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The SEC has released the Conferences TV schedule for the first three weeks of the season

Week 1

Thursday, September 2nd

Southern Miss at South Carolina, 7:30pm ET, ESPN

Saturday, September 4th

Miami (Ohio) at Florida, 12:00pm ET, ESPN
La-Lafayette at Georgia, 12:21pm ET, SEC Network package
Kentucky at Louisvile, 3:30pm ET, ABC
Jacksonville State at Ole Miss, 3:30pm ET, CSS
UT-Martin at Tennessee, 6:00pm ET, Pay-per-view
San Jose State at Alabama, 7:00pm ET, Pay-per-view
Tennessee Tech at Arkansas, 7:00pm ET, Pay-per-view
Memphis at Mississippi State, 7:00pm ET, ESPNU
Arkansas State at Auburn, 7:00pm, Fox Sports Network
Northwestern at Vanderbilt, 7:30pm ET, CSS
North Carolina vs LSU at Atlanta, 8:00pm ET, ABC

Week 2

Thursday, September 9th

Auburn at Mississippi State, 7:30pm ET, ESPN

Saturday, September 11th

Georgia at South Carolina, 12:00pm ET, ESPN or ESPN2
South Florida at Florida, 12:21pm ET, SEC Network package
Penn State at Alabama, 7:00pm ET, ESPN
Oregon at Tennessee, 7:00pm, ESPN2
LSU at Vanderbilt, 7:00pm, ESPNU
La-Monroe at Arkansas at Little Rock, 7:00pm ET, Fox Sports Network
Western Kentucky at Kentucky, 7:30pm ET, CSS
Ole Miss at Tulane, 9:00pm ET, ESPN Classic or ESPN2

Week 3

Saturday, September 18th

Arkansas at Georgia, 12:00pm ET, ESPN or ESPN2
Vanderbilt at Ole Miss, 12:21pm ET, SEC Network package
Alabama at Duke, 3:30pm ET, ABC
Florida at Tennessee, 3:30pm ET, CBS
Clemson at Auburn, 7:00pm ET, ESPN
Mississippi State at LSU, 7:00pm ET, ESPNU
Akron at Kentucky, 7:00pm ET, Fox Sports Network
Furman at South Carolina, 7:00pm ET, Pay-per-view

The 2010 Schedule looks like this:

Sept. 4          UT-Martin       6 pm (pay-per-view)
Sept. 11        Oregon            7 pm (ESPN 2)
Sept. 18        Florida             3:30 (CBS)
Sept. 25        UAB
Oct. 2            @LSU
Oct. 9            @Georgia
Oct. 23          Alabama
Oct. 30         @South Carolina
Nov. 6           @Memphis      8 pm (CBS College Sports)
Nov. 13         Mississippi
Nov. 20         @Vanderbilt
Nov. 27         Kentucky

Dec. 4           SEC Championship

Last season, Neyland Stadium received a new $4.1 million dollar video board above the south endzone. This was not in-time for the release of NCAA Football 2010. One year later, the high-definition video board has been included and is in the game.

Many other stadiums have been updated or added to this years game including Alabama’s Bryant-Denny Stadium and Florida’s Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.

OLD VIDEO BOARD

Courtesy of EA Sports

NEW VIDEO BOARD

Courtesy of EA Sports

I am disappointed and embarrassed in many ways by the lapses of judgment by several members of our football team last night. And there were numerous lapses of judgment.

What’s important to know is that our standard of conduct is much greater than what the legal standard is. I’ve met with every player who was there, and I’ve made a few decisions on some things that have in no way any bearing on the legal part of it, and I think that’s important to know that.

We have dismissed Darren Myles from our football team. We have indefinitely suspended Marlon Walls and Greg King. There’s other actions that were taken internally, and there’s also a period where we’re continuing to find out exactly what happened just like everybody else because as you know, it takes time to gather all the information from all the parties involved.

What is important is to know is that just because I suspended somebody doesn’t necessarily mean they broke the law. It’s no different than any day-to-day issue where we deal with discipline and behavioral issues.

What I will say is that there’s been a lot of positive things happen in our program in the last few months and a lot of positive changes in our culture internally with some of our players, with our team, and we’re not going to let this incident ruin the positive changes that are happening. We’re going to continue to build our structures so that we educate, we discipline, we support our players and at the end of the day we’re going to have a culture here that’s not just going to win but our fans will be proud of how we represent them.

So at the end of the day, I’m disappointed like we all are, and I’m embarrassed like many of us and like many of our fans. We’re going to take action, and we’re going to be swift about it and then we’re going to move on.

On Darren Myles:
I’m just dismissing him. I never overreact on an incident when I make decisions and I always consider all the sides and all the facts and history and all that stuff. In light of his history, we just feel like it’s like I said it’s a privilege to be on this team.

On his message to the team:
It was a very similar message and a similar talk that we’ve had before about how important our team wants to change our brand and how we represent this place and that we really set us back.

It’s no different than your character. You could spend 20 years building your character, and one bad mistake, you can destroy it. So we’ve got to start over and rebuild and we’ll do that. We’ve got a lot of great leaders on this team who were really disappointed in some of the other guys on the team. And it expect them to all rally and handle it the right way.

On the role of a character education coordinator within the program:
That’s part of the educational component, and that’s what I believe. I believe it takes education. Defining what’s right and wrong. Defining how to make…

I have this boo,k and it’s a great book. I read it to my children. It’s called ‘Sticky Situations,’ and it’s essentially a daily, I don’t want to say devotional but it’s a set of facts every day that you find yourself in and you have a decision on how you’re going to handle A, B, C. Jimmy’s at school. Fred comes up and throws his books on the ground. What should Jimmy do?

Simple stuff. Right and wrong stuff. It’s a great book, and that’s part of the educating of how to act when you find yourself in a sticky situation, there’s a lot of ways you can go and understand what the consequences are when you go a certain way. That’s the educational component.

And that’s the component Andre (Lott brings). We’re creating this Vol for Life program, and it’s essentially about turning pro. Not NFL. VFL. Everybody has to be a Vol for life. It’s centered around several components and one of them’s character education and that’s what we’re talking about here. Educating them on the importance of character, right and wrong and we’re going to continue to do that. We’re still shaping that program, and then there’s other components are going into life skills and career development and that sort of thing. But that’s a critical part of the program, and it goes to the educational component.

On the culture at Tennessee:
I think that a lot of the culture is probably perceived worse than it is, and it always it is because we have some great young men who want to do right and who are doing right.

But there has been enough incidents to know that we can’t just stick our head in the sand and say, `Oh, we’re really OK. Just one or two guys did this.’ I don’t ever stick my head in the sand, and we take responsibility for it and we’re going to continue to change it. I don’t know how you define it. I just know it’s not where it needs to be.

On losing Darren Myles on the field:
It hurts our team. A lot of people get hurt when you do things that aren’t right. And it’s not just Darren who’s hurt. I had to sit there and watch his mother cry who’s hurt and his family is hurt. I know his father’s hurt. And I know his hometown is probably disappointed. Our team is hurt. He’s got a lot of friends on our team. We’re going to be hurt by it on the field competitively.

So a lot of people are hurt by it. And that’s what makes the decisions tough. But at the end of the day, sometimes you have to fall really hard to really get it. We want to be able to change everybody, but I think the reality is — and we’ve seen it — there’s been a lot of headlines here in a lot of areas where sometimes you got to get hit really hard to be able to figure it out.

On sifting through the process:
That’s how I’ve always done it. I know what’s right and wrong. I know when you’re charged with something that doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve done something terrible. And I know we are not charged with something you could have done something really not good from a judgment standpoint.

And so I’m always going to navigate it with that standard in mind of what’s right and wrong. The guys that didn’t do what’s right are going to take some consequences, and the consequences that they take are all going to be relative to their lapse in judgment and how wrong they were and what the damage that was done.

So it does appear odd, I guess, when you see it. But I can only go by my initial conversations with the players, and they were very forthcoming as I expected them to be and hopefully humbled in many ways.

Courtesy of UTsports.com

I am disappointed and in many ways embarrassed by the poor judgment displayed on many fronts by several members of our football team last night.

Although we are still gathering all the facts and some legal proceedings will follow, we have taken some initial levels of discipline resulting from my conversations with the student-athletes who were present.

Darren Myles has been permanently dismissed from our football program. Marlon Walls and Greg King have been indefinitely suspended.

I am respectful of the process that follows with the local authorities and with our institutional guidelines and leadership.

As I have referenced on many occasions, a change in culture is achieved in time through a combination of education, discipline and support. We will aggressively continue to build on the many positive changes that have occurred over the last five months to ensure our program is represented with class and dignity.