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The SEC is Not Down
Posted on 12/1/24 at 9:41 am
Posted on 12/1/24 at 9:41 am
There is just more parity this year. Thirteen of the sixteen teams are bowl eligible. Only Auburn, Kentucky and MSU finished below five hundred. It may be a fluke, but I think until changes are made with the NIL and the transfer portal, SEC teams will just continue to cannibalize themselves in the future.
I see all the “the SEC is down” posts. But I think it is just the opposite. It isn’t that the top half of the league is down, it is just that (with a couple of exceptions) the bottom half of the league is up. Because of the portal, they have guys starting that in the past would have been backups at the Georgias, Alabamas, and Ohio States of the world. There aren’t many cupcake games in the SEC anymore. And I think this trend will continue.
I see all the “the SEC is down” posts. But I think it is just the opposite. It isn’t that the top half of the league is down, it is just that (with a couple of exceptions) the bottom half of the league is up. Because of the portal, they have guys starting that in the past would have been backups at the Georgias, Alabamas, and Ohio States of the world. There aren’t many cupcake games in the SEC anymore. And I think this trend will continue.
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Posted on 12/1/24 at 9:44 am to captdalton
There should be no arguments about this.
Posted on 12/1/24 at 9:44 am to captdalton
SEC teams aren’t as deep talent wise as usual. That much seems evident. Texas may be the loan exception this year.
Players will not sit on the bench waiting their turn if they can play elsewhere immediately and get paid.
Players will not sit on the bench waiting their turn if they can play elsewhere immediately and get paid.
Posted on 12/1/24 at 9:47 am to captdalton
There’s still been bad football by all teams in the sec this year. Coaches also stick with their QB when they should be moving on to the next guy. One day it will cost them their job trying to be loyal to their guy. I get they want to help them get drafted and it will cause controversy but it’s a different game now that they get paid and can leave themselves.
Posted on 12/1/24 at 9:47 am to captdalton
I dunno man
Posted on 12/1/24 at 9:50 am to captdalton
I just don't agree based on the product I see on the field.
Bowl season always proves me wrong when I feel this way, but we shall see.
Bowl season always proves me wrong when I feel this way, but we shall see.
Posted on 12/1/24 at 9:50 am to captdalton
The top teams in the SEC would crush anyone else in the top 10. Steel sharpens steel.
Posted on 12/1/24 at 9:53 am to captdalton
Agreed, Texas is not an exception in my view. We will see when they get a tougher schedule. They certainly in the upper tier.
Posted on 12/1/24 at 9:54 am to SquatchDawg
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The top teams in the SEC would crush anyone else in the top 10. Steel sharpens steel.
Ppl gotta get over this conference homerism. Idk why fans give a shite if other conference teams make it or think we deserve so many spots.
Posted on 12/1/24 at 9:55 am to jvilardo
NIL and the portal means a total crapshoot of any teams roster year to year. Parity is here.
Posted on 12/1/24 at 9:58 am to captdalton
This post speaks the truth, and every time I've tried to imply the same this season I got rebuffed. Of course most of those people are living in the past and refuse to recognize how the game has changed.
Stockpiling blue chip players is no longer a thing. I mean sure some teams will have more than others and that won't change, but the days of Saban's Bama teams stacking 5*'s and high 4*'s at every position are long gone.
Stockpiling blue chip players is no longer a thing. I mean sure some teams will have more than others and that won't change, but the days of Saban's Bama teams stacking 5*'s and high 4*'s at every position are long gone.
Posted on 12/1/24 at 10:02 am to momentoftruth87
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There’s still been bad football by all teams in the sec this year. Coaches also stick with their QB when they should be moving on to the next guy. One day it will cost them their job trying to be loyal to their guy. I get they want to help them get drafted and it will cause controversy but it’s a different game now that they get paid and can leave themselves.
Who are they going to put in? Not many teams have quality backup quarterbacks anymore. If a guy is good enough to start, he is going to start. At a different school. And there just aren’t enough good quarterbacks to go around even with the transfer portal. If you miss on a guy you will be in trouble.
Multiple teams have put in and started backup quarterbacks in the past two seasons. I can think of Alabama, Oklahoma, and Auburn off the top of my head. Those experiments did not work.
Posted on 12/1/24 at 10:06 am to 49 to nada
Agree 100% w OP. Just 4-5 years ago there was no transfer portal and Saban, etc would just stockpile talent. Now if a guy isn’t getting playing time he’ll just transfer.
And maybe that’s why there doesn’t seem to be 1-2 truly dominant teams in SEC as in recent past. There were seasons where there was no way in hell a Bama or GA or LSU would lose; now it’s pretty much anyone can beat anyone if you don’t bring it.
And maybe that’s why there doesn’t seem to be 1-2 truly dominant teams in SEC as in recent past. There were seasons where there was no way in hell a Bama or GA or LSU would lose; now it’s pretty much anyone can beat anyone if you don’t bring it.
Posted on 12/1/24 at 10:08 am to captdalton
UGA and Alabama have been relatively weak this year. Traditionally weak SEC programs Vandy, South Carolina and Florida have shown surprising strength. The SEC is still strong but the strength is more evenly distributed.
Posted on 12/1/24 at 11:23 am to Whiznot
I still think that Alabama and Georgia could hang with and possibly beat any other team in the country.
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