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re: Worst mistakes in SEC history
Posted on 8/3/25 at 6:23 pm to MillerLiteTime
Posted on 8/3/25 at 6:23 pm to MillerLiteTime
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Mizzou not game-planning the Auburn run game in the 2013 SEC Championship. Would have been frickn hilarious talking shite to haters after winning the SECCG
2nd year in. Lost opportunity!
Mizzou not game-planning the Auburn run game in the 2013 SEC Championship. Would have been frickn hilarious talking shite to haters after winning the SECCG
2nd year in. Lost opportunity!
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Posted on 8/3/25 at 7:07 pm to MillerLiteTime
The actual answer to this question is obvious...
Being late on integration was the biggest mistake for the SEC...
If they had been the first to integrate conference to integrate rather than the last... the conference would probably have about 20 more national championships.
Being late on integration was the biggest mistake for the SEC...
If they had been the first to integrate conference to integrate rather than the last... the conference would probably have about 20 more national championships.
Posted on 8/3/25 at 7:33 pm to MillerLiteTime
Not committing to 9 conference games (yet) to preserve at least 3 common opponents/rivals each year
Posted on 8/3/25 at 7:38 pm to Syd
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“he got a Cadillac for winning the SEC and I got a watch” is not true?
It was a Cadillac and a lighter, both were gold
Rupp won the NCAA
Bryant did not beat Tennessee
Bryant was a sharp cat and used the lighter as a recruiting tool. Makes a good story, but it is just a story.
Posted on 8/3/25 at 7:42 pm to MillerLiteTime
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I would argue that Tulane and Sewanee voluntarily leaving the SEC (although likely nudged out) was one of the best things to happen to this conference. Otherwise we are paying 3 Vanderbilts an even split of our pie instead of one. Wish Vandy would have joined them.
No Vanderbilt, no SEC
Do you even history bro?
Before WWII and the GI Bill, college football was the PRIVATE schools, not the PUBLIC ones. It was Tulane that had "The Queen of the South", not LSU and no Tulane, no Sugar Bowl.
A conference is more than a single sport or school. Alabama football is offset by Kentucky basketball. As for Sewanee, they made the SEC with the "Iron Men", the greatest college football team of all time and a feat that will never be repeated today.
Posted on 8/3/25 at 7:48 pm to OKinTX21
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I mean, he beat OU, who was the AP champion, in the bowl game. Any reasonable person would view that today as a national champion.
They didn't view it as a national championship in 1950. It took 40 years for someone to issue that declaration.
Did Bear Bryant himself claim the 1950 season as being the national champs? His own museum doesn't appear to claim it.
This post was edited on 8/3/25 at 7:51 pm
Posted on 8/3/25 at 8:25 pm to New Money
I don’t think you’re seeing the big picture here. My argument is that Bear’s success transcended his tenure at Alabama, evident by what he did at UK. With that in mind, in a hypothetical scenario that he never went to Alabama or A&M, but stayed at UK, I think he would’ve done very well, and the proof is beating Bud Wilkinson’s OU team in 1950. I couldn’t care less about you splitting hairs, because that’s not the point.
Posted on 8/3/25 at 8:37 pm to Reservoir dawg
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“ MSU firing Allyn McKeen”
This is 200% correct. Here was Coach with a 65-19 record over 9 seasons. But we lost a couple of games to OM in 1947/48. Our overall record was 7-3 and 4-4-1 so the team was still competitive and winning.
It was a dumb decision to fire him after the 1948 season.
Another worst mistake was Ole Miss letting the Kinard brothers control the athletic department in the late 1960’s early 1970’s.
When Coach Vaught retired in 1970 he recommended Bob Tyler to be his replacement. Instead Billy Kinard was hired by his brother Bruiser Kinard. After a couple of lackluster seasons, the Kinard’s were fired. Meanwhile, Bob Tyler was hired at State and the State-Ole Miss rivalry changed from total OM dominance to State being competitive again. From 1947-73, OM was 21-2-4 against State. Had Ole Miss promoted Coach Tyler in 1970, that dominance would have continued another 25-30 years.
“ MSU firing Allyn McKeen”
This is 200% correct. Here was Coach with a 65-19 record over 9 seasons. But we lost a couple of games to OM in 1947/48. Our overall record was 7-3 and 4-4-1 so the team was still competitive and winning.
It was a dumb decision to fire him after the 1948 season.
Another worst mistake was Ole Miss letting the Kinard brothers control the athletic department in the late 1960’s early 1970’s.
When Coach Vaught retired in 1970 he recommended Bob Tyler to be his replacement. Instead Billy Kinard was hired by his brother Bruiser Kinard. After a couple of lackluster seasons, the Kinard’s were fired. Meanwhile, Bob Tyler was hired at State and the State-Ole Miss rivalry changed from total OM dominance to State being competitive again. From 1947-73, OM was 21-2-4 against State. Had Ole Miss promoted Coach Tyler in 1970, that dominance would have continued another 25-30 years.
Posted on 8/3/25 at 8:49 pm to RandySavage
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It's basically universally accepted, outside of Tuscaloosa I guess.
No. No it isn’t. It's a kick return for a touchdown. Nothing revolutionary.
Posted on 8/3/25 at 8:52 pm to New Money
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He wasn't dominating at UK.
I think "dominated" is the wrong word for it, but one cannot deny the relative success he had at Kentucky compared to all other coaches who have come through there. Mark Stoops is now Kentucky's all-time winningest coach but he's also 77-73 (.513) in 12 seasons. Bryant was 60-23-5 (.710) in eight seasons. That team Bryant had in 1950 was good enough to win it all. Stoops hasn't even sniffed an SEC title, let alone produced a team capable of winning the national championship.
Posted on 8/3/25 at 9:41 pm to MillerLiteTime
AssToMouth hiring jimbo fisher is one.
Brian Kelly dance video
Brian Kelly dance video
Posted on 8/3/25 at 9:42 pm to Jimmyboy
Apparently the trophy A&M made for Jimbo is now at a bar in Austin.
Posted on 8/3/25 at 9:45 pm to MillerLiteTime
Auburn going with Malzahn over Kirby.
Posted on 8/3/25 at 9:47 pm to koreandawg
But Kirby probably takes the UGA job anyhow in 2015.
Posted on 8/3/25 at 9:49 pm to MillerLiteTime
Arkansas hiring Lou Holtz over Jimmy Johnson and Ken Hatfield over Barry Switzer. 
Posted on 8/3/25 at 9:49 pm to bamameister
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Alabama tricking Bobby Bowden into a formal interview after the 1986 season.
That's how close we came to the next dynasty. "Foolishness" has been put in many high places."
Anyone you think of from the current HCs in the SEC that resembles the one you just posted?
I am thinking about when LSU refuses to interview Sunbelt Billy for the LSU HC job and ended with Kelly.
Posted on 8/3/25 at 10:32 pm to RollTide1987
from what i remember reading there was other stuff going on with Bryant in Lexington than just Rupp
Posted on 8/3/25 at 10:36 pm to TrueLefty
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Anyone you think of from the current HCs in the SEC that resembles the one you just posted?
I am thinking about when LSU refuses to interview Sunbelt Billy for the LSU HC job and ended with Kelly.
I'm confused. It's fun shitting on BK but he's 10x the coach Napier ever will be.
Posted on 8/3/25 at 11:15 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Oh, yeah. There were rumors swirling that Bryant was sleeping around but nothing was ever proven definitively.
Posted on 8/3/25 at 11:21 pm to EZOU
quote:game plan for the only SEC team to lead the NCAA in total rushing? That run game?
Mizzou not game-planning the Auburn run game in the 2013 SEC Championship.
This post was edited on 8/3/25 at 11:22 pm
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