Catching up at the SEC Tourney
March 13, 2008
I’m frequently asked what’s my favorite event to cover in sports. I couldn’t give you a single favorite, but among them is the SEC Basketball Tournament.
It’s great basketball, sure. But it’s a mini-reunion and social event, too. Almost a professional convention, really, for coaches, administrators, and, sure, media. You get to see friends here that you may not see until next March. Just catching up is cool.
Greg Seitz, the medial relations director at Jacksonville State University, Josh Underwood, his assistant, and I took a minute before the Bama game. Seitz, it seems, is one of the most popular guys in Atlanta. Everybody wants to know who will be Jax State’s next basketball coach.
There are candidates. Alabama assistant coach Philip Pearson, former Tide head coach David Hobbs, even ex-Auburn coach Cliff Ellis were among the names suggested to Seitz by curious writers during our brief conversation.
If he knows, he wasn’t saying.
