- Steve Spurrier
Stephen Orr Spurrier (born April 20, 1945 in Miami Beach, Florida) is a former American football player and currently the head coach of the University of South Carolina football team. He was a two-time All-American and is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame as a player.
- Sylvester Croom
Sylvester Croom (born September 25, 1954) is the football head coach at Mississippi State University. He is the first African American head football coach in the Southeastern Conference. His father, Sylvester Croom, Sr., was himself an All-American football player at Alabama A&M, later the team chaplain at the University of Alabama, and has been recognized posthumously by that school as one of the state's 40 pioneers of civil rights.
- Andre' Woodson
Andre' Woodson (born April 25, 1984 in Fort Lewis, Washington) is an American football quarterback, currently a senior at the University of Kentucky.
- Rich Brooks
Rich Brooks (born August 20, 1941, Forest, California, United States) is an American football coach, who is currently the head football coach for the University of Kentucky. Brooks is best known for spending 18 seasons at the University of Oregon, and winning the Paul "Bear" Bryant Award for national coach of the year after leading Oregon to the Rose Bowl in 1994.
- Joakim Noah
Joakim Noah (pronunciation: "JO-a-kim"; born February 25 1985 in New York, New York) is a basketball player for the Chicago Bulls. He played collegiate basketball for the University of Florida in the SEC of the NCAA from 2004-2007. Noah was a member of the Gators' teams that won the 2006 and 2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournaments. On June 28, 2007, Noah was taken 9th overall in the 2007 NBA Draft by the Chicago Bulls.
- Quentin Groves
Quentin Groves (born July 5, 1984 in Greenville, Mississippi) is an American football defensive end playing collegiately for the Auburn Tigers in the Southeastern Conference. Groves has been named to the Chuck Bednarik Award, Bronko Nagurski Trophy, and Ted Hendricks Award watchlists for the 2007 college football season. Groves is a sack specialist and, with 23 already recorded, is approaching the Auburn career record of 26.
- Mark Gottfried
Mark Frederick Gottfried (born January 20, 1964 in Crestline, Ohio) is a men's college basketball coach. Gottfried is the current head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide. His father, Joe Gottfried, was also a basketball coach and currently serves as Director of Athletics at the University of South Alabama. His uncle, Mike Gottfried, was a college football head coach and is now an analyst on ESPN college football broadcasts. Mark played 3 seasons of basketball at Alabama, …
- Corey Brewer
Corey Wayne Brewer (born March 5 1986, in Portland, Tennessee) is an American basketball player formerly of the Florida Gators. He played small forward for the men's basketball team which won both the 2006 and 2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournaments, as well as the 2006 and 2007 SEC Tournament. He was named Most Outstanding Player of the 2007 tournament.
- Takeo Spikes
Takeo Gerard Spikes (born December 17, 1976 in Sandersville, Georgia) is an American football linebacker who currently plays for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League.
- Glen Davis
Ronald Glen Davis (born January 1, 1986 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana), better known as Glen Davis, is a 6'9", 289 lb former power forward college basketball player for Louisiana State University, and current NBA player for the Boston Celtics. Davis was drafted by the Seattle SuperSonics with the 35th overall pick in the 2007 NBA Draft. The rights to Davis were traded to the Boston Celtics along with Ray Allen for Delonte West, …
- Vince Dooley
Vincent Joseph Dooley (born September 4, 1932 in Mobile, Alabama) was the head football coach (seasons 1964 through 1988) and athletic director (1979 to 2004) at the University of Georgia. During his 25 year coaching career at UGA, Dooley compiled a 201-77-10 record. His teams won 6 Southeastern Conference titles and the 1980 National Championship. After the 1980 season, Dooley was recognized as college football's "Coach of the Year" by several organizations, …
- Jeremy Foley
Jeremy N. Foley (born December 1 1952 in Washington, D.C., USA) is the athletic director for the Florida Gators athletic program at the University of Florida. He has served in this role since 1992, and has been responsible for some of Florida's most notable hires since, including Urban Meyer as head football coach in 2004 and Billy Donovan as men's basketball coach in 1996.
- Kenny Irons
Kenny Irons (born September 15, 1983) is an American football running back who played for Auburn University in the Southeastern Conference and is now a member of the Cincinnati Bengals. He is from Dacula, Georgia and transferred to Auburn from South Carolina in January 2004.
- Brent Schaeffer
Brentis Jarryn Schaeffer is an American football quarterback. He is currently playing at the University of Mississippi, where he is entering his senior season. He transferred from the College of the Sequoias to Ole Miss prior to the 2006 season. He was selected as one of the nation's top-five impact junior college transfers by Lindy's magazine, as well as “Newcomer of the Year” in the SEC. Schaeffer started his college career at the University of Tennessee, …
- Mark Schlabach
Mark Schlabach is an author and columnist for ESPN.com. Schlabach joined ESPN.com in July of 2006 as a college football and college basketball columnist. Schlabach graduated from the University of Georgia. He spent nine years at the "Atlanta Journal-Constitution", covering University of Georgia, the Southeastern Conference, the NFL, and NASCAR. Later, Schlabach spent two years at the "Washington Post" covering college football, college basketball, and boxing.
- Pokey Chatman
Dana "Pokey" Chatman (born June 18, 1969 in Ama, Louisiana) is the former head coach of the LSU Lady Tigers basketball team. After taking over from coach Sue Gunter in 2004, Chatman led the Lady Tigers to three consecutive NCAA Final Fours in 2004 (as acting head coach for the ailing Gunter), 2005, and 2006. Notably, Chatman resigned from her post at LSU on March 7, 2007 amid allegations of an inproper sexual relationship with a former player.
- John Vaughn
John Vaughn (born June 15, 1984 in Brentwood, Tennessee) is an American football placekicker who played college football for Auburn University. In the 2006 season, Vaughn was named the SEC Special Teams Player of the Year and was a Lou Groza Award finalist. His 42-yard Cotton Bowl field goal was his twentieth made out of twenty-four attempts for a 83.3% on the season and made him just the second Auburn kicker ever to complete twenty or more field goals in a single season.
- Wesley Woodyard
Wesley Woodyard (born July 21 1986 in LaGrange, Georgia) is an American football outside linebacker currently playing for the University of Kentucky, a member of the Southeastern Conference. The 6-foot-1, 220-pound Woodyard helped lead the Wildcats to a 8-5 record in 2006, capping the season with a victory in Music City Bowl over Clemson. His ability to alternate between safety and linebacker is reminiscent of former UK standout and NFL player Marlon McCree.
- Damon Evans
Damon M. Evans is the Athletic Director (AD) at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia. After graduating from Gainesville High School in Hall County, Georgia, Evans played football for UGA from 1988 to 1992 and graduated from the Terry College of Business in 1992 with a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) degree in finance and earned his Master of Education (M.Ed.) in sports management from UGA in 1994.
- Mike Mercer
Michael Anthony Mercer, Jr. (born September 29, 1986) is an American basketball player. He is currently playing his sophomore season at the University of Georgia. Born in Anaheim, California, Mercer grew up in Snellville, Georgia, where he was a teammate of Louis Williams at South Gwinnett High School. Both Mercer and Williams committed to play at Georgia in 2004, but Williams opted for the 2005 NBA Draft, ending up as the Philadelphia 76ers' second round pick.
- Rod Barnes
Rod Barnes (born January 8, 1966) is a basketball coach and is currently the head coach for the Georgia State University men's basketball team of the NCAA Division I's Colonial Athletic Association.
- Casey Clausen
Casey Clausen (born January 9, 1981) is a former American football player who played college football for the University of Tennessee. He took over the starting position from A.J. Suggs. Clausen started 44 of 47 games at the quarterback position in his career and had a 14-1 record on the road with a 34-10 record overall.
- Tim Corbin
Tim Corbin is the head baseball coach at Vanderbilt University. In his five years at Vanderbilt, Corbin has taken the Commodores from the perennial Southeastern Conference doormat to the number one ranked team in the country. In his first four years, Corbin amassed a 144-95 record. Before coming to Vanderbilt, Corbin served as an assistant coach at Clemson University for nine years and as head coach at Presbyterian College for six years.
- Jim Donnan
Jim Donnan was a college football coach and is now an on-air television analyst for college football games. A Burlington, North Carolina native and graduate of North Carolina State University, Donnan was head football coach at Marshall University, where he led the Thundering Herd to a 64-21 record from 1990 to 1995, including five consecutive 11-plus win seasons and the 1992 NCAA Division I-AA national football championship.
- Sue Gunter
Sue Gunter (May 22, 1939, Walnut Grove, Mississippi, USA - August 4,2005) was a women's college basketball coach. She is best known as the head coach of the LSU Lady Tigers basketball team. In Gunter's 22 years as the head coach at LSU (1982-2004), the Lady Tigers played in 14 NCAA Tournaments and two WNITs. Gunter led LSU to one Final Four in 2004 and to the Elite Eight in 1986, 2000 and 2003.
- Matt Freije
Matthew (Matt) Wayne Freije (born October 2 1981, in Overland Park, Kansas) is an American professional basketball player, currently a free agent. He was selected 53rd overall in the 2004 NBA Draft by the Miami Heat, was then released and later played for the New Orleans Hornets. He played 19 games for the Atlanta Hawks during the 2006-07 season but was waived in December 2006 to clear a roster spot for Slava Medvedenko.
- Susan Walvius
Susan Walvius (Born October 24, 1964) is the head women's basketball coach at South Carolina. Since beginning her tenure in 1997, she has compiled a 131-129 record. Her best success came in the 2001 and 2002 seasons, where she went 25-7 and 23-8 respectively. In those two seasons, the Gamecocks went 19-9 in SEC play. The 2002 team made it to the Elite Eight for the first time in school history. She attended Gar-Field Senior High School in Virginia, …
- Cliff Ellis
Cliff Ellis is an American college basketball coach. His 534 victories rank him 29<sup>th</sup> on the list of all-time career coaching victories in Division 1 basketball. He was national coach of the year in 1999 at Auburn, when his Tigers won 29 games and captured the school’s first SEC championship in 40 years. In 1990 he coached Clemson to its only ACC title in history and his South Alabama teams won Sun Belt Conference regular-season championships in 1979, …
- Antoine Walker
Antoine Devon Walker (born August 12 1976, in Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American professional basketball player with the Miami Heat in the National Basketball Association. He has played for four different teams during his NBA career. Walker attended Mount Carmel High School, where he attained all-state status as a senior and earned a full scholarship to play for Rick Pitino at the University of Kentucky.
- Erwin Dudley
Erwin Dudley is an American professional basketball player who plays for Türk Telekom B.K. in the Turkish Basketball League. Dudley is a graduate of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. While at the Capstone, he consistently made a name for himself. During his college basketball career, Dudley was named an All-American by the Associated Press, a consensus Southeastern Conference 2002 Player of the Year and an unanimous All-SEC First Team pick.
- Charlie Strong
Charlie Strong (born August 2, 1960 in Batesville, Arkansas), is a college football coach currently serving as co-defensive coordinator, assistant head coach, and linebacker position coach of the Florida Gators. After lettering for four years (1980-83) at University of Central Arkansas, Strong joined the Gator coaching staff after college as a graduate assistant in 1983. His first full-time coaching job was at Southern Illinois in 1986, where he coached wide receivers.
- Frank Sinkwich
Francis "Frank" Sinkwich (October 10,1920 - October 22,1990) won the Heisman Trophy in 1942, while playing at the University of Georgia, the first recipient from the Southeastern Conference. Twelve years later, after a brief but celebrated career in professional football that included being named the National Football League Most Valuable Player Award in 1944, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
- Anthony Grant
Anthony Grant (born April 15, 1966) is a basketball coach who became the ninth head coach in the history of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) on April 18, 2006. A native of Miami, Florida, Grant came to VCU after serving for ten years as an assistant to Billy Donovan at the University of Florida (UF).
- Derek Abney
Derek Allen Abney (born December 19, 1980 in Minot, North Dakota) is an American football wide receiver currently a free agent. Abney was a star receiver/kick returner for the University of Kentucky. Abney left Kentucky with the second-most receiving yards in school history, and the second-most all-purpose yards in SEC history. Abney was drafted in the 7th round of the 2004 NFL Draft by the Baltimore Ravens, but was released without playing a game.
- Suzanne Yoculan
Suzanne Paige Yoculan is the head coach of the women's gymnastics program at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. She has built the Georgia gymnastics program into a perennial national powerhouse, and is one of the most successful college gymnastics coaches in history. Yoculan graduated from Penn State University in 1975, was named the head women's gymnastics coach at the University of Georgia on August 24, 1983, …
- Eddie Fogler
Eddie Fogler was a college basketball coach at Wichita State University, Vanderbilt, and South Carolina. From 1986 to 1989, he served as head coach at Wichita State University where he compiled a 61-32 (.656) record which included two NCAA appearances and one NIT berth. From 1989 to 92, he served as the head basketball coach at Vanderbilt where he compiled an 81-48 record. His 1992-93 team went 28-6, including 14-2 in the SEC, and he was named national coach of the year.
- Shameka Christon
Shameka Delynn Christon (born February 15, 1982 in Hot Springs, Arkansas) is an American professional women's basketball player with the New York Liberty in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She attended college at the University of Arkansas, and was named the "Player Of The Year" in the Southeastern Conference during her 2004 senior year. She graduated with a bachelors degree in social work.
- Gary Danielson
Gary Dennis Danielson (born September 10, 1951 in Detroit, Michigan) is a former professional American football quarterback. He played for the Detroit Lions from 1976 to 1984 and for the Cleveland Browns in 1985, 1987 and 1988. He amassed 13,764 passing yards and 81 touchdowns in 101 games as a professional. He ranks fourth in Lions history in passing yards and touchdowns.
- Kody Bliss
Kody Bliss (born February 21, 1985 in Enid, Oklahoma) is an American football player who plays the position of punter. He attended Brentwood Academy in Tennessee before signing in 2003 to play collegiately at Auburn University. While at Auburn, Bliss was on the Ray Guy Award watchlist his senior year. During the 2006 season, he led the Southeastern Conference with 46.1 yards per punt to go with 12 inside the 20-yard line.
- Joe B. Hall
Joe Beasman Hall, better known as Joe B. Hall (born November 30, 1928 in Cynthiana, Kentucky) was the head basketball coach at the University of Kentucky from 1972 to 1985. He previously coached at Central Missouri State University and Regis University before returning to UK in 1965 to serve as an assistant coach under Adolph Rupp. Coach Hall was given a difficult task, to follow in the footsteps of his legendary predecessor, Adolph Rupp.