For coaches, players and fans alike, Southeastern Conference Media Days ushers in a new college football season with an event worthy of the Ringling Brothers.
Throughout the first three days of Media Days, there have been definite high points and some points of no return.
High: Arkansas coach Bret Bielema’s Words of Truth 
Normally, South Carolina’s Steve Spurrier is regarded as the undisputed king of Media Days, but this year Bielema stole the title by showing up the Ol’ Ball Coach with a taste of his own medicine and a prophetic look to the game’s potential problems. 
When he took to the podium on Tuesday, Spurrier made a sly comment that Arkansas and Tennessee were celebrating a 7-6 finish last season with “cartwheels and somersaults.”
Bielema responded in kind with, “I’ll respect my elders at all points. I don’t think this body is built, no matter how big the shoes, with rockets or not, I could do any cartwheels.” 
Unlike the other coaches, when a reporter asked the now infamous “Cost of
Attendance” stipend question, Bielema didn’t focus on how it won’t affect him and others with recruiting. Instead, he brought to light a potential problem behind the extra money given to players. 
“Give a young man [who’s] 18, 19, 20, 21 years old with a little bit of pocket change, a lot of money to make bad decisions, things can go sideways in a New York minute,” Bielema said. “We have to monitor that as coaches and be aware of that.”
High: Tennessee junior quarterback Joshua Dobbs a.k.a. ‘the Mad Scientist’ 
The media usually gathers around a quarterback to hear what he did during the offseason to perfect his mechanics or increase his accuracy throwing into tight windows. 
When the tide of reporters converged around the table to listen to Dobbs, they were granted something entirely different — a lesson in thermodynamics. 
Dobbs, an aerospace engineering major, enlightened reporters with a sample of what he learns in his classes in layman terms.  
“Thermodynamics is the study of heat transfer,” Dobbs explained. “Any type of process where heat is being transferred from one source to the next.”
Low: Alabama coach Nick Saban’s Excuses
Six months after Alabama lost to the eventual National Champion Ohio State in the Sugar Bowl, Saban had an answer to why the Crimson Tide fell short — the NFL Draft underclassmen grad deadline. 
That’s right. Getting draft grades was Alabama’s problem, not the Buckeyes’ rushing attack that ran up 335 yards against the Crimson Tide’s elite defense. 
“We’re trying to get ready for a game, and all of a sudden, a guy finds out he’s a first round draft pick, or a guy that thought he was a first round draft pick finds out he’s not a first round draft pick, and we’re trying to get ready to play a playoff game,” Saban said. 
Low: Cost of Attendance Questions
In January, the NCAA agreed to allot student athletes a cost-of-attendance stipend to assist them with additional costs not covered by their scholarships. 
Throughout Media Days, every reporter has grown to dread the inevitable question about how each individual school’s allotment will factor into recruiting. 
Missouri senior center Evan Boehm wins with the best response of the day.
“The reason why I came to the University of Missouri is because I felt like it was my home,” Boehm said. 
“It’s not because of the money that they are going to give me. If a kid is out there saying, ‘This school can give me this amount of money, but this school can only give me this amount of money,’ and basing the decision off that, I think that’s kind of wrong.”