adjective redacted] can look up some stats and write a book to entertain us with.
by War Eagle on Jul 26, 2007 9:53 AM EDT reply actions
ah, okay. I see [adjective redacted] has written a novella on one of yesterday’s threads.
by War Eagle on Jul 26, 2007 10:08 AM EDT reply actions
#25: HFS, explain how "Sa6an took it to a whole new level"
Simple. The Tubs quote was a one-time quote, that falls in the range of standard coach speak surrounding potential job changes. Because of that, I wouldn’t trust what he might say in the future about a potential job change. But that would probably be true even without that past statement, because he’s a coach.
For Sa6an, it was repeated, bold-faced and very specific lying “I will not be the coach at Alabama”, with the added benefit of his repeated disgust and contempt at anyone that would dare to challenge his assertions that he “will not be the coach at Alabama”. Because of that, I wouldn’t trust anything he might say in the future about anything. He not only crossed the line of coachspeak, he flutagged over it by half a mile.
CTT told a lie. Sa6an is a liar. There’s your difference.
by HFS on Jul 26, 2007 11:15 AM EDT reply actions
war eagle….bama’s defense is going to pretty much suck about as bad as LSU’s did whent hey lost to UAB in Saban’s first year. This will be 6 in a row!….next year I might start worrying as Saban might get the talent on defense up to snuff by then.
by Gabe Harris on Jul 26, 2007 11:25 AM EDT reply actions
Fuckin’ hell. That’s a lot of bluster and fall camp hasn’t started. Am I alone in not understanding why all of these prognosticators are loving the Cock(s)? I mean, yeah, 9-3 looks like a legitimate possiblity, but, and this maybe my bias or USCar’s utter lack of history, but I just can’t imagine a world where they win the East. And I certainly don’t want to live in said world.
by Biggus Rickus on Jul 26, 2007 11:37 AM EDT reply actions
At precisely 8:07 a.m., a cadre of handlers — i.e. the UA media relations staff and SEC personnel — burst through the doors of the Wynfrey hotel, crept into the lobby and met the dozens of people lined up to see the man of the hour. Saban gave a quick “How we doing?” He did not sign autographs or stop and chat. Then, the sea of Crimson in the lobby parted as the entourage zipped through
Roll Tide Bitches
by mp on Jul 26, 2007 11:46 AM EDT reply actions
pulitzer prize, maybe? the pritzker is for badass architecture, the likes of which don’t really exist in SEC-country. unless you count super-duper walmart’s and waffle houses.
by cw on Jul 26, 2007 12:25 PM EDT reply actions
When CTT left Ole Miss, he shoulda got a bunch of guys to actually carry him out in some kind of pine box, you know like the kind of thing you’d carry a Pharoh in, but with taller sides and made out of pine. That would have been completely inappropriate, yet very funny.
by AustinTiger on Jul 26, 2007 12:25 PM EDT reply actions
#33/PeteJayhawk – “What makes the S Car Go?” was the clinching riddle from the Riddler in an old Batman 45 record/story I had as a kid. Thanks for the memory ~ now I have to go troll “That 70s Toy” websites for the rest of the day, trying to find it….
(Yes, I do work for the government, why do you ask?)
by panhandler on Jul 26, 2007 12:28 PM EDT reply actions
#66
I mean really—every Bama fan I know basically gives Tub-a-ears the advantage in year one of the rivalry. (but of course if you beat us, we start counting at 1)
by numberedhats on Jul 26, 2007 1:02 PM EDT reply actions
@Coop…
…hard to wade through all the Bammer-Barner banter…but yes, you have beaten us frequently. My school isn’t ranked 75th in some magazine (WOO! WE’RE 75! WE’RE 75!) so I can’t seem to recall how many times exactly. My point was that Tommy is a pretty easy target…like Phil was for Spurrier when he was at Florida. They are easy targets because they do it to themselves.
I will see you on November 24th. I will be the drunk guy in the stands who won’t remember anything, win or lose.
by robert on Jul 26, 2007 1:52 PM EDT reply actions

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