With another round of SEC Media Days in the books, it’s no doubt that the SEC’s media extravaganza is by far the most interesting and most covered media event in college football.

Even with SEC Media Days being a huge event, for most average fans, the event barely makes their radar. How can we improve the event and increase overall fan interest?

Jon and I have a few suggestions to improve the event. Note: This is specific to improving the televised portion of the event to increase fan interest.

JON COOPER:

Simply put: feature more of the players.

There was so much downtime on the SEC Network this past week. Now, I’m not saying Greg McElroy, Booger McFarland, Marcus Spears and Paul Finebaum aren’t great; they are.

Instead of the panel debating and breaking down teams, why not bring the players on set and talk to all three of them?

Instead of just the coaches getting a chance in the big room, why not bring all three players up to the front, too?

Get a long table, and set all three players down. That way media can ask each of them questions and let them respond. That would be great TV for the fans, too, who are always wanting more from the players they love.

The SEC Network only showed short clips from one of the team’s players with Maria Taylor, and I’m sure not many would argue from seeing more from her. She’s great at her job. Let her moderate the question and answer from the players in the media room.

KEVIN DUFFEY:

Anything you can do to bring more personality and opinions out of the head coaches would be a slam dunk. The coaches are the rock stars of the SEC. Let’s get more out of them.

Right now, the coaches can give any sort of opening statement whether it is quite short like Mark Richt or entirely too long like Les Miles. Then, media are permitted to ask questions. It’s a simple formula.

Ideally, we supplement this with another form of Q&A. Rather than the coaches parade around radio row, hit up the SportsCenter and SEC Now desks, why don’t we put the group of coaches that appear on a single day into a panel-like Q&A forum at the end of the day?

On Tuesday, we had Steve Spurrier, Butch Jones, Kevin Sumlin and Dan Mullen. How great would it be if all four were on stage for the last hour of the day answering questions from the media? Seeing the coaches respond and interact with one another would be gold.

If you want to ensure you get good coaches on the same panel together, you could even slot the order of Media Days appearances by order of finish from the previous season. That way you guarantee the two coaches that played in the SEC Championship Game the year before will be on the final day, and thus, on the same panel together.

Imagine Gus and Nick on the panel at Media Days eight months after the Kick-Six.

Imagine Mark and Nick on the same panel together after that thrilling 2012 SEC Championship Game between Alabama and Georgia.

Let’s get more from these coaches during Media Days. There are no games to be stressed about. No losses to sulk over. This is the perfect time of the year to showcase these individuals to the fans.

What suggestions do you have?