Some of yall fit right in to an Orwell novel

Go SEC! Yay everyone else! Let's all win and have a big group hug! We'll all get more money, and strengthen our prestige! Yall are so completely and utterly clueless.

-Money. First, the entire bowl pot is evenly split amongst SEC teams. Vandy is getting as much this bowl season as alabama. SEC teams winning their bowl game doesn't matter in that regard
-Prestige. Since the South started winning a couple rose bowls pre-1950 and the national media wasn't exclusively focused on only ND, USC, and non-SEC teams so much, the SEC has been one of if not the strongest leagues for the last 60 years. Our league is strong and nobody would think any differently if we dont' sweep the bowls.

-It helps my team if the SEC is good! This is the biggest fallacy that people regurgitate. Recruiting is the lifeblood of any team. If other SEC teams besides my own (and yours, the reader) win titles/bowl games, that only helps THEIR recruiting, not yours. Take Auburn for instance. Auburn winning does nothing but strengthen their recruiting pitch. We play auburn every year, therefore it directly hurts UGA, not helps. People always want to say it helps recruiting for the SEC to be good. And my response is what good does it do for one team to say to a recruit "come play in the SEC, where national titles are won" when a team you play against every year can say "come play for [team x], WE win national titles"? It's the biggest dickride of all time.

-Pecking order. 5 years ago, UGA was the only other SEC team besides LSU to win a CWS. That was a feather in our cap that we could use to prop up our program history. Fast forward to now, USC has not only won one as well to join the club, they've passed us with 2. Does that help UGA in any way just because the SEC won? No. In 2009 Auburn had only won 1 national title in school history. Next week they could potentially have 3. Does that help UGA at all in the all time pecking order of the league? No, it hurts us.




I don't know how it happened, but Big Brother (SEC) has brainwashed too many of you. There aren't near enough Winstons out there anymore. Your cries of SEC!SEC! toe the party line, but what good does that really do you? The end of 1984 sums up some of yall perfectly, being mentally beaten down and brainwashed for too long until you finally give in. To paraphrase it below:

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He gazed up at the enormous circular logo, seeing another conference team win the big one. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two bourbon-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved The SEC.

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