{"id":223738,"date":"2026-04-08T18:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/223738\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T18:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:56:16","slug":"will-stein-and-kentucky-will-help-kick-off-sec-media-days-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/223738\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Stein and Kentucky will help kick off SEC Media Days in Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past two years, Kentucky has gone on the final day of SEC Media Days, after most of the media have headed home. Not this year. Will Stein and the Cats will appear on Day 1 of the event, which will take place July 20-23 at the Tampa Marriott Water Street and JW Marriott in Tampa, Fla.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The actual order of appearance by day is not set yet \u2014 we\u2019ll find that out in early July, along with the list of student-athletes attending. Kentucky and Will Stein will be up on Monday, along with Missouri (Eliah Drinkwitz), Oklahoma (Brent Venables), and Tennessee (Josh Heupel). <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll get our first glimpse of Jon Sumrall in Florida gear at the event on Wednesday. Sadly, Lane Kiffin and LSU are on a different day (Thursday) than Pete Golding and Ole Miss (Wednesday). That said, the SEC knows what it\u2019s doing by putting Kiffin on Thursday. An otherwise dead day will draw ratings. <\/p>\n<p>KSR will be there to cover all the fun, and you\u2019ll also be able to watch along on the SEC Network. Here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secsports.com\/news\/2026\/04\/sec-announces-appearance-schedule-for-2026-football-media-days\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">complete schedule<\/a>, which sorts the schools alphabetically per day, and may not reflect the actual order of appearance; I\u2019d be fine if it did. Let Stein and the Cats kick off the fun.<\/p>\n<p>MONDAY, July 20<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky \u2013 Will Stein<\/p>\n<p>Missouri \u2013 Eliah Drinkwitz<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma \u2013 Brent Venables<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee \u2013 Josh Heupel<\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, July 21<\/p>\n<p>Auburn \u2013 Alex Golesh<\/p>\n<p>Georgia \u2013 Kirby Smart<\/p>\n<p>South Carolina \u2013 Shane Beamer<\/p>\n<p>Vanderbilt \u2013 Clark Lea<\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, July 22<\/p>\n<p>Alabama \u2013 Kalen DeBoer<\/p>\n<p>Florida \u2013 Jon Sumrall<\/p>\n<p>Ole Miss \u2013 Pete Golding<\/p>\n<p>Texas A&amp;M \u2013 Mike Elko<\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, July 23<\/p>\n<p>Arkansas \u2013 Ryan Silverfield<\/p>\n<p>LSU \u2013 Lane Kiffin<\/p>\n<p>Mississippi State \u2013 Jeff Lebby<\/p>\n<p>Texas \u2013 Steve Sarkisian<\/p>\n<p>Sights and Sounds from Kentucky\u2019s Spring Practice<\/p>\n<p>The local media were allowed to watch a portion of yesterday\u2019s practice. We aren\u2019t allowed to share specifics, but Nick Roush and Steven Peake still sat down to rapidly react to the high-energy morning at the Joe Craft Football Training Facility. Excitement is high for Year 1 of the Will Stein Era. If you haven\u2019t yet, <a href=\"https:\/\/ukathletics.com\/news\/2026\/03\/24\/ticket-distribution-information-for-kentucky-football-spring-game\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">get your tickets<\/a> to the Spring Game on April 18.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCxlgPWNLi8UInV0HHhfSQCg?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Subscribe to the KSR YouTube Channel for press conferences, interviews, original shows, fan features, and exclusive content.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the past two years, Kentucky has gone on the final day of SEC Media Days, after most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-223738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}