Weekly Walk Around The SEC: Nick Saban Gives Media A Wake-Up Call And More

Oct 15, 2011; College Station, TX, USA; Texas A

From I sports web

"For a second, I was positive he could read my thoughts. My world went silent and moved in slow motion. My life flashed before my eyes with the image of a gravestone that read, “Here lays Victoria Sheehan, last living student-journalist who looked Nick Saban in the eyes.”It was the last practice before the Crimson Tide left for the 2009 SEC Championship and Nick Saban had just caught me accidentally recording Alabama’s defensive plays.Leading up to that fate-filled moment, I thought I was simply getting the edge on my media competition when I innocently asked myself, “Where’s coach?”I scanned the University of Alabama practice fields through my camera’s viewfinder, sweeping back and forth, looking for Saban’s iconic straw hat. I walked a few feet, scoured the pods of football players for him, and walked a few feet more."

From Fansided

"When you are a college football player in the Southeastern Conference, you know that you are among the most athletic players in the nation. For junior college transfer Toby Johnson, know that was not enough. He had to go out and prove that he was one of the elite athletes despite his size.At 300-pounds, you wouldn’t expect many athletic feats from Johnson, but he wanted to show everyone what he’s got and he did that with an Instagram video of him doing a back handspring that was posted to cornerback Shaquille Wiggins’ account."

From The Birmingham News

"Overhauled again in the offseason, the new-look Auburn men’s basketball team is only starting to get to know each other as practices begin for the team’s August trip to the Bahamas to play a few exhibition games.But so far, Allen Payne and K.T. Harrell see something in this group of guys that wasn’t there last season.A team trying to mesh the old with the new already seems to have a head start on at least one crucial aspect."

From TampaBay.Com

"As the University of Florida dominated college football for the better half of a decade under coach Urban Meyer, the Gators accumulated numbers — of victories and accolades and championships — at dizzying rates. In six seasons, they won 65 games, two SEC championships and two national titles.In recent years, though, another number has been affixed to the Meyer era. That number is 31, as in, at least 31 arrests of Florida’s football players from 2005 to 2010.Many of the charges were typical of college campuses: Underage drinking, disorderly conduct, violations of open-container laws. But other, more serious charges included aggravated stalking, domestic violence by strangulation, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and fraudulent use of credit cards, according to criminal record databases. Most of the cases never went to trial, the charges having been dropped or pleaded down."

From ESPN

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"LSU running back Jeremy Hill and another man were formally charged in Baton Rouge on Monday with misdemeanor simple battery in connection with a late-April scuffle in a bar parking lot.Hill and Robert Bayardo, who is not an LSU student, will be arraigned on Friday, East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore said.The matter has put Hill’s 2013 season in doubt because LSU’s leading rusher last season is already on probation stemming from his January 2012 plea of misdemeanor carnal knowledge of a juvenile."

From Bleacher Report

"$626.42.That’s the average price to get in the building for the Alabama-Texas A&M game. Not the highest, not the lowest, but the mean price to get into Kyle Field in College Station, Texas.And for college football fans who can afford it, that will be $626.42 well spent.Jon Solomon, of The Birmingham News, took a look at the priciest tickets entering the 2013 college football season. As expected, the big-name teams topped the list, led by the SEC West game between the Crimson Tide and the Aggies."

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