Southeastern Conference teams will take the field for the first time Saturday to kick off the 2020 season.
The SEC will play a 10-game league-only schedule due to the coronavirus pandemic. With the 2020 campaign being delayed, an annual SEC football media days did not take place ahead of the season.
Since there was no SEC media days this year, we of the USA TODAY Network coverage team had our own. Part of our coverage was looking back on some of the best stories that have taken place at SEC media days.
Former Tennessee head coach and current UT Director of Athletics Phillip Fulmer’s 2004 appearance was No. 1 on the list. Fulmer did not take part in SEC media days in person, as he did virtually via telephone.
1. The speaker phone
Seriously, this was like something out of a “Seinfeld” episode. Phillip Fulmer said he couldn’t come to Media Days because they were waiting for him at the hotel with a subpoena in a lawsuit that had to do with two former Alabama assistants. So he did his news conference, questions and all, through a speaker phone. The amazing thing was that there was still a crowd of mini-cams around the table filming the speaker phone.
The entire list of SEC stories can be read here.