SEC Football is Back to being Absolutely Ridiculous
Is this the real life? Is it just a fantasy? I find myself asking those questions often while on the clock. Even when I was off the clock on Sunday afternoon, my Sankey Sense was tingling, drawing me back to the internet to uncover the insanity overtaking SEC football.
In the SEC, it just means more. What does that mean during fall camp? You’re about to find out.
NFL Training Camps are open to the media and the general public. It creates an opportunity for plays in practice to be dissected in a way they never should be. However, it’s a fun ecosystem to investigate from time-to-time, as long as you don’t take it too seriously.
It’s a much different climate in the SEC. Kentucky let the media watch a practice on Friday and opened up Saturday’s practice to the general public. That might be the most open-door policy in the SEC, where most schools don’t provide much more than a few media availabilities for the first 10 minutes of select practices. Local TV stations load up on B-roll of players stretching, and that’s about it.
This void in coverage is filled by videos shared on social media by official team accounts. If you thought NFL fans picked apart those plays, that’s child’s play in the SEC.
BBN got a taste of this on the first day of fall camp. Instead of being blown away by Josh Kattus‘ one-handed catch, many fans online were more concerned about pass protection as Zach Calzada stepped up into the pocket. Things were significantly more outrageous in Knoxville and Baton Rouge.
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A video shared from fall camp was supposed to highlight an interception by Colton Hood. In the first frame of the 15-second clip, SEC Mike tried to identify the quarterback who was picked off. He couldn’t do it. The Tennessee video staff blurred out the quarterback.
That was a preemptive move to keep the crazies from over-analyzing the quarterback. At LSU, SEC football fans bullied the Tigers into deleting a video.
LSU has one of the greatest video departments in college football. Their promos and highlight reels are top-notch. They made a mistake over the weekend.
LSU posted a traditional hype video from fall camp. The issue was how it opened. Cameras zoomed in on the camera tower used to film practice as a Brian Kelly monologue played in the background. Kelly was the head coach at Notre Dame when high winds flipped a lift and killed a student videographer back in 2010. Folks online were quick to bring up the tragic accident, forcing LSU to delete the 27-second video.
In the SEC, it just means more crazy football fans.
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