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Posted on 11/9/11 at 2:08 am to NIH
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And we only have to go back a decade to see even more success than that.
But what about all those years in the middle?
Posted on 11/9/11 at 2:09 am to NIH
Congrats, we've been doing that for awhile now.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 2:10 am to busey
Doesn't take a genius to see a coach fading out and then the dumb shite that was his succesor. The only common thread is the former AD who let it happen on his watch.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 2:11 am to busey
Yet you haven't finished ranked nor do you have any seasons above eight wins.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 2:11 am to NIH
You said consistent. We are.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 2:14 am to busey
Consistent pizza bowls =\= consistent Gator/Peach/Cotton which is where we want to be. We most likely only need 7 wins to get back to the Gator.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 2:15 am to NIH
And we had 9 wins in 1994. We had a shite ton of 9+ win seasons a really long time ago.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 2:16 am to NIH
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want
Key word here.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 2:17 am to Quantrill
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So I will get a feel for SEC culture by how many basketball fans you send to KC.
What is this "basketball" you speak of? My grandpappy used to tell stories about it on the front porch while we chased lightning bugs, I kinda remember something about how people in Kentucky use it to feel important or whatever.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 2:18 am to CtotheVrzrbck
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people in Kentucky use it to feel important or whatever
Well we certainly don't use our all time winning football record over R-Kansas.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 2:34 am to SunHog
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Ark Football
Love that site. Wish the Ath. Dept would hire those guys to handle all the in game A/V and fan atmosphere functions.
This is my litmus test for SEC culture and if you and your school belong.
Did your state fully secede from the Union in 1860? If so, you're in. If not GTFO.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 2:43 am to fuzzymayo
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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.
This needs to be on a plaque outside the courthouse in Birmingham not the 10 commandments. I'd settle for on the front facade by the entrance to the SEC HQ bldg tho.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 6:53 am to OMLandshark
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They should have fun with this, considering their closest team is a 6 hour drive away.
Doesn't seem to bother us any.
#occupyoxford was a huge success
Posted on 11/9/11 at 7:03 am to fuzzymayo
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If you lose a bowl game to Ohio State, you are a disgrace.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 7:07 am to Quantrill
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The tailgating on thursdays thing is what gets me. Where? At the stadium? Is everyone retired that travels or do you only work half the week?
All over town. Nobody tailgates at the stadium.
Vacation days are saved up for those Fridays off. My boss is a Bama fan but she understands CFB down here so has no issue with me leaving at 2 or 3 on Fridays to get out of town to get down to AU.
Everything is Coke.
Learn everyones history so you can be educated.
Make sure your women are hot, wear sundresses, and are either knowledgable about football or know when to shut up...preferably the former.
Here is the tough one for you guys...when the St Louis Cardinals are in that late Sept push to make the playoffs and Mizzou is playing UT at the same time...thse TVs better be on the UT/Mizzou game. Understand that football is more important.
Oh...and put some goddamn seats in that endzone! Im not driving or flying to Boone County(thats right, I already know where you guys are) for a frickin picnic!
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Posted on 11/9/11 at 7:15 am to parkjas2001
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Here is the tough one for you guys...when the St Louis Cardinals are in that late Sept push to make the playoffs and Mizzou is playing UT at the same time...thse TVs better be on the UT/Mizzou game. Understand that football is more important.
And dont come up to one of our tailgate parties and want to start talking about the Cards in the playoffs. Baseball season ends when the SEC begins.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 7:25 am to parkjas2001
SEC Football is a religion. On Saturdays in the South hundreds of thousands make a pilgrimmage to their chosen college town to worship. The lucky ones file into the temple, wearing their "Sunday best", and leave all they have both emotionally and physically. If you aren't tired after a game then you are doing it wrong. Your mood and quality of life will depend on your team's performance from week to week. If you aren't an emotional wreck then you are doing it wrong. You should eat BBQ, Gumbo, Jambalaya, Chicken, etc. on gameday while drinking ridiculous amounts of bourbon and beer. However, you should be at church the next day... after all, that's where a lot of analysis and sports talk takes place. 
Posted on 11/9/11 at 7:26 am to Quantrill
Posted on 11/9/11 at 7:28 am to FootballHog
no such thing as pop in the South! it's coke.
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