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I didn't even notice the Les Miles on the front page. That's pretty bad. I dropped SEC Country from my daily reads because of Spiegleman's shotty reporting. Looks like I need to just un-favorite SDS too if they can't even get the basics right.

Did Hootie even play? Why do his comments matter?

I'd rather him get directions to Myles Brennan's house first.

Hell, there are 68 teams in the NCAA basketball tourney and they still complain about who gets left out. So obviously the only solution is: Get rid of conferences. Play 4-5 warm up games in Sept./Oct. against whoever you want. Start with all 128 FBS teams (works out perfectly) and just play a 7 round tournament starting in October. After the first round, we'd be down to 64, then 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, and 1 champion. Then everybody has a fair chance. If you lose in the first round, then we hope you enjoyed your 6-game season. Lol (obviously sarcasm here)

I thought we already had the Kool-Aid man as D-line coach? Oh wait, he's the HC now. I'm just curious as to why Sark has little to no chance of the Bama job.

Kanell is obviously one of those liberals who just uses arguments based on convenience, not even thinking about the other side (like how FSU does the same).

I think if we go to an 8-team playoff (and we should) the format wouldn't be just the top 8 teams. Here's my proposal: 8 teams, which is 7 games. The Orange, Sugar, Rose, Fiesta, Cotton, and Peach would rotate the 4 quarterfinal and 2 semifinal games (each site would host a semi every 3 years basically). The championship game would be up for bidding. So any of those sites could host it, as well as other sites (Tampa, Houston, Indianapolis, etc.). The 5 major conference champions would be AUTOMATICALLY be in the field. The other 3 spots would be up to the committe, or basically the highest 3 ranked teams that weren't a conference champion. I would tend to want to include the highest ranked group of 5 team as well, as long as they were ranked above a certain spot (say 15th). In that case, the other 2 spots would be up for grabs. Essentially- win your conference and you're in (seems very fair). If you don't win the conference, then you can't have a huge complaint if you don't make it. Following this line of thinking, I think this year's playoffs would look like this: 1 Alabama vs. 15 Western Michigan 2 Clemson vs. 7 Oklahoma 3 Ohio St. vs. 6 Penn St. 4 Washington vs. 5 Michigan The committee may shuffle the ranking a bit so you didn't have conference teams playing each other in a rematch in the first round. Of course not every year would you have 3-4 teams from one conference in it. Sorry Wisky, if you're the 4th highest rank team in the conference, even at #8, you get left out for WM. This seems like the best option to me, although I'm sure some will disagree. Feel free to share your thoughts.

8 team playoffs- which would mean 7 games. Make the Orange, Sugar, Fiesta, Rose, Cotton, and Peach rotate between the first round (4 games) and the semifinals (2 games). with the Finals up for bid. If it's one of the 6 cities for the previous rounds, another bowl can rotate in. Run the first round before Xmas when we have all those crappy bowls, the semifinals on New Year's, and the Champ game 10 days after that like they do now. 5 conference champions would automatically get in. The highest ranked Group of 5 team also would (contingent on being in the top 15 or 20 or whatever). The other 2 spots would be up for grabs, and possibly a 3rd if there wasn't a high ranked Group of 5 team. That wouldn't solve all debate and discussion over who should be 7th and 8th, but it would eliminate the conference champion argument from conversation (and committee debate). And of course- it would make more $$$!!!

Since we're debating stats- I don't think a ball that hits a receiver in the hands, goes right through them, bounces off their chest, etc. should be an INT for the QB. a bad overthrow or a ball right to the defender, yes, but if it hits the receiver in the hands and he drops it, that's not the QB's fault. They do .5 sacks if one guy wraps the QB and the other one just comes and helps bring him down (the easy job), so at a minimum they should do 1/2 interceptions. It should count as a turnover by the receiver. I agree on the YAC though. That will get hazy though when you have to decide what work was done by the receiver (like a 1 yard screen pass that he takes to the house) and a long bomb that the receiver catches with no one around him and takes the other 30 yards to the endzone. They probably wont change either of the rules unfortunately.

I think what it came down to is he couldn't be a total d***head to players who are making millions more than him and didn't care what he had to say, unlike impressionable late teen/early 20's aged kids on college campuses. Although you have to wonder how different it would have been if the Dolphins had signed Brees. He may still be in Miami to this day. I still maintain that Louisiana can thank Nick Saban for 3 football championships from 2003-2010. His own title at LSU, Miles' title with mostly Saban's players, and the Saints Super Bowl in 2010. Because if Miami had signed Brees, New Orleans would've still sucked like we did before and like we do now.

That technically wasn't a fake punt. I don't know what it was, but they weren't lined up to punt. Either way, it was pretty awful. I think they mixed up the playbook with a 3-yr old's coloring sheet on that one.

Rebel, you may be right that this is a down year for us. Which when you are usd to such success, will happen every once in a while. Remind me though, how many SEC championships Ole Miss has won? Or when was the last time you even played in an SEC championship game? Even your little brother Bulldogs have been to Atlanta once. National titles in the last 50 years? You can say whatever you want, but you know as well as anyone your program just is basically irrelevant in the historical context of the SEC. You may beat us this year, and congrats if so, but just like us you'll be playing in an otherwise meaningless bowl. At least we have some recent success to be proud of.

No doubt Florida knew was they were doing and Sankey gave in like a little b****. When the governor and president had already declared a state of emergency, yet the game was still scheduled, something was obviously awry. Just like last year, Florida would've been welcomed here and we would've given them the gate $$, just like we did with SC. And if they think Death Valley would've been sold out, they're wrong. We all know bye/away weekends are when people plan trips, have weddings, etc. It would've been half full most likely. BUT, by cancelling the game (which was their intemt all along) they still make a good bit of $$, probably a few million, because of the insurance policy UF and other SEC schools have on conference games. And I don't have a problem playing Florida at a later date, but to ask us to cancel a home game, even if it is against South Alabama, would be a huge loss of money to LSU's program. It doesn't matter the opponent, the game will likely be sold out primarily because of season ticket holders. If that game is cancelled, they have to refund all of that money for the tickets, which is millions. LSU is one of the very few schools in the entire country that makes so much money via athletics that it actually gives back to the university. No reason to willingly end that.

Take a drink every time they mention Cardale Jones being the 3rd string Quarterback.