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Missouri coach Gary Pinkel updated the health of QB James Franklin's shoulder and spoke about the UGA game during his appearance at SEC Media Days on Tuesday.

Full transcript here: http://www.secdigitalnetwork.com/Portals/3/SEC%20Website/football/pinkel_12.pdf

"I think the Georgia game, it's big. Normally never talk about a game other than your first game ever. We understand historically for the University of Missouri it's going to be a big game, the first SEC game, the first SEC home game for our university. It's going to be a big game for us. But there's going to be a lot of big games. I think that's one of the things that separates the SEC from the other leagues in this country, there's so many good football teams you're going to play week in, week out. That's what defines the league. So hopefully we can play our best game there. But then there's a lot more to come that we've got to play well also."

"I think our fans go crazy. I know it's a great league. I've watched it on TV. I've played some of the places before, been a part of that as a coach. But, you know, we're part of the SEC. We want to prove that we belong to it as fans as well as players and coaches. I think you'll see a place that's very electric. They'll go wild, and that's probably an understatement."

"James Franklin is doing well. We expect, without question, for him to be 100 percent. The trainer told us that two weeks ago. It will be interesting to see in August as he's throwing more consistently over and over again, repetition-wise to see his accuracy, which I think really improved a whole lot last year as the season went on. Full starter for a year coming back. What you want to do is eliminate some of the mistakes in each game to become more of a complete quarterback. I think potential in our last three quarterbacks are playing in the NFL right now, I think he's in line. He's that kind of a potential player. ... I think we've got some good folks there. Our offense is a spread offense. People know we can do a lot of different things. We were top 15th in the nation last year in rushing the football. We can go a lot of different ways with our offense depending on what we need to do in our personnel. So we're going to get tested. We're playing some great defenses. We understand that. But we're going to do what we do and adjust accordingly, as we always do, as the season goes
on so we can play our best."

"It's like some people, around the summer, I've got a place down in Florida, go down there sometimes, people act like we've been playing a bunch of high school teams. We've played in a pretty big league."