Sunday Musings and Thoughts About SEC Football

Isn't it funny that Kiffin wanted to fire a guy who dared to pick up a little spoiled brat 25 minutes late from the airport. He actually lied to Sports Illustrated and said he did, then the University A.D. publicly called him a liar and said he did not.

He wanted him fired because, as he said,  "Here's the point: We need to win. That's 25 minutes that Nick Saban and Urban Meyer had that I lost because somebody was late picking me up at the airport."

In a continuing effort to prove himself, not only the most idiotic coach in the SEC but all of the NCAA, one has to wonder how far in his mind those coaches will get ahead for the upcoming days of testimony. Also, the travel and planning he'll lose in order to sue his last boss for two months of pay.

Even the staunchest of Tennessee fans must see the irony in this. Instead of focusing on the future, worrying about spring break or recruiting, he'd rather try and extract a few dollars, wasting weeks of time trying to win an "I told you so" victory with his ex boss and fellow nut, Al Davis.

Maybe he should should have been focused on practicing in a facility where the pads and barriers had not been installed, leaving a potential starting receiver to run into a brick wall and seriously injure himself. 

But hey, I can't pretend to know how a mind like that works.

Secondly, anybody heard a peep about Dan Mullen? He might as well have taken the head coaching job at Iceland University. He's so little thought of you can't even add his name to Bleacher Report, he's obviously not important enough. 

I know this because I tried to write an article on him last night and couldn't. That's sad, to be a head coach of an SEC school and not even able to be listed. Google him for stories and you get more on the election of the county's new dog catcher. 

I had no idea that Mississippi State had become "Rodney Dangerfeild University". You get no respect there. Mullen may be just the man to change that.

Thirdly, Bobby Johnson not only led Vanderbilt to it's first bowl game in 26 years, but won their first in 53 years! There was no ticker tape parade down Main Street in Nashville?  I would have thought they'd at least get a country star to kiss him or something!

Georgia is supposed to be down, South Carolina isn't expected to contend, Tennessee's already in the crapper and apparently. no one in the Eastern Division is set to give Florida a challenge this year.

Am I the only one here that sees a let down in the making? Florida should steam roll the division and go the SEC Championship game and perhaps the BCS Championship game again without a hitch, but will they?

Tebow may have two rings, but there's a noticeable gap between them. Coach Bryant once said, repeating as national champions is much harder than winning the first one, because the second time you have to fight complacency. I think he may be onto something there...

Every die hard LSU fan will now agree that this is 100 percent a Les Miles team now. Every LSU detractor must also agree that Les has pulled some pretty impressive recruits over the last few years.

So now, we finally get a chance to see what Les Miles does with his boys in his program. Another flop and everyone who said he won with Saban's boys will be totally vindicated. They just have to be willing to concede to the Bayou Bengals. If he wins again, it was Les all along.

Phillip Fulmer was supposed to get tickets and a sky box access this season to watch his old team play. Will he show up?  There are plenty of fans who will still give him a pat on the back and the sky box crowd would be glad to see him,  posing for pictures with him, but will they get the chance?  That could be an interesting story in itself.

You can bet that Tommy Tuberville has kissed Auburn's butt goodbye. You won't see Tommy at another Auburn game unless he's paid to attend.  He has long history of burning bridges.  So with no TV or radio deal in the works, how will Tuberville spend his fall afternoons?  I'm betting on hunting in Arkansas.

I've seen how Tubberville's mind works and his ultimate act of revenge would be to get all the second guessing started in Fayetteville, so he could return the favor of trying to steal Petrino's job there.  Hey, you heard it here first...

Does anyone remember that Georgia Tech left the SEC in 1964 and still has just one less SEC title than Auburn and just two less than Florida, with five titles?  Amazing really... Yes, everyone knows Alabama has 21, but it's been forever and counting for them.

I'll bet fewer people know that Tulane (also once a member of the SEC) has more titles with three, than Mississippi State, South Carolina, Kentucky, and Arkansas and they haven't played in the SEC since 1949.