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BuckBackHome said:

I’m totally okay with them seceding. It may be their best chance at success. And take Notre shame with y’all.
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I'd be fine with the inbreds going full Jefferson Davis.

If OU & Texas would pull their heads out of their asses we could reform the conferences, along with traditional rivalries, back to their original regional markers.

Give me the Big 10, Big East, PAC & Big 12 as the lord intended and rid the CFB world of the SEC. Life would immediately be better.
 
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Once upon a time, Nick Saban was 0-1 on Chickenshit Saturday.

It happened in his first season at Alabama, when the Crimson Tide fell to Louisiana-Monroe 21-14 in Tuscaloosa on the second-to-last Saturday of the season. That game - that Saturday, across the conference - was scheduled in advance and in perpetuity for all Southeastern Conference teams.

Saturday, informally known as Chickenshit Saturday, existed for one reason: ensuring no SEC contender accidentally detonated its title hopes a week before rivalry Saturday.

Alas, it has lost its utility in the current era. Yesterday the SEC announced that it would be sunsetting its annual Opportunistic Late Season Bye Week tradition beginning with the 2027 schedule.
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There are still a few Chickenshit games on week 12:

2026 SEC Schedule Week 12​

November 21
UT-Chattanooga at Alabama
Samford at Auburn
Vanderbilt at Florida
Wofford at Ole Miss
Tennessee Tech at Mississippi State
Kentucky at Missouri
Texas A&M at Oklahoma
Georgia at South Carolina
LSU at Tennessee
Arkansas at Texas

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BuckBackHome said:

I’m totally okay with them seceding. It may be their best chance at success. And take Notre shame with y’all.
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So, the SEC is that big bully kid who takes their ball and runs home when the other kids are finally able to fairly compete? Classic. "We are so big and tough we are going to make our own league and only play amongst ourselves because all of our advantages have evaporated!"
 
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BuckBackHome said:

I’m totally okay with them seceding. It may be their best chance at success. And take Notre shame with y’all.
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Re: "I've said this for a long time to our president," Smart said on Tuesday. "I've been a huge advocate that if we can't find rules that everybody plays by, then we should play our own. I'm not afraid of that. I'm not afraid to break away and say that our conference is strong enough to go out and play.

Just sayin': Smart can say what he wants; he's just blowing hot air. The SEC will never try to "go it alone". Think about it, if they succeeded you would have everybody else and the SEC. In all the NCAA sports you would have a National Champion and an SEC champion. Everybody outside of the South wouldn't give a "rats ass" who the SEC champions are. Their TV viewers would diminish and be limited to those in the SEC states which would significantly reduce their TV money. The best athletes would follow the money too.
 
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The richness of tejas and aggy is grossly overrated.

Here are 3 schools:

School A has a main campus and its centralized system has a budget of 7.2B. With that money, they fund a main campus (larger than school B), 11 branch campuses that are all 4 year and classified as either Masters or Doctoral/Research. They have four distinct medical school campuses.

School B has a smaller main campus, 4 2-year branch campuses and an ag institute (essentially in-house community colleges) and one medical school/research hospital. They do this with a budget of 9.6B--half med school and half academic campus.

School C is part of a decentralized system (branch campuses don't report to it but rather to a system office and President), they are a major research univeristy but don't have a medical school. They're about the size of School B and have a budget of 3.6B

Which school seems richer?
 
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buckeyemania11 said:
So, the SEC is that big bully kid who takes their ball and runs home when the other kids are finally able to fairly compete? Classic. "We are so big and tough we are going to make our own league and only play amongst ourselves because all of our advantages have evaporated!"
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This reminds me of when Penn State fans wanted to secede from the NCAA (because of their sanctions) and join the NAIA. Their plan included saving money on scholarships, since they only get about 20 or 25 scholarships, making a conference of Pennsylvania teams that would love to be in a conference with Penn State, and Penn State would be able to dictate what goes on in that conference (does that sound familiar?), and Penn State would elevate the NAIA to Penn State's level, rather than the NAIA would pull Penn State down to their level.

I do find it funny that "it would be great if the SEC championship was for their version of the national championship," and yet none of the 6 teams in the last 3 CCG's have made it to a national championship game. It'd be like in 2013 or so when the Big Ten wasn't getting any teams to the national championship game, they just said, "Yeah, we're done trying. We're going to call our conference champion our own national champion." That's what you look like right now, SEC. You look like the Big Ten when the SEC was winning all the championships.

Also, this paragraph is funny:
"I've said this for a long time to our president," Smart said on Tuesday. "I've been a huge advocate that if we can't find rules that everybody plays by, then we should play our own. I'm not afraid of that. I'm not afraid to break away and say that our conference is strong enough to go out and play.
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"If we can't find rules that everybody plays by..." I mean, we had that for a long time, and there was a lot of smoke around the SEC. And, as we were told in 2010 when Ohio State was in the smoke, "Where there's smoke, there's fire." So, by that logic, the SEC was doing some shady stuff en route to winning some championships. Now that it's all above board, things are a little tougher for the SEC. So, now he wants to limit things to where he might be able to hide things again?
 
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Zurp said:
This reminds me of when Penn State fans wanted to secede from the NCAA (because of their sanctions) and join the NAIA. Their plan included saving money on scholarships, since they only get about 20 or 25 scholarships, making a conference of Pennsylvania teams that would love to be in a conference with Penn State, and Penn State would be able to dictate what goes on in that conference (does that sound familiar?), and Penn State would elevate the NAIA to Penn State's level, rather than the NAIA would pull Penn State down to their level.

I do find it funny that "it would be great if the SEC championship was for their version of the national championship," and yet none of the 6 teams in the last 3 CCG's have made it to a national championship game. It'd be like in 2013 or so when the Big Ten wasn't getting any teams to the national championship game, they just said, "Yeah, we're done trying. We're going to call our conference champion our own national champion." That's what you look like right now, SEC. You look like the Big Ten when the SEC was winning all the championships.

Also, this paragraph is funny:

"If we can't find rules that everybody plays by..." I mean, we had that for a long time, and there was a lot of smoke around the SEC. And, as we were told in 2010 when Ohio State was in the smoke, "Where there's smoke, there's fire." So, by that logic, the SEC was doing some shady stuff en route to winning some championships. Now that it's all above board, things are a little tougher for the SEC. So, now he wants to limit things to where he might be able to hide things again?
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It's a pathetic attempt at leverage in future discussions. HOPEFULLY everyone laughs at it and realizes it's complete BS and doesn't give in and allow the SEC to have more control.

Every year deeper we get into the NIL/Transfer Portal era, it's always some excuse for how things are "unfair" for the SEC. A real thing that I'd wager at some point we are going to see is the SEC and their media pals start campaigning to have the playoff field set by metric systems that are basically cooked to favor the SEC (Like ESPN's FPI that place a heavy emphasis on recruiting rankings that mean almost more than on the field results) instead of a human committee. Like some sort of expanded BCS type system. Then maybe we can get a 24-team playoff with 14 SEC teams!
 
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