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From Sam Pittman's statue to Kirby Smart's hair, SEC Media Days winners, losers
Wednesday





FROM SAM PITTMAN'S STATUE TO KIRBY SMART'S HAIR, SEC MEDIA DAYS WINNERS, LOSERS
WEDNESDAY

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Nick Suss   | Mississippi Clarion Ledger


ATLANTA — Wednesday's slate at SEC Media Days featured the defending national
champs, four teams that brought their starting quarterbacks, a coach making his
introduction to the league and plenty of silly nonsense.



Georgia coach Kirby Smart, Arkansas coach Sam Pittman, Kentucky coach Mark
Stoops and Florida coach Billy Napier all took their turns at the podium from
the College Football Hall of Fame Wednesday. 

Each coach got the chance to talk about their players, their team and the state
of college football. But, as always, it's more fun to focus on the absurd, the
unexpected and the downright weird.

With that in mind, here are our winners and losers from Day 3 of SEC Media Days.


WINNER: SCULPTING

In true Arkansas fashion, Pittman devoted a portion of his time at the podium to
waxing poetic about a slobbering hog. 



Pittman has a razorback statue on his property. It's massive. It's lavish.
There's a sign in front of it that says don't sit on the hog. People come by
every day and sit on the hog. It's a lot.



Pittman explained the origin and function of the hog statue.

"I bought the marlin house, had a big marlin over here, had a guy catching a
marlin over here. The guy over here, he was like this, he was hooking the marlin
on the other part of it," Pittman explained.



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"Jamie and I bought it on August 1st. August 3rd the storm came through, knocked
the marlin down. Marlin shot water into the lake. So my mind went to a
slobbering hog. Insurance company came through. Brandon White was the guy I
called about the hog. I just thought the hog was going to be out there. This
thing is incredible, to be honest with you. He's got lights on him, red,
whatever color lights you want. The water shoots up. It looks like he's
slobbering down into the lake."




LOSER: LUSCIOUS LOCKS

SEC football coaches aren't exactly notable for their hair-care choices. But
coaching coifs were a topic of conversation. 

Smart told the story of Georgia's Christmas party last December. Smart was in
the front of the room for a team meeting when linebacker Nolan Smith sprinted in
holding a box, exclaiming the team had bought Smart a Christmas present.



When Smart opened his gift, he found a Just for Men hair coloring kit to take
care of some of his stray grays.



"He said he's still got it in his office," Smith added. "I say, 'You need to use
it.'"



Napier was asked about his 'do, specifically why he sports a buzzcut even if
he's not at risk of going bald. 

"It's simple, it's what I will tell you," Napier said. "It takes no time to get
ready in the morning. I got a lot of other things to worry about besides my
hair, I can promise you that."


LOSER: BEING FULL

The key to repeating as national champions? A strict diet.

Smart is confident his players aren't going to be complacent heading into 2022
as the defending national champions. Replacing a record number of NFL Draft
picks off one of the best teams in modern history isn't easy. But like someone
with a weight-loss resolution on January 2nd, the Bulldogs are seeing results by
staying hungry.

"Yeah, hungry," Smart said. "I talked about it earlier. There's a hunger among
this group. A lot of guys want to prove that they can replace the other guy.
They don't want to be the other guy, they want to be the next guy. You look
across the board, we had some high-profile players on defense and offense when
you count the backs and receivers that we have to replace those guys. The hunger
comes from the opportunity the talented players behind them have."



Georgia fans like to use the catchphrase "let the big dog eat." Let's hope Smart
is being figurative and not literal with his hunger comments or else the phrase
might need to apply.


WINNER: EVELYN STOOPS

Stoops' 10 years in Lexington have been uncharacteristically successful compared
against the rest of Kentucky football history. He's already coached the most
games and most seasons in school history and, with two more wins, he'll pass
Bear Bryant as the winningest coach in school history.



Hearing those accolades only makes Stoops feel old. Instead of taking too much
pride in a decade of success, instead he's giving credit to his mother Evelyn
for the success she raised Stoops and his brother Bob, the winningest coach in
Oklahoma history, to have.

"I do honestly just personally think about my mother, because I want her to be
there," Stoops said. "For her to have two sons that have the all-time wins at
Power Five programs, with Bob at Oklahoma, myself as Kentucky, that's really the
only focus I have, is on my mother to be able to be there and share in that
moment."



Contact Nick Suss at 601-408-2674 or nsuss@gannett.com. Follow @nicksuss on
Twitter.

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