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Has college football just 'felt different' to anyone else?
Posted on 12/7/16 at 3:12 pm
Posted on 12/7/16 at 3:12 pm
I don't know if it's just age or what, but back even just from 2010-2012, the seasons felt magical. I was even superstitious sometimes for some of these games, like I would have to watch on a certain TV, etc. Alabama was good, but other teams like LSU, South Carolina, Auburn, and Florida would at least challenge them and have a chance to win. Even LSU could match up and get them if we played a good game.
Now, this yearly Bama dominance is taking the fun, suspense, and excitement out of some of these games. The rest of the SEC cannibalizes itself and we all have 4 losses while Bama just sits pretty in the CFP playoff every year. It's like watching small local high schools playing the best 5 or 6A team in the state. We just can't compete with the best anymore.
Even if LSU won it all in 2011, there was still a good chance Bama would have won it the following year and two more since then. It's beautiful to watch the defense Bama plays because it's so rare these days, but the champion is already crowned before the season starts. I won't pick Bama to lose more than 1-2 games a year for the next probably 5 to 10 years as long as Saban is there. It's for them but no fun for anybody else.
I just don't care as much about college football anymore. Every year usually ends the same way, and there's not much we as fans can do about it.
Now, this yearly Bama dominance is taking the fun, suspense, and excitement out of some of these games. The rest of the SEC cannibalizes itself and we all have 4 losses while Bama just sits pretty in the CFP playoff every year. It's like watching small local high schools playing the best 5 or 6A team in the state. We just can't compete with the best anymore.
Even if LSU won it all in 2011, there was still a good chance Bama would have won it the following year and two more since then. It's beautiful to watch the defense Bama plays because it's so rare these days, but the champion is already crowned before the season starts. I won't pick Bama to lose more than 1-2 games a year for the next probably 5 to 10 years as long as Saban is there. It's for them but no fun for anybody else.
I just don't care as much about college football anymore. Every year usually ends the same way, and there's not much we as fans can do about it.
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Posted on 12/7/16 at 3:13 pm to schwartzy
Please stop.. I can only get so hard.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 3:13 pm to schwartzy
Are you saying that Bama made your arse quit?
Posted on 12/7/16 at 3:15 pm to schwartzy
Posted on 12/7/16 at 3:18 pm to schwartzy
Thank ole miss for waking up a giant when they won at Tuscaloosa in 2015
Posted on 12/7/16 at 3:18 pm to schwartzy
quote:I don't believe you.
I just don't care as much about college football anymore.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 3:18 pm to schwartzy
Oh my this is delicious
Posted on 12/7/16 at 3:27 pm to schwartzy
If we didn't have to share SEC money, you losers would be poor. Respect your daddy. 
Posted on 12/7/16 at 3:45 pm to schwartzy
So you were rooting for Florida against Bama in the SECCG?
Posted on 12/7/16 at 3:48 pm to schwartzy
Ratings are up and big game ratings are way up
It feels fine
Its just for most SEC fans you are tired of being second tier programs
It feels fine
Its just for most SEC fans you are tired of being second tier programs
Posted on 12/7/16 at 3:48 pm to schwartzy
The rest of the SEC has just rolled snake eyes on their last batch of coaching hires.
College football is a coaches game and outside of Saban the head coaches in the SEC look as unimpressive as they have in many decades.
College football is a coaches game and outside of Saban the head coaches in the SEC look as unimpressive as they have in many decades.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 4:20 pm to schwartzy
We sent "the packet" several years back for this reason, completely documenting all the rampant cheating going on in T-town, but all you other cuck schools paid no attention and did not support us and said "that's just Auburn being paranoid" so the "process" went unchecked and now we are suffering the consequences. It is what it is.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 4:26 pm to schwartzy
Well, the worst of the NFL safety rules changes didn't go into effect until around 2010, and they didn't trickle down into college football until around 2012-2013. Also, conference realignment went into overdrive around that time resulting in the destruction of the Big 12 and break up of many traditional rivalry games that helped make College Football into what it is today.
Also, it seems as if the quality of coaching has declined, or it has just simply become more polarized. There has always been parity, but it seems like there is a clear seperation between the top 2 or 3 coaches and the rest of football. The rest of football has tons of parity where traditionally "bad" schools beat traditionally "good" schools constantly. But, the handful of elite coaches and programs run rough-shod over everyone else with little competition. Urben Meyer and Saban, and arguably Harbaugh, are simply in a class of their own, and everyone else is just what's leftover.
Also, at the same time, LSU instituted major parking and tailgating restrictions on campus which completely decimated the tailgating culture, starting in 2012. So, yeah, the game has changed, and not for the better in many respects.
Also, it seems as if the quality of coaching has declined, or it has just simply become more polarized. There has always been parity, but it seems like there is a clear seperation between the top 2 or 3 coaches and the rest of football. The rest of football has tons of parity where traditionally "bad" schools beat traditionally "good" schools constantly. But, the handful of elite coaches and programs run rough-shod over everyone else with little competition. Urben Meyer and Saban, and arguably Harbaugh, are simply in a class of their own, and everyone else is just what's leftover.
Also, at the same time, LSU instituted major parking and tailgating restrictions on campus which completely decimated the tailgating culture, starting in 2012. So, yeah, the game has changed, and not for the better in many respects.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 4:29 pm to schwartzy
"I felt a great disturbance among redneck SEC fans, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced."
Posted on 12/7/16 at 4:33 pm to schwartzy
frick Bama forever. It will end soon.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 4:37 pm to schwartzy
2010, my Jr. Year at bama, gave me a new perspective. After going undefeated in 2009, you almost forgot what it was like to lose.....then South Carolina happened. For some reason that loss never got to me and it's made the few loses since better
Posted on 12/7/16 at 4:40 pm to schwartzy
Cheating takes the fun out of any game. But it will eventually return to normal and Bama will be held to the same standard as everyone else and live on probation like they did the 10 to 20 years prior to the Emmert/Saban gig.
This post was edited on 12/7/16 at 4:52 pm
Posted on 12/7/16 at 5:33 pm to schwartzy
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Now, this yearly Bama dominance is taking the fun, suspense, and excitement out of some of these games. The rest of the SEC cannibalizes itself and we all have 4 losses while Bama just sits pretty in the CFP playoff every year. It's like watching small local high schools playing the best 5 or 6A team in the state. We just can't compete with the best anymore.
Things always change and Bama will sooner or later. Saban will retire or go do something else, or they will just have a less than dominating season.
College football has had several dynasties and they always come to an end or recycle.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 5:46 pm to schwartzy
I really enjoy college football but there was no suspense the last 2 years. I knew that with a NFL ready defense that there was no way my team wasn't winning the championship. First round front seven coached by Nick Saban....forget about it.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 5:48 pm to schwartzy
I just don't get this. Fine, the SEC isn't giving Bama as much of a challenge this year as in years past. But there have always been dangerous games, upsets, and a frick-ton of talent on both sidelines. OM gave Bama a fight, as did LSU and even Arkansas to a lesser degree. And that's just the SEC. Though I'm sure there are plenty of them, only the very stupid Bama fans aren't concerned by OSU or Clemson. Most of the brighter ones should feel a healthy concern for what Petersen might dream up in that game. And there are other teams that could have made a serious run for the title even outside of the CFP field, like Michigan and OU, had things gone even marginally different.
I dunno. It feels a bit like sour grapes to say that CFB seems different because a team you hate is having a historical run. Did it feel "different" when LSU won 2 titles in 5 years and had 11 win teams on two other years in that span while Bama was wallowing in mediocrity? I'm sure it's not fun watching a rival succeed, but it's not the end of CFB as we know it or anything. Things are always changing.
I dunno. It feels a bit like sour grapes to say that CFB seems different because a team you hate is having a historical run. Did it feel "different" when LSU won 2 titles in 5 years and had 11 win teams on two other years in that span while Bama was wallowing in mediocrity? I'm sure it's not fun watching a rival succeed, but it's not the end of CFB as we know it or anything. Things are always changing.
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