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Why I Mock the S$E$C$
The SEC is a wonderful athletic conference. Ethically, they are a wreck. They don’t just give out Fulmer Cups. You have to earn them. The SEC has earned most of them. Educationally, you are an embarrassment.

An article came across my desk tonight that I had to comment on. This is why I mock those athletes who sign with SEC teams and somehow convince themselves they are going to get an education. The article was allegedly written by an Auburn grad who somehow got a job working on Capitol Hill. He struggles to explain how he was impressed by his visit to College Station, TX. In his struggles, he gets lost time and time again. This article should be read by every student athlete trying to decide whether attending an SEC school will prepare them for life.

The article is titled “The Greatest Fans of the Greatest Fans” (LINK ).

I’m not even going to get snarky about things like initial caps.

“I always believed the Auburn Family was a cut above the rest”
Friend, “Auburn Family” is not a proper noun. Its "Auburn family"

“I want to preface these next few statement”
Preface the next few statement all you want, but making statement like that is what make us think S$E$C$ graduate are not very educated individual. (there is a snarky comment in there, in case the SEC contingent didn't catch on)

“We parted ways with him and walked towards Northgate for lunch and on our way we asked for directions to make sure we were going in the right direction. Again instead of giving us directions the middle aged man we asked walked us part of the way to our destination, asked us where we were from and welcomed us to College Station. We were blown away by this incredible hospitality. Not to mention later in the day this happened twice more as we made our way to the Memorial Student Center and then to find our gate entrance to the stadium.”
As far as your ordeal trying to get from your parking place to the stadium, it's not that tricky. In the Big 12 we pretty much just follow the other people with tickets in their hands. For over 100 years Big 12 fans managed to find the big concrete structure located in the middle of the big flat plain that is collieville, Texas. Why am I not surprised that even college educated people in the S$E$C$ get lost three times on their way from their cars to the only structure taller than two stories within 50 miles of where they parked?

Here is an english translation:
“We parted ways with him and walked to Northgate for lunch. On our way we asked an individual for directions to make sure we were headed in the right direction. Again, instead of just giving us directions, a TAMU fan walked us part of the way to our destination, asked us where we were from and welcomed us to College Station. We were impressed. Later in the day a similar display of hospitality was repeated while we made our way to the Memorial Student Center and then to the entrance of the stadium.”

“Towards the end of halftime, I read through my program and perused the section that talked about all of their traditions. I quickly realized that theses were more than traditions but instead a code of ethics on how to behave and treat your fellow man and more specifically those who come to visit College Station. From the Twelfth Man who stands ready for service, “Howdy” their official greeting to make everyone feel like family, and Aggie terms used for bad behavior like “Bad Bull” or “Two Percenters”. They literally police themselves and don’t allow their own supporters to act badly towards visitors.”
“theses” were more than traditions?! “theses” isn’t even a word in the English language. A mistake like that in an application essay gets you rejected from admission at a Big 12 school, but in the S$E$C$ it's a word graduates use in an essay extolling how great you are?!

As for their game day program, read and peruse some more. If you want to mention a Code of Ethics, read my earlier article on the 12th Man. LINK

I don’t want to be a $#@!, but go learn about things like initial caps, proper nouns, punctuation and spelling and then come back and explain to us about the “best of the best.” The Big 12 doesn’t have 7 straight BCS Championships, but we also don’t have as many Fulmer Cups as the S$E$C$. We also don’t have college graduates who struggle with the English language.

Excuse me for being a jackass, but we are talking about college football and if an article like that is what comes from the best and brightest of a given conference do you really even want to talk smack about your "student" athletes?