Look away 90s/early 2000s kids. You are officially old, alongside Hendon Hooker. GAllanTaylor dissects the age gap in the Vols locker room, Kirby Smart's new extension and more from SEC media days.
G. Allan TaylorATLANTA — Kirby Smart walked out with a $111 million contract extension, but there were other superlatives from SEC media days:Jimbo Fisher was approaching a words-per-minute record when a reporter — struggling to transcribe — asked why the Texas A&M coach talks so fast.
“Heck, I get you in, I get you out,” he said. “You only get so much time with a player — stupid 20-hour rule. You get a one-hour meeting. You have to get in as much information as you can.”Asked whether the SEC should expand to 18 or 20 teams, Alabama coach Nick Saban replied, “You know I don’t like to answer hypothetical questions” before launching into a 315-word answer.Lane Kiffin has learned to joke about the night it rained golf balls and mustard bottles at Neyland Stadium.
“Football has always been a game of execution. There’s not a lot of Roadrunner/Wiley Coyote, who you ambush, fool the other guy, then you walk away laughing like Muttley after the rock fell on the guy or something like that.”Considering the depleted roster Heupel inherited in 2021, not to mention the fact that Tennessee faced nine bowl teams and both the national championship game participants, last season’s 7-6 finish looks miraculous.
“There was an inquiry. It was uncomfortable. It was unfounded. It presented an opportunity for people to personally attack me, my family, and also our program. And it didn’t work.”Kiffin, on the oddity of college coaches being forced to take a hands-off approach to NIL:
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