SEC Links

Here we go. Football practices are about to start at campuses across the SEC, meaning we’ll have actual football stuff to discuss for the next several months. Let’s take a quick spin around what’s happening in the SEC as camp approaches.

• AL.com gives us five storylines to know heading into preseason camp at both Auburn and Alabama.

• Benardrick McKinney was hardly a major prospect, but he’s making the most of his opportunity at Mississippi State.

• USA Today’s Dan Wolken explores how private gurus such as Ken Mastrole and George Whitfield seem to be growing their influence among college quarterbacks.

• In a weekend speech before the Houston A&M Club, Aggies coach Kevin Sumlin addressed some of the team’s offseason disciplinary issues — as well as the scheduling criticisms lobbed by Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops.

• LSU’s quarterback competition between Anthony Jennings and Brandon Harris should be a hot topic once the Tigers open camp in a week.

• Tennessee coach Butch Jones is fine with the prospect of fielding a team of unknowns.

• South Carolina offensive line coach Shawn Elliott knows his group has the experience and skill to rank among the SEC’s top lines, but he’s taking a wait-and-see approach.

• Former Mississippi State quarterback Dylan Favre is aiming to have a big season at Tennessee-Martin this fall.

• Darrion Landry hopes to become the next Kentucky receiver to experience success immediately after joining the Wildcats as a junior college transfer.

• Adding Korliss Marshall to last season’s highly productive tandem of Alex Collins and Jonathan Williams, Arkansas has three strong options at running back.

• Florida players like Jeff Driskel, Clay Burton, Latroy Pittman and Demarcus Robinsonshared their knowledge with campers at the Brantley Quarterback Camp over the weekend.

• Davin Bellamy’s weekend arrest will shuffle the deck for Georgia’s outside linebackersearly in the season.