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National college sports reporter @CBSSports / @247Sports . Wall Street Journal bestselling author. Most recent book "The Price" w/ @ArmenKeteyian out now.
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Political reporters everywhere just learned a lesson college football fans know well: Once the boosters start leaking that they want you out, you're done.
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A scene from last night: Former Tennessee coach Derek Dooley quietly eating a container of spaghetti and meatballs in the corner as Vols fans celebrated right above his head.
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Regardless of whether Brandon Miller legally did anything wrong, bringing a gun that resulted in the death of a human being isn't "wrong spot at the wrong time." I'm still flabbergasted Nate Oats actually used those words to describe the situation.
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Went up to the guy wearing the “Killing our way through the SEC shirt” and he told me to “Get the fuck out of my face.”
Claimed that he was, in fact, a Bama fan and would be back for tomorrow’s game.
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With Jeremy Pruitt back in the news, it reminds me of a favorite Nick Saban anecdote that didn't make the book.
One night out recruiting, Pruitt and Saban are looking to get some food. Pruitt suggests Zaxby's.
Saban looks at Pruitt and says, "What the fuck is a Zaxby's?"
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During a disagreement, Derek Mason told Bryan Harsin, "I've been a head coach in this league longer than you have."
Harsin replied, "Oh, you mean at Vanderbilt?"
Read
@nwilborn19
story on Bryan Harsin's short time in Auburn full of drama:
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BREAKING: Georgia QB Jaden Rashada is suing Florida head coach Billy Napier and top Gators booster Hugh Hathcock for fraud, among other allegations, over failed $13.85 million NIL deal.
Story here:
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The SEC just told me these fans will not be allowed in again on Sunday with these shirts and if they are found wearing them will be asked to leave.
Here's our story:
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"I guess the best thing to do would have been to play less games because you seem to get rewarded for not playing this year in college football."
After his first loss, Dan tried to shift blame to having a packed stadium. After this one, Dan tries to whine about playing 10 games.
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The "SEC is overrated" takes were flowing widely on this here app when Georgia went down early to Cincinnati. Since then
--Georgia beat best G5 team
--Alabama crushed Notre Dame
--4-5 Ole Miss beat B10's No. 2 team
--4-5 UK beat No. 23 NC St
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Phil Fulmer says the "recruiting has been good" at a press conference announcing the firing of Jeremy Pruitt because of alleged recruiting violations.
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Former Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin, now a co-OC at Maryland, arrested for DUI over the weekend in Hillsborough County, Fla. (First reported by
@taylorjlyons
). Maryland had a bye last weekend.
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Auburn AD John Cohen is a well-respected, thoughtful AD who should be capable of answering questions about why he hired Hugh Freeze.
Auburn not letting a reporter ask Cohen a single question is telling.
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Lest you believe Alabama is only a football school, Alabama just beat No. 3 Gonzaga. Huge win for Nate Oats and Co.
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BREAKING: The SEC is moving to a 10-game conference schedule and will move back the season start to Sept. 26:
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Nick Saban and Ainas Smith sharing a moment after the game. Smith had some strong words before the game.
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As part of a search that AD John Cohen described as "thoughtful, thorough and well-vetted," Auburn never reached out to former Liberty student Chelsea Andrews, the recipient of multiple unsolicited DMs from Hugh Freeze.
Story:
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Alabama already had a strong signing day but landing LSU transfer DB Eli Ricks is the cherry on top. Should be an immediate starter when he joins next year.
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With the Big Ten inching closer to canceling a fall season and others like the Pac-12 expected to join, the SEC is holding firm and not moving in the same direction:
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As he started yelling at me, a Vandy fan next to him started defending me as “just a kid” trying to do his job. Never boring in this job.
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Sources have said the SEC and the ACC are the most aligned at this point. The whole thing could hinge on if B12 sides with B10/Pac-12 or SEC/ACC.
Satterfield “The ACC is moving forward no matter what other conferences do”
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The Alabama team was told Wednesday that the school hoped to have Saban's replacement in place in the next 72 hours, sources told
@mzenitz
@mikerodak
and I for
@247Sports
:
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The most dangerous people are very dumb people who think they are smart, and that's Kyrie. His brain is broken and he sells it as enlightenment.
"I'm not going to stand down on anything that I believe. I'm only going to get stronger because I'm not alone. I have a whole army around me."
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@MarkJuang
I didn't do that. I walked up to introduce myself and asked if I could talk to him about his shirt. He started yelling at me and after a few back and forth a Vandy fan next to him started yelling back at the guy and I took my phone out to record.
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After a dominant season and now a dominant title game performance, there's a real argument to be made this is not only Nick Saban's best team ever but the best college football team, period.
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Are we really going to say this is the darkest day of a conference that has had to grapple with the disgusting Sandusky and Nassar scandals? C'mon now. This is an absurd take.
Note the date: 9/16/20, the day the vaunted Big Ten became the SEC. It choked. It got scared. It sold its soul for football. My
@usatodaysports
column on the darkest day in Big Ten history:
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Jim Harbaugh's tenure at Michigan:
Year 1- Paid $7 mil, finishes 3rd in B10 East
Year 2 - Paid $9 mil, finishes 3rd in B10 East
Year 3 -- Paid $7 mil, likely going to finish 4th in B10 East
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Even before Gus Malzahn was fired, the battle over who'd get to pick the next Auburn head coach had begun.
After talking to numerous sources, here's the story on the push to fire Malzahn and quickly promote Kevin Steele, and why it didn't work.
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Jermaine Burton, who had 197 yards and 2 TDs, told his teammates before the game: "We have to come out there and attack. How bad do you want it? They want to storm the field."
Believed A&M fans were going to storm the field if they won and he would not let that happen.
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Alabama fans here in College Station celebrate Jalen Milroe after a big win over Texas A&M
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Since President Trump was shown on the videoboard, Alabama has a fumble, lost an INT because of penalty and given up 10 points.
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Florida is done as a CFP contender. Because of a shoe throw.
2020, man.
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To sum up Alabama's day so far:
--SEC freshman of the year and star safety Caleb Downs expected to enter portal
--Starting left tackle and former 5-star Kadyn Proctor intends to go into portal
--5-star Zion Grady decommits
Welcome to the SEC in 2024, Kalen DeBoer.
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Source: Alabama-LSU has been postponed for this weekend. Story to come.
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I hate this argument. It’s an overrated stadium in a part of the country that barely cares about CFB.
Put it in Atlanta or New Orleans every year so it’s easier for Georgia/Bama/LSU fans to get to.
Do you think the national title game in college football should be the Rose Bowl every year?
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So now Pruitt, a man who famously didn't know what asparagus was on national TV, has to explain to Nick Saban what a Zaxby's is.
He decides on, "It's like a classier Chick-fil-A, Coach."
Which, no disrespect to Zaxby's, is not the description I would have gone with.
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Thought Sam Pittman did a really nice job putting together his first staff but I might be even more impressed he's been able to retain so many of them. Keeping Odom + Briles speaks to culture Pittman has built and school's willingness to invest in program.
Kendal Briles will remain at
@RazorbackFB
as offensive coordinator, sources tell ESPN. Briles was a candidate for the
@CanesFootball
OC job. He’s been with Sam Pittman the last two years at Arkansas, and the Hogs led the SEC in rushing last season.
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Georgia is the clear favorite to land Alabama star safety Caleb Downs, multiple sources told
@mzenitz
and I for
@247Sports
. Downs intends to enter the transfer portal but has not gone in yet.
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Saban getting deep during his radio show. "You are a speck in time situated between the past and the future."
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Deion Sanders couldn't be more inaccurate. Nick Saban doesn't "cuss out" reporters who call him "Nick" like Deion says. What a clown move to walk out of media days over that.
Talking season apparently abruptly ended at SWAC Media Days as Jackson State coach Deion Sanders walks out of SWAC Media Day event after being called 'Deion'.
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Here's what I'm comfortable saying: There's been a concerted effort to ramp up pressure and make it untenable for Bryan Harsin to return for Year 2. And Harsin has provided plenty of ammo from coaching departures to transfer portal exodus. Situation moving fast.
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SMU fires Rob Lanier after 2 years which prompts:
Andy Enfield leaves USC for SMU
Eric Musselman leaves Arkansas for USC
And now John Calipari leaving Kentucky for Arkansas, according to multiple reports.
Dominos aren't done falling. Wild that SMU set off this crazy carousel.
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Dan Mullen is 4-6 in his last 10 games. That is nowhere near good enough at Florida.
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I was very skeptical of Arkansas hiring Sam Pittman but he should easily be the early frontrunner for SEC Coach of the Year. Remarkable turnaround for the Razorbacks.
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This just backs up what Saban said
NIL attorney Mike Caspino: "Having worked with (A&M's collective), everything Jimbo Fisher said is 100 percent correct and true. He didn’t violate any bylaws if you keep the collective separate (from the school). A&M and their collective are just very good at what they do."
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The Saban playbook at this point is I think this is bad for CFB but if this is what you want, I’ll do it better than any of you. That last sentence is a warning.
Saban: We were 2nd in recruiting last year. A&M was first. A&M bought every player on their team. Made a deal for name, image and likeness. We didn’t buy one player. But I don’t know if we’re going to be able to sustain that in the future because more and more people are doing it
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Been trending this way for weeks. Jeremy Pruitt has told those around him this year if he gets fired, he'll just go back to Alabama and work for Saban again.
Sources: Tennessee will be parting ways with coach Jeremy Pruitt today. AD Phil Fulmer's future will also be addressed.
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From
@mzenitz
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I talked to Nick Saban's guitar-playing doppelgänger. Turns out he's a Grammy Award winner:
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This is a big-time hire for Bama. Mo is the real deal and has SEC experience
Alabama is expected to hire Buffalo head coach Maurice Linguist as a defensive assistant, likely working with the secondary, sources tell
@ClowESPN
and me. Linguist, who finished his third season at UB, is the second sitting FBS head coach to join Kalen DeBoer's defensive staff.
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Amid a panic over myocarditis risks at the college level, Mayo Clinic cardiologist Dr. Ackerman told the Big 12 and CUSA that shouldn't be the reason to cancel the CFB season.
His perspective prompted a "wave of relief," according to one AD.
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Alabama and Ohio State did their final COVID-19 testing on Friday and the results that came back ensured the game will be played as scheduled, according to sources.
Monday's national title game is a go:
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Today is the 10 year anniversary of Rich Rod saying no to Alabama. I looked back at what really happened:
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Jimbo Fisher will start this season 3-4 and still has games against Ole Miss, Florida, LSU and Auburn.
Gulp.
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"Heaven knows what he would have done if he played the whole game" -- Nick Saban on DeVonta Smith
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It was a simple gesture but watching Nick Saban, a man who does nothing by happenstance, break from his routine to run over to thank the fans was notable.
My column on an Alabama crowd so good Saban wanted to personally thank every fan:
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Worst Alabama first half since Clemson title game beatdown. And similar to that game, Alabama’s coordinators are not having their best day.
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A challenge Twitter has brought to journalism: You can't claim you are "just reporting the facts" when you then offer opinions on every story that pops up that clearly shows where you stand on the issues. Rather than pretending to be an impartial observer, own your bias.
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This is clear tampering publicly admitted. You really don't see the problem with a school communicating with a player on another team and then he just *magically* ends up transferring there?
Tampering happens everywhere but it's usually not this sloppy and said out loud
What’s wrong with Iowa telling a player it recruited, ‘keep your head up’ amidst freshman year struggles?
If that’s tampering, let’s all agree CFB needs substantial changes, now.
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“I (was here) for four years and I’ve never seen the guy cough, use a throat lozenge, blow his nose, anything,” says Hale Hentges. “He’s never been sick; he doesn’t get sick.”
I wrote about the legend of Nick Saban never getting sick.
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Just a pathetic coaching performance from Bryan Harsin today. He won't go down as bad a hire as Chad Morris, but could easily be one of the worst SEC hires of the last decade.
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Uhh no call for targeting on that?! Looked about as obvious a targeting penalty as I've seen.
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Look at this footwork from DeVonta Smith. Running out of words to describe his brilliance.
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I know everything with Alabama is inevitable, but this really feels like one of, if not the, most unlikely title game appearance of the Nick Saban era.
As the best teams do, this team has peaked at the right time after looking vulnerable for most of the season.
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At times it looked like Taulia Tagovailoa might leave Maryland for Auburn.
Until Tua stepped in. "We're an Alabama family," he told his brother.
In latest excerpt from "The Price," a look at Maryland's fight to keep its QB in high-stakes NIL battle:
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What I can add to the Houston Chronicle report: The belief is Texas and Oklahoma have already taken steps to facilitate a move out of the Big 12 and the SEC is the desired landing place:
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RIP
@CecilHurt
. One of a kind who won't ever be replicated. We are all worse off for losing him far too soon.
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Undoubtedly a tough night for Auburn fans but it can always be worse. Apparently my 4 y/o discovered Caillou tonight and is already a big fan. This is my worst nightmare.
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Breaking: Alabama is expected to hire Maryland baseball coach Rob Vaughn as its next head coach, sources tell
@Bama_247
/
@247Sports
. Initial story here:
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Wrote about Dooley’s spaghetti eating and more from a wild scene after Tennessee finally beat Alabama here:
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Not going after Tyler when I say this, but if your team can't get up for a big game like Texas and took winning it "for granted," you've got major issues. Not like this team snuck up on them, it was the biggest game on the schedule.
Tyler Booker told
@NextRoundLive
on Tuesday that Alabama 'didn't practice the best by any means' before its loss to Texas and needs more energy this week.
"I feel like we probably just took winning for granted, like we did last year."
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Auburn head coach Bryan Harsin leaves the SEC coach meeting but doesn’t offer any public comment.
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Tosh Lupoi was a tremendous recruiter for Alabama but was in over his head the minute Saban promoted him to DC. Moving to the NFL as a position coach makes sense for him and Alabama.
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From me and
@mzenitz
, per sources: Kevin Steele has emerged as a serious candidate for the Auburn head coaching job, potentially even the lead candidate now.
Multiple sources have also said they don’t expect Hugh Freeze to get the job.
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Flight attendant just dropped a “Go Alabama” as our flight landed in San Jose and she was met with boos
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It's very clear from his comments today Lindsey Graham knows and understands nothing about college football.
Sen. Lindsey Graham: "Very few coaches get paid a lot of money that lose over time."
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Big news from Nick Saban saying Jalen Milroe has earned the right to be Alabama's starting QB.
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Mississippi State fans should have legit gripes over this officiating. What a mess.
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“The Day College Football Died.” Impossible to top this trash take
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A girl nicknamed Itty Bitty just knocked off Goliath. Sports are the best.
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Auburn paid $21.5 million to fire Gus Malzahn after a 6-4 season in a 10-game SEC schedule.
After losing to South Carolina, Bryan Harsin will finish with at least five losses in his first season. The Tigers still have to play Alabama, too.
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A powerful set of Auburn boosters tried to intimidate search committee members. They told AD Allen Greene if he went against their wishes, they'd try to run him out of town. But Greene never backed down from wanting to do a national search:
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"There's no such thing as being in the wrong place at the wrong time," says Nick Saban
Tony Mitchell has been suspended from the team until Alabama gathers more information about the situation. "Everybody's got an opportunity to make choices and decisions. There's no such thing as being in the wrong place at the wrong time."
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Jeremy Pruitt sure learned a lot from the Jarrett Guarantano deal 🙄
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Good story from
@ByCasagrande
on what happened on Alabama's last-second defensive stop against Texas A&M. Bama DB says he read Jimbo Fisher's lips saying "Evan, Evan, Evan" and knew it was going to Stewart:
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After the Kick Six loss, Nick Saban was at an inflection point. Reported for the first time in my upcoming book, Saban considered leaving Alabama for a College GameDay role at ESPN.
@sportsrapport
wrote about it for
@nypostsports
:
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Thursday proved what many have long suspected about Hugh Freeze: He's a sanctimonious fraud
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This is big if you want football in the fall
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Separating fact from fiction is always the hardest part of covering a coaching search but I talked to sources throughout the industry to put together how Alabama landed Kalen DeBoer as its next head coach:
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Florida only dropping a single spot for losing to LSU is so weak.
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