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Posted on 5/31/23 at 10:08 am to deltaland
2012 SEC championship was awesome
Posted on 5/31/23 at 10:24 am to cajunbama
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It was such a better conference before we let in the shite eating sows.
Yeah it was so much better watching your non CBS ABC games on Raycom
Posted on 5/31/23 at 10:30 am to deltaland
The game has definitely jumped the shark. I just keep following it because of habit. One or two teams dominate the whole thing now and everybody else is just playing out the string. I think the 80s were the golden age of SEC football. Everybody was good or had the potential to be, and anybody could beat anybody on any given day. It’s kind of like SEC baseball now, which is why I’m so intrigued with that sport these days.
Posted on 5/31/23 at 10:32 am to deltaland
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Before corporate money and greed ruined it
When the inevitable happens and college football is split between the power 5 and everyone else then it could present an interesting alternative where people are drawn to the lower league as it would play to how college football "used to be". No big money uber institutions. Smaller schools with smaller stadiums and the like.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 8:35 am to WG_Dawg
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definitely. One thing I vehemently disagree with though is that teh CFP caused the shift away from this. People say "well if you didn't make hte playoffs/top 4, what's there to get excited about a menaingless bowl game?" but I mean nothing has changed in that regard. In the BCS if you weren't int he top 2 you had "nothing to play for" besides a bowl game. Prior to that if you weren't one of the top handful of teams playing in a major high profile bowl you had no chance at being national champion so why get excited about the bowls? The real problem is with the current generation of players. Every 18-21 year old playing CFB these days was born post-2000. They've been born with a phone in their hand and are used in INSTANT gratification AT ALL TIMES. In addition of course to growin up on social media where it's me, me, me, me all the time. So now that these young entitled people don't make the playoffs we do get that thinking of "well what's left to play for" but the 18-22 year olds of the previous generations still very myuch appreciated the opporunity for what it was.
It's a cultural/generational problem, not a CFB problem. On that topic specifically I mean.
I have accepted the "CFP is to blame" idea but you are right...even back when a natty was just a beauty contest by mid December only 3-4 teams had a shot at a natty and usually 2 were clearly better than anyone...nothing has changed about that except what we call it. The bowls meant something though because, and this is just my opinion, a successful season was not measured by winning a natty and thats it...as is the case today. If your team had won a game they should have lost, had improved from the season before...these were all viewed universally as successes...now if it ain't a natty it is a failure. That stems, in my opinion, from a cultural shift where winning at anything is all that matters, damn the effort, damn the preparation, damn the luck...if you didn't win you lost...and it applies today to everything from sports to careers to marriages etc.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 8:40 am to deltaland
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I have fond memories of listening to State play while dove hunting
Have listened to so many UGA games being called by Larry Munson while sweating in a millet field I can't begin to count them. Haven't done it in YEARS....
Also used to listen to the "Pick of Dixie" network many nights fishing for crappie under the lights. They broadcast a night game from somewhere on Saturday nights during the season. It seemed to be LSU a LOT but also Kentucky seemed to play a lot of night games. Baton Rouge and Lexington seemed like far away, exotic destinations to a 10 year old in North Georgia!
Posted on 6/1/23 at 8:44 am to AwgustaDawg
Used to listen to Leonard's Losers on the radio with my Dad, was my Dad's favorite.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 8:54 am to Hback
Posted on 6/1/23 at 10:24 am to Hback
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Used to listen to Leonard's Losers on the radio with my Dad, was my Dad's favorite.
Knew Leornard "Post Toasties" Postero for several years prior to his death...as did almost everyone in Athens...he was quite a figure about town LOL. He was a GREAT dude. Had more stories than the entirety of the collection of Reader's Digest...had done a LOT of living. Also knew his son but not as well..also seemed like a helluva guy. The radio show was basically him in a nutshell...he was what one would call a good hang today. He and I talked about doing his show after he retired once but to be honest I wasn't comfortable pulling it off...he was a genuine beloved celebrity and had some massive shoes to fill. His son did an admirable job for a while but the CFB world and fans had kind of moved on...his show is still available, I think, from Knoxeville if I am not mistaken, but it is a mona lisa kind of thing...no matter how well it is being done it will never be the masterpiece it was at its height.
Did the google machine...
Familiar....
This post was edited on 6/1/23 at 10:32 am
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