Updated, 2:30 p.m.
HOOVER, Ala. • The first coach to meet the throng of print reporters at SEC media days was Auburn’s Gus Malzahn, who after some brief comments opened the floor to one and only one reporter for the first question: the ever curious Bob Holt of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Holt, a Missouri native and Mizzou graduate, has become a cult figure of sorts at the annual Hoover carnival for his endless questions for the league’s coaches, particularly for Malzahn, the Arkansas native. (To his credit, Holt asks real questions and eschews the lazy “talk about” blatherings of so many peers, which is what you’d expect from a Mizzou journalism school grad.