It's hard to sell the program when you went 2-10 in your first season. With Mullen, we had hope. Even though he was an assistant, he had won a national championship and beat the crap out of a Nick Saban Alabama team when he was at Utah.
Do you give a rip about who goes to SEC Media Days?
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The fact SEC Media Days continues to exist is one of the great living anachronisms of the modern age. It's a rare chance for newspaper employees to go on an expense account-supported junket, and that alone keeps it going. That's really all that keeps it going - interests of that sort and adjacent. Online sports media folks like steaks and alcohol and nice hotel rooms at someone else's expense, too.
With full time media staff in each athletic department and a connection to the internet, the whole event is unnecessary.
Once upon a time, the access it created for both the schools and the media was a big deal. Now there's no reason to go in person anymore EXCEPT for a junket.
In the days pre-SEC Media Days, there was a junket for the print media called The Skywriters. The SEC flew a whole plane load of sports writers in a group on a big private plane from campus to campus to campus over the course of several days. Wined and dined them each night. Kept them in nice hotels. Took them to play golf each day along the way.
With full time media staff in each athletic department and a connection to the internet, the whole event is unnecessary.
Once upon a time, the access it created for both the schools and the media was a big deal. Now there's no reason to go in person anymore EXCEPT for a junket.
In the days pre-SEC Media Days, there was a junket for the print media called The Skywriters. The SEC flew a whole plane load of sports writers in a group on a big private plane from campus to campus to campus over the course of several days. Wined and dined them each night. Kept them in nice hotels. Took them to play golf each day along the way.
I hadn’t thought about this, but you are right. Out of the gate Mullen was basically on the campaign trail. Lebby seems to basically only do the interviews and events he has to
There's going to be a celebration penalty on this but who gives a flip.
I care about SEC Media Days because it's one time of year during the off season that the sports media pretends to care about Mississippi State University.