2015 SEC Football Media Days Schedule Officially Released
Before South Carolina hits the field for its Thursday night opener on Sept. 3, the SEC season will unofficially kick off next month with the annual offseason circus known as SEC media days.
On Monday morning, the conference released the lineup for the four-day event, which will take place in Hoover, Alabama, July 13-16.
This will be the first year media days will open with an address from Greg Sankey, who took over for former commissioner Mike Slive on June 1.
Auburn's Gus Malzahn and selected players will join Sankey in the opening session on Monday, followed by Florida's Jim McElwain and Vanderbilt's Derek Mason in the afternoon.
Here is the full media days schedule of times for Sankey and the SEC's 14 football programs:
| July 13 | SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey (11:30 a.m.-2:20 p.m.) | Auburn's Gus Malzahn (11:30 a.m.-2:20 p.m.) | Florida's Jim McElwain (2:30-5:30 p.m.) | Vanderbilt's Derek Mason (2:30-5:30 p.m.) |
| July 14 | South Carolina's Steve Spurrier (9 a.m.-12:20 p.m.) | Texas A&M's Kevin Sumlin (9 a.m.-12:20 p.m.) | Mississippi State's Dan Mullen (1-4 p.m.) | Tennessee's Butch Jones (1-4 p.m.) |
| July 15 | Alabama's Nick Saban (9 a.m.-noon) | Kentucky's Mark Stoops (9 a.m.-noon) | Missouri's Gary Pinkel (1-4 p.m.) | Arkansas' Bret Bielema (1-4 p.m.) |
| July 16 | Georgia's Mark Richt (9 a.m.-1:30 p.m.) | Ole Miss' Hugh Freeze (9 a.m.-1:30 p.m.) | LSU's Les Miles (9 a.m.-1:30 p.m.) |
A list of players attending media days will be released in early July, one week before the start of the event.
The SEC also released its logo for media days Monday morning:
Among the things to watch for in this year's media days—the event will have live coverage for fans on the SEC Network—will be the head coaches' takes on the growing satellite camp debate and new rules that were approved at SEC spring meetings last month.
The conference will also announce the media's All-SEC selections and predictions for the upcoming season during the four-day extravaganza.
Of course, fans shouldn't miss the times when LSU's Les Miles and South Carolina's Steve Spurrier take the podium for questions. Both head coaches are known to steal the show as the most entertaining parts of "Talkin' season," as Spurrier called it last year.
Other highlights from 2014 media days included Mississippi State's Dan Mullen talking European soccer, Alabama wide receiver Christion Jones stopping his press conference to dance and an Australian man who flew to Hoover just to meet Nick Saban.
Basically, you never know what to expect from SEC media days, and this year should be no different.
Justin Ferguson is an on-call college football writer at Bleacher Report. You can follow him on Twitter @JFergusonBR.
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