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*** Tuesday's live SEC MEDIA DAYS thread

  • ... and away we go

    11:15 Commissioner Mike Slive
    1 p.m. Texas A&M followed by South Carolina
    3:30 p.m. Missouri followed by Vanderbilt

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    Christopher Walsh covers Alabama football for BamaOnline, 247Sports, and is the author of 18 books.

    Chris Walsh

  • Love spurrier at media days. He's always good for a few classic quotes

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    Never Gets Old

    shawnboy

  • This will be part of my notebook later:

    Alabama released its initial roster. Freshman who were not on campus during the spring were listed as: 11 Alec Morris 
(6-3, 225), 15 Eddie Williams 
(6-3 204), 17 Kenyan Drake (6-1, 204),
18 Reggie Ragland (6-2, 247), 
24 Geno Smith (6-0, 182), 25 Cyrus Jones 
(5-10, 192), 26 Landon Collins 
(6-0, 202), 30 Denzel Devall 
(6-2, 243), 36 Tyler Hayes 
(6-2 210), 41 Kurt Freitag (6-4, 240), 52 Dalvin Tomlinson (6-2, 266), 58 Brandon Greene (6-5, 292),
73 Brandon Hill (6-6, 350), 74 Caleb Gulledge (listed as OL, 6-4, 280), 85 Korren Kirven (6-5, 292), 94 Dakota Ball (6-2, 295), 95 Darren Lake 6-3, 315), 99 Adam Griffith (5-10, 174).

    Freshman Alphonse Taylor is listed as defensive line/offensive line.

    Suspended wide receivers Michael Bowman, Ronald Carswell and Duron Carter were not listed on the roster.

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    Chris Walsh

  • Chris Walsh said...

    This will be part of my notebook later:

    Alabama released its initial roster. Freshman who were not on campus during the spring were listed as: 11 Alec Morris (6-3, 225), 15 Eddie Williams (6-3 204), 17 Kenyan Drake (6-1, 204), 18 Reggie Ragland (6-2, 247), 24 Geno Smith (6-0, 182), 25 Cyrus Jones (5-10, 192), 26 Landon Collins (6-0, 202), 30 Denzel Devall (6-2, 243), 36 Tyler Hayes (6-2 210), 41 Kurt Freitag (6-4, 240), 52 Dalvin Tomlinson (6-2, 266), 58 Brandon Greene (6-5, 292), 73 Brandon Hill (6-6, 350), 74 Caleb Gulledge (listed as OL, 6-4, 280), 85 Korren Kirven (6-5, 292), 94 Dakota Ball (6-2, 295), 95 Darren Lake 6-3, 315), 99 Adam Griffith (5-10, 174).

    Freshman Alphonse Taylor is listed as defensive line/offensive line.

    Suspended wide receivers Michael Bowman, Ronald Carswell and Duron Carter were not listed on the roster.

    If that is accurate. Ragland & Devall are already huge lb's. Impressive rolltideroll

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  • Hill, Kirven, and Lake are giants day 1

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    shawnboy

  • shawnboy said...

    Hill, Kirven, and Lake are giants day 1

    Mark my words.. Lake will be a household name in 2 years. Kid is a beast and potential through the roof.

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  • Bolden1983 said...

    Mark my words.. Lake will be a household name in 2 years. Kid is a beast and potential through the roof.

    Lake has Marcel Dareus potential, great build and explosive power. He is still very raw at this point, but a year of great coaching and strength training and the sky is the limit for this guy.

    Follow me on twitter @TrevorHewettBOL. https://twitter.com/#!/TrevorHewettBOL

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  • Lake has a great shot at being the #2 NT this season

    Rainman93 ●

  • Bolden1983 said...

    Mark my words.. Lake will be a household name in 2 years. Kid is a beast and potential through the roof.

    Reminds me of Anthony Bryant (who's still in the NFL by the way).

    NCS15x

  • shawnboy said...

    Hill, Kirven, and Lake are giants day 1

    Dont forget about Griffith. Dude is a beast. (G)

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    majorthreat17

  • Commissioner Slive has taken the stage and we're about to get under way here. It's a who's who of journalists, with 1000-plus credentialed for this year.

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    Chris Walsh

  • Frietag is my CJ, Vinnie, Chris Jones pick to impress and play a lot as Frosh this season.

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  • Rainman93 said...

    Lake has a great shot at being the #2 NT this season

    No...maybe situational, but not #2. Kids potential is as big as anyone we have ever signed though...great, great attitude and very humble.

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  • The main ballroom at the Wynfrey is jammed packed.

    During Slive's 10 years, the SEC has won 62 national championship in 16 different sports, and the annual revenue distributed has tripled.

    “We need to be creative, innovative and continue to think outside of the box.”

    SEC still in favor of increasing the value of a full scholarship to better meet rising cost of living expenses.

    Calls for legislating what's important, like allowing text messaging, and not things like cream cheese.

    "We must be ever vigilant on all issues of integrity." Added that one person can't be allowed to take the soul of an institution.

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    Chris Walsh

  • Listening to Slive--anyone have the specifics of how academic eligibility requirements will change in 2016? I wonder how much this will impact our recruiting. To me, that makes the firm 25 cap even more challenging if the eligibility requirements will make it more difficult to get in. If I remember correctly, now its a sliding scale of GPA and ACT/SAT scores. Anyone know if it will still be sliding scale or how the requirements will change? I know our staff tries to target guys that typically do not have grades issues, but we all know many of these recruits are not the best students coming out of high school.

    crimsonchad

  • “There’s no other media event like this,” Slive said.

    He quoted Winston Churchill and William Shakespeare, Muhammad Ali

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    Chris Walsh

  • A&M Kevin Sumlin up first in the main ballroom.

    "Glad we're starting on time. They can't blame it on the new guy."

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    Chris Walsh

  • I posted this as a separate thread, the SEC and ESPN will do four conference documentaries this fall, one of which will be on Sylvester Croom and his being the SEC's first black football coach.

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  • Sumlin points out that the Aggies are playing the last six BCS national champions this season.

    Welcome to the SEC, coach.

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    Chris Walsh

  • Didn't know kirven was that tall

    Wonder if lake will play end after all is said and done. He is massive but seems like he is athletic enough to be that jumbo end

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    rolBAMAballs

  • Sumlin on the SEC West: "What's my assessment? It's a pretty damn hard league."

    Size and speed the difference.

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    Chris Walsh

  • Spurrier said in another room that he expects Marcus Lattimore to be 100 percent for camp.

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    Chris Walsh

  • Spurrier in the TV room:

    "You don't think I've got patience? You seen the last four years?".

    Referring to QB Garcia. Yeah, he's in rare form (and when he's in a good mood here it means he knows he has a good team).

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    Chris Walsh

  • Spurrier in the main ballroom, at the podium ...

    "I've been 20 years, some of you have been 30-40 years. I guess they don't fire media."

    Ok, probably not the best place to say that, but this should be a good session ...

    This post was edited by Chris Walsh on 7/17/2012 at 2:23 PM

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  • This is the first time at South Carolina that Spurrier has brought a quarterback to SEC Media Days.

    Connor Shaw is the son of a football coach - Is a running and passing QB, might be a little better runner than passer.

    Gamecocks were a run-oriented team last year. Will do whatever it takes to win.

    A lot of experience at linebacker, all seniors. Might have two of the best DEs in the conference.

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    Chris Walsh

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