An Alabama reunion and other sights and sounds from SEC

• J.J. Post, ESPNJul 18, 2024, 09:36 AM ET SEC media days concluded on Thursday in Dallas, with the calendar flipping closer and closer to the very first week of the college football season.Editor’s Picks

1 Associated Ratings of coaches and players from the conference’s 16 teams fielded questions through the week, setting the scene for the fall ahead. Much of the four-day event was spent highlighting football.But not all of it.From mechanical bulls to College Football 25 face scans, here are the very best sights and sounds from SEC media days in Dallas: When in Texas … Longhorn Nation pic.twitter.com/YXKk5hKhtH!.?.!— Texas Football (@TexasFootball)July 17, 2024 With the occasion taking place at a novice host in

Dallas, it was just right that the organizers paid homage to one of the Lone Star State’s fantastic icons(and mascot of brand-new conference member Texas Longhorns)with an on-site mechanical bull. Acting as an anchor for picture opportunities for each group’s delegation, players and coaches alike presented for the cams atop the bovine platform.Drinkwitz holds court Eli Drinkwitz bends #Mizzou’s nuclear reactor while responding to a concern about making it through a hot-seat situation.– Eli Hoff( @byEliHoff) July 16, 2024 Missouri Tigers head coach Eli Drinkwitz is never ever one to avoid

a great quote. Backed by the momentum of leading the Tigers to their very first

11-win season considering that 2014 last fall, Drinkwitz took the podium with plenty to say. From nuclear reactors, to a tribute to Mike Leach, to size, strength and impulses, the soon-to-be fifth

year manager maximized his chances in front of the mic.Dr Pepper stockpiles SEC Media Days: Where you have seven different alternatives of Dr. Pepper. pic.twitter.com/R43jizt54i!.?.!— Carter Karels( @CarterKarels )July 15, 2024 If for no reason aside from its popular halftime competitions, Dr Pepper is a mainstay of the college football landscape. The SEC went all out in making sure that every possible flavor of the drink would be offered to the occasion’s

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editions of the drink were equipped in Dallas, including the just recently released coconut cream flavor.A delighted reunion Simply over 6 months earlier, Nick Saban was training Jalen Milroe in a College Football

Championship game as the head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide. Saban is a veteran of SEC media days(he was conference’s longest tenured head coach at the time of his retirement), and was on the scene when again in Dallas as a media member. Milroe, on the other hand, was making his first look representing the Crimson Tide– and mored than happy to

see his previous coach settling into his brand-new role as part of the media.College Football 25 odds and ends #LSU Pound Harold Perkins Jr. plans to play himself at numerous positions in College Football 25 pic.twitter.com/EtrtBR4D4l!.?.!— Brad Crawford( @BCrawford247) July 15, 2024 A popular subject at the event was players’opinions and responses concerning EA’s long-awaited College Football 25 game, which was launched on Monday. In Between Harold Perkins’prepare for utilizing himself, Brady Cook’s mid-event representatives and Jaxson Dart’s gripes about his virtual similarity, players had plenty of thoughts on the brand-new game.