2008 SEC Discussion

[Gatorubet]

ESPN Gameday and the usual gameday crew will be in Gainesville this Saturday (April 12) announcing the spring scrimmage (Gator "Orange & Blue Game") at 1:00 p.m. Eastern, if anyone is so inclinded.

Put your "SEC speed" filters on your headphones and tune in.

 

[BB73]

UT Spring non-injury.

 

[BB73]

si.com

Vols' Crompton having elbow surgery

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee junior quarterback Jonathan Crompton will be going from spring practice to the operating room for surgery on his right, throwing elbow.

The Knoxville News Sentinel reports the procedure will remove a loose particle in the elbow. Doctors consider it minor surgery, with recovery in three to six weeks.

That means Crompton, the heir-apparent to departed starter Erik Ainge, should return to full participation by early June when Tennessee begins summer workouts.

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[xcrunner]

ESPN Gameday and the usual gameday crew will be in Gainesville this Saturday (April 12) announcing the spring scrimmage (Gator "Orange & Blue Game") at 1:00 p.m. Eastern, if anyone is so inclinded.

Put your "SEC speed" filters on your headphones and tune in.

Interestingly enough, while most people assumed that Moody would come in and take over the RB spot and give UF a viable running back.. It was Rainey who was 100% the highlight of the spring game. He is certainly incredibly electric, but for a good amount of his plays (including his long TD catch), it was unclear whether he was that good or the defense is that bad. So it goes with spring games.

 

[MD Buckeye]

Tennessee Volunteers, NCAA Football - CBSSports.com

Tennessee's Crompton has elbow surgery, will be fine by June

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee quarterback Jonathan Crompton underwent successful arthroscopic surgery on his right elbow and is expected to be ready to workout with the team by early June.

Tennessee athletic trainer Jason McVeigh said in a statement issued Monday after the surgery that Crompton should return to full activity with within three to five weeks.

The procedure was to remove a loose particle in the elbow.

Crompton is slated to start for the Volunteers, replacing the departed Erik Ainge.

 

[MD Buckeye]

ESPN - Clawson, Volunteers planning to beef up running game - College Football

Clawson, Volunteers planning to beef up running game

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The alleged inbreeding in Tennessee's football program goes back a ways.

Some would say all the way back to Gen. Robert Neyland. After all, those aren't just anybody's maxims the Vols recite before every game.
And on offense, at least for the past two decades, promoting from within has been the standard.

From the time Phillip Fulmer ascended from offensive line coach to offensive coordinator in 1989, the guy calling the plays for the Vols has invariably come from inside the family.

Until now.

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[MD Buckeye]

ESPN - SEC Lowdown: Tennessee's Foster runs toward history - College Football

SEC Lowdown: Underrated Foster runs toward Tennessee history

Knoxville, Tenn. -- It's probably fitting that Tennessee discovered Arian Foster while scouting someone else.

Former offensive coordinator Randy Sanders was in San Diego five years ago for a high school playoff game to check out quarterback Richard Kovalcheck. Sanders liked what he saw from Kovalcheck, but he liked this running back on the other team even more.

Kovalcheck wound up signing with Arizona and later finished a pretty nondescript career at Vanderbilt. That running back ended up coming East to Tennessee and is now bearing down on the Vols' all-time career rushing record.

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[Gatorubet]

This was from the UF Sports Information Department


Matt Patchan was a gunshot victim Friday night at a Tampa area park. He was a bystander and shot in the left shoulder and is expected to fully recover in three weeks.

 

[MD Buckeye]

This was from the UF Sports Information Department


Matt Patchan was a gunshot victim Friday night at a Tampa area park. He was a bystander and shot in the left shoulder and is expected to fully recover in three weeks.

ESPN - High school coach of Gators' Patchan says bullet remains lodged in shoulder - College Football

High school coach of Gators' Patchan says bullet remains lodged in shoulder

TAMPA, Fla. -- University of Florida defensive lineman Matt Patchan is recovering after being shot in the shoulder while at a Tampa-area park.

Florida coach Urban Meyer said in a statement issued Monday that Patchan is expected to fully recover. Patchan, who was shot Friday night at Sadie Park in Brandon, sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

The 6-foot-7, 265-pound Patchan enrolled early at Florida in January after graduating from high school.

Patchan's high school coach, Sean Callahan, said the former offensive lineman told him that "he's fine."

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[osugrad21]

Karma is a bitch.

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

Karma is a bitch.

If dissing the Big Ten merits a gunshot wound, there is a long list of people at various media outlets who could use a little more lead in their diets. :tongue2:

 

[osugrad21]

If dissing the Big Ten merits a gunshot wound, there is a long list of people at various media outlets who could use a little more lead in their diets. :tongue2:

Eh, some people get paid to have and write about strong opinions...17 year old kids who have not accomplished jackshit are not included in that group.

Somehow I can see that big mouth somehow helping that situation escalate...somehow I don't see this as the last time we hear about Patchan.

 

[MD Buckeye]

Somehow I can see that big mouth somehow helping that situation escalate...somehow I don't see this as the last time we hear at Patchan.

Somehow I agree

 

[TheIronColonel]

LSU and Washington set up home-and-home series.

I'm interested to see what the response to this will be. OSU got blasted for playing Washington, as many claimed they were a cupcake. Will LSU get the same treatment in '09? Unfortunately, I doubt it.

 

[Gatorubet]

LSU and Washington set up home-and-home series.

I'm interested to see what the response to this will be. OSU got blasted for playing Washington, as many claimed they were a cupcake. Will LSU get the same treatment in '09? Unfortunately, I doubt it.

Somebody post the relative strength of schedules for LSU and OSU the last several years. I honestly don't know. But as a perception was that the Big-10 schedule is softer (and that LSU's as an SEC team is not), that may have driven the negative comments. UF always hears how we don't travel very far, but we usually have a top 10 SOS (until FSU went south). Until our SOS drops out of that top ten group, we are more about the money from cupcake games. It funds a bunch of lower profile sports programs at UF, and that revenue is hard to give up, as we will always have the Jacksonville game to mess up one home game gate (we have to give half to the butt sniffers).