There was a time in the long and storied history of SEC Football Media Days, which began at the dawn of Bo Jackson’s senior year, when you couldn’t turn around without bumping into a national championship coach. Back in the summer of 2008, five of them roamed the halls at the Wynfrey Hotel in Hoover.
LSU’s Les Miles was the reigning champ. Florida’s Urban Meyer was about to embark on a second championship season in three years. South Carolina’s Steve Spurrier carried that distinction from 1996 at Florida.
Alabama’s Nick Saban, who had yet to grab the big ring at Alabama, belonged to the club thanks to his 2003 LSU team. Tennessee’s Phillip Fulmer, the boss of the title-winning Vols a decade earlier, didn’t know it at the time, but 2008 would be his last appearance as a head coach at Media Days, in person or by speaker phone.
