re: More impressive? The football run or the baseball?

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I think this makes it easier for baseball, not more difficult. Imagine the top 25 teams having a playoff in CFB. At least five of them would be SEC teams, would the SEC ever lose another National Title?


This is spot on. Someone said that our conferences dominance over the sport of football makes it less impressive!?!? That is beyond stupid. It makes it MORE impressive that we are THAT dominant over the sport s a whole.

Sounds to me like y'all have just gotten so used to winning that it doesn't impress you anymore. Thats a sad state to be in as a fan. It's called complacency and Saban fights it at every corner for a reason. It's evil.

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Wow. Nobody is saying either isn't impressive. The question is which is more impressive.

I think one is based largely on perception, even though I do agree that the perception is earned. But I also think that the SEC has benefited from quite a bit of circumstance in certain teams losing at JUST the right time for an SEC team to be able to play for it. Once the momentum of 2 or 3 in a row built up across the country it snowballed. It still doesn't discount winning the game, but being the beneficiary of circumstance isn't what makes it impressive. Being the beneficiary of human perception, even if earned, isn't what makes it impressive.

I think its a close call. You really have to weigh winning that one huge, hyped up football game vs. going on a 7-8 game run in baseball with your season on the line against the best and hottest teams in a SR and in Omaha.

The nature of baseball, however, with bad hops and streaky hitters, I think having a 6th straight finals is a lot more impressive than some are giving credit for... and I think it's largely because we are weighing it based on how hugely popular the sport of football is and that shouldn't be considered.