SEC Media Days 2010: Nick Saban, Urban Meyer United by Pimps?

Say it ain’t so!

Leave it to pimps—I mean “agents”—to unite bitter rivals.

Alabama head coach Nick Saban and Florida head coach Urban Meyer have now found a common cause.

During a brief conversation on Wednesday, the pair agreed something needs to be done to protect college football players from agents looking to land clients at all costs.

Meyer called them “predators.”

Saban called them “pimps."

Either way, these agents have stirred trouble among the top Southeastern Conference programs.

Instead of the usual talk about BCS dominance, coaches and players at the SEC Media Days fielded questions about all the things trying to corrupt college athletes.

Former Gator Maurkice Pouncey and current Alabama player Marcel Dareus are being investigated by the NCAA for different reasons—Pouncey for accepting $100,000 from an agent, and Dareus for attending Miami Beach nightclub LIV at The Fontainebleau Hotel this summer on an agent’s tab.

Also caught in the mess are Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina.

With the recent NCAA sanctions at USC for Reggie Bush's and O.J. Mayo's ineligibility, Meyer called this situation an "epidemic."

He and Saban want their players to be protected from these ill-willed people, even though student-athletes are warned about them from the beginning. 

Both of them may continue to speak on the matter or at least remain civil because of this topic.

That is, until Oct. 2 when their teams face each other.