War Knight 514 Posted November 11, 2016 Share Posted November 11, 2016 Some things baffle me as I look at some old records. We haven't lost to Florida in a little more than 14 years. We don't play again until 2019. Meaning most of the Florida players will have been 0-6 years old the last time they beat us. Tennessee last beat us in 1999. Meaning the players the next time we face in 2018 would have been either not born or 3 years old. South Carolina 2002 beat us so 0-6 there as well. Random notes: Ohio State has never beaten us. (13-5) against FSU, never played Stanford, never played Notre Dame, haven't played Miami since 1984. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VipersStrike1 230 Posted November 11, 2016 Share Posted November 11, 2016 3 minutes ago, War Knight said: South Carolina 2002 beat us so 0-6 there as well. Haven't lost to South Carolina since 1933. Perhaps @augolf1716 recalls that letdown at Lesion Field that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AU64 10,122 Posted November 11, 2016 Share Posted November 11, 2016 I am curious why the SEC East has just seemed to collapse in the past few years. Solid schools in HS football rich states.....and across the board some good teams are really under-performing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger 8,833 Posted November 11, 2016 Share Posted November 11, 2016 22 minutes ago, AU64 said: I am curious why the SEC East has just seemed to collapse in the past few years. Solid schools in HS football rich states.....and across the board some good teams are really under-performing. It's what happens when you replace good coaches with poor ones IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dual-Threat Rigby 8,819 Posted November 11, 2016 Share Posted November 11, 2016 Urban and Kirby were probably 2 of the best coaches in the history of the East...James Franklin might've been Vanderbilt's best in recent memory the way it's going for them now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUld fAUx@ 2,584 Posted November 11, 2016 Share Posted November 11, 2016 1 hour ago, War Knight said: Some things baffle me as I look at some old records. We haven't lost to Florida in a little more than 14 years. We don't play again until 2019. Meaning most of the Florida players will have been 0-6 years old the last time they beat us. Tennessee last beat us in 1999. Meaning the players the next time we face in 2018 would have been either not born or 3 years old. South Carolina 2002 beat us so 0-6 there as well. Random notes: Ohio State has never beaten us. (13-5) against FSU, never played Stanford, never played Notre Dame, haven't played Miami since 1984. With League expansions, Memories of past encounters inevitably fade. Besides, playing in the SEC, of late, has become, well, um, playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger 8,833 Posted November 11, 2016 Share Posted November 11, 2016 22 minutes ago, Dual-Threat Rigby said: Urban and Kirby were probably 2 of the best coaches in the history of the East...James Franklin might've been Vanderbilt's best in recent memory the way it's going for them now. I'm guessing you meant Richt instead of Kirby? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr82be 14,507 Posted November 11, 2016 Share Posted November 11, 2016 1 hour ago, Dual-Threat Rigby said: Urban and Kirby were probably 2 of the best coaches in the history of the East...James Franklin might've been Vanderbilt's best in recent memory the way it's going for them now. Don't forget the Old Ball Coach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dual-Threat Rigby 8,819 Posted November 11, 2016 Share Posted November 11, 2016 1 hour ago, Tiger said: I'm guessing you meant Richt instead of Kirby? Yeah lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dual-Threat Rigby 8,819 Posted November 11, 2016 Share Posted November 11, 2016 32 minutes ago, gr82be said: Don't forget the Old Ball Coach. I think Muschamp, as evidence right now, will have those boys at least top 3 in that conference every year. He's actually getting some pretty solid pieces together in terms of recruiting and the Bentley kid we missed on is the truth. I don't know if he'll be fielding entire NFL squads like Spurrier had for a short time, but he'll have them at least better than Vandy and Kentucky going forward Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GwillMac6 20,791 Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 3 hours ago, Dual-Threat Rigby said: I think Muschamp, as evidence right now, will have those boys at least top 3 in that conference every year. He's actually getting some pretty solid pieces together in terms of recruiting and the Bentley kid we missed on is the truth. I don't know if he'll be fielding entire NFL squads like Spurrier had for a short time, but he'll have them at least better than Vandy and Kentucky going forward Didn't miss on him. He was always going to go wherever his pops was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cptau 169 Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 The SEC east should be called the SEC Lite. Its just a weaker division. The SEC East has 4 historically weak schools in football. The SEC west has really only two. The SEC did not do the SEC east any favors putting Missouri in that division. In the 1992 and 2012 conference expansions the West got the stronger football schools (A&M and Arkansas) the east the weaker (South Carolina and Missouri). Odly, it's reversed in basketball. The east division is stronger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dual-Threat Rigby 8,819 Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 16 minutes ago, cptau said: The SEC east should be called the SEC Lite. Its just a weaker division. The SEC East has 4 historically weak schools in football. The SEC west has really only two. The SEC did not do the SEC east any favors putting Missouri in that division. In the 1992 and 2012 conference expansions the West got the stronger football schools (A&M and Arkansas) the east the weaker (South Carolina and Missouri). Odly, it's reversed in basketball. The east division is stronger. Don't think that's odd. Not too many schools are strong in both sports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AU-HANDLEY-TIGER 205 Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 Well if you look at SEC titles the top six are Auburn , LSU and the Updykes in the West and Tennessee, Georgia and Florida in the East, so at the time of expansion in 92 it was fair. The East is just in transition the West was weaker in the 90's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredst 9,064 Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 It's cyclical. Go back to mid/late 90s and it was the opposite in football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cptau 169 Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 1 hour ago, Dual-Threat Rigby said: Don't think that's odd. Not too many schools are strong in both sports. Just odd that it's exactly opposite between the divisions. The east does have an advantage in basketball attendance as its schools tend to be in or near major cities. Nashville, Lexington, Knoxville, and Columbia are all much larger that Auburn, Tuscaloosa, Starkville, Oxford. That may help those programs get more attention from basketball recruits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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