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What happened to SEC pride

Posted on 9/26/26 at 9:00 am
Posted by 985TigerSaint
Member since Mar 2009
1729 posts
Posted on 9/26/26 at 9:00 am
Over the past decades SEC pride was a real thing. We had internal squabbles but nothing more than competitive banter. The SEC stood shoulder to shoulder when it mattered. Has the SEC been watered down by adding too much outside culture? The same way Texans say “don’t California my Texas”, has the SEC “Big 12ved our SEC”?
Posted by ColoradoAg
Colorado
Member since Sep 2011
29168 posts
Posted on 9/26/26 at 9:00 am to
LSU decided they are above the system
Posted by Sid E Walker
BackdoorU ©
Member since Nov 2013
26035 posts
Posted on 9/26/26 at 9:02 am to
LSU FAFO.
Posted by 985TigerSaint
Member since Mar 2009
1729 posts
Posted on 9/26/26 at 9:03 am to
LSU pushed boundaries but they will assimilate. They have no choice. Despite what fans think, the LSU brand can’t make it as an independent. Even Texas learned that with the longhorn network. LSU is better as a sum of the whole.
Posted by Monsusta
#1 Rant User 2023-24
Member since Oct 2023
3319 posts
Posted on 9/26/26 at 9:03 am to
quote:

SEC pride

It is gay
Posted by hooperj75
Indiana
Member since Oct 2022
247 posts
Posted on 9/26/26 at 9:04 am to
No offense but I hope every team in the SEC (but mine) loses every game. The only exceptions would be teams that play OSU, Michigan, or ND. The idea of conference pride is really dumb.
Posted by tBrand
Member since Oct 2022
4457 posts
Posted on 9/26/26 at 9:05 am to
SEC pride was a reaction to the south taking it on the chin in life and in football for the better part of the 20th century.

Then the SEC reeled off a bunch of national championships and became the big boy league for 2 decades. The original outsiders (the moneyed/coastal B1G/PAC) were neutered, so you had to find new enemies, and you found them within your own conference.
Posted by QBUMizzou
North of the Mason Dixon line
Member since Nov 2013
1056 posts
Posted on 9/26/26 at 9:06 am to
It ended when LSU stuck its middle finger in the SEC’s eye by edging pro players then gaslighting us with “but what rules did we break?”

You can’t do that shite. recruit people to sue the conference, publicly disparage the commish, then whine about a loss of brotherly love.

It’s delusion.
Posted by Night Vision
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Member since Feb 2018
25859 posts
Posted on 9/26/26 at 9:07 am to
Posted by 985TigerSaint
Member since Mar 2009
1729 posts
Posted on 9/26/26 at 9:07 am to
After what you did to the big 12, I wouldn’t expect Texas to understand conference pride.
Posted by Night Vision
33rd Level REC Member
Member since Feb 2018
25859 posts
Posted on 9/26/26 at 9:08 am to
quote:

LSU pushed boundaries but they will assimilate.


Daddy says you took it just a little too far ...

Posted by HarryBalzack
Member since Oct 2012
16387 posts
Posted on 9/26/26 at 9:09 am to
Texas destroys whatever they touch.
Posted by ibldprplgld
Member since Feb 2008
28309 posts
Posted on 9/26/26 at 9:09 am to
quote:

LSU decided they are above the system


By following league rules…
Posted by Night Vision
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Member since Feb 2018
25859 posts
Posted on 9/26/26 at 9:10 am to
Posted by 985TigerSaint
Member since Mar 2009
1729 posts
Posted on 9/26/26 at 9:11 am to
I agree LSU handled that whole situation poorly. It’s a weird hill to die on. But that doesn’t erase 100years of conference affiliation. I would expect the rest of the SEC charter members to understand. I get why the old big 12 members do not understand it. Not a dig but you’ve basically been through several conferences in your history. The original members of the SEC have been in 1, forever
Posted by UKWildcats
Lexington, KY
Member since Mar 2015
20845 posts
Posted on 9/26/26 at 9:11 am to
If LSU was worried about standing shoulder to shoulder when it mattered, then this entire summer would never have happened. That's on you Ricky Bobby.
Posted by theyatoak
Member since Dec 2024
180 posts
Posted on 9/26/26 at 9:12 am to
What are examples of SEC pride no longer being a thing?
Posted by 49 to nada
In aggy and gooner heads, rent free
Member since Sep 2023
5568 posts
Posted on 9/26/26 at 9:15 am to
Wtf is SEC pride?

I won't be joining any parades with hairy dudes wearing Borat style one pieces while waving around the SEC flag.

Every program for itself, there can be no other way.
Posted by 985TigerSaint
Member since Mar 2009
1729 posts
Posted on 9/26/26 at 9:16 am to
I think the sentiment of fans across the conference in regards to LSU situation, and LSU fans sentiment toward the conference situation. Everyone saying kick them out, LSU fans saying leave this shite show. It all feels really weird. I hate Bama, Florida, and Ole Miss, but I’d never advocate for expulsion. It just feels weird
Posted by weptiger
Georgia
Member since Feb 2007
11933 posts
Posted on 9/26/26 at 9:21 am to
quote:

LSU decided they are above the system

How so exactly and factually? Most folks, like you, fell prey to the hype and misinformation.

When the SEC presidents met on September 10, they took no disciplinary action against LSU and didn’t even hold the threatened expulsion vote.
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