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Posted: May 27th 2009 10:26 AM ET by Clay Travis (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, SEC, Coaching, Fans

The SEC coaches meetings rolled into Destin, Fla., this week, and
Lane Kiffin washed ashore.
You know Kiffin, the man who brought a Molotov cocktail to the SEC tea party, the guy who coaches like tickets have to be sold for the latest WWE event. You halfway expect for him to enter press conferences wearing orange tights, grab the mike, scream invectives at his rivals, then spike the microphone, kiss his biceps, and leave without taking questions. Kiffin coaches college football like Vince McMahon helms the
WWE, it's all about creating a buzz.
Posted: May 4th 2009 3:10 PM ET by Clay Travis (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Alabama, LSU, Mississippi, Tennessee, SEC

Michael Lewis's opus
The Blind Side is currently filming in Atlanta and
slated for release on November 20, 2009. The book recently received a jolt of interest when the primary subject of the story, Ole Miss offensive tackle
Michael Oher, who rises from a hardscrabble existence in Memphis to become the top offensive tackle in the nation, was drafted in the first round by the
Baltimore Ravens. A major portion of the story focuses on the top-ranked Oher's recruitment by three men: then-LSU coach
Nick Saban, then-Tennessee coach
Phillip Fulmer, and then-Ole Miss coach
Ed Orgeron. It's a recruiting battle for the ages.
Two weeks ago Bruce Feldman reported that Orgeron would play himself in the movie. Now I can report that
Phil Fulmer will be playing himself, having traveled down to Atlanta this past Friday to film his scenes with Sandra Bullock. All that remains to be determined is whether Nick Saban is playing himself. And wouldn't that be great if Saint Nick donned the purple and gold to reprise his role for the film?
Posted: Mar 16th 2009 12:32 AM ET by Brian Grummell (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Florida, LSU, USC, Pac 10

The slow season in college football is a great time to examine various trends and topics within the game. Something that jumped out about the 2008 season was the standout performance by Pete Carroll's USC defense. It posted some of the
best cumulative marks of the era in points (9.0), yards (222), pass yards (134) and pass efficiency defense (85.75) allowed. It pitched a trio of shutouts. It will likely send every starter into the NFL along with many backups.
Without hesitation one can safely claim it was one of the best defenses we've seen in the last 20 years of college football. Of particular interest is that it didn't happen in isolation. USC's been building towards a performance like that for several years. After digging into the numbers an interesting trend jumped out.
Posted: Feb 24th 2009 7:48 PM ET by Ian Cohen (RSS feed)
Filed Under: LSU, University of Miami, ACC, SEC, Recruiting, Rumors

We've been following this Bryce Brown saga for, well, probably less than the amount of time constituting a true "saga," but enough to possibly give credence that highly-recruited tailbacks are to the college game what highly-paid receivers are to the NFL (see also: David Oku).
While linking his name to nearly every hot commodity outside of his Wichita origins, up to and including Canada, the No. 1 offensive prospect according to Rivals had a verbal commitment to Miami, bolstered by the fact that his brother is currently a linebacker for the 'Canes and his pops apparently wants to see him at Miami too.
Posted: Feb 4th 2009 11:57 PM ET by Brian Grummell (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Alabama, Florida, Florida State, LSU, Michigan, Ohio State, Texas, USC, Recruiting, National Signing Day 2009

The headline says it all, this is about the top college football recruiting classes in 2009. Like Rivals, we're calling
Alabama the top recruiter after a stellar final day saw the 'Tide seal the deal with in-state five star cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick and four star linebacker Tana Patrick. They also picked up the south's best back in Floridian Trent Richardson.
Nipping at their heel was another SEC power with Nick Saban connections:
LSU. The
Tigers inked the country's top receiver, Louisiana's Rueben Randle. They also got an early enrollment from Texas quarterback Russell Shepard. On defense they picked up five-star cornerback Janzen Jackson and five-star defensive tackle Chris Davenport.
Just a monster, monster class.
After the jump, the rest of the real power elite recruiting classes at the end of signing day.
Posted: Feb 4th 2009 5:12 PM ET by Chris Burke (RSS feed)
Filed Under: LSU, Recruiting

When prospect DeAngelo Benton announced on Tuesday night that he would sign with LSU, it apparently did not sit well with stud wide receiver recruit Rueben Randle. Mere hours before signing day started, Randle -- long considered an LSU lock -- told a reporter that he
may not commit to any school on Wednesday.
"When I get home, I'm going to sit down with my family and talk about it. Then I'll decide whether I'm going to sign (Wednesday) or not," Randle told the Bastrop Daily Enterprise before baseball practice today.
I guess Randle cooled off after baseball practice, because
he wound up signing with LSU anyway.
Posted: Feb 4th 2009 11:07 AM ET by Chas Rich (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Alabama, LSU, Tennessee, SEC, National Signing Day 2009
Darren Myles, a top-ranked safety being pursued by LSU and Alabama spurned them both to go with
Lane Kiffin and Tennessee. It was something of a minor surprise considering how hard LSU seemed to be pursuing him in the final week, including an in-home visit by Les Miles in the final week. This was a big win for Kiffin going against two major SEC recruiters.
Myles is a four-star safety from Georgia, that Lane Kiffin actually called first after being allowed to contact recruits. That apparently had an impact on Myles. It also helped that he would be coached by Monte Kiffin and play with
Eric Berry at Safety.
Posted: Feb 2nd 2009 11:55 PM ET by Brian Grummell (RSS feed)
Filed Under: LSU, West Virginia, Recruiting
FanHouse's lead-up to college football's signing day makes like Charles Dickens and looks at the Ghosts of Recruiting -- past, present and future. In the Ghosts of Recruiting Present, we document prominent recruiting makes and misses that changed programsWest Virginia plucked superstar quarterback
Pat White out of all places, lower Alabama. How it got him came down to its offensive system and persistence in treating him as a quarterback when other schools felt he would be a wide receiver. The other schools weren't wrong to do so, by conventional wisdom, but sometimes you get ahead by attacking the margins as West Virginia did.