SEC Media Days Press Conference Coaches Order Brings Excitement (?) To Depressed Football Fans: Glenn Guilbeau

It has only been four days since the Super Bowl and the football season ended.

Yet, many addicted football fans already find themselves among the five stages of grief. I can hear them now:

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Perhaps it is good during this depressing time of year - that mid-February lull before the Super Bowl and March Madness, The Masters and baseball - that the Southeastern Conference office announces its order of coaches for the SEC Media Days press conferences in July.

That is five months away, though. Never understood this annual release by the SEC. Why not announce this in June? Just as slow then, and it would be more timely.

SEC Coaches Media Days Press Conference Order ... Wow

It's not real news at any time, really. This is really fake news. These are press conferences more than a month before the games even start. Yet, they trumpet them out like it is the list of bands and times for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (April 28-May 7). Now, that's news.

But without further ado (because I couldn't think of anything else), here is the lineup for the 2023 SEC Media Days in Nashville on Monday through Thursday, July 17-20. Drum roll, please .. don't.

On Monday, LSU coach Brian Kelly highlights the festivities with Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz and Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher as co-stars. Kelly's Tigers could be picked to win the West as they return one of the best quarterbacks in the league in Jayden Daniels after LSU won the SEC West. But the other two teams combined to go 11-14 overall and 5-11 in the SEC last season.

On Tuesday, new Auburn coach Hugh Freeze will debut along with reigning two-time national champion Kirby Smart of Georgia, new Mississippi State coach Zach Arnett and Vanderbilt coach Clark Lea.

Alabama's Nick Saban is the headliner on Wednesday. Arkansas' Sam Pittman, Florida's Billy Napier and Kentucky's Mark Stoops will be supporting actors. The SEC obviously has spread out its star coaches. This is why Ole Miss' Lane Kiffin will be Friday along with Tennessee coach Josh Heupel and South Carolina coach Shane Beamer.

And that's it, football addicts. Do you feel better? I didn't think so.

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Guilbeau joined OutKick as an SEC columnist in September of 2021 after covering LSU and the Saints for 17 years at USA TODAY Louisiana. He has been a national columnist/feature writer since the summer of 2022, covering college football, basketball and baseball with some NFL, NBA, MLB, TV and Movies and general assignment, including hot dog taste tests. A New Orleans native and Mizzou graduate, he has consistently won Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) awards since covering Alabama and Auburn at the Mobile Press-Register (1993-98) and LSU and the Saints at the Baton Rouge Advocate (1998-2004). In 2021, Guilbeau won an FWAA 1st for a game feature, placed in APSE Beat Writing, Breaking News and Explanatory, and won Beat Writer of the Year from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association (LSWA). He won an FWAA columnist 1st in 2017 and was FWAA's top overall winner in 2016 with 1st in game story, 2nd in columns, and features honorable mention. Guilbeau completed a book in 2022 about LSU's five-time national champion coach - "Everything Matters In Baseball: The Skip Bertman Story" - that is available at www.acadianhouse.com, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble outlets. He lives in Baton Rouge with his wife, the former Michelle Millhollon of Thibodaux who previously covered politics for the Baton Rouge Advocate and is a communications director.