DAY 2 AT THE LIARS' CLUB: SEC MEDIA DAYS SCHEDULE
SEC Media Days, the rootin'-est, tootin'-est, shootin'-est conflagration of 400 pound sportswriters and the coaches who loathe them in the nation. The updates from the boots on the ground:
Chris Vernon says..."elastic waistbands are in at media days, in fact, I feel weird that I have a belt on. A conservative estimate would put the combined weight of most radio teams at 550-650 lbs."
The Tide Sports Blog has evidence that Alabama sportswriter Kevin Scarbinsky is dressing like Bumpy from Shaft.

It moved! Saban just arriving in the building is news in Alabama.
Bobby Johnson, like Steve Martin in so many ways. The Vandy coach answered a question about text messaging by sending a quick text message as a reply, then said that he actually had a problem with text messages since they distracted students when they were in class. Urban Meyer then suggested Johnson hike his skirt up if text messaging blew his slip up the wrong way OMG LOL.
True to form, softball questions reigned. So actual children were left to ask the difficult questions to Nick Saban:
After a reporter from Huntsville asked Saban about the suits he wears, Dawson Wade, 9 of Vestavia, spoke up, asking Saban about Alabama's difficulty scoring in the red zone last year and how to fix it. Grateful to be answering questions about football rather than his wardrobe or the spectacle of his arrival at Alabama, Saban gave a thoughtful, composed response.
Hold on...something seems awry there...
Grateful to be answering questions about football rather than his wardrobe or the spectacle of his arrival at Alabama, Saban gave a thoughtful, composed response before incinerating the impudent rapscallions with his Custom Bear Bryant Brand Flamethrower With Real Bryant Head Flame Spigot.
That sounds better.
Earl Bennett, optimist. Earl Bennett wants a holographic panther loyal only to him. He wants a gun that shoots exploding pit bulls at 950 feet per second. He also wants to make love to Jessica Biel in front of a live studio audience.
Oh, and he thinks Vandy can get to a BCS bowl game.
"We are thinking BCS bowl," Bennett said. "That's what we've been talking about. We are working hard to do that. We believe we can do that." ...
We believe we will kick the first discouraging evil Disney character we see in the balls during the Disney Marathon, too. But after 12 miles of running, it's likely not happening.
Orgeron? No detectable smell of burning gunpowder and cooked flesh yet. He's scheduled for tomorrow. Do not attempt to chest bump him.
Pay no attention to your seismographs... Sylvester Croom is set to speak later today, so what you're feeling is not an earthquake, but rather Croom's voice, which makes Barry White sound like a mincing prissy rent boy squeaking through the Johnny Mathis catalog.
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I hope none of those coaches today feels any inner-Hoover pressure.
We have a spectacular blurry pic here of Saban, one of those where the batteries are dying and the focus is fuzzed a bit. It is a profile shot, and you can see Saban’s head three times. It is The Saban, The Bear and the Holy Ghost.
People will react.
by Kenny on Jul 26, 2007 12:05 PM EDT reply actions
The Orgeron looked cat like in his quickness, however a swim move might have been more appropriate in that situation……..that or a head butt.
by lanceharbor on Jul 26, 2007 12:11 PM EDT reply actions
Those media types should be careful with The Orgeron.
Better to skip the pictures, lest Orgeron think you’re stealing his soul.
by Rival on Jul 26, 2007 12:14 PM EDT reply actions
#2,
The Orgeron did make a poor choice with the bull rush, but every defensive line coach and DC worth his fruit of the looms knows that you use swim against shorter impediments and the rip against taller ones.
The headbutt would just slow him down by getting that clown caught up in his legs. I would have been as ineffective as a quick knee the the groinage.
by Brewster Crew on Jul 26, 2007 12:19 PM EDT reply actions
Fucking brainfarts.
Rip against taller or close to the same size.
by Brewster Crew on Jul 26, 2007 12:20 PM EDT reply actions
That man is lucky he didn’t lose an arm. Could The Orgeron be the most dangerous man in football? The Hummer spot made my neglected infant daughter cry.
by Jorgé the Bass Player on Jul 26, 2007 12:32 PM EDT reply actions
I tried to chest bump Saban, but I accidentally jumped over him.
by PW on Jul 26, 2007 12:37 PM EDT reply actions
God, why can’t he coach worth half a shit? He’d be so much fun to keep around, a coach you could really be proud of. You know you would always win that whole “my coach could kick your coach’s ass” argument (wait, y’all don’t do that?). I find the talking-with-a-mouthful-of-squirrels way he speaks quite charming, really.
by always rebellious on Jul 26, 2007 12:39 PM EDT reply actions
Scarbinsky can Huggy Bear it up all he wants, he’s still a dork. My guess is Orgeron eats him first.
by Doug on Jul 26, 2007 12:49 PM EDT reply actions
The only one who can chest-bump Orgeron would be the guy who coaches men’s basketball at UCF.
Also, Vanderbilt (as opposed to other Vandys?) in a BCS bowl? Hahahahahaha. I’m not even a big SEC guy and I know that’s hilariously delusional.
by John F on Jul 26, 2007 12:50 PM EDT reply actions
How about Vandy start with winning the SEC East and go to the SEC CG. Hell if Arkansas can get thrashed 70-17 and 50-14 out of conference, go 4-7 one year and make it to the SEC CG the next, only to lose and then lose in a bowl game to an over-rated big ten team, Vandy surely can.
I mean come on, Purdue won the big ten outright for pete’s sake one year, as did Illinois…surely Vandy can do it in the SEC…I mean with the big ten being so top heavy and all.
by tOSUBuckeyes on Jul 26, 2007 1:02 PM EDT reply actions
I just read Saban’s transcript:
Quote: “Well, I never tried to leave Miami, so I wouldn’t have tried to leave Miami. I would be at Miami right now. I have never tried to leave anywhere. I never tried to leave LSU.”
Where has the FBI been all theset times that Nick Saban has been apparently kidnapped?
by Billy in Baton Rouge on Jul 26, 2007 1:04 PM EDT reply actions
Bennett’s on tha drank, obviously.
“I am not worried about getting fired,” Croom said Thursday at SEC Media Days. “I have coached 30 years, and that is a part of the business.”
Translation: “I’ve been reading a lot of Brer Rabbit lately, and I really think he’s on to something with that whole briar patch thing.”
by Allahver Fist on Jul 26, 2007 1:05 PM EDT reply actions
Look at this crazy fool: 207 million $ in cash: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexdrugs25jul25,1,1067322.story?coll=la-headlines-world&track=crosspromo
by Brian on Jul 26, 2007 1:23 PM EDT reply actions
Earl Bennett wants a holographic panther loyal only to him. He wants a gun that shoots exploding pit bulls at 950 feet per second.
Mr. Bennet, you have a phone call from a mister Micheal Vick.
by bhors on Jul 26, 2007 1:38 PM EDT reply actions
tosu,
The BCS thrashing Florida gave your Buckeyes was months ago. Let it go man, let it go.
by Spittoon on Jul 26, 2007 2:06 PM EDT reply actions
Along with chest bumping the Orgeron, put patting Chris Fowler on the butt (like the way coaches and players do, you sickos) on your list of things not to do.
A guy I knew in the Gator Band did that a couple years ago, and it enraged Fowler so much that he screamed in my friend’s face and threatened to have him arrested and removed from the stadium. High comedy, if you’re not the one getting screamed at.
by Dave on Jul 26, 2007 2:09 PM EDT reply actions
are you sure Fowler wasn’t yelling his hotel room number at your friend?
by PW on Jul 26, 2007 2:26 PM EDT reply actions
#12, good point.
Illinois winning the Big-10 in 2001 means the Big-10 doesn’t suck.
Please think about that for a second, while looking up what happened to your conference champion in the BCS that year. You may find a recurring theme.
by Ltrain on Jul 26, 2007 2:35 PM EDT reply actions
Heylookie threadjack!
Karl Dorrell just took the podium at Pac-10 media day with livestreaming video!
by Big Jon on Jul 26, 2007 2:41 PM EDT reply actions
Coach Scott is on administrative leave pending an investigation. Dorrell has asked that his 15 minutes strictly be football relatedand that Coach Scottand his attorney “are very optomistic.”
by Big Jon on Jul 26, 2007 2:46 PM EDT reply actions
If that Chris Vernon is the same one who got his start writing sports alongside Ryan “Tremendous” Grubb, I went to HS with him. Neat.
by panhandler on Jul 26, 2007 2:51 PM EDT reply actions
PW (#19): Well played, but no. Trust me, I’ve heard that story close to two dozen times…
by Dave on Jul 26, 2007 2:51 PM EDT reply actions
I ordinarily can’t agree with much that comes out of a Buckeye fan’s mouth, but #12 has a point. It all depends on what you want out of life.
If you look at the Big Ten champeens, everyone’s had at least a share of glory in the last 40 years. You can’t say that in the SEC. Three teams have never won the goods, and the Mississippi schools haven’t done so in my lifetime.
Overall, how have SEC teams fared against Big Ten teams in the postseason? I don’t think it’s as lopsided as the big games have looked.
by PJ from NU in SF on Jul 26, 2007 2:59 PM EDT reply actions
#21, you’re going to base an entire conference on what happened in the National Title game and what happened to a Lloyd Carr coached team? What about what Minnesota did vs. Texas Tech?
Wait, maybe I should use Wisconsin vs. Arkansas as my example…
by Brewster Crew on Jul 26, 2007 3:14 PM EDT reply actions
If you’re going to make excuses for Michigan based on Lloyd Carr, then you can’t count Michigan as a top-tier team. Either they’re great or they’re not; everything, head coach included, goes as one package.
by Dave on Jul 26, 2007 3:25 PM EDT reply actions
Nick Saban is everywhere. Just this morning, I woke up and under my pillow was a “I ain’t got time for this shit breath” mint left by Sir Saban himself.
by NewAZTiger on Jul 26, 2007 3:45 PM EDT reply actions
I think the Orgeron is more of the head-butting type. A lot of Ole Miss fans seem to be that way.
by Wilbur on Jul 26, 2007 5:56 PM EDT reply actions
#29:
No, I was only trying to point out that Illinois sucks now and they sucked in 2001 when they got lambasted by an SEC team in a bowl game that was no where near as close to the final score (An SEC / Saban lead team that OBC and Rex treated like their own personal gimp). Different people have different criteria as to what should characaterize a strong conference, and under any criteria, whatever it may be, the word “Illinois” probably shoudn’t appear, at least vis the SEC, unless it is "After the 2001 season, LSU beat the ever living snot out of Illinois.
That is all.
by Ltrain on Jul 26, 2007 6:40 PM EDT reply actions
Earl is a BCS-bowl-caliber player. Now if we had 21 more (plus special teams) to run out there, things might be different.
Just once, before I die, I want all the alumni to park the Dusenbergs, climb off the sedan chairs, set down the gin rickeys, get out the checkbooks, and say “Sir, this malfeasance is unsatisfactory,” and just blast the roof off the salary cap. Sure, the NCAA will strip it all away at the end of the investigation, but just one national contender season? Totally worth it. We could be the Florida Marlins of college football.
( I can say in confidence that after 2 years ago, Florida don’t want no part of Earl. So they will just pummel us senseless from the other side…)
by Donk In A Box on Jul 26, 2007 6:53 PM EDT reply actions
SEC media days would be far more entertaining if the SEC took a page from the Tour De France playbook and kicked a star or whole team out each day. Bama fans are already providing the roadside crazy factor anyway.
by Meg on Jul 26, 2007 10:20 PM EDT reply actions
Bama fans are a rather diverse lot….millions turn out for media days, millions more are embarressed by the press that these fanatics gender…conclusion? Most people are alabama fans.
You see, if Bama has 1000million gillion fans then 92000 at a spring game is a “disappointing turnout”.
by numberedhats on Jul 27, 2007 1:30 AM EDT reply actions

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