SEC ALL-STAR FUN

One of my favorite things about The Dunaway and Brown Show is the callers. The day after the MLB All-Star game asked about an SEC Football All-Star game…East vs. West. What would those teams look like this year and who would win. I'm sure Chris, Kirk and the Coach would love to have Gameday on hand for this showdown. What follows is the two deep depth chart and how I think the game would turn out.

EAST ROSTER
QB: Tim Tebow (UF); Matt Stafford (UGA)
RB: Knowshon Moreno (UGA); Emmanuel Moody (UF)
RB: Arian Foster (UT); Caleb King (UGA)
WR: Percy Harvin (UF); Carl Moore (UF)
WR: Kenny McKinley (USC); Mohamed Massaguoi (UGA)
WR: Lucas Taylor (UT); Dicky Lyons Jr. (UK)
TE: Cornelius Ingram (UGA); Jared Cook (USC)
C: Josh McNeil (UT); Chris Davis (UGA)
G: Anthony Parker (UT); Clint Boling (UGA)
G: Jim Tartt (UF); Jacques McClendon (UT)
T: Ramon Foster (UT); Phil Trautwein (UF)
T: Garry Williams (UK); Chris Scott (UT)

DT: Geno Atkins (UGA); Demonte’ Bolden (UT)
DT: Jeff Owens (UGA); Corey Peters (UK)
DE: Jeremy Jarmon (UK); Carlos Dunlap (UF)
DE: Jermaine Cunningham (UF); Justin Houston (UGA)
MLB: Brandon Spikes (UF); Jasper Brinkley (USC)
OLB: Rico McCoy (UT); Rennie Curran (UGA)
OLB: Eric Norwood (USC); Braxton Kelley (UK)
CB: Trevard Lindley (UK); D.J. Moore (VU)
CB: Captain Munnerlyn (USC); Asher Allen (UGA)
S: Eric Berry (UT); Reshard Langford (VU)
S: Emanuel Cook (USC); Demetrice Morley (UT)

PK: Ryan Succop (USC)

P: Brian Mimbs (UGA)
KR: Brandon James (UF)
PR: Dennis Rogan (UT)

WEST ROSTER
QB: John Parker Wilson (Bama); Kodi Burns (AU)
RB: Anthony Dixon (MSU); Ben Tate (AU)
RB: Keiland Williams (LSU); Brad Lester (AU)
WR: Demetrius Byrd (LSU); Mike Wallace (UM)
WR: Brandon LaFell (LSU); Rod Smith (AU)
WR: Mario Fannin (AU); Burton Scott(Bama)
TE: Richard Dickson (LSU); Tommy Trott (AU)
C: Jonathan Luigs (AR); Antoine Caldwell (Bama)
G: Herman Johnson (LSU); Mitch Petrus (AR)
G: John Jerry (UM); Chaz Ramsey (AU)
T: Andre Smith (Bama); Lee Ziemba (AU)
T: Michael Oher (UM); Ciron Black (LSU)

DT: Rickey Jean-Francois (LSU); Peria Jerry (UM)
DT: Sen’Derrick Marks (AU); Marlon Favorite (LSU)

DE: Tyson Jackson (LSU); Antonio Coleman (AU)

DE: Greg Hardy (UM); Kirston Pittman (LSU)

MLB: Darry Beckwith (LSU); Rolando McClain (Bama)
OLB: Ashlee Palmer (UM); Freddie Fairchild (AR)

OLB: Tray Blackmon (AU); Jamar Chaney (MSU)

CB: Jerraud Powers (AU); Kareem Jackson (Bama)

CB: Aairon Savage (AU); Jerell Norton (AR)

S: Derek Pegues (MSU); Chad Jones (LSU)
S: Rashad Johnson (Bama); Mike McNeil (AU)

PK: Leigh Tiffin (Bama)

P: Ryan Shoemaker (AU)

KR: Trindon Holliday (LSU)

PR: Javier Arenas (Bama)

RESULTS: I know the East is big in the glamour positions of QB and RB… but I think the West would actually win the game because of the strength in the trenches… especially on OL. Very close game and would be a ton of fun. Final Score: West 24 East 21

SEC Media Days are next week in Hoover. The D&B Show will be on radio row and you can stop by and see us but at least make sure you listen as we bring you as many SEC power brokers as possible. Here is the schedule:

Wednesday, July 23rd (1:10-5:10pm)Florida, Mississippi State, LSU, Vanderbilt,

Thursday, July 24th (8:40am-12:40pm)Alabama, Georgia, Ole Miss, Tennessee

Friday, July 25th (8:40am-12:40pm)Auburn, Kentucky, Arkansas, South Carolina

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It's football season! - God Bless, Jim

STABLER LEAVES BAMA BROADCAST

TUSCALOOSA, AL (July 11, 2008) - Ken Stabler, popular color analyst onthe Crimson Tide Sports Network, has asked to take a leave of absencefrom that position for the 2008 football season. The former TideAll-America quarterback has been part of the radio broadcast crew forAlabama Football the past 10 years."We regret that Kenny will not be part of our broadcast team during theupcoming season, but accept and understand his decision," said JimCarabin, general manager of Crimson Tide Sports Marketing, themultimedia rights holder for the University of Alabama athletics programand producer of the Crimson Tide Sports Network. "We are entirelysupportive of Kenny and his family and feel that this is the right thingfor them at this time."Tom Roberts, longtime member of the Crimson Tide Sports Network crew,will take over Stabler's color analyst duties for the 2008 footballseason."It is with much regret that I will not be part of Crimson Tide footballbroadcasts this coming year," Stabler says, "but there are matters in mypersonal life that demand my full attention at this time. I will deeplymiss being part of the Crimson Tide Sports Network team and thewonderful interaction that I always enjoy with the many Tide fansthroughout the season."

GOTTFRIED WANTS CHANGE

Andy Katz is the ESPN Insider for College Basketball. He had a great post about Bama Coach Mark Gottfried's plan to change the NBA Draft process. I don't know if the NBA will ever go for it, but I'd love to see it. Read Andy's insightful entry and Mark's plan below.

AKRON, Ohio -- Coaches from a number of high-profile conferences are wondering how they can shorten the time period from when a player declares for the NBA draft (in late April) to when he must decide if he wants to return to school (mid-June).
The problem is the NBA controls the timetable. The NBA has done a good job of shortening the workout window in early June (after the pre-draft camp) to the deadline to withdraw, making it about 10 days. That eliminated players bolting early from school in May to go through workouts and will help the NCAA schools with their APR numbers as long as the underclassmen finish the semester in good academic standing.
This past spring, the NCAA allowed NBA teams to pay for workouts around the country, and that, you would think, curtailed the suspicion about players paying for excessive travel without help from an agent.
But Alabama coach Mark Gottfried has a radical idea to take back control of the process from the NBA.
Gottfried proposed to the NCAA basketball issues committee this spring that the NCAA change its side of the early-entrant process. Gottfried's idea is to submit every Division I underclassman's name to the NBA draft, making everyone eligible to be selected.
In Gottfried's plan, players would lose their eligibility if they worked out for an NBA team. Gottfried and other college coaches figure that since NBA teams have spent countless dollars scouting college players, why should they need to work them out again on site?
Then, Gottfried said, everyone "would watch the draft and see where they were selected. If you don't like going No. 50 in the second round, then you would have 10 days after the draft to return to school."
Gottfried said the NBA wouldn't like his idea, but this would prevent bad decisions since a player wouldn't leave if he were picked too low or not at all.
Of course, if this were to occur, the NBA would have to decide if it retained rights on a player selected. There is also the question if the school can have control over submitting a player's name to the NBA on his behalf.
"I had some interesting looks in the room," Gottfried said. "Some people said they hadn't thought about it."
The chances this would occur are slim, but Gottfried is not alone in trying to change the system from the NCAA's side. Coaches are trying to find a way to avoid the uncertainty of the draft process and of which players will be available for the upcoming season. For some teams, like North Carolina and Gonzaga, everything worked out fine when their early-entrants returned to school in mid-June. For others, like Cal, the late decision of one player (Ryan Anderson) changed the direction of the team for next season at a time when there was no way to replace not just the talent, but sometimes even the roster spot for next season.

PLEASE PRAY FOR PAUL

Just a couple of quick notes on this Thursday:

PLEASE PRAY: I know a lot of you who listen to our show are strong Christians who believe in the power of prayer. When you go to your small groups this week or Sunday School this weekend, please put Paul Finebaum on your prayer list. Most of you have heard of his eye problems, if not, here is a link. It is my prayer that Paul and his wife have as much comfort as possible through this process and that the doctors are blessed by God and have success in their work. Lift Paul up for healing.

WHY DO I CARE: Biggest question I have gotten in the last 7 days is, "What do you think about http://www.coacheshotseat.com/ putting Nick Saban as a coach on the Hot Seat?" My answer is simple... I don't think about it. Why should I care what a website says about the Alabama coach. It is an opinion like mine, or yours or anybody else. My 7 year old daughter has a website, but I don't put her thoughts on Hannah Montana on my CBS 42 sportscast or build my radio show around her thoughts on Kung Fu Panda. Coaches Hot Seat is a website started by a group of friends in the Bay Area of California. They love football and the site is really full of great information... BUT it doesn't matter if they think Coach Saban is safe or not, under pressure or not, they are just a few guys with a football opinion... not a news source.

JIM ON CBS 42: Thank you all for the kind words about my return to television. It's really a lot easier than my role as Sports Director at NBC 13 and Maggie and the kids are happy about that. Don't forget, you can e-mail me words to work into the sportscast every night at 10pm. Send them to theshow@DandBradio.com and YES I KNOW I have put on a few pounds... when Rick and Bubba tell you that you've gained weight... it's pretty obvious.

QUICK HITS: I'm still going to be a Tony Stewart fan when he starts his new team; I think my Tampa Bay Rays are about to go into CHOKE MODE... but it's been a fun summer; I think Notre Dame will win 10 games this season; I think I could win 8 games at Tennessee and get a year added onto my contract; Shouldn't we all be upset that Jesse Jackson wants to go Jackie Sherrill on the guy who could be our next President?; Biggest recuiting debate of the summer... is Auburn's 19 commitments about quality or quantity?; I'm cheering for Dara Torres, but I'm glad my wife doesn't have that muscle structure; Happy Birthday to my wife Maggie... she turns one and a half Olympic Cycles less than Dara Torres this weekend.

-God Bless

LAST NIGHT ON CBS 42 with Jim

• Great news for Auburn's Ben Tate and Alabama's John Parker Wilson. Both are on the watch list for the Maxwell Award given each year to the best player in College Football. 75 players are on the list.
• UConn star Stanley Robinson is in town taking classes at a local community college. Jim Calhoun says he will miss the fall semester with the Huskies. Blake was told a couple of state schools have inquired about Stanley transferring to their school... so far Stanley wants to go back to UConn.
• Georgia Runningback was not in academic or off the field trouble. He went home for two weeks (New Jersey) to get away from the fandom of Georgia football fans.
• Auburn grad Gabe Gross hit the big homerun as the Rays beat the Red Sox to open up their lead in the American League East by a game and a half.

- DUNAWAY OUT

Statement from Coach Saban

Statement from Alabama Head Coach Nick Saban on Jimmy Johns:

“Jimmy Johns has been dismissed from the team. This type of behavior obviously will not be tolerated and he is no longer a part of our program.”