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The Texas-sized shadow over SEC Media Days
Everybody is talking about the Texas Longhorns at SEC Media Days. Seven of 11 head coaches who took the podium before Steve Sarkisian fielded direct questions about the Longhorns.
DALLAS – Steve Sarkisian and select players arrived for SEC Media Days on Wednesday, but the Texas Longhorns have been ever-present at the Omni Dallas all week.
The conference held its preseason main event west of the Mississippi River for the first time in history, in the city its two newest programs meet every year. An hour before the SEC closed Tuesday’s credential pickup, hordes of Austin media members arrived for Texas’s debut the next afternoon. Texas fans parked outside the hotel entrance for autographs as the players arrived. The most eager one snuck up the elevator and infiltrated the media day before security escorted him from the premises.
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