This is the Auburn podcast, your daily Auburn Tigers podcast. I'm Zach Blackerby. Painter Sharpless will join us in just a second.

But today our special guest is someone that I don't see as much as I would like to anymore.

Josh Vitale of the Montgomery advertiser.

Good morning, sir. How are you? Doing great, Zach.

How are you? I'm doing well. You are the perfect Monday guest, as you have been described

and labeled at this point. Yes, I think it's on the back of my shirts most of the time,

so it's very nice. I love that. I love that. So what are your thoughts on SEC Media Days? I know you were up there

all week covering each and everything. You always do a fantastic job. I don't know how crazy

you are about it. I don't love it. You don't love it? Right. Right. So what stood out,

not just with Auburn, just across the conference last week? I think two things stand.

One, SEC Media Days has, I mean, I've only been covering it for four years and it's gotten

a lot less interesting every year.

Right.

I don't know if that's because there's more coverage or coaches are speaking more often

so there's less to say.

I don't know what it is or they're just trying to not say as much.

But it's become more of a spectacle than a journalism event.

It's a circus.

Yes.

So that's the bad thing.

The good thing, I think the good thing for Auburn fans is I think my biggest takeaway

from the week was the way Gus Malzon spoke on Thursday.

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