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Auburn’s first sweep of tigah since Reagan was in office. Good lort.

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No? Casual fans/media will gravitate to a player like Flagg over Broome though. Flagg had greats stats against far inferior competition. Broome should win it but he won’t. It’s not that big of a deal.

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From roughly new years on in, both the ESPN and CBS Sports websites were running minimum 2 stories a week on the “Cooper Flagg Watch !!!!!” chronicling the #AmazingSh!!t Flagg did that week against Pitt, NC State and Cal. Riveting.

Broome likely finishing 2d in most of the POY awards to Flagg has me salty this AM.

Broome’s and Flagg’s season per game stats are almost identical.  In the 4 relevant stats (last one is combined steals/blocks), each leads in 2, with Broome’s 2 “leads” by a greater margin:
 
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Broome 18.7 10.6 3.3 3.2
Flagg 18.9 7.5. 4.2 2.7
 
Clear advantage Broome.

In the one game they played H2H (on Duke’s floor), Broome was 20/12/4/1 and Flagg was 22/11/4/5. Maybe slight advantage Flagg.
 
What should put Broom way over the top is comparing strength of schedules, and esp conf schedules. Duke SOS was 57, Auburn was 2. Duke played 16 Q3/Q4 games, Auburn played 7. Duke played 15 Q1 games, Auburn played 24.
 
But here’s the clencher — in league play, Auburn’s lowest rated NET opponent was LSU at 89. In Auburn’s game at LSU, Broome was 26/16/0/4. Duke played 11 of their 20 conference games against opponents with a lower NET rating than LSU (3 of those were against sub-200 BC and Miami where Flagg averaged 19/5.3/5.3/1.7)).

Against the ACC’s second highest ranked NET team (Clemson at 22), Flagg was 18/5/1/4. Against the SEC’s second highest ranked NET team (UF at 4), Broome was 18/11/6/2. Against the 5 conf teams (7 games) where the opponent had a NET higher than Clemson, Broome averaged 18.1/9.6/3/3.1.
 
Swap Auburn’s and Duke’s schedules – where would Flagg’s stats be vs Broome’s? POY would be Broome in a rout.

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Why isn’t it 1 with 8, 2 with 7, 3 with 6 and 4 with 5 as far as the 1 and 2 seeds? I would’ve thought it would be: AU & TT Duke & Mich St UH & TN UF & Bama

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Can’t do the last one. #1 seeding rule is, if top 4 teams in conference are in top 4 seed lines, they have to be dispersed to different brackets. That’s why UTn and bams are going to Duke and Houston brackets. After that, it’s protecting geography. MSU is closer to ATL and TTech is closer to wherever the West region is.

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No one has lost to a bad team.

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Maybe not the same thing, but Ohio State is definitely not a good team.

You don’t know your history. At the time, Auburn had played UF more than any SEC team other than UGA (maybe MSU). Auburn’s main recruiting areas have always been the states of Alabama, Georgia and Florida. Auburn fought to have UF as an annual rival (and would never have fought to avoid having that game annually).

Of course the DSOR speaks for itself.

CBS prolly a little disappointed

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Both their rivals just played for the SEC and National championships. I'm not sure any team has ever their 2 main rivals be the top 2-3 programs in the country.

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If there was just another example of that very thing happening this very season. I guess we'll never know.

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settle for 8-4 every most years and a championship run about every 10-15 years if everyone else is down.



Which would be a significant step up from Ole Miss.

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Look, making it to the SECCG once over 30 years is probably enough for Kiffy at Ole Miss. Wait ... what? Sorry, that was Mississippi State that has made the SECCG once.

My bad.

Auburn is undoubtedly miles away from making to Atlanta any time soon. But there is absolutely no reason to think Auburn won't be back in the SECCG before Ole Miss makes it a first time.

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Is this site really so far gone that an offseason meat smoking thread is frowned upon?

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Having lived my entire life east of the Mississippi, I admit I was late to enjoying and appreciating brisket( not until the last decade).

For opposing fans, if you make it to Auburn for a road trip, the brisket at Bow & Arrow is really very good. (Same chef as Acre.)

Was in Houston this Spring for a conference, and went to Truth BBQ on a recommendation. The brisket was out of this world. Assuming that's a pretty good marker/standard, the brisket at Bow & Arrow is right up there with it.