My, how the turntables keep turning, part two

Literally.

We’re under 100 days until the start of the 2023 College Football season and even in May, preseason All-Conference teams are already beginning to trickle out. Athlon Sports put out its All-SEC teams on Monday and Georgia is first in the conference with 15 selections, with Alabama next with 12. For comparison, last year Georgia was second with 13 Athlon Sports All-SEC preseason selections behind Alabama’s 18. This tracks in line with the Dawgs being ranked No. 1 in most preseason polls as the program tries to win back-to-back-to-back national championships.

It’s a little surreal, to be honest.  Not that I’m complaining.

My, how the turntables keep turning, part one

You know, it’s one thing to watch how Gator Nation slowly morphed into what we were two decades ago.  It’s entirely another thing to read quotes like this:

Tyler Steen left one SEC team for another in Alabama, a program that is accustomed to winning championships.

He walked into a Crimson Tide locker room last year coming off a national championship game loss one season after it won a sixth title under Nick Saban.

So seeing Georgia lift the trophy in back-to-back years — including 33-18 against Alabama in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis in January 2022 — isn’t sitting well at a program that had been the standard bearer in the sport, he said.

“I think there’s a lot of motivation in Tuscaloosa to bring that back,” the former Vanderbilt offensive lineman who was a third-round NFL draft pick last month by the Eagles said. “Congrats to Georgia. They’re a really good team, really good program. Alabama, Coach Saban, they’ve been doing it for over a decade now. There’s plenty of motivation this year for sure.”

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“The standard is to every year to get to that point and win at that point,” Steen said. “Probably the results of the last two years just adds a little more to that standard, a little more motivation.”

What happens if the ’24 season plays out as many expect it will?  That postseason popcorn’s gonna be mighty tasty, I suspect.

Nobody saw that coming.

Holy mackeral.  Yikes, even.

It’s

Washington State athletics has placed a temporary freeze on new hires, non-essential travel, purchases and more because "each Pac‑12 university will see a significant decrease in revenue distribution" to make up for previous overpayments from media partners.

Prez Kirk Schulz: pic.twitter.com/N9D22MLiyH

— Brandon Marcello (@bmarcello) May 23, 2023

It’s moments like this that make it easy to understand how Larry Scott was once the highest paid conference commissioner in America.