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Published Jul 19, 2021

Ten Thoughts for Monday Morning

Gabe DeArmond • Mizzou Today

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1) SEC Media Days opens on Monday morning. If you’re interested, here’s the full schedule:

MONDAY, July 19

Florida - Dan Mullen

LSU - Ed Orgeron

South Carolina - Shane Beamer

TUESDAY, July 20

Georgia - Kirby Smart

Kentucky - Mark Stoops

Ole Miss - Lane Kiffin

Tennessee - Josh Heupel

WEDNESDAY, July 21

Alabama - Nick Saban

Mississippi State - Mike Leach

Texas A&M - Jimbo Fisher

Vanderbilt - Clark Lea

THURSDAY, July 22

Arkansas - Sam Pittman

Auburn - Bryan Harsin

Missouri - Eli Drinkwitz

The league spread the four new coaches out and put one on each day. Missouri is the last team to appear in the main room (Mitchell Forde will have more from Mizzou than the average report because he will also get some extra time with Eli Drinkwitz, Case Cook and Akial Byers along with the other local media that makes the trip).

I don’t expect Missouri to get a whole lot of attention this week. They surprised people last year and Drinkwitz does have a bit of buzz going, but Mizzou isn’t going to be picked to finish in the upper half of the league and by the time the Tigers take the stage, a lot of the people that are there to cover other teams will have left, their jobs mostly done. Being relatively anonymous on media day isn’t the worst thing, though Drinkwitz will likely manage to say something that makes some headlines on Thursday because he’s pretty good at that.

The main storylines for all coaches are going to be Year Two of COVID college football—it’s going to be easier than year one, but still a storyline that is there to some extent—and the impact of name, image and likeness. Media days tend to have a couple of overarching themes and then the local people ask some more specific questions for each team/coach. Among things I assume Drinkwitz will be asked about:

—How do you replace Nick Bolton and Larry Rountree?

—Was there anything that was different about coaching in the SEC than you expected?

—What’s been the secret to your recruiting momentum and how important is it to keep it going?

—What’s the next step for Connor Bazelak?

2) The league media will make predictions in Hoover this week. Every media member in attendance will have the opportunity to vote for the predicted standings in each division and a league champion, along with an all SEC team. Here are my predictions of the predictions (in other words, not necessarily my personal predictions, but how I think the league media will vote):

SEC East

Georgia

Florida

Kentucky

Missouri

Tennessee

South Carolina

Vanderbilt

*For the record, this is how I would vote too (I looked at the schedules and if Kentucky beats Missouri, the Cats could very well win ten games)

SEC West

Alabama

Texas A&M

LSU

Ole Miss

Auburn

Arkansas

Mississippi State

*For the record, I definitely agree with the top two and don’t really know how I’d vote the rest of the way.

I’m not going to mess with an entire all-SEC team because honestly, I’d be making it up. I think Mike Maetti, Case Cook, Trajan Jeffcoat and Kobie Whiteside will get some attention for Mizzou. I think those four are likely to make some sort of pre-season team (first, second or third). Harrison Mevis might. Other than that, I’d be surprised if Missouri has anybody. The Tigers are a good year or two away from generating much preseason buzz with media outside the state I think.

3) So another season is about to kick off and we want to tell you what we’re planning to do to help you all follow along and be the most informed Mizzou fans there are.

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