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The other day I was asked a question about the SEC that caught me off guard a little. And no, it wasn't about Bob Stoops or scheduling. I was asked if the league would be a quarterback or running back league in 2013. Obviously, when you think a...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- There goes the family vacation. Alabama fans planning their annual pilgrimage to Tuscaloosa for the A-Day scrimmage this Saturday were hit with some disappointing news when it was learned that fab freshman tailback Derrick Henry w...

Alabama will be without one of its top offensive athletes for the rest of spring after true freshman running back Derrick Henry fractured his tibia in Saturday's scrimmage, according to his high school coach Bobby Ramsay. Henry, who was the No. 1-...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- The last month has been a productive one for the University of Alabama in terms of recruiting. Sure, the Crimson Tide still have just three commitments for 2014 -- far less than they've had at this time in years past -- but sin...

The sports world is dominated by social media these days, but college coaches are finding that personal, handwritten letters to recruits may be the best way to show them how much they're coveted.

Story | Conversation | April 11, 2013

Tennessee is really trying to get its point across to 2014 athlete Stanton Truitt (Monroe, Ga./Monroe Area). And it isn't a subtle point, either. When Truitt got home on Monday, he had more than 100 letters waiting from him in his mailbox -- all f...

Tennessee first-year head coach Butch Jones is taking a page out of Nick Saban's recruiting playbook.

SUWANEE, Ga. - There is never a shortage of highly coveted football prospects in the state of Georgia. While it remains to be seen if anyone in the 2014 class will be rated as highly as 2013 standouts Robert Nkemdiche or Montravius Adams, there are a...

Blog | March 11, 2013

Georgia missed on landing a top-ten back in 2013. With seven targets in the 2014 class, the Bulldogs are focused on landing some big-name backs.

Story | Conversation | March 11, 2013

Largely whiffing on the Peach State's best recruits doesn't mean the Georgia Bulldogs have been doomed. Contrarily, UGA excels in spite of that.

Story | Conversation | February 17, 2013

ATHENS, Ga. -- Perhaps the biggest news to surface around DawgNation this week was that the UGA Athletic Association's board of directors approved a raise and contract extension for football coach Mark Richt, extending his deal through 2017 and pushi...

On Feb. 6 when Alvin Kamara announced on ESPNU that he was going to play for Alabama, his decision marked the end of a six-year streak in which Georgia had signed a top-10 running back. The battle for Kamara went on for almost a year and the Bull...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Last week, the University of Alabama inked the nation's No. 1 recruiting class for the second year in a row. The class was made up of prospects from 13 different states and featured a combination of skill players and interior line...

ATHENS, Ga. -- Georgia's coaches often mention how the key to a successful recruiting effort is to focus on talent that resides within its home state or a drivable distance from the UGA campus. And Bulldogs coach Mark Richt made that point once ag...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- AJ McCarron was almost giddy when he spoke with ESPN's Tom Rinaldi on the morning of national signing day. Alabama's junior quarterback has won two national championships as a starter, and he broke all kinds of passing records thi...

Now that the pens have been put to paper, the classes have been announced and most of your attention has turned to the 2014 recruiting season, it's time to take a look at how each school in the SEC did when it came to immediately filling needs. We...