Eventually, everyone will have to compromise in some way. The SEC coaches probably won't get their top-four wish and probably will instead have to settle for three conference champs and a wildcard or some similar iteration. The coaches in other leagues probably will have to accept the fact that two SEC teams will eventually find a way to make the playoff. And even if Spurrier and Miles fail in their attempt to emphasize division records, they'll plant a seed of discord that could in a few years grow into a change in SEC scheduling philosophy. Of course, all this arguing may.....​

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SEC spring meetings Day 1 notes

SEC power will grow with four-team playoff

"Competition is not the issue," Miles said. "We welcome competition. But let's build a structure that is equitable for defining our conference champion." "Traditional games are important to our fans," Saban said. "All the games we play against conference opponents are important. And they should all count. If they don't count, why play them? If you do that, we aren't really a conference, just a couple of divisions." For the moment, the status quo is likely to count. But... ​

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Time is supposed to heal all wounds, but it appears that LSU football has scars that won't heal. The evi.dence has poured out of the mouths of everyone from the chancellor to the AD to the head football coach. How shaken has LSU been? The chancellor and AD don't want to play Florida every year anymore. If they do, the head football coach doesn't want it to count in the SEC standings. Next thing you know, defensive coordinator John Chavis will come out in favor of a ban on tackling and a switch to flag football....​

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South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier backtracked from comments he made earlier this year in which he appeared to take a shot at Alabama coach Nick Saban. In April, Spurrier told ESPN.com's Southeastern Conference blogger Chris Low that Saban needs to prove his greatness by winning big elsewhere. "If he wants to be the greatest coach or one of the greatest coaches in college football, to me, he has to go somewhere besides Alabama and win, because they've always won there at Alabama," Spurrier told Low. At the time, many pointed out the strangeness of Spurrier's comments considering the fact that Saban won big at LSU, with two SEC titles and a national championship in 2003. Spurrier clarified his comments Tuesday at the opening day of SEC spring meetings. "No, he's a great coach. That wasn't what I was talking about," Spurrier said. "I was just saying, they won their 14th national championship this year, right? OK. ...​

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Steve Spurrier, taking a break from selling his short-sighted and self-interested divisional play scheme, points out the flaws in that idea: The coaches poll is literally drenched in conflicts of interests and questionable voting. "Obviously, probably most of us vote for our conference guys and our buddies around the country," Spurrier said. "A coaches' vote is probably not as accurate as the media vote."...​

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Crudup Jr., a backup quarterback to Ken Dorsey on Miami's 2002 BCS championship team, posted $500 bond and was detained for fewer than two hours. Crudup Jr. came to Alabama in 2010 after one year at nearby Stillman College, where he was the team's offensive coordinator. He first became acquainted with Alabama's coaches by helping out at various camps....​

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The great Jim Brown might not see anything outstanding in Trent Richardson, but the Browns office sure did. In fact, the name "Adrian Peterson" came up in the Browns offices when they were evaluating Richardson. The Browns acknowledge Peterson is a little faster, but they think Richardson is better in pass protection, and they believe he is one of the best backs to enter the league in quite awhile. The Browns love his versatility and plan on getting a lot of out of Richardson ASAP. They are not the only ones who think Richardson will be a quick study. Richardson’s presence does not mean the team is giving up on injury-prone.....​

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It's clear that the SEC has dominated college football for the last several years, and a lot of that has been due to their outstanding defenses. Alabama and LSU's talent-laden squads last year were, of course, Exhibit A. Yet almost all of the rest of college football has been paced by offensive juggernauts like Oregon, Stanford, Oklahoma State, and so on. Obviously whether the SEC's defense-led dominance can continue is really the most pertinent question in all of college football in terms of deciding who will be the next champion. But the complexion of the SEC itself has changed with the addition of Missouri and Texas A&M, two spread teams whose..... ​

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According to the bowl agreement, if the SEC champion is playing for the national championship in a given year, the school at the bottom of the SEC standings will take their place in order to make the Big 12's loss all the more humiliating.​

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The Press-Register's Randy Kennedy and Mike Herndon have studied the rosters of all 14 league teams and compiled their list of the 50 players they expect to be the best in college football's premier league this season....

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SECond Look video: Players 41-45 in the countdown of the SEC's best for 2012

Many of Tuesday’s comments coming from Destin were directed toward the 4-team playoff, namely how the teams would be selected. The conferences are staking their positions. The “weaker” conferences are pushing for a 4-team playoff constructed by conference champions. The SEC is pushing for the four best teams in the country, regardless of conference. The SEC coaches were a unified front on the first day of Spring Meetings.

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SEC Football Daily: Florida LB/DE Ronald Powell’s ACL surgery recovery is ahead of schedule. Muschamp thinks he could potentially be back for some of this year:

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Georgia recently hired Daryl Jones as their new Director of On-Campus Recruiting. It just so happens that Jones is a former coach of top prospect Robert Nkemdiche and maintains a good relationship with him to this day. So, what does all this mean for Georgia?

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