Bama gets Sugar Bowl bid against...

#26
#26
Roll Tide. I am in Utah at the moment and these people are insufferable about how the SEC is overrated. I look forward to watching Bama pound them.
 
#28
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3L with debt said:
If the SEC wins, it looks better for us and every other team in the conference. Do you want to say that the Vols were one of the worst team in a subpar conference?

How the nation views a conference is how they rank teams. Look at the treatment that USC and Penn State got this year... I want every SEC team to win their non-conference games (especially bowl games).
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Me too! Go Bama and the SEC. I'm not ashamed enough to cheer for someone else in the conference, I just don't cheer for them like I do Tennessee. I'd like to see the SEC teams b low out everyone in the bowls
 
#31
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Shocker0 said:
Me too! Go Bama and the SEC. I'm not ashamed enough to cheer for someone else in the conference, I just don't cheer for them like I do Tennessee. I'd like to see the SEC teams b low out everyone in the bowls
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I totally agree. The fact that so many on this board have such an inferiority complex that success at a rival SEC school sends them into a panic is beyond belief. I guess that it comes from pure jealousy but it is silly.

I am very comfortable in cheering for my team and others in the conference who indirectly benefit my team by their success. However, when it comes to playing them during the season, I hope they lie beaten and broken before me.
 
#32
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3L with debt said:
I totally agree. The fact that so many on this board have such an inferiority complex that success at a rival SEC school sends them into a panic is beyond belief. I guess that it comes from pure jealousy but it is silly.

I am very comfortable in cheering for my team and others in the conference who indirectly benefit my team by their success. However, when it comes to playing them during the season, I hope they lie beaten and broken before me.
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But clearly a win for UF or UA helps their respective recruiting, and is a detriment to our program.
 
#34
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dickens821 said:
A win by UF or UA doesn't benefit UT.


at all.
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I'm not sure that's true. When we get around to beating these teams again the fact that they have had a lot of success in the past will help us. The fact that our conference is considered to be dominate will help us. It may not help us against them, but the view that the SEC is the nations top conference will help everyone in the SEC. If, and when, we beat them their past rankings and present success will help our ranking.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
But clearly a win for UF or UA helps their respective recruiting, and is a detriment to our program.
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I don't think that the success of a rival school on the field and the success of our recruiting are mutually exclusive. While a rival's success can be seen as a condition precedent to our demise, that result is not assured. The depth of Florida is an advantage for CLK by offering early playing time. This is, i'm told, one of Saban's biggest pitch to recruits.

I would say that during the 90s there were no teams stronger in the SEC then the Vols, Florida and Alabama. Yet, these teams perceived lock on recruiting did not prevent other teams (like Auburn, LSU, and Georgia) from improving thier programs by great recruiting. While Florida has maintained its position, Alabama has returned to the elite of the SEC and the Vols will to, in time. My belief is that that return will be quickened by playing in a perceived strong conference.

With the SEC enjoying such a strong reputation, CLK only needs to add a quality SEC win to the wins over teams we should beat and a lofty national ranking will follow. This, in turn, builds a "buzz" and helps recruiting. Over the last several years, SEC teams have been well represented near the top of the recruiting rankings. For a perceived good conference, the recruiting pie truly grows. The losers are non-BCS conferences and those conferences perceived to be weak (Big 10 and the majority of the Pac 10).

So, my long winded post is just an effort to point out the benefits of a strong conference to some of the petty, short sided, reasoning that seems to litter the board. Present company excluded.
 
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#36
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TreeGreen said:
I'm not sure that's true. When we get around to beating these teams again the fact that they have had a lot of success in the past will help us. The fact that our conference is considered to be dominate will help us. It may not help us against them, but the view that the SEC is the nations top conference will help everyone in the SEC. If, and when, we beat them their past rankings and present success will help our ranking.
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Welcome friend... we are the minority.

I hope a rival losses every conference game they play but I will cheer them on when playing non-conference foes.
 
#37
#37
This will be Utah's chance to show they deserve a chance to play for the NC. Unfortunately they will fail. This will be a blowout. Bama's big Off. and Def. line will blow them off the ball. And no, I don't like Bama, but I don't see this game being close.
 
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