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http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/cfb/entries/2008/05/27/the_secs_deepes.html Destin, Fla.-Good morning from Destin where the SEC Spring Meetings are scheduled to begin this afternoon. Everybody knows that the SEC has five coaches who have won national championships in football. But in the course of doing research for a story that will run this week, I discovered how deep the lineup of coaches in this league really is. Of the 12 head coaches in the SEC, 11 have won a conference championship at some point in their careers. Seven have won SEC championships. Four others won championships in other leagues. Three have won championships as a head coach in two different conferences. And the one man who has not won a conference title as a head coach, Mississippi State’s Sylvester Croom, has been around championship football all of his life, as you will see below. Here is a rundown of the 12 SEC coaches and their experience with championship football. I’m sure I may have missed a championship connection or two but you get the picture. In fact, you could argue that this is the deepest lineup of coaches that the SEC has ever had. The early 60s has always been considered the golden age when the league had Bryant (Alabama), Dooley (Georgia), Vaught (Ole Miss), Jordan (Auburn), McLendon (LSU), Dickey (Tennessee), Graves (Florida) and Dodd (Georgia Tech). All are in the College Football Hall of Fame. Tony Barhart Atlanta Journal-Consititution 5/27/08

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080527/SPORTS0202/805270324/1026/SPORTS02 BATON ROUGE — The University of New Orleans is the first in-state school invited to an NCAA Regional hosted by LSU that already has two wins over the Tigers in the same season. LSU and UNO will play should No. 3 seed UNO (42-19) get by No. 2 seed Southern Mississippi (40-20) at 6 p.m. Friday and if No. 1 seed LSU (43-16-1 and a national No. 7 seed) beats No. 4 seed and Southwestern Athletic Conference Tournament champion Texas Southern (16-32) in the opener at 1 p.m. Friday. Such a LSU-UNO pairing would happen at 6 p.m. Saturday. The Privateers defeated LSU 8-6 in Alex Box Stadium on March 26 and 6-5 at Privateer Park in New Orleans on April 16. It took 15 innings, but LSU managed to beat UNO 7-6 on May 13 at Zephyr Field in Metairie in the Wally Pontiff Classic. Shreveporttimes.com 5/27/08

http://www.wmctv.com/global/story.asp?s=8381319 They came up just short in the SEC championship game...but the season is not yet over for the Ole Miss Rebels. The Rebels advance to their sixth consecutive NCAA tournament appearance, as the third seed in the Miami Regional. They'll open with Missouri on Friday. The SEC leads all conferences with nine berths into the NCAA baseball tournament. wcmtv.com 5/27/08