re: What is SEC culture?

Here's SEC culture... You have just joined fight club. Every fall we beat each other to a pulp. Sure, winning is job one, but job two is to rough up your opponent. If you can't win the game, the next best thing is to leave your opponent physically decimated so that he has a hard time winning the next week. Sure, Ole Miss is down right now, but while we are beating them they'll be sure to pop us in the mouth once or twice. The best way to inflict pain is with a ferocious defense. Fast, brutal, vicious defense. We also tend to like to grind it out with the running game. Yeah, we may have some teams run the spread, but they only succeed when the QB is a power runner. It's brutal football. THIS is how we like it. This is why SEC football is the best.

We don't care that there weren't a lot of points put on the board in the LSU-Bama game. We care that they beat the hell out of each other. The team left standing was the team with the fewest injuries and the least worn down players. The game was over when Bama's players were beaten to a pulp and just couldn't punch anymore. That is how football is in the SEC!

What you will learn is that your team is soft. By the end of the first year your team will be burger. Your players will look up at your coach with big puppy dog eyes and say, "Why did you do this to us?". But we will not stop punching you in the head. Years from now you will finally toughen up... And then you will have really joined the SEC.