Posted by ESPN.com's Chris Low

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Making some final rounds at the SEC Media Days before I put the Wynfrey Hotel in my rear-view mirror.

* At some point, first-year Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino is going to quit being asked about his bolting the Atlanta Falcons with three games remaining to take the Arkansas job. But that point wasn't today. Petrino was quizzed several different times about the Atlanta debacle, but he wasn't inclined to expand on what he's already said.

Which is basically nothing.

"The whole situation. . . .the timing was bad. There's no question about that," said Petrino, who left notes on the lockers of the Falcons' players to tell them he was leaving.

"If it could have played out any other way, I would have loved to see it play out a different way. But with the Falcons, and with Arkansas, it was really the only way that it could play out, and I'm extremely happy to be the head football coach at the University of Arkansas."

Petrino was pressed further to tell his side of the story. The Falcons' players ripped him to shreds, calling him everything from a coward to a liar.

"Well, no, I don't think we need to get into that," Petrino said. "Like I said, it was a difficult situation. It's something that I've put behind me, that the Falcons have. I wish, you know, them and their entire organization, their fans, the best of luck. But it's really time for us to focus in on this season, University of Arkansas football, the players that we have."

* With Michigan transfer Ryan Mallett waiting in the wings, Petrino said he doesn't foresee playing multiple quarterbacks this season.

For now, the job belongs to senior Casey Dick, who had an impressive close to spring practice after starting in all 13 games last season. Of course, Dick was more of a caretaker (1,695 passing yards, 18 touchdowns and 10 interceptions) and did most of his work a year ago handing the ball off to Darren McFadden and Felix Jones.

"I thought he did a real nice job of getting to know the other side of the ball, understanding what defenses are trying to do, the difference in coverages, the difference in zone blitzes and man blitzes," Petrino said.

If the Hogs do play two quarterbacks, it might be Dick's younger brother, redshirt freshman Nathan Dick, who's bigger than Casey and likes to scramble.

"He might be like a young man I coached at Louisville, that you don't really know how good he is until it's live, because you don't tackle the quarterback in practice," Petrino said. "He might make more plays when it's live because of his ability to run, move around, throw the ball down the field."

* Nobody can accuse Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville of being shy when it comes to pulling the trigger with his coordinators.

"Two new coordinators, not different for me," Tuberville quipped.

Offensive coordinator Tony Franklin and defensive coordinator Paul Rhoads were the 10th and 11th different coordinators Tuberville has hired since taking the job at Auburn in 1999.

Tuberville said he tried to hire Rhoads seven or eight years ago from Pittsburgh.

"We won't make a lot of changes," Tuberville said. "I'm gonna let him use his imagination in terms of what he thinks will help this football team with the talent that we have. But we will still live on speed, putting as many people out there that can run as possible."

* Somebody find me a team in the country that has two bigger linebackers than South Carolina. Jasper Brinkley, who will play in the middle, said he's 270 pounds and Eric Norwood is around 265. Norwood is moving to outside linebacker after playing defensive end last season.

"Don't be fooled, because we both can move," said Brinkley, who's returning from reconstructive knee surgery. "I just have big people in my family. It's hard for me to get much lighter with the body fat I have."

Brinkley, one of the better linebackers in the SEC before he blew out his knee, said he's back to 100 percent and hasn't had any setbacks. He expects to be full go when practice begins next week.

"It's going to be like having a dog on a chain and letting him go into a dogfight or something like that," Brinkley said.

He was quick to add, "No, I don't fight dogs."

* There's already been some banter down here about the SEC Media Days possibly leaving Birmingham after the current contract is up following the 2009 event.

SEC commissioner Mike Slive was highly upset with the circus that ensued after Alabama attorneys subpoenaed Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer on Thursday just as he was walking into the lobby of the Wynfrey Hotel. Slive wouldn't specify to reporters what other cities might be options, but noted that the embarrassing fiasco that unfolded Thursday with attorneys staking out the hotel the night before to subpoena Fulmer wouldn't help the chances of it returning to this location.