Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

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Smyrna ATL Vol said:
We’ve been saying this for 14 years. Still in mediocrity and adding two good teams will make our clime even harder. Not a beta by any means, but I’m tired of losing and I want to win and win now.
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Hired the wrong people. When that changes it changes. Hoping that conferences outlaw competition so we can win is quite beta…and the fanciful version at that.
 
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Dudley Smith said:
I'd make a strong recommendation for everyone to listen to the latest Late Kick with Josh Pate podcast. I've put the YouTube link below, but it's available in podcast form as well. Really all you need is the first 20 minutes. I think he gives the best explanation of why this is happening, what is going to happen, and why he thinks it will ultimately be harmful to the sport we love. He is an SEC guy, but also a college football traditionalist. He says, essentially, that the pretense of amateurism is what has been keeping the sport together for the last 100+ years, and allowing the smaller players to remain on even footing with the blue bloods in these regional conferences (in the sense that they get to share in the revenue and be a part of the same conference). Now, with the NCAA off to the sidelines, the sport is going to start responding to market forces even more than it has before. There is only so much TV money out there, and you either go big or go home. The SEC is responding to this, and looking to become to college football what Amazon is to online shopping or Apple is to the smartphone industry. Texas and OU see this coming, and want to get on board. He says it may only accelerate from here, and eventually you may end up with CFB's versions of the NFC and the AFC. He doesn't think that there are enough big brands to support 3 super conferences, much less 4. He doesn't like it, neither do I, but I have a hard time saying that he's wrong. I guess the good news is that we'll be one of those brands that make the cut, but say a prayer if you are Texas Tech, or Kansas State, or Baylor.

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He predicted greatness under Pruitt as recently as last year.
 
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SoilVol said:
Looks like we might as well create two football leagues. North and South. Divide the leagues into divisions. Have a playoff with division winners and wild card teams. Winner of each league plays the winner of the other league for all the marbles.

Oh... I think I just described the NFL.

Anyway, we're about to the point of needing a 4-team playoff for SEC championship.
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Agreed. With 20 teams the SEC could split thus giving life to a new conference. Would love to see an SEC and an SWC once again. Just need to add 1 more Big 12 team and 3 from the ACC.

SEC:
Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, Auburn, Kentucky, North Carolina, NC State, Clemson.

SWC:
Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Missouri, LSU, Texas A&M, Texas, Oklahoma, Vanderbilt, Arkansas, Oklahoma State.
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:


So they keep us playing Bama every year, but Fl/Ga still avoid them and even lose their traditional rivalry with AU/LSU. Meaning Ga and Fl play one guaranteed tough game a year in each other, TN still gets screwed playing Bama every year and now AU also.
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AU doesn’t scare me at all and an auto win with Vandy (at least it should be). Bama is Bama but let’s not forget what they were before Saban. They will come back down. Only promising thing is the alignment won’t happen until 2025. We better pray JH is the guy. If he is, we will be a top 15 program year in and out again and TX and OU coming doesn’t bother me. If JH isn’t the guy, we fall further into oblivion with this move.
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:


So they keep us playing Bama every year, but Fl/Ga still avoid them and even lose their traditional rivalry with AU/LSU. Meaning Ga and Fl play one guaranteed tough game a year in each other, TN still gets screwed playing Bama every year and now AU also.
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Auburn vs UGA is the oldest rivalry in the South…that ain’t happening.
 
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butchna said:
Hired the wrong people. When that changes it changes. Hoping that conferences outlaw competition so we can win is quite beta…and the fanciful version at that.
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And what exactly is changing at UT so much that makes you believe we will make the correct hire if JH isn’t the guy? We got lucky that we had years of stability and moved from one UT coach to another. We have screwed up every hire since. I love competition, but when you are down in the dirt and clawing your way up, you don’t want to put boulders in the way.
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:


So they keep us playing Bama every year, but Fl/Ga still avoid them and even lose their traditional rivalry with AU/LSU. Meaning Ga and Fl play one guaranteed tough game a year in each other, TN still gets screwed playing Bama every year and now AU also.
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So in one year we could have (theoretically)

Alabama
Auburn
Vandy
Florida
Georgia
Texas
Oklahoma
LSU
TAMU

lmfao
 
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