Kentucky : Scarbrough's Take
SEC Basketball Has Come a Long Way, It’s Fun Again
Lyn Scarbrough
January 20 In the past five seasons, the conference had averaged just 3.8 teams per season in the NCAA Tournament. A lot of people felt that this was embarrassing, unacceptable. One of those was SEC Commissioner Mike Slive. FULL STORY
On Football Ties and Kissing Your Sister
Lyn Scarbrough
October 25 As I followed the progress of the nine-overtime game between Illinois and Penn State at State College on Saturday, I couldn’t help but think about Rip Miller’s old adage. FULL STORY
Will Bama, SEC Be Pigeons This Year?
Lyn Scarbrough
October 11 After nearly two decades of being college football’s pigeon almost every season, the Southeastern Conference, including multi-time champion Alabama, is looking more likely to be a statue for 2021. FULL STORY
Will Ole Miss, Arkansas, Kentucky Join the SEC Elite?
Lyn Scarbrough
September 28 In this week’s Coaches poll, eight SEC teams are ranked in the Top 23. That includes five of the seven teams in the Western Division. Three of those … Ole Miss (ranked No. 12 in the Coaches and Associated Press polls), Arkansas FULL STORY
Defenses … When Will They Ever Learn?
Lyn Scarbrough
October 13 But, based on the first three weeks of the 2020 season, it looks like defense has gone the way of the drop kick, the Statue of Liberty play, and the hidden ball trick. FULL STORY
SEC Takes Its Time, Gets It Right
Lyn Scarbrough
September 30 Not many, especially not SEC fans, agreed with the conference back in August, not when Commissioner Greg Sankey and the 14 university presidents kept dragging their feet. While other conferences, college and pro, FULL STORY
Mulder, Hoops and the SEC; Has Anybody Noticed?
Lyn Scarbrough
November 13 In Lindy’s preseason hoops edition, five SEC teams were ranked in the Top 25 (Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi State, Auburn, LSU). Eight conference teams were predicted to play in the NCAA Tournament, matching the all-time record for the conference set last season. FULL STORY
SEC Teams – Take the Fork in the Road
Lyn Scarbrough
October 31 But, the Tide’s schedule is the near opposite of LSU, one of the least difficult of all contending teams. The Tide has played only one nationally ranked team all season (Texas A&M, ranked No. 25 this week) FULL STORY
Athens of East, Watch Out for Athens of the West
Lyn Scarbrough
September 25 After Saturday’s total demolition of highly regarded Mississippi State (28-7) at Kroger Field, Kentucky is starting to look like the most likely challenger to Georgia in the SEC Eastern Division. FULL STORY
It's Bad SEC Football ... But Get More Popcorn
Lyn Scarbrough
November 08 “Three Little Pigskins,” filmed in 1934 about a trio of college students, mistakenly added to the football team, who know nothing about football. Their play is such a fiasco that when the team loses, people think they threw the game on purpose. FULL STORY
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