Frank Martin and his perma-scowl are leaving the scene of his greatest coaching successes, Manhattan, Kansas. His next stop is the basketball wilderness of South Carolina, an SEC program that is occasionally forgotten in the run-up to spring football practice.Martin is far from the only coach jumping on this season's career opportunity carousel. In fact, 42 other coaches are entering new jobs in 2012-13.This slideshow will spotlight each one in turn, discussing who is best- ...

Every Friday, The SEC Blog will feature one classic game from the storied history of SEC football.The Iron Bowl is one of the nation's fiercest rivalries. Some argue that the state championship game between Auburn and Alabama is the most important game in the state every year—even in years in which one of the participants is national championship-bound.The 1967 edition of the Iron Bowl featured No. 8 Alabama, which entered the game with a 7-1-1 ...

With half of the Final Four set in the 2012 SEC Tournament, the only thing we can say for sure is that if you like chalk in your brackets, this is the event for you. The biggest upset has been No. 5 seed Vanderbilt winning its first two games against No. 2 South Carolina and No. 3 Florida to punch a ticket to Saturday's semifinal game. It is hard to qualify that as an upset because Vanderbilt ...

It's Friday, folks, and as you gear up for the Memorial Day weekend, we have you set up with some listening material for your ears to enjoy.Podcast of the week is back, and while we have dropped ample thoughts on expansion here at Your Best 11, we have also been finding different perspectives to kick your way with respect to expansion. Today, we're heading into the heartland of the ACC by pulling the ACC Sports ...

With the 2012 recruiting cycle an almost-distant memory and spring practice in the books, it's time to predict who will be the freshmen shining on Saturdays this fall.247Sports.com’s Barton Simmons delivers his six-player watch list, led by Missouri wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham. The 6’6”, 220-pound pass-catcher hauled in 119 catches for 2,233 yards and 24 touchdowns in his senior season at Hillcrest High School in Springfield, Mo.The quarterback position is usually occupied by a veteran, but Simmons sees ...

Now that the firestorm around the ACC's television deal has died down, the watchful eye of Your Best 11 has turned to the recent happenings surrounding the next big media deal looming on the horizon.The Big East is set to negotiate, first with ESPN, then with any party that wants a piece of their action. Early thoughts were that the possible competition in the marketplace and the recent increase in value of live football programming would ...

There isn’t a position in college basketball that’s bringing back more proven talent for 2012-13 than the point guard spot. Despite the departures of such luminaries as Kendall Marshall and Tyshawn Taylor, there will be more than enough top-tier floor leaders to go around next season. Few players in that high-powered group will be facing more pressure than Baylor’s Pierre Jackson. The Bears lose all three frontcourt starters from last season’s 30-game winners, so if ...

The SEC Blog will be counting down the top 150 players in the SEC every day, concluding on Aug. 30 at the start of the college football regular season.No. 97: Uzoma Nwachukwu, No. 7, Texas A&M Wide Receiver2011 stats: 50 catches for 639 yards and two touchdowns StrengthsNwachukwu gets lost a little bit due to the presence of Ryan Swope, but he's as good as they come in the SEC. The rising senior has 1,754 career ...

The SEC Tournament is stacked with future MLB talent. If you want to be able to say you saw these future All-Stars before they were, well, All-Stars, then the SEC tourney is a good place to look.Here's a look at players you can't miss as the big tournament rolls on.  Mike Zunino, C, FloridaFlorida will be a national seed no matter what it does in this tournament, and they have gotten to that level of success in ...

Rise and shine, SEC friends. Happy Friday. Here are a few links to get your day started.Chip Towers of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Georgia head coach Mark Richt's salary extension will not include a major bump in base pay, but include performance incentives. Florida head coach Will Muschamp says that new offensive coordinator Brent Pease thinks out of the box and isn't predictable, according to Steve Andrews of the Gainesville Sun.Mark Story of the Lexington ...