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Now 20-10 ND in 3rd quarter. Did UGA really deserve to be in the playoffs or do they just not want to be there?
If it wasn't ND, i would be happy to see uga lose.
I felt deep down that the SEC was mediocre this year. The stars are aligning for us to do some damage if we can't get our defensive front 7 together for next year.
I would not. I'm still a believer in the importance of brand, and the SEC brand has been sullied grievously. We helped achieve that, along with Tennessee, Alabama, Oklahoma, Georgia, and Texas A&M. The league's reputation is in shreds. We are a national joke.
Looked like they were either overlooking ND or they really didn't care to be there. I think maybe the $$$ has changed their want-to... or maybe the success has.
We are not the SEC. We are a member school that had a surprisingly good year. I’ll wave OUR flag but not the SEC flag. Maybe I’m just different. When Georgia or Bama or LSU won it it did very little if anything for us.
I hate to admit it, but dang, I really like Marcus Freeman. It is so weird to like something about ND after all these years. He’s a heck of a coach.
They finally found their man, but beware, unless the landscape is reworked, almost every coach will be subject to precipitous collapses. Even Saban felt his grip on success slipping. Ain't nobody out there no Saban
Glad Coach Kelly went to LSU. He threw players under the bus and you never hear that from Freeman. He owned the disastrous loss to NIU and has learned how to be a better head coach.
Amen, lets stand on our own feet and celebrate our own successes and not worry about the other SEC teams. Its like minding your own business and keeping your head down working instead of worrying about your neighbor.
Given the current volatile state of college football, I'm not sure it takes "innumerable" years for anything to happen. However, for that same reason, I'm not sure any team or conference can expect to stay on top year after year in this new college football world. FSU went from an undefeated regular season to a dumpster fire in one year. AZ State went from 3 wins to a playoff team in one year. The suddenness of the rises and falls we see in teams will be true for conferences as well.
I like pulling for SEC teams. It's as good a reason as any to pull for a team in a contest I'd otherwise care nothing about. It's not like our "pulling-for powers" have ever actually influenced the outcomes.
Really excellent observations.
Although "innumerable" is applied to things too large to count, including years in certain instances, Oxford Languages points out that it is "often used hyperbolically", which was the case with my earlier remark.
I hope the road back to restoration is shorter rather than longer. But the extent of this year's debacle with respect to the SEC is hard to overstate.
I am not an expert at the pay outs. Would we get more from making it into the playoffs ourselves or by Georgia making it to the semifinals of the playoffs? I hope it is by making it ourselves versus living off the success of others.
We are in the SEC and I can't see that changing any time soon. I think we are on the cusp of being in the top quartile of teams and making the playoffs ourselves. I think that is worth focusing on and not worrying about the other teams. Did Nick Saban worry about anyone else or did he just go out and take care of business? I'd like to see that sort of mindset in our team and the fans.
I feel like the bye week had an impact on all the teams that sat for a couple weeks.... That being said, who cares about other SEC teams? The SEC craps on us every chance they get.
There is one year with without a super-dominant SEC team, and people talking about they are "exposed"....?.... What?.... They can't expect one conference who has run over every other conference for the past decade and a half to do that same thing every year (especially with the portal crap)... What was exposed is the fact that statistics are not in the SECs favor. There was bound to be a time of waning...
The SEC winning does nothing to help us until the TV contracts swing back around for negotiation. The pollsters have proven that schedules mean nothing. And bowl games mean even less than that when an entire team can opt out.
Ppl just like to beat their cheat over beating a team from the SEC. there's a reason for that..... They've been the gold standard.
There is one year with without a super-dominant SEC team, and people talking about they are "exposed"....?.... What?.... They can't expect one conference who has run over every other conference for the past decade and a half to do that same thing every year (especially with the portal crap)... What was exposed is the fact that statistics are not in the SECs favor. There was bound to be a time of waning...
The SEC winning does nothing to help us until the TV contracts swing back around for negotiation. The pollsters have proven that schedules mean nothing. And bowl games mean even less than that when an entire team can opt out.
Ppl just like to beat their cheat over beating a team from the SEC. there's a reason for that..... They've been the gold standard.
Certainly we would get more by going to the playoffs, of course, reduced by the SEC's share. But I'm thinking about the value of future television deals. We're close to the Big 10 now, but the gulf will widen if they keep being demonstrably the superior league while the SEC keeps looking like sch!tt in the postseason. The current state of affairs is untenable from that standpoint. The SEC needs to reassert itself starting next season.
Here is a question, if the Big10 offered Clemson and it was perceived to increase their value would you want the SEC to consider adding them? The same question can go for UNC and several other teams. If Bellechik had them humming in 2-3 yrs or Dabo pulled one out of this *** and made the finals or won it that could make either very attractive. I think FSU is such a dumpster fire right now I won't include them in the conversation.
In our part of the country, North Carolina is the plum, and no other school compares. Right now, I'm not looking beyond that.
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