AUgrad00 7 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 Both Auburn and Alabama should be ashamed. This is embarrasing. Go play people. I love how competition is discouraged in college football. http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/06/cbs_sports_lists_auburn_alabam.html#incart_river_default Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Best5zach 2 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 These football programs have to get money somehow. Might as well make a cool mil plus paid expenses. Not to mention playing on skme legendary fields in front of a real crowd. Ask them how they feel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warnugget 127 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 Shouldn't be too embarrassing. Well probably end up playing at least 3 top 10 teams this year. Those teams just happen to be in our conference, and we play them every year. I wonder how many top 25 teams we end up playing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMassie11 1,717 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 Who cares....we play in the sec and after the 04 season an sec school won't be left out on any contention anytime soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBlueVue 177 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 Embarrassing to who? Im not embarrassed..this is the off season and writers have to write something. I would like to see better games scheduled but to be embarrassed by a football schedule...surely you jest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gAUlf 1 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 uat, UGA, LSU and aTm will probably all be ranked in the top 15 when the polls come out. How many teams outside the SEC can say they will play as many? If SEC teams schedule too many more traditonal power teams in the non-conference schedule than we might as well go to playing 9-10 conference games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aucanucktiger 1,905 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 Oh no not this again. ESPN et al were hammering us for playing non-conference Citadel in 2004 when our CONFERENCE schedule included beating 4 top 10 SEC teams on the way to going undefeated (UT twice), not to mention beating top 10 Va Tech in our bowl game. Kudos to those SEC teams playing non-joke teams outside the SEC (UF vs FSU, UGa vs Ga Tech, USC vs Clemson etc) but when talking about SEC teams, whining about an easy non-conference schedule became a moronic argument after about 2002. It's an argument usually made by butt hurt Big 10, Pac whatever or ACC fans/media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBlueVue 177 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 uat, UGA, LSU and aTm will probably all be ranked in the top 15 when the polls come out. How many teams outside the SEC can say they will play as many? If SEC teams schedule too many more traditonal power teams in the non-conference schedule than we might as well go to playing 9-10 conference games. I agree....the whole out of conference SOS argument is just silly drivel when discussing SEC schedules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charleston Tiger 134 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 Not embarrassing to me. We play a gauntlet of teams in conference. Other schools conferences are weaker, so they need the OOC schedule to bolster their strength of schedule. Ours is strong by default. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUloggerhead 2,547 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 Easiest solution is to go to at least a 9-game conf schedule and dump one of the cupcakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keesler 5,974 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 Both Auburn and Alabama should be ashamed. This is embarrasing. Go play people. I love how competition is discouraged in college football. http://www.al.com/sp...t_river_default Why are you embarrassed and ashamed? It's difficult enough to win in our own conference, hell we didn't win a single SEC game in '12. Screw the folks that want to poke fun at our OOC schedules - Screw 'em! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValleyTiger 2,894 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 Boo freakin hoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronMan70 3,322 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 The only teams that make a big deal out of OOC games are those that don't play in a tough conference. The last I checked, every team in the SEC had an SOS of #35 (Bama,lol) or above, 10 teams were # 20 or above, 5 teams were #10 or above and AU was at #12. SEC teams don't have to worry about this nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad_ATX 13,654 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 What's embarrassing is that people continue to pay to watch games against terrible competition. If folks stayed away from games against Western Carolina & FAU, you may start to see better match-ups. And no, I do not care about what the rest of the country does or how tough the SEC can be. I care about the value of the game vs the amount the university chooses to charge. There's a reason SEC and big non-conference games typically sell out and lower tier games don't. Because fewer people want to pay $50 to watch a glorified scrimmage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarEagle1983 2,194 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 uat, UGA, LSU and aTm will probably all be ranked in the top 15 when the polls come out. How many teams outside the SEC can say they will play as many? If SEC teams schedule too many more traditonal power teams in the non-conference schedule than we might as well go to playing 9-10 conference games. For once i agree with golf! Just joking. I don't think our non-conference schedule is a big deal...all of the SEC's schedules regarding non-conference as far as that is concerned. Why go schedule a middle or bottom tier team in the ACC, Big 12..etc. when when can add another SEC team like FL or USCe. The SEC is only getting better so we're only going to have more teams ranked in the top 25. I'm fine with the fact that we only play 1 decent team out of conference. If writers and other conferences don't like it..start beating us in bowl games and win some NC's. Right now we can do as we please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUSWEN 0 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 As long as winning them all still gets us into the championship game, I don't care who we play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtftiger 40 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 Not embarrassed. at. all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleFlight34 101 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 Nonsense. Weak SEC schedules are apparently still plenty strong enough to get teams in the mncg with one loss. Hell, two teams from the same conference that plays those weak OOC schedules made the championship game just two years ago. Meanwhile, the so-called traditional powers the media and other conferences would like for SEC teams to play can't even go undefeated or have one loss in their own conferences that are filled with programs bordering on cupcake levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StatTiger 3,188 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 If you focus on 1/3 of the schedule it might be. Over the past 5 years, Alabama, Florida, LSU and UGA have the highest overall win pct in the SEC yet they are a combined 46-43 against SEC teams with a win pct. of .600 or better. Life in the conference is a war zone. Seven straight BCSNC teams from the SEC tells the real story about the BEST conference in College Football. More HS talent signs with SEC programs than any other conference and the SEC produces more NFL talent than any other conference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleFlight34 101 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 What is embarrassing and shameful is that we regularly have undefeated teams from the big ten, pac #, big 12, etc. that can't beat out a one loss SEC team EVER for a shot at the title. Their strength of schedule debate really holds a lot of water when a team runs the table and it means next to nothing nationally. It is time for a new anti-SEC rallying cry for all those who are so tired of this conference dominating. The SOS debate is pointless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jskilgro 23 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 The only teams that make a big deal out of OOC games are those that don't play in a tough conference. The last I checked, every team in the SEC had an SOS of #35 (Bama,lol) or above, 11 teams were # 20 or above, 5 teams were #10 or above and AU was at #12. SEC teams don't have to worry about this nonsense. where are you getting those numbers from? (foreseeing a lot of bammers wanting to argue this throughout the summer) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StatTiger 3,188 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 According to the NCAA, here are the national rankings for SOS the last 5 years... Auburn: 6, 3, 3, 19, 39 Alabama: 19, 5, 9, 2, 35 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellitor 34,002 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 No personal offense to the OP but this thread is embarrassing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUtigerfan1027 14 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 This is more than likely the wrong thread for this question but it couldn't hurt. When is the first day coaches can lead practice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBlueVue 177 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 No personal offense to the OP but this thread is embarrassing. A better word IMO is "stupid" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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