I agree with one of your guys getting POY over Downey, though. Congrats on that.

if you don’t give it to Cal, I think the only person who deserved it is Pearl, after everything that happened with that team. And I say that as someone who can’t stand Tennessee. What Pearl did was pretty impressive…actually disciplining his players, and kicking off their best player, and still playing solid ball.

We know who did the best job in the SEC this year…

“horse apples”…..All they want to talk about is who did the best job with what they have….How about who did the best job of assembling the talent??….last time I looked that was in the coach’s job description. Calipari pulls off the Haiti thing, gets no credit for that, but let’s not give him too much credit, cause anyone could have won with the team he put together…..puhleeeeze…….Andy Katz is dead on with this one…..Who did the President call this year? Vandy????…..I think not……Pearl showed he had a real sense of right and wrong by doing what he did, so if anyone should get it over Caipari it should have been Pearl…..as much as it kills me to say that. Fox down in Georgia showed more effort by doing more with less than anyone. If that is the reason for the award, then he should get it.

Stallings…..take away that barn he plays in and he doesnt average 18 wins a season….I guess being 2nd best in the conference gets you the Coaching prize.

Stallings did a fine job, led his team to a great SEC season… however, either Pearl or Cal should have won the award before him.

The coaches made it a popularity contest instead of a true representation of which coach did the best job with the personnel available to them.

Do you think Cal voted for himself? I don’t …. I would think he would probably vote for Stallings even if he thought Pearl did a better job.
 
I would haved voted for Cal … but Stallings and Pearl did a good enough job to keep it from being a runaway …. the voting was diluted.

There is just no way he could win it from Athens. Speaking as someone living in Auburn, there just isn’t the buzz required to get the attention needed for something like this.

Hands down it should have come down to Pearl and Cal. And perhaps I’m being a homer, but Cal should get it for turning the team completely around from last year. Pearl improved upon last year’s team, no doubt. But Stallings was just out of left field.

I just think that is ridiculous. IMO – Cal was the clear choice in this. You call it what you want. I’m going with sour grapes on this one. Jealousy is an ugly shade of green.