Tennessee linebacker Nick Reveiz (56) stops South Carolina tailback Marcus Lattimore, left, during the first quarter of an NCAA college football game at Williams Brice Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010, in Columbia, SC. (AP Photo/Rich Glickstein)For a second consecutive year, the Southeastern Conference football media days event is up for grabs in Hoover, Ala.
Will there be more questions about football, or the problems infecting it?
Alabama, Florida and South Carolina entered media days a year ago amid investigations into allegations of improper dealings with agents, and Georgia joined in on the opening day by announcing that the NCAA had requested permission to conduct an on-campus inquiry. Alabama was picked by the media to defeat Florida’s Gators in the 2010 SEC title game, but the voting had long been upstaged by Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban saying of agents, “How are they any better than a pimp?”
With media days set to begin Wednesday afternoon, there may by too many NCAA-related topics for the allotted time considering the various situations at Ohio State, Auburn, Georgia Tech and Oregon, just to name a few.
“I expect that we’ll have those questions, but I also expect that a multitude of those questions will be on the 30,000-foot level and not addressed to specific cases,” SEC associate commissioner Charles Bloom said. “I suspect that the coaches will have their opinions on the landscape of college football and college athletics, and I believe you can have those discussions without getting to specific cases.