re: What is SEC culture?

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Quantrill

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Went to my first Razorback game in ..... well let's just say before most posting here were born. Now after all these years of the Hogs being in the SEC all I can tell you is "SEC culture" is a thing which cannot be explained. It can only be experienced and lived. But I can promise you this. Should you be fortunate to live long enough, you will come to appreciate the SEC for being the greatest sports league ever assembled in the history of mankind. It is that much damn fun.

Drinking
Good food
Hassling opposing fan bases
Drinking
Hating your SEC brothers at all times except when they are playing a non-SEC school
Drinking
College football being the most important sport in the state
Drinking
During the off season you read every practice or recruiting report you can find
Filling up the stadium and being as loud as possible every Saturday

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Maybe you all could help us newbies understand what the SEC is all about. Of course we know about kick-arse stadiums that would tower over ours.

There has been talk by many I'm sure that Missouri is not SEC material. Aside from whether or not we can compete, what else do we need to know or be aware of?

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You will understand the first time LSU visits your campus. I can't wait to be there for that game. Your city will not have enough alcohol to satisfy the thirst of the tiger-faithful. And god help your bars if we lose. They could close down for the rest of the year and still make a profit.

Just ask Knoxville.

people arguing about UK vs MSU vs Vandy vs OM


lulz


THAT is SEC culture

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Everything is Coke. Every. damn. beverage. is Coke.

Your stadium needs to hold 85k+ to be revered. 80k is respectable. Anything less than 75k is laughable.

RV's start to arrive on Thursday night. Spots are staked out as soon as campus closes on Friday afternoon. If tailgating has not begun in full force by sunset on Friday, you fail.

You hate whoever is visiting with a burning passion, but visiting rivals get free food and free beer. And you'll be damned if they don't have an amazing time and come away impressed by your home. All of this comes after mocking/harassing the shite out of them, of course.

If you lose a non-conference game, you are a disgrace and will be mocked as such.

fricking barbecue. If you can't find it on game day, you damn well better be in Louisiana, because that's the only acceptable excuse.

The women on your campus should be absurdly attractive, and should treat game day as a chance to show themselves off at their classiest or sluttiest, similar to Halloween. If this isn't the case for at least 70% of them, there's a problem.

Basketball is only to be discussed when every single bowl game is over, and will only be important until spring baseball training starts. If you need to circlejerk about hoops, do it with Kentucky, and maybe Arkansas will join in.

If you don't travel with your team at least once every now and then, you're doing it wrong. True dedication is making several road trips per year.

If you lose a bowl game to Ohio State, you are a disgrace.

SEC schools come first in SEC states, overall. The Falcons and Braves are a big deal in Atlanta, and the Saints are a big deal in New Orleans, and some people somewhere in Nashville probably give a frick about the Titans. But to Georgia, Louisiana and Tennessee as a whole, SEC schools are the stars of the show.

Everyone hates everyone. If you can't find a reason to despise a fellow member, you aren't trying hard enough. But when the regular season ends, you damn well better be rooting for your conference brethren to represent.

Lax liquor laws are a must. If drinking on campus on gameday is a pain in the arse, I consider you a pain in the arse. Looking at you, Gators.

The insanity never stops. If football isn't a prominent topic 365 days a year, you don't have the right culture. When the regular season ends, it's bowl season, and when the bowl season ends, it's recruiting hysteria. Recruiting hysteria goes to a new level on NSD, and we actually mock each other and get excited about which unproven 18 year old kids decided to play for our school. When NSD is done, it's time to debate team issues ahead of spring ball, then it's time to over-analyze every absurd piece of trivia that comes out of spring practice and break down the spring game (don't forget to mock your rivals about who had the worst attendance for their spring game. Mizzou is without a doubt going to get reamed for this). After agonizing over how your departing players did in the NFL Draft, the Fulmer Cup arrives and we take turns agonizing and making fun of our players and other people's players who run afoul of the law. Then it's Media Days, and then it's the regular season. Repeat ad nauseam for the rest of your life. Love every second of it.

Welcome to the SEC.

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what he said

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If you don't travel with your team at least once every now and then, you're doing it wrong. True dedication is making several road trips per year.

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They should have fun with this, considering their closest team is a 6 hour drive away.

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Coke or pop? I say soda or Coke if actual Coke is available.

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holy shite. There are Yankees in Tara.

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State has and always will have more potential than UK

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No shite. Maybe it's time to start living up to it?