🏈 I find it increasingly harder every year to pull for our SEC

[NTT]

I got to go for the Gators in this one guys. I want them to put up 60 on Oklahoma. That will somehow make us look better and maybe gain more respect down the road. BSPN thinks the big12 and the big10 and USC are elite and the SEC is always down to them.

 

[tidenumber1]

This is something I have always heard. You have to pull for your conference. My dad always preached it.

But I say why? They never pull for us. Every game we have most teams in our conference are pulling for the opposition. I say screw the rest of the conference.

As far as those who say it makes us look better if our conference wins it. Didn't the SEC win it the last 2 years and still all the media can talk about is the Big 12.

So to me it doesn't matter. I could care less who wins that game all that matters to me is the Sugar Bowl.

 

[Guest]

I'm all for the SEC looking like the best conference, but if Florida wins the NC...it will do nothing to help Alabama. It may sound selfish but I really don't care if Oklahoma beats Florida. The Big 12 can have their bragging rights, but as long as Alabama keeps rising...I won't give a damn.

Right there with you. Only reason I am leaning towards OU , because I have family who go there. Was really hoping for a OU vs Bama match up.

Basically I do not give a crap who wins either.

 

[Electric_Ute_666]

For years I automatically said the SEC was the best conference in college football. I no longer say that without qualification.
My reason is this: The SEC doesn't play anyone that is even decent during the season. I look at nonconference schedules in the SEC and I see a bunch of teams that no one has heard of.
I can't take a group of 12 teams and say they are better than the other 100+ when they don't play the other 100+ teams! The SEC's best nonconference win this year was Florida over FSU, but FSU is down.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

 

[It Takes Eleven]

For years I automatically said the SEC was the best conference in college football. I no longer say that without qualification.
My reason is this: The SEC doesn't play anyone that is even decent during the season. I look at nonconference schedules in the SEC and I see a bunch of teams that no one has heard of.
I can't take a group of 12 teams and say they are better than the other 100+ when they don't play the other 100+ teams! The SEC's best nonconference win this year was Florida over FSU, but FSU is down.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

Yes. First, you're ignoring the eight conference games we do play, so we face a few "decent" teams in our conference schedule. Second, home and away series are hit and miss as to the kind of year the opponent is having. Clemson was touted as the ACC favorite and a NC contender this year. Other BCS conference teams SEC teams played this year included Texas, Georgia Tech, NC State, West Virgina, UCLA, Louisville, Wake Forest, FSU, Miami, Arizona State and Duke. Non-BCS games included Tulsa, Troy, No. Ill and Wyoming.

Upcoming Bama nonconference schedules include matchups with Penn State, Virginia Tech and Notre Dame. In recent years, we've also played Oklahoma and UCLA. We usually play one home and home series a year, or perhaps a neutral site game. It's nonproductive to do so against a non-BCS team. That's just the way it is. If Utah continues to play well, I encourage you to do what other successful mid-majors have done - join a BCS conference.

RTR,

Tim

 

[bamafan4ever]

For years I automatically said the SEC was the best conference in college football. I no longer say that without qualification.
My reason is this: The SEC doesn't play anyone that is even decent during the season. I look at nonconference schedules in the SEC and I see a bunch of teams that no one has heard of.
I can't take a group of 12 teams and say they are better than the other 100+ when they don't play the other 100+ teams! The SEC's best nonconference win this year was Florida over FSU, but FSU is down.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

Yes. First, you're ignoring the eight conference games we do play, so we face a few "decent" teams in our conference schedule. Second, home and away series are hit and miss as to the kind of year the opponent is having. Clemson was touted as the ACC favorite and a NC contender this year. Other BCS conference teams SEC teams played this year included Texas, Georgia Tech, NC State, West Virgina, UCLA, Louisville, Wake Forest, FSU, Miami, Arizona State and Duke. Non-BCS games included Tulsa, Troy, No. Ill and Wyoming.

Upcoming Bama nonconference schedules include matchups with Penn State, Virginia Tech and Notre Dame. In recent years, we've also played Oklahoma and UCLA. We usually play one home and home series a year, or perhaps a neutral site game. It's nonproductive to do so against a non-BCS team. That's just the way it is. If Utah continues to play well, I encourage you to do what other successful mid-majors have done - join a BCS conference.

RTR,

Tim

Next year BAMA will likely open against Virginia Tech and Georgia will open against Oklahoma St and then later host Arizona St. Auburn will play West Virginia again, Miss. St. will play Georgia Tech as will Vandy. LSU will travel to Washington even though that's a lowly PAC 10 team, I'm sure no one was expecting that they would be bad as they were when the game was scheduled. South Carolina will play NC State and Clemson. Gators will play FSU again. Tennessee will play UCLA again.

 

[Electric_Ute_666]

My apologies, having reread my post, I certainly didn't mean to imply that you play no one in your schedule. I meant your nonconference schedule.

It is good to see that the SEC is playing some teams next year, which I think will act as a good indicator of how good your conference really is. Again, I can't give a lot of credit to a conference (any conference, mind you) that doesn't play anyone outside of its own conference.

 

[bamatommy]

I don't care if the SEC does anything, unless it helps Bama. I will be yelling Boomer Sooner.

You and me both, Kirk.

 

[elbatider]

I'll go against what seems to be the popular opinion and say that I always pull for the SEC teams in the bowl games. Bowl games are a measuring stick the talking heads use to rate conferences no matter if the 6th or 7th best team in our conference is playing the #2 or 3 from another and I am of the opinion these things have future benefits to all SEC teams in polls. Furthermore, I think it is absolutely rediculous that Oklahoma had Sam Bradford in there running up 60 points on Missouri just for the record book as well as some of the games prior. I hope UF hangs 70 on them.

 

[chevy0082]

Im not at all a Stoops fan or a Meyer fan by any means.

However.. I will be pulling for Florida for the reason below.
:shock:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0806/campus.cheer.florida/content.1.html

 

[Chuck-E-Cheeze]

I don't care if the SEC does anything, unless it helps Bama. I will be yelling Boomer Sooner.

You and me both, Kirk.

Guys, guys, it's like this. Not pulling for the SEC in bowl games is like not pulling for the Allies in WWII just because there is a bunch of yankees in our armed forces. Of course nobody likes LSU, but when they are facing the Nazis(Big 10), I'll pull for the Tigahs. :roll:

The only exception to this rule is if Aubrun is playing in a bowl game. I can't find it in my heart to pull for them, ever.

 

[Fish Happens]

Being born in Pensacola, FL and living there till I was 25 has put a bad taste in my mouth about UF. Living and working around those jokers for all that time completely ruined it for me. I cant even begin to tell you how arrogant and delusional they are. Its unfortunate to see this happening. And yes, its mostly in the younger generation.....i.e. my generation. I was in a piano bar in P'Cola 2 years ago and a group of FL fans came in and started picking fights with the other fans in there. And this isn't the first incident I have witnessed. I have seen random spray painted cars, saying "BAMA sucks, GO gaters" and all sorts of stuff. I'm sorry fella's, I just cant find it in my heart to pull for these a-holes. I have never honestly witnessed a FL fan pulling for the Tide, or anyone else in our conference. We aren't really well liked, and that saddens me. I'm by no means an arrogant fan, I am very respectful of all the teams, even FL. I have a Bama golf bag and had a FL fan come to my tee box and kick my golf bag over and drive right past me while I was trying to tee off. I know he was a FL fan because they had FL hats on....So, I drove a golf ball right at them. it was hilarious. You should have been there.

So, for this game, i'm all BOOMER SOONER!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ORANGEADDICT]

I don't care if the SEC does anything, unless it helps Bama. I will be yelling Boomer Sooner.

if the sec is supported then Bama will be supported. Support the SEC guys!!!!look at me! :lol:

 

[ORANGEADDICT]

I don't care if the SEC does anything, unless it helps Bama. I will be yelling Boomer Sooner.

if the sec is supported then Bama will be supported. Support the SEC guys!!!!look at me! :lol:

i hate florida btw........

 

[Supergenius]

The next time the SEC sends me a check I will feel obligated to be a conference homer.


RTR

 

[ORANGEADDICT]

I don't understand how anyone that lives outside of the south, that pulls for a SEC team, could not pull for the entire conference to do well. When you get outside the south it becomes very evident just how much our conference is despised. :evil:

This is exactly how it is. SEC SEC SEC

 

[Guest]

The next time the SEC sends me a check I will feel obligated to be a conference homer.


RTR

Me too! Screw the gators!

 

[ElephantStomp]

My wife is a Sooner fan (being born and raised in Okie) and when she asked me who I was going for I told her simply..."Bama is going to roll all over Utah". Who cares who wins the NC? Bama is playing in the Sugar Bowl not the NC.

 

[AlabamaSlammer]

Not that my two pennies matters, but I look at it like a brotherhood. Granted, no one likes to lose, but I would rather get my butt kicked by one of my brothers than anyone else, and I would hate to see someone saying they would take my brother down.

SEC to me is the strongest brotherhood in all of college football, someone always wants to find faults in us and why we cant win, but we always do. If you are the top dog, people will come for you, just like Bama was supposed to only win 8 games this year but yet people found ways to say we were down this year.

I admit after Bama lost to FL I was done with the message boards, ESPN, Etc... I hated being one game away from the NC game and it felt like life was over. Maybe I'm to obsessed with Bama football, but our only loss came to a team that was putting up ridicules numbers on everyone ( Except us ), and they are in the SEC. Me personally, I dont care what team is playing for the NC, or any bowl for that matter, if it is SEC, I will pull for them. SEC against the rest, we are by far the most dominate conference, make the BCS changes its rules to a playoff or whatever they have to do to get the rest of the world up to speed with us.

On a side note, no offense towards Utah, but I would much rather be playing USC, Ohio St, Penn St, or some other team with a little respect, not saying they dont deserve it, but Put us against a team that they cant say " Well if Bama would have played USC, Penn ST" blah blah freakin blah. I dont wanna hear it. We've heard it for years, but the truth is, Bama is back, now give us a team to prove it against.

 

[TerryP]

Not that my two pennies matters, but I look at it like a brotherhood. Granted, no one likes to lose, but I would rather get my butt kicked by one of my brothers than anyone else, and I would hate to see someone saying they would take my brother down.

SEC to me is the strongest brotherhood in all of college football, someone always wants to find faults in us and why we cant win, but we always do. If you are the top dog, people will come for you, just like Bama was supposed to only win 8 games this year but yet people found ways to say we were down this year.

If "brotherhood" is the analogy you want to use, it should be used in the same context as the Showtime series, "Brotherhood."

No respect, hatred, and even attempts to kill another "brother."

I would dare say there were a handful of coaches in this league that are more interested in tearing down other schools then achieving a level of success for their own programs. No, I don't "dare say it," I know it for a fact.

That said, a few of those no longer coach in this league. A few still remain and it's left to be seen what kind of attitude some of the replacements will have.

On a side note, no offense towards Utah, but I would much rather be playing USC, Ohio St, Penn St, or some other team with a little respect, not saying they dont deserve it, but Put us against a team that they cant say " Well if Bama would have played USC, Penn ST" blah blah freakin blah. I dont wanna hear it. We've heard it for years, but the truth is, Bama is back, now give us a team to prove it against.

Interestingly enough, when Georgia demolished Hawai'i last year, people weren't talking about "If they had played..."

The way I see it, the only people looking at Utah right now and not respecting them and what they bring to the game happen to be fans of the Tide.

A win in the Sugar and we'll end up ranked in the top 3 at seasons end...that is translated to a nice start in the polls for the 2009 season.