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re: What is SEC culture?

Posted on 11/9/11 at 1:42 am to
Posted by fuzzymayo
Member since Jun 2010
256 posts
Posted on 11/9/11 at 1:42 am to
Everything is Coke. Every. damn. beverage. is Coke.

Your stadium needs to hold 85k+ to be revered. 80k is respectable. Anything less than 75k is laughable.

RV's start to arrive on Thursday night. Spots are staked out as soon as campus closes on Friday afternoon. If tailgating has not begun in full force by sunset on Friday, you fail.

You hate whoever is visiting with a burning passion, but visiting rivals get free food and free beer. And you'll be damned if they don't have an amazing time and come away impressed by your home. All of this comes after mocking/harassing the shite out of them, of course.

If you lose a non-conference game, you are a disgrace and will be mocked as such.

fricking barbecue. If you can't find it on game day, you damn well better be in Louisiana, because that's the only acceptable excuse.

The women on your campus should be absurdly attractive, and should treat game day as a chance to show themselves off at their classiest or sluttiest, similar to Halloween. If this isn't the case for at least 70% of them, there's a problem.

Basketball is only to be discussed when every single bowl game is over, and will only be important until spring baseball training starts. If you need to circlejerk about hoops, do it with Kentucky, and maybe Arkansas will join in.

If you don't travel with your team at least once every now and then, you're doing it wrong. True dedication is making several road trips per year.

If you lose a bowl game to Ohio State, you are a disgrace.

SEC schools come first in SEC states, overall. The Falcons and Braves are a big deal in Atlanta, and the Saints are a big deal in New Orleans, and some people somewhere in Nashville probably give a frick about the Titans. But to Georgia, Louisiana and Tennessee as a whole, SEC schools are the stars of the show.

Everyone hates everyone. If you can't find a reason to despise a fellow member, you aren't trying hard enough. But when the regular season ends, you damn well better be rooting for your conference brethren to represent.

Lax liquor laws are a must. If drinking on campus on gameday is a pain in the arse, I consider you a pain in the arse. Looking at you, Gators.

The insanity never stops. If football isn't a prominent topic 365 days a year, you don't have the right culture. When the regular season ends, it's bowl season, and when the bowl season ends, it's recruiting hysteria. Recruiting hysteria goes to a new level on NSD, and we actually mock each other and get excited about which unproven 18 year old kids decided to play for our school. When NSD is done, it's time to debate team issues ahead of spring ball, then it's time to over-analyze every absurd piece of trivia that comes out of spring practice and break down the spring game (don't forget to mock your rivals about who had the worst attendance for their spring game. Mizzou is without a doubt going to get reamed for this). After agonizing over how your departing players did in the NFL Draft, the Fulmer Cup arrives and we take turns agonizing and making fun of our players and other people's players who run afoul of the law. Then it's Media Days, and then it's the regular season. Repeat ad nauseam for the rest of your life. Love every second of it.

Welcome to the SEC.
Posted by CottonWasKing
4,8,15,16,23,42
Member since Jun 2011
28751 posts
Posted on 11/9/11 at 1:48 am to
Posted by heehaw
Member since May 2009
4584 posts
Posted on 11/9/11 at 1:55 am to
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The insanity never stops. If football isn't a prominent topic 365 days a year, you don't have the right culture. When the regular season ends, it's bowl season, and when the bowl season ends, it's recruiting hysteria. Recruiting hysteria goes to a new level on NSD, and we actually mock each other and get excited about which unproven 18 year old kids decided to play for our school. When NSD is done, it's time to debate team issues ahead of spring ball, then it's time to over-analyze every absurd piece of trivia that comes out of spring practice and break down the spring game (don't forget to mock your rivals about who had the worst attendance for their spring game. Mizzou is without a doubt going to get reamed for this). After agonizing over how your departing players did in the NFL Draft, the Fulmer Cup arrives and we take turns agonizing and making fun of our players and other people's players who run afoul of the law. Then it's Media Days, and then it's the regular season. Repeat ad nauseam for the rest of your life. Love every second of it.
Posted by Larson
Southdowns
Member since Sep 2011
271 posts
Posted on 11/9/11 at 1:58 am to
quote:

Everything is Coke. Every. damn. beverage. is Coke.

Your stadium needs to hold 85k+ to be revered. 80k is respectable. Anything less than 75k is laughable.

RV's start to arrive on Thursday night. Spots are staked out as soon as campus closes on Friday afternoon. If tailgating has not begun in full force by sunset on Friday, you fail.

You hate whoever is visiting with a burning passion, but visiting rivals get free food and free beer. And you'll be damned if they don't have an amazing time and come away impressed by your home. All of this comes after mocking/harassing the shite out of them, of course.

If you lose a non-conference game, you are a disgrace and will be mocked as such.

fricking barbecue. If you can't find it on game day, you damn well better be in Louisiana, because that's the only acceptable excuse.

The women on your campus should be absurdly attractive, and should treat game day as a chance to show themselves off at their classiest or sluttiest, similar to Halloween. If this isn't the case for at least 70% of them, there's a problem.

Basketball is only to be discussed when every single bowl game is over, and will only be important until spring baseball training starts. If you need to circlejerk about hoops, do it with Kentucky, and maybe Arkansas will join in.

If you don't travel with your team at least once every now and then, you're doing it wrong. True dedication is making several road trips per year.

If you lose a bowl game to Ohio State, you are a disgrace.

SEC schools come first in SEC states, overall. The Falcons and Braves are a big deal in Atlanta, and the Saints are a big deal in New Orleans, and some people somewhere in Nashville probably give a frick about the Titans. But to Georgia, Louisiana and Tennessee as a whole, SEC schools are the stars of the show.

Everyone hates everyone. If you can't find a reason to despise a fellow member, you aren't trying hard enough. But when the regular season ends, you damn well better be rooting for your conference brethren to represent.

Lax liquor laws are a must. If drinking on campus on gameday is a pain in the arse, I consider you a pain in the arse. Looking at you, Gators.

The insanity never stops. If football isn't a prominent topic 365 days a year, you don't have the right culture. When the regular season ends, it's bowl season, and when the bowl season ends, it's recruiting hysteria. Recruiting hysteria goes to a new level on NSD, and we actually mock each other and get excited about which unproven 18 year old kids decided to play for our school. When NSD is done, it's time to debate team issues ahead of spring ball, then it's time to over-analyze every absurd piece of trivia that comes out of spring practice and break down the spring game (don't forget to mock your rivals about who had the worst attendance for their spring game. Mizzou is without a doubt going to get reamed for this). After agonizing over how your departing players did in the NFL Draft, the Fulmer Cup arrives and we take turns agonizing and making fun of our players and other people's players who run afoul of the law. Then it's Media Days, and then it's the regular season. Repeat ad nauseam for the rest of your life. Love every second of it.

Welcome to the SEC.



what he said
Posted by OMLandshark
Member since Apr 2009
110036 posts
Posted on 11/9/11 at 2:02 am to
quote:

If you don't travel with your team at least once every now and then, you're doing it wrong. True dedication is making several road trips per year.



They should have fun with this, considering their closest team is a 6 hour drive away.
Posted by CtotheVrzrbck
WeWaCo
Member since Dec 2007
37538 posts
Posted on 11/9/11 at 2:43 am to
quote:

Everything is Coke. Every. damn. beverage. is Coke.

Your stadium needs to hold 85k+ to be revered. 80k is respectable. Anything less than 75k is laughable.

RV's start to arrive on Thursday night. Spots are staked out as soon as campus closes on Friday afternoon. If tailgating has not begun in full force by sunset on Friday, you fail.

You hate whoever is visiting with a burning passion, but visiting rivals get free food and free beer. And you'll be damned if they don't have an amazing time and come away impressed by your home. All of this comes after mocking/harassing the shite out of them, of course.

If you lose a non-conference game, you are a disgrace and will be mocked as such.

fricking barbecue. If you can't find it on game day, you damn well better be in Louisiana, because that's the only acceptable excuse.

The women on your campus should be absurdly attractive, and should treat game day as a chance to show themselves off at their classiest or sluttiest, similar to Halloween. If this isn't the case for at least 70% of them, there's a problem.

Basketball is only to be discussed when every single bowl game is over, and will only be important until spring baseball training starts. If you need to circlejerk about hoops, do it with Kentucky, and maybe Arkansas will join in.

If you don't travel with your team at least once every now and then, you're doing it wrong. True dedication is making several road trips per year.

If you lose a bowl game to Ohio State, you are a disgrace.

SEC schools come first in SEC states, overall. The Falcons and Braves are a big deal in Atlanta, and the Saints are a big deal in New Orleans, and some people somewhere in Nashville probably give a frick about the Titans. But to Georgia, Louisiana and Tennessee as a whole, SEC schools are the stars of the show.

Everyone hates everyone. If you can't find a reason to despise a fellow member, you aren't trying hard enough. But when the regular season ends, you damn well better be rooting for your conference brethren to represent.

Lax liquor laws are a must. If drinking on campus on gameday is a pain in the arse, I consider you a pain in the arse. Looking at you, Gators.

The insanity never stops. If football isn't a prominent topic 365 days a year, you don't have the right culture. When the regular season ends, it's bowl season, and when the bowl season ends, it's recruiting hysteria. Recruiting hysteria goes to a new level on NSD, and we actually mock each other and get excited about which unproven 18 year old kids decided to play for our school. When NSD is done, it's time to debate team issues ahead of spring ball, then it's time to over-analyze every absurd piece of trivia that comes out of spring practice and break down the spring game (don't forget to mock your rivals about who had the worst attendance for their spring game. Mizzou is without a doubt going to get reamed for this). After agonizing over how your departing players did in the NFL Draft, the Fulmer Cup arrives and we take turns agonizing and making fun of our players and other people's players who run afoul of the law. Then it's Media Days, and then it's the regular season. Repeat ad nauseam for the rest of your life. Love every second of it.

Welcome to the SEC.


This needs to be on a plaque outside the courthouse in Birmingham not the 10 commandments. I'd settle for on the front facade by the entrance to the SEC HQ bldg tho.
Posted by Pigfeet
Ark Mods are Fascists
Member since Mar 2010
19783 posts
Posted on 11/9/11 at 7:03 am to
quote:

If you lose a bowl game to Ohio State, you are a disgrace.


Posted by tiger114
Fairhope, AL
Member since Sep 2009
5224 posts
Posted on 11/9/11 at 7:39 am to
quote:

fuzzymayo



That pretty much summed it up.
Posted by Nuts4LSU
Washington, DC
Member since Oct 2003
25468 posts
Posted on 11/9/11 at 10:05 am to
quote:

If you lose a bowl game to Ohio State, you are a disgrace.


Well, officially, we still don't know this for sure, since none of us ever has.

Officially, I mean.

Arkansas, we see you hiding in the corner over there.
Posted by mtnhighTiger
Scottsdale, AZ
Member since Jan 2010
3947 posts
Posted on 11/9/11 at 12:53 pm to
quote:

fuzzymayo


quote:

The insanity never stops. If football isn't a prominent topic 365 days a year, you don't have the right culture. When the regular season ends, it's bowl season, and when the bowl season ends, it's recruiting hysteria. Recruiting hysteria goes to a new level on NSD, and we actually mock each other and get excited about which unproven 18 year old kids decided to play for our school. When NSD is done, it's time to debate team issues ahead of spring ball, then it's time to over-analyze every absurd piece of trivia that comes out of spring practice and break down the spring game (don't forget to mock your rivals about who had the worst attendance for their spring game. Mizzou is without a doubt going to get reamed for this). After agonizing over how your departing players did in the NFL Draft, the Fulmer Cup arrives and we take turns agonizing and making fun of our players and other people's players who run afoul of the law. Then it's Media Days, and then it's the regular season. Repeat ad nauseam for the rest of your life. Love every second of it.

Welcome to the SEC.



Awesome. Truer words have never been spoken.

Mind if I borrow it to pass around to my non-SEC friends? They just don't get it either.
Posted by blacknblu
Member since Nov 2011
10276 posts
Posted on 11/9/11 at 1:35 pm to
quote:

If you lose a bowl game to Ohio State, you are a disgrace

Hey, wait a minute. frick You!

Ok, that was funny
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