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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 3:15 pm to americanrealism
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 3:20 pm to Decker
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Are you saying that Bama made your arse quit?
Bama has made everyone quit. The other SEC schools are stuck with shitty coaches because nobody else wants to coach for a school that's in the same conference as the GOAT.
This post was edited on 12/7/16 at 3:23 pm
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 3:47 pm to americanrealism
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Please stop.. I can only get so hard
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 3:51 pm to TigerTalker16
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Bama has made everyone quit.
Somebody got ripped for a similar thread on the MSB, but it's Saban and Meyer's world until they retire or get bored and move to something else. There is some hope with Clemson hanging in there, as well as the Mich St wins over OSU and Ole Miss wins over Bama the last few years. But, as we have seen, most programs can only rise up here and there. Not sure autistic Jim will stay long enough at Mich to be in the mix. I guess you gotta be content if your team can post a season like 10-2-ish for now.
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 4:32 pm to TailbackU
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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.
Ha, an Auburn fan talking about cheating? All In, amiright?
Posted on 12/7/16 at 4:33 pm to schwartzy
frick Bama forever. It will end soon.
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