🏈 NY Post: Dethroning SEC an Urban legend (article on bad blood between UF and OSU/Meyer)

[TerryP]

ROBBINS' NEST

It has to end, it has to end this season and it has to end in dramatic fashion.

The Southeastern Conference simply can’t be allowed to continue winning national championship after national championship. It’s not good college football. It’s not democratic. It’s old, like Blackberrys or four-liter engines.

Don’t get me wrong. You have to admire the level to which the SEC has raised the bar.

You have to respect the out-of-touch, over-the-top commitment SEC schools have made to football. In the middle of the worst recession since the depression, SEC schools continued to pour money into their football programs.

But it’s time to end this seven-year run that has outlasted many marriages.

It has to end like a Kim Kardashian-Kris Humphries divorce — messy, ugly and public.

And everything is in place for such a soap opera.

Not only is Ohio State poised to win it all this season, but its coach, Urban Meyer, has been accused of ratting out his former employer, the University of Florida, for alleged minor recruiting violations.

The plot has been hatched. Ohio State has to beat Florida — not any SEC school, but Florida! — in the BCS Championship Game.

The bad blood between the Gators and Buckeyes has reached Alec Baldwin vs. paparazzi status.

Not a bad read, but one thing here just kills me:

"You have to respect the out-of-touch, over-the-top commitment SEC schools have made to football. In the middle of the worst recession since the depression, SEC schools continued to pour money into their football programs."

This coming from a writer, in NY, home of the Yankees and their payroll?!?!

 

[cartag]

It's not Democratic? Should we hold elections to choose college football champions? It's old? Yes, it is. We call it tradition.

The author forgets the profit that pours out of the Alabama football program. $45 million for the University at large.

My favorite is "The Southeastern Conference simply can't be allowed to continue winning national championship after national championship. It's not good college football." Really? Then put on a uniform and walk on at Purdue. Show us what good college football is.

 

[psychojoe]

One thing is for sure. The college football world is looking for an excuse, any excuse, to not have an SEC school in the BCS NC game this time (especially Bama). If the SEC champ is not a run the table team then we may witness Ohio State vs. Oregon.

 

[planomateo]

I'm anxious to see Oregon @ Stanford, both teams have a bye week prior to that game and its a Thursday night game.

 

[Kirk Van de Graaff]

I have to say, I aint in to this SEC has one 7, All I know is that Bama has won 3 here in the last 4 years. Florida, LSU and Auburn can bite me.:biggrin_blue: