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re: What is SEC culture?
Posted on 11/9/11 at 2:43 am to fuzzymayo
Posted on 11/9/11 at 2:43 am to fuzzymayo
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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.
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Posted on 11/9/11 at 8:29 am to CtotheVrzrbck
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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.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 8:37 am to CtotheVrzrbck
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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.
Epic
Also, glad to see Kyle Field at least holds enough people to be in the the neighborhood of "revered" by SEC standards
Posted on 11/9/11 at 9:16 am to CtotheVrzrbck
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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.
Just to clarify, this isn't because we don't cook at our tailgates. We just prefer food that originated in our state. Jambalaya, Gumbo, Cochon de lait, Boudin, Etoufee, etc. Louisiana dominates the south in terms of food and food culture. Food is good in most SEC states, but it's most unique in Louisiana.
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