SEC Announces Preliminary Schedule for Oklahoma's First Conference Media Days

The Sooners will join Texas in their first year in their new league this summer, and the league revealed when teams will attend this year's media days in Dallas.

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SEC Announces Preliminary Schedule for Oklahoma's First Conference Media Days

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Oklahoma has its first marching orders from the SEC.

Two weeks after formally joining the Southeastern Conference on July 1, OU (and Texas) will take part in preseason SEC Football Media Days at the Omni Hotel in downtown Dallas July 15-18.

OU coach Brent Venables and select OU players will step to the mic on Tuesday, July 16.

Other coaches going on that day: Georgia's Kirby Smart, Missouri's Eli Drinkwitz and Tennessee's Josh Heupel. It will be a nice reunion for Venables and Heupel, who coached on Bob Stoops' staff after Heupel was OU's quarterback from 1999-2000.

LSU's Brian Kelly, Ole Miss' Lane Kiffin, South Carolina's Shane Beamer and Vanderbilt's Clark Lea will speak to the media on Monday, while Alabama's Kalen DeBoer, Florida's Billy Napier, Mississippi State's Jeff Lebby and Texas' Steve Sarkisian will go on Wednesday and Arkansas' Sam Pittman, Auburn's Hugh Freeze, Kentucky's Mark Stoops and Texas A&M's Mike Elko will go on Thursday.

A more detailed schedule will be made available at a later date.

Published Feb 29, 2024

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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