Is the SEC’s football preseason press conference ring ready for prime time? SEC Network’s Peter Burns thinks so.
Wednesday, in an appearance on Blaine and Mickey on 104.5 The Zone in Nashville live from SEC Media Days, Burns said he thinks the conference could throw its top coaches in prime time to try and capture that excitement and atmosphere similar to the one set when the NFL Draft was in Music City in 2019.
“Go back a couple years ago when you saw the draft in Nashville, which was unbelievable. I mean holy hell,” Burns said. “It was as cool of a scene as possible. And I was like, ‘can you imagine Kirby Smart, Josh Heupel with the season that he’s had right now just coming up getting everybody pumped?’. I was like, ‘let’s think big, because you always put your best content in prime time.'”
Burns said the SEC does a good job of prioritizing top matchups for prime time in most sports, and that football media days shouldn’t be any different.
“Think about how we have football games or baseball games or whatever. Your best stuff is always gonna be at 7 p.m. People went to work and now they want to consume it,” he said. “I think maybe we’ll get there eventually. I’d like to see us do that, but there’s a different energy, there’s a different vibe about being here in Nashville. And I like moving it around.”
SEC Media Days will be in Dallas in 2024, the first season for Oklahoma and Texas in the conference. Burns said he’d like to see the SEC continue to move the media day event around to various SEC cities.
“Let’s create this traveling circus roadshow to a certain extent,” he said.
