Official Gramps' Memorial Eternal OT Thread

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#81,058
Orangeburst said:
Saturday is yuuuge..
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If there is any wrinkle in our game plan, anything we've been saving, this saturday is the game to empty the basket. Ideal scenario is:
- Nico continuing to improve, his second half of bama to getting dinged in Ms state has been better.
- O line continuing to improve.
- Defense get a score or two especially if Beck continues to do Beck things.
- Get a lead early to remove the crowd and never allow them to crawl back in.
 
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McDad said:
If there is any wrinkle in our game plan, anything we've been saving, this saturday is the game to empty the basket. Ideal scenario is:
- Nico continuing to improve, his second half of bama to getting dinged in Ms state has been better.
- O line continuing to improve.
- Defense get a score or two especially if Beck continues to do Beck things.
- Get a lead early to remove the crowd and never allow them to crawl back in.
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marcusluvsvols said:
This sounds crazy, but I honestly dont care if we lose to UGA by a couple points. We have been super blessed and lucky with injuries all season (Pili and a hobbled Squirrel being the only exceptions) but now late in the season, our whole team is beatup from the toll an SEC schedule takes on these guys bodies. Injuries are starting to add up, bodies breaking down, and a close loss to UGA means NOT having to play against another bigtime SEC team full of NFL players in the SEC champ game. I dont want to play in the SEC champ game either. The 12 game schedule with 8 SEC games is absolutely brutal all by itself. Nobody in any other conference has any idea. TV deals have steadily added games over the decades to now have 12, 13 if you make the champ game. Then a championship run in the playoffs adds 3 or 4 more? You're talking about 17 games, just like the NFL plays. We have been lucky, but we are razor thin on the Oline...and both our tackles have been playing hurt all year. Now BOTH of our starting guards are banged up. Karic never returned to the game in the 2nd half Sat, Spraggins left hurt but returned for a while. Arion Carter is banged up too...we are very thin at LB right now. The Oline and LB are 2 very, very important parts of winning football. We need these guys healthy. I dont want them taking anymore snaps then absolutely necessary...I hope against UTEP we can play backups nearly everywhere. Even if it means we barely scrape by with a win. The playoffs are ALL that really matters. Nobody cares or will remember in 5 years who won the SEC championship in 2024. The real Champ from the playoffs will be remembered forever. Thats what really matters. I dont want us to do anything that causes any disadvantages in the playoffs. I understand that others will see this differently.
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I still honestly believe the big10 has been goading and shaming the SEC into a ninth game because they know exactly what will happen. There's not a safe SEC team to play, but the big10 and the ACC have some real losers for the cream to beat up on. Teams do need to play within their conference, but the SEC has more parity, and it's a killer. I'm not a fan of the extended schedules; we played more quality OOC opponents when we had a ten game schedule, and players got a little more downtime. Time to get back to basics and recognize it's students playing games and not athletes playing student.
 
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AM64 said:
I still honestly believe the big10 has been goading and shaming the SEC into a ninth game because they know exactly what will happen. There's not a safe SEC team to play, but the big10 and the ACC have some real losers for the cream to beat up on. Teams do need to play within their conference, but the SEC has more parity, and it's a killer. I'm not a fan of the extended schedules; we played more quality OOC opponents when we had a ten game schedule, and players got a little more downtime. Time to get back to basics and recognize it's students playing games and not athletes playing student.
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just to mess with the Big 10 I would counter, the SEC is willing to set up games for every SEC team against every Big 10 team in lieu of a 9th conference game.
 
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LouderVol said:
just to mess with the Big 10 I would counter, the SEC is willing to set up games for every SEC team against every Big 10 team in lieu of a 9th conference game.
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Yep, and to really rub it in, do home and home games with the big10 bottom dwellers. Gets a win and the big10 losses hurt the strength of schedule etc for the top big10 teams.
 
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hog88 said:
I'd like to see the P4 set up some annual interconference games, every SEC teams gets a B10, Big12 or ACC team every year.
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I would like if we could just set that up so everyone of those games were played on the same weekend. Like the third saturday of the season is SEC vs Big 10, and the 5th Saturday is ACC vs Big 12. let a couple games be played, and then match up teams based on relative strength in conference.

I am pretty sure even Missouri would beat Indiana. a scrappy SC or Vandy would be fun to watch play a Big 10 team too.
 
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