It’s the most magical time of the year: college bowl season. It’s also Christmas time, though, and for the coaches of the SEC this means a hectic life of shopping, negotiating contract terms, and sending fruitcakes to various bagmen littered about the country.

While many of us only get more cynical with each passing year, these coaches are conditioned to believe in something for which there is no actual proof, like Santa Claus, Lane Kiffin’s coaching abilities, and the authority of the NCAA. The crack team of investigative journalists / mail fraud felons here at Good Bull Hunting have managed to acquire some of the coaches’ letters to Santa. Read them with us, and hearken back to a time of innocence in your life when you, too, believed that you could tell the difference between targeting and a clean hit.

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WILL MUSCHAMP

STEVE SPURRIER

NICK SABAN

GUS MALZAHN

MARK STOOPS

HUGH FREEZE

KEVIN SUMLIN

LES MILES