College Football
Smart Decisions
By: Drayton Hogarth
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
For the first time in 15 seasons, the Georgia Bulldogs will have a new leader on the sidelines.
Kirby Smart has taken over for Mark Richt as the face of the program. Smart is coming home to his alma mater after a long tenure as the Alabama Crimson Tide defensive coordinator.
ACC Coastal Preview
By: Kenneth Harrison Jr.
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
The ACC Coastal division is unpredictable. They don’t have elite teams so it’s much more competitive than the Atlantic. I’ll try to project where the teams will finish.
Boring Sports Summer
By: JJ Lanier
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
Welcome to what is becoming an annual “It’s been a long sports summer, the Braves are still in last place, and I can’t possibly write another preseason article on SEC Football” story from yours truly.
For someone who writes stories on southern sports I like to refer to these days as the ‘Bob Ross’ days. You know, as in I’d rather watch that man with the glorious fro paint pictures of mountain ranges than subject myself to following whether or not the Hawks are going to give some guy I’ve never heard $5 million dollars a year to sit the bench.
Peach State Recruiting Wars
By: Drayton Hogarth
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
In college football, recruiting is the lifeblood of every program since schools must replace their entire roster no more than every five years.
Fortunately, football programs located within the state of Georgia typically do not need to travel too far in order to find players.
ACC Atlantic Preview
By: Kenneth Harrison Jr.
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
Last season was a good year for the ACC.
Clemson won their first 14 games of the season before losing to Alabama in the national championship. The ACC Atlantic has been the best and most consistent division for the past five years. I’m going to predict the standings for the division.
SEC Drama
By: JJ Lanier
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
SEC Media Week is a lot like Chinese food. While it’s taking place you absolutely love it and can’t seem to get enough. Once it’s over though you realize that you feel utterly unfulfilled.
There is nothing of any substance that you take away.
There is however, a whole lot of entertainment.
Recruiting The 912
By: Drayton Hogarth
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
Even when it is not football season, it is still football season.
In addition to spring camps, summer workouts, and fall camps leading up to the regular season for colleges all over the country, recruiting is a vital aspect of the offseason as well.
Recruiting is the lifeblood for any good college football program, and the summer is often when recruits will make their decisions public, or the ground work is laid by the coaching staffs to the recruits, their families, and advisors, in order to help the young men decide which school feels like “home.”
Spurrier to SEC Network?
By: Kipp Branch
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
I read recently that retired coach Steve Spurrier is in discussions to become an analyst with the SEC Network. I don’t know about you but having the ball coach breaking down SEC football games will be a must for this writer come football season.
Can you see the ball coach at Auburn on a game day talking about all of the new books in the AU library?
Spurrier in Knoxville covering the Vols reminding Vol-nation that you can’t spell Citrus Bowl without UT.
Can you imagine Spurrier doing a where are they now segment with Ray Goff? Hey coach, I know I put you out to pasture but you rebounded nicely in the chicken finger industry.
Just Throw Me the Ball
By: Drayton Hogarth
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
With the Georgia Bulldogs season getting close, there will be a lot of words written and spoken about who will be under center and throwing the ball at quarterback for first year head coach Kirby Smart.
There may not be as much talk about who will be on the receiving end of the passes from the eventual starting quarterback, be it Jacob Eason, Brice Ramsey, or Greyson Lambert.
Jimbo Top 5 Coach?
By: Kipp Branch
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
College football is just a little over 2 months away from taking over the sports landscape in the South during the fall and into the first couple of weeks of January.
One coach that I feel doesn’t get enough credit for the job he is doing is Jimbo Fisher at Florida State.
