Earlier this week, Antone Exum walked into a Best Buy in Orlando intending on blowing his $470 gift card on himself. Sometime later, three kids walked out of the store with a Playstation3, games and other items courtesy of Exum, along with an assist from teammates Tariq Edwards and Marcus Davis.

Exum was well-provided for as a kid, with one parent a dentist and the other a doctor. Needless to say, he always had nice Christmases. He knows the difference between a need and a want, and he decided right there on the spot that he didn’t need anything in Best Buy. He used his gift card to give three kids a better Christmas, and though his card didn’t cover everything, Edwards and Davis chipped in to cover the difference.

It’s a nice story, and if you’re a Tech fan, it makes you proud that we have good people like that in the program. The local newspapers ran with it, and it was a pretty big hit in the Twitterverse, but it didn’t turn into much of a national story.

Sometime in the last week – I don’t remember which night – I was flipping though the channels and I was reminded what is really important to ESPN: Alabama, the SEC, Ohio State, USC, the SEC, Alabama, Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, and the SEC. Throw in a tablespoon of Notre Dame and a half-cup of Les Miles, and you’ve basically got ESPN’s recipe for college football coverage day in and day out.

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