Photos from Coaches Tour

Auburn does a really smart thing by having a photographer on staff, Todd Van Emst, whose job is to basically send out photos to media outlets from all of Auburn's sporting events. You don't have to call them and ask for his photos...he just does it. It's really a media-savvy thing to do, because the easier you make it for a paper to get photos from your events, the more likely they are to show up in the paper. As a former page designer/copy editor at the Ledger, I always appreciated how easy they made things for us. I don't know of another school that does that.

Anyway, he's on the Coaches Tour of the Middle East that inclues Mark Richt, Tommy Tuberville, Notre Dame's Charlie Weis, Miami's Randy Shannon and others.

Here are a couple of the photos he's sent out in the last couple of days. The first photo is of Gen. Arthur Lichte talking with the coaches at Scott Air Force Base. The second is Mark Richt and Miami's Randy Shannon autographing posters for the troops (looks like coach Richt's kicking some dogtags there). The third pic is Col. Al Hunt talking to the coaches before they leave on a nine-hour flight back to Germany on Tuesday. Pictured are Notre Dame's Weis and Shannon.

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