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The SEC has announced the latest planned additions to the SEC Storied series, as both Texas A&M and Florida will be the two schools featured.
The Texas A&M story is titled “No Experience Required” and focuses on the story behind the Aggies’ 12th Man tradition. The episode is be helmed by award-winning director Kenan K. Holley.
The SEC’s official website announced the news Tuesday.
No Experience Required
“Join the team.” It is a mantra that Texas A&M students have lived by since E. King Gill came out of the stands as a student to suit up for an injury riddled A&M football team in 1922. “Stand as one” is what Aggie students do through every home game as the 12th Man to show that they are one with their team on the field. In 1983, Aggie Head Coach Jackie Sherrill, under the pressures of having signed the the richest coaching contract in college football history and delivering only a 5-6 record in his first season, came up with a crazy idea. Emmy Award winner Kenan K. Holley (also directed SEC Storied’s “Dominque Belongs to Us” and “The Walk Off”) directs the tale of a coach willing to take a risk. Sherrill decided his kickoff coverage team would be made up entirely of regular college students. Hundreds tried out; few made it. The few who made it went from being disrespected by their scholarship teammates and ridiculed by the press as a publicity stunt, to becoming the most feared kickoff team in America.
The Florida story is titled “Repeat After Us” and focuses on the Gators consecutive NCAA basketball titles in 2006 and 2007. Another award-winning director, Jonathan Hock, helmed the Florida episode.
Repeat After Us
The likes of Florida’s 2006, 2007 back-to-back National Championships may never be seen again. A starting line-up of college basketball players having cut down the nets and some facing multi-million dollar opportunities in the NBA, decide all together to turn down the money and return to school for the chance to win it again. Joakim Noah, Al Horford, Corey Brewer, Taurean Green, and Lee Humphrey, led by head coach Billy Donovan, learned togetherness, loyalty, and how to deliver a championship when a championship is expected. Emmy Award winning director Jonathan Hock directs the story of this team which became the first, and possibly last, college team to repeat national championship wins with the same starting lineup.
A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Michael Wayne Bratton oversees the news coverage for Saturday Down South. Michael previously worked for FOX Sports and NFL.com
