Well, it's that most wonderful and favorite time of the year, when media types gather around to trash high profile SEC players headed to the combine. Every year it's the same thing: guys who supposedly lack the work ethic, character or intelligence to make the NFL. The reason why this happens: there are few large media markets in the SEC, and few of the national writers live in the SEC region or went to SEC universities. Instead, the big media markets and the institutions that produced most of the media writers represent places and schools like USC, UCLA, Stanford, Northwestern, Michigan, Notre Dame, Syracuse, Miami, North Carolina etc. So, far better to take a hard working high ethics kids from a Pac-10, Big 10 or ACC elite academics institution than from an SEC aggie school from flyover country. Basically, the same nonsense that worked against LSU and Auburn in the media-driven BCS controversies in 2003 and 2004 (costing the SEC a national title and a half) works against SEC players in the draft. And every year, we get to hear how stupid/lazy/criminally inclined/disappointing various SEC players are.