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I spoke to 3 college coaches in South Carolina who told me they have seen Tee Martin basically direct practice for recruits on multiple occasions. Said his requests would range from requesting certain routes from receivers to working out WRs 1:1 in drills at a HS practice. Both admitted recruiting violations were widespread but that Tee had a bad reputation with other recruiters around the southeast.

All said was really difficult single out any team as the worst

1. Yes.

2. Best — Never lost a single game to Webb in my three years on the varsity team, and individually I hit a game-winning double to win a tournament my junior year. Worst — Losing three one-run games to McCallie in two years, including a 2-1 game in the state tournament that ended my senior season. Funniest — It's a tie. I almost got expelled from the school and got demoted to JV fall ball for a while after flipping a bird in all four takes of the team picture when I was a sophomore. My coach tried pulling me out of a school assembly by my ear in front of everyone, and I smacked his hand away and told him that he wasn't my dad, and if he grabbed me near my head like that again I'd punch him in the face. And then once I tried to hit a home run against a really bad team when we had a really big lead, but I fouled the curveball off my own face, spun around, hit the back of my head on the ground and gave myself a concussion. I also used to say the most awful but hilarious things to batters on the rare days I played catcher, and one time an umpire told me he'd have ejected me if I hadn't made him laugh so much. I also got tossed from an AAU game for my not-so-polite, not-so-eloquent response to an umpire who incorrectly called me out at home plate. I was so effing safe, though.

3. PBR, for sure.

EDIT: One more story. One time my buddies and I stayed up way too late and did way too many stupid things the night before our summer team played an 8 a.m. game against one of the nation's highest-ranked teams — they were from Southern California, and they had all kinds of Jose Canseco/Kenny Powers mullets — and I almost threw up on first base after diving to catch a line drive. I caught the ball but nearly lost off the previous night's party favors on that bag. I think I also swung after the ball hit the mit one time that morning. I'm not proud of it, but I'm nothing if not honest.

Maaaaaaaaaaaaybe.

Pig won't play this week, and it might be Akron or so before he gets back. Remember that he's a true freshman who missed all of preseason camp.

At some point, though, I think you'll see guys like Croom, Howard and Blanc all playing more in the slot. But remember that Hunter still lines up wide a good bit.

Part of it are, but most of it isn't.

I think it's scheduled to be completed by the end of the football season, and we're supposed to get another media tour sometime after that — probably after signing day, if I had to guess, but that's just a guess.

As many as I can. I've got to know that stuff for my job, and obviously SEC football is fun to watch — most of the time.

Probably asked before, but who has been the player/coach that you most enjoyed covering? Any one left you so impressed that you knew they would do well beyond athletics?
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