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re: The Transfer Portal Has Ended SEC Dominance
Posted on 9/2/25 at 6:53 am to captdalton
Posted on 9/2/25 at 6:53 am to captdalton
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Missouri is 5-3 in their last 8 games against p4 opponents.
Mizzou is currently a better football program over Bama. Chew on that! Lulz
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Posted on 9/2/25 at 7:39 am to WildcatMike
After getting flame broiled like Brian Kelly in a NY6 bowl game it is nice to see at least Matt Mitchell agrees with me.
This post was edited on 9/2/25 at 9:56 am
Posted on 9/2/25 at 8:18 am to captdalton
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captdalton
Your vag is bleeding all over the place. I’m enjoying watching you flame.
Posted on 9/2/25 at 8:42 am to TN Tygah
You are not with Georgia homer..
Posted on 9/2/25 at 8:45 am to captdalton
Yea, i think it just created more good SEC teams and they cannibalize eachother. Unlike the big 10 who has 3 good teams and they all make the playoff.
Posted on 9/2/25 at 8:48 am to TN Tygah
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UGA and LSU will happily step up as Bama burns
LSU has barely won 60% of their games over the past five seasons.
Posted on 9/2/25 at 8:52 am to theliontamer
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Unlike the big 10 who has 3 good teams and they all make the playoff.
What you say has some truth but they have won the past two natties, so until they are beaten they are on the top of the mountain
This post was edited on 9/2/25 at 8:52 am
Posted on 9/2/25 at 8:58 am to TN Tygah
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Just because Bama is done for the rest of this decade doesn’t mean everyone else is.
This. People forget that Florida and LSU started the run of SEC dominance under the BCS. Bama doesn’t have to be great for the SEC to be great. Hell, most of Bama’s recent championships would have been won by other SEC teams had Bama not been so dominant.
Posted on 9/2/25 at 9:08 am to theliontamer
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Yea, i think it just created more good SEC teams and they cannibalize eachother. Unlike the big 10 who has 3 good teams and they all make the playoff.
This. In the SEC everyone wants to win. Every school takes football seriously. Even Vandy is sinking tons of money into NIL. In the Big 10 this doesn’t seem to be the case. Like you said, the top 3 or 4 teams have gone all in while the bottom dwellers have not. That has made the strong Big 10 teams stronger relative to many of their conference foes. That doesn’t seem to be the case in the SEC.
You can look at the records and see it. Last season the top four Big 10 teams had a combined record of 51-8 overall and 32-4 in Big 10 play.
By comparison the top four SEC teams were 43-13 overall and 24-8 in conference.
Big 10: 51-8, 32-4
SEC: 43-13, 24-8
The SEC has always been a grind, now it is even harder because so many more teams are capable of knocking off the top teams. That does not seem to be the case in the big 10. It seems the opposite has happened there, the strong have grown stronger.
And next season isn’t every SEC team going to have 10 P4 teams on their schedule? A 9 game conference schedule and one p4 out of conference game? That will just make it tougher on every team.
This post was edited on 9/2/25 at 9:13 am
Posted on 9/2/25 at 9:23 am to captdalton
As long as the current transfer portal / NIL rules exist, then there won't be any clearly dominant team.
Parity will exist in tiers. There will be multiple layers of teams with roughly equivalent talent. There will be some movement up and down between tiers each season.
Parity will exist in tiers. There will be multiple layers of teams with roughly equivalent talent. There will be some movement up and down between tiers each season.
Posted on 9/2/25 at 9:30 am to wadewilson
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Well, we can't all open with games like the mighty thundering herd.
I’m going to give LSU a compliment. LSU looked good against Clemson, much better than I expected. Both LSU offense and defense were motivated and playing very hard.
Motivating these rich football kids today is not easy. And frankly, BK looked kind of dorky on the Netflix “Any Given Saturday” series, so I was pretty skeptical that this Yankee leprechaun could motivate mostly Southern baws…
Football is honestly better when we have to worry about LSU…
Posted on 9/2/25 at 9:54 am to captdalton
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And I know I am not the only one, there have been tons of others to say something similar here the last few years. I have been beating the drum for years that college football has become all about money. And that it was going to price the blue collar fan that made it what it is out of the game.
My brother-in-law played college football as a linebacker for 4 years in the old Southwest Conference. He fortunately graduated and got a good education, but has had 4 football related knee surgeries and now can’t snow ski (wearing knee braces) for very long with his kids.
He has many friends with much more serious long term injuries and disabilities, from high school, college, or NFL football. In the older days, only very few college players made money from their sport. Many never completed their college degrees. Once football was done, the colleges and universities did not provide continued medical insurance coverage for the players who had put their bodies on the line for their schools and their fans.
Without the players, there is no college football. SCOTUS says college players now get to keep their NIL money. I’m fine with these college players now getting funds that their colleges would have previously taken, for their performances which enrich TV networks and entertain their college fans…
Posted on 9/2/25 at 10:05 am to Old School Tex
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Without the players, there is no college football. SCOTUS says college players now get to keep their NIL money. I’m fine with these college players now getting funds that their colleges would have previously taken, for their performances which enrich TV networks and entertain their college fans…
Players do deserve to be compensated. How and how much can be debated.
But the current system of doing it sucks.
UNC had 72 new players on their roster last night. Purdue and West Virginia also have more than 70 new players. Marshall had 62 new players on their roster Saturday. There are a ton of teams with 50+ new players on their roster this season. There has to be a better way.
Posted on 9/2/25 at 10:28 am to captdalton
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But the current system of doing it sucks.
I agree that the current system is wild. But constraints that attempt to place limits on players which impinge upon the SCOTUS decision won’t survive the inevitable court challenge(s)…
Posted on 9/2/25 at 10:47 am to Nasty_Canasta
Yea, but both of those titles are absolute bullsh*t. Michigan literally got caught cheating during the season. In honestly, one of the worst forms of cheating (sign stealing). Might as well be breaking your opponents star player knee caps. And Ohio State, omg, don't perform on the field in the regular season. Get a 2nd chance because you have a team full of blue chip players. The only team that could really compete with you is Georgia, but their QB gets injured paying the conf champ game that you didnt have to play. Same with Oregon and Penn State, had to play another high levelconf champ game. Not what the sport is supposed to be about. Best teams got penalized for making their conf champ games and you get rewarded with a home playoff game vs an overrated Tennessee team. You give the most expensive roster a 2nd and 3rd chance to win it all and penalize the teams that won their reg szn games.
Posted on 9/2/25 at 10:50 am to theliontamer
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Yea, but both of those titles are absolute bullsh*t.
LOL stopped reading after this. You don’t like those teams winning, then beat them
Posted on 9/2/25 at 10:56 am to Old School Tex
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I agree that the current system is wild. But constraints that attempt to place limits on players which impinge upon the SCOTUS decision won’t survive the inevitable court challenge(s)…
What is your solution to a team hitting the portal after the regular season, leaving so few they can’t field a team to play in a bowl game?
That happened to Marshall. They were offered a bowl bid last season but had to decline it because they didn’t have a team.
That isn’t fair to the school or the fans. There has to be a system better than the current one.
I can not think of another example where people are getting paid millions of dollars and can do whatever they want wirh zero commitment while the people paying them have no say or recourse in the system.
This post was edited on 9/2/25 at 10:59 am
Posted on 9/2/25 at 10:57 am to theliontamer
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Yea, but both of those titles are absolute bullsh*t.
Just pull an Auburn and claim them for your team.
Posted on 9/2/25 at 11:16 am to pbro62
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No one takes you serious you ignorant frick.
all of this
Posted on 9/2/25 at 11:17 am to captdalton
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What is your solution to a team hitting the portal after the regular season, leaving so few they can’t field a team to play in a bowl game? That happened to Marshall. They were offered a bowl bid last season but had to decline it because they didn’t have a team. That isn’t fair to the school or the fans. There has to be a system better than the current one. I can not think of another example where people are getting paid millions of dollars and can do whatever they want wirh zero commitment while the people paying them have no say or recourse in the system
Yes, I agree that this is a problem and unfair. I am not going to pretend to have an answer. Some good lawyers are going to have to review any serious proposals before they are enacted to make sure they can be adequately defended if legally challenged.
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