VolDog16

Reason #159 that basketball is not a respectable sport. The most pointless regular season in all of sports, and inherently subjective rules enforced even more subjectively. It's a joke of a sport.

Not necessarily defending that play call by Napier, but it wasn't the worst play I'd ever seen. If you watch again, there was a cow pasture out to the right for the RB to run to, especially if that wide blocker would lead. The idea wasn't bad, the execution was. I'd like to see that same play brought out by others. Also, I understand the argument for Caleb Williams bowing out, but if we're going to endorse that kind of behavior, we need to officially stop calling this college football. It's not. If we're going to top NIL and transfer portal with opt outs MID SESASON, this is just NFL-minor league at this point. Stop pretending there's any tether to the universities other than a logo on the helmet. This sport has become disgusting, and I've just canceled my Hulu to bother watching the rest of the season. The commercials, corporatization, and removal of any pretense of amateurism have utterly ruined a once great sport. All I have left are the four golf majors to watch. Whatever, saves me time and money to live life. Like everything else in this country, all good things are coming to an end, and in their place we get glitzy, over-advertised Idiocracy pig slop.

Highly talented man-child treated like a demi-god gets into trouble for the millionth time, what else is new? These stories are part and parcel of successful teams in the SEC, always have been. You can take the player out of the hood, but you can't take the hood out of the player, and you can't have a championship team without a few derelicts and morons in your starting 22. Like Deion Sanders said, you recruit a certain kind of guy to play D-line, and hint, it's not the wholesome, well-behaved golden boy from a stable family. You have to have borderline sociopaths and felons on your team to accomplish what Urban Meyer and Kirby Smart have in their careers. Smart does need to do something - pay the local police better so he can keep a lid on this stuff as well as Saban has. This is a shady business, no whining on the internet is ever going to change the character of these kids.

The play of the game is not too long, and those invoking 'player safety' for these foolish ideas are bold-faced liars or plain stupid. What's too long are the incessant commercial breaks that lead to 3.5 and even 4 hour run times. It doesn't take a 3-minute commercial break between an extra point or field goal and the kickoff teams to get lined up for the ensuing kickoff. We don't need a commercial break if a player takes more than 30 seconds to get up from an injury. We don't even need them for most timeouts. The world of marketing and advertising ruins everything it touches, and it has done the same to college football. Some games are almost unwatchable with how frequent the commercial breaks are. Tell the marketers to shove it, cut commercial breaks in half, fix instant replay review to have a 1 minute limit or else the call stands, and games will be back around 2.5 hours where they belong. Players will be no safer or in any more danger than they've ever been. The world of entertainment, particularly sports, has garnered an obscene amount of our economy to produce something that is ultimately just that: entertainment. Cut back the commercials and TV revenue to say a meager couple hundred million dollars instead of 1.5 BILLION, and I'm sure the sport could still hum along nicely, players could still get a little paycheck, and coaches and their staffs wouldn't be getting exorbitant salaries pushing and exceeding $10 mil/year. They're entertainers, not surgeons and genius inventors. The wisdom of 'the market' is not always right because entertainment is a distraction product which draws more revenue than the utility it provides. Every entertainment product needs to be brought back down to earth, to resemble its actual social value, and it begins and ends with treating marketers with the disdain and disgust they deserve.

IF the rationale is that the 6 rotating games will even out the overall difficulty of schedule, there is ZERO excuse to then use the 3 fixed matchups to engineer more 'equity' into the schedule... especially when that means dispensing with non-negotiable rivalries such as Tenn/Bama, UGA/Auburn, or Tenn/Kentucky that predate nearly every rivalry not named Army/Navy. Connor is being purposefully stupid with his list.

This article is definitely bait to generate debate. This is laughable. The real organization should look something close to this: Kentucky - Tennessee, Mizzou, Vandy Vandy - Tennessee, Kentucky, MSU Tennessee - Kentucky, Bama, Vandy South Carolina- Georgia, Florida, Mississippi State Florida - Georgia, LSU, South Carolina Georgia - Florida, Auburn, South Carolina Bama - Auburn, Tennessee, LSU Auburn - Bama, Georgia, Ole Miss Ole Miss - MSU, Arkansas, Auburn MSU - Ole Miss, Vandy, South Carolina LSU - Bama, Florida, A&M Arkansas - Mizzou, Ole Miss, OU Mizzou - Arkansas, Kentucky, Texas A&M - Texas, OU, LSU Texas - A&M, OU, Mizzou OU - Texas, Arkansas, A&M I think preserving the Florida-LSU game is important. You can fiddle with Arkansas, Mizzou, and the Mississippi schools depending on how much of the old southwest rivalries you want to renew, but there are certain games you just don't mess with. OU/Texas Texas/A&M Tenn/Bama Bama/Auburn Ole Miss/MSU Tenn/Kentucky UGA/Auburn UGA/Florida You could go throw in Tenn/Vandy just because there isn't any other real rival for Vandy and it dates back a century. Everything else is negotiable, but these 8/9 games are not. Any list not including these is foolish, wrong, and borderline criminal. I'd add LSU/Florida, and even though LSU fans don't seem to care about it, I enjoy the LSU/Arkansas series. It's produced a lot of drama between border state schools I want to see each year. Regardless, let's all just remember to deliver the Texas and OU fanbases a rude welcome for throwing a monkey wrench into a conference in which they don't belong.

Probably the best one I've seen yet. I just posted my own list and it's fairly close. The hard part is figuring out where to put Arkansas, Mizzou, and the Mississippi schools.

Says someone who can't seem to get the Vols out of his mind even though it wasn't the topic of discussion. Weird, that.

You could not be more wrong, but coming from a Bama fan, I can't expect you to have rational take. "Boring" is having one team stampede through every other season to a natty. "Boring" is having the same 4-5 teams in the playoff every year. "Boring" is not finally having a shakeup at the top and some more national involvement. If your definition of boring is that Bama isn't dominating in perpetuity, the rest of the college football world will happily take such a boring world. Boring = predictable (i.e. Bama and company making the playoff before the season even begins). This year is anything but boring. Parity is preferable and makes the season more fun to watch.

I really hate the idea of having these two teams join the conference. Geographically, it makes no sense, no more than having A&M or Missouri in the SEC. This is going to place all but 2-3 elite programs in one conference, rendering the concept of conferences nearly obsolete. I'm not opposed to having something like four 16-team super conferences, but OU and Texas belong in their own conference to anchor something resembling the old Big 12 plus a few other programs around the mountain west region. College football is shifting into something truly unsightly.