[gqcyrus87]

SEC Football is only a few months away, its time to get cracking! Grin

SEC East
Tennessee will still be nursing the absence of Ainge, as Fulmer tries to compete in a suddenly tougher conference, with the addition of some new coaches. Spurrier at South Carolina will be looking to bounce back after a year where the Gamecocks were one of the only 2 teams in the conference to get beat by a weak Commodores team. Vanderbilt will try again to sneak in another win behind Senior QB Adams but the loss of Earl Bennett to the draft will be huge for an offense that relied on most of its success through the air. Kentucky will be the team with the bigest dropoff in the conference following a season where they beat LSU but also lost to Miss. St at home, the loss of Woodson and the receiving threats gone, Kentucky should have another Rocky year, they might be able to sneak in a conference win on the road but that would a far reach as well. Florida comes in strong, as Heisman Tebow is in his third year, probably last, although Caldwell is gone, Harvin is still there and now they actually have a RB in Moody. Georgia already is being hailed as the best team in the SEC, while Knowshon Moreno is a beast, and Stafford is arguably the best QB in the conference there still needs to be proof from the recievers there to step their game up.

SEC West
Sylvester Croom made lots of noise last year as the Bulldogs beat Alabama, Ole Miss, kentucky and Auburn. They won't be able to fly under the radar this year as teams they face on the road come wanting revenge. Ole Miss will be in a better space with Nutt now at the helm since he had a better feel for the SEC conference that his predecessor Ogeron, but not having Jarvis Green Ellis, will hurt, but they have Snead who was projected to be a big time QB at Texas. Arkansas will benefit from having Bobby Petrino as a coach, i was ready to have them contending for the West if Ryan Mallet got the green light to play in 08 but the NCAA denied him that. Tommy Tuberville at Auburn will be banking on the athleticism of Kodi Burns to get some momentum on offense, the defense should be fine as it always is for the tigers. Les Miles is facing one of the toughest off seasons yet, its always hard for a coach to get his players to refocus on the season after winning a national title its even harder when you lose Stelz, Dorsey, Chevous Jackson, Hester and your top QB gets kicked off the team and you have a nation of Bama supporters waiting to see if you can win a tittle with "your" players and not "saban's". LSU should be fineif they don't make mistakes at QB, they do still have the backfield threat that is Holliday. And last but not least in the West, Nick Saban. When you finish 7-6 being paid 4 million a season, there better be some results , and boy did Saban come through brining in the top class according to every scouting report minus ESPN (sure espn knows everything cause they are certainly better than Rivals.com and Scouts right...Psych! Tongue) John Parker Wilson will be the rise and downfall of this team ext year as they look for consinstency from the QB before turning to hot prospect Star Jackson. Alabama has a pretty easy home schedule that indudes, Tyrell Johnson's alma-mater Arkansas State!

Ultimately I see Alabama beating out LSU for the West as Miles will miss the seniors that won him a title and Saban's impact players on defense making a huge difference in the showdown down in Baton Rouge.

In the East the winner is deadlocked between Florida and Georgia, while FL has the talent, they are holes on defense left by harvey and inconsistencie s with RB Moody about howhe can't grasp the offense that leave me concerned. Georgia on the other hand has the team but the hype might get to them as it seems they are already expecting to be handed the crown. I expect the winner of the FL GA game to be the winner of the whole SEC.



but lets be biased here we all know Saban runs this conference...ROOOOLLLLL Tide!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Grin

Let me have it wanna hear some thoughts!

[Stevemc]

SEC Football 08 preview... bunch of raw but talented athletes (and in some cases inconsistent) play each other while racist frat kids and their well off parents cheer them on...




Yeah, I said it.

[gqcyrus87]

yes frats do dominate alot of these SEC schools but that is no reason to assume they are all racist. please give a valid reply or don't reply at all.

[MrClean]

Originally Posted by Stevemc

SEC Football 08 preview... bunch of raw but talented athletes (and in some cases inconsistent) play each other while racist frat kids and their well off parents cheer them on...




Yeah, I said it.

LoL !!!

Forget all that bull**** about the racist frat kids and their rich parents (both of whom apparently are only limited to the Southeastern Conference), but I'd love to see you elaborate on these "raw but talented athletes"... and let's not leave out that "(and in some cases inconsistent)" part. I find it amusing that you're claiming the SEC's athletes are more raw and inconsistent than players of any other conference. And I already know that you've got absolutely nothing to back up that ricidculous statements. You surely couldn't punch a hole through that logic, lil buddy. Nice try, though.

[Stevemc]

I like how my bs response got more action to this thread than the original post..

[Stevemc]

as for the raw inconsistent comment you are right you could say that about every other conference but I throw SEC under the bus since theres plenty of people balls to chin deep in their SEC bias. Outside of a few exceptions, SEC teams are out there just out there out "talent-ing" each other. Every now and then I'll catch a decent SEC game on CBS but usually its two terrible high school looking offenses (it makes you want to call it the Special Ed Conference) going against a bunch of freaks on D.

[gqcyrus87]

Originally Posted by Stevemc

as for the raw inconsistent comment you are right you could say that about every other conference but I throw SEC under the bus since theres plenty of people balls to chin deep in their SEC bias. Outside of a few exceptions, SEC teams are out there just out there out "talent-ing" each other. Every now and then I'll catch a decent SEC game on CBS but usually its two terrible high school looking offenses (it makes you want to call it the Special Ed Conference) going against a bunch of freaks on D.

I will give you the nod on the SEC bias, but you are making my point. how can you say the offenses are terrible when you acknowledge that they play against freaks on defense. Isn't it weird how teams that win the SEC championship destroy the teams from other conferences that season. LSU destroyed Va Tech this year, Florida walloped OSU in the title.its because to win the SEC you have to face the toughest defenses in the country! i mean dude you make no sense at all...and you seem to think that when we prise the SEC for its toughness we are saying even the worse teams can beat the USC's and Michigans, Ohio States. but if you looked at any conference from top to bottom, the SEC is the best on paper. and i guess by saying SEC teams are "talent-ing" each other you mean other conferences don't have as much talent, basically meaning they don't face the challenges that make them better players.
and do you realize that you are being bias by admitting you throw the SEC under the bus. do you also realize how ignorant it is to draw assumptions about a whole region of the country and think that those cheering are racists. dude frats are maybe 30% of the student body. and the south has a huge black population so for you to say that is just plain "ignant". I hope when you said all that earlier you were just kidding...so please get a grip of yourself.

[MrClean]

Originally Posted by Stevemc

as for the raw inconsistent comment you are right you could say that about every other conference but I throw SEC under the bus since theres plenty of people balls to chin deep in their SEC bias. Outside of a few exceptions, SEC teams are out there just out there out "talent-ing" each other. Every now and then I'll catch a decent SEC game on CBS but usually its two terrible high school looking offenses (it makes you want to call it the Special Ed Conference) going against a bunch of freaks on D.

Everyone is entilted to their opinion, but very few people will side with someone's arguement that makes a ridculous claim(s) without anything tangible to back that up. I have 3 minutes before I've got to go to work, so I'll be as brief as possible. This "Special Ed Conference" just so happens to have the greatest number of National Championship coaches of any other conference in colllege football. Since the creation of the BCS in 1998, SEC teams have won the BCS Championship game 4 different times:

1998 - Tennessee 23 over Florida State 16
2003 - LSU 21 over Oklahoma 14
2006 - Florida 41 over Ohio State 14
2007 - LSU 38 over Ohio State 24

Not to mention the fact that undefeated Auburn should have played USC in the BCS Championship game which ended up being a blow-out against OU. When I have more time, I'd be glad to throw in some real data to help you out here. Regardless, the SEC has had an average of 4 teams that finish in the Top 15 Final BCS Rankings over the past 10 years. And it wasn't just the same 4 teams that would appear in these rankings. There are a few SEC powerhouse programs, but the Southeastern Conference is the toughest conferenece from 'top-to-bottom' in terms of overall parody and year-in/year-out ocnsistency of the entire conferenece.

[M-247gunner]

Originally Posted by gqcyrus87

I will give you the nod on the SEC bias, but you are making my point. how can you say the offenses are terrible when you acknowledge that they play against freaks on defense. Isn't it weird how teams that win the SEC championship destroy the teams from other conferences that season. LSU destroyed Va Tech this year, Florida walloped OSU in the title.its because to win the SEC you have to face the toughest defenses in the country! i mean dude you make no sense at all...and you seem to think that when we prise the SEC for its toughness we are saying even the worse teams can beat the USC's and Michigans, Ohio States. but if you looked at any conference from top to bottom, the SEC is the best on paper. and i guess by saying SEC teams are "talent-ing" each other you mean other conferences don't have as much talent, basically meaning they don't face the challenges that make them better players.
and do you realize that you are being bias by admitting you throw the SEC under the bus. do you also realize how ignorant it is to draw assumptions about a whole region of the country and think that those cheering are racists. dude frats are maybe 30% of the student body. and the south has a huge black population so for you to say that is just plain "ignant". I hope when you said all that earlier you were just kidding...so please get a grip of yourself.

By God your'e right, I remember back in '96 a Florida team was just gonna roll over this "other" team in the national championship game.

[TrojanHorse]

When people talk about the "greatness" of SEC defenses, I tend to look at Darren McFadden, and his little production against out of conference BCS programs, compared to the way he killed the SEC. And let's face it, outside of the Manning boys, it really hasn't been a conference filled with gifted QBs that rip defenses apart.