Intervention: Members of the SEC (Page 3)

For those of you who don't live in the vaunted South, there's a certain aire about it with regard to the SEC.  If you listen to radio sports talk, the news casts, or read the papers, its SEC first and everything else second.  What these poor folks fail to realize is that the glory days of the SEC began to fade years ago.  At best, the SEC is the 4th or 5th strongest conference in the nation, but you'd never know it living here in Atlanta.

If that is the honest truth, then my point has been proven. I'm so tired of hearing that crap! It's the justification used by SEC teams for playing week non-coference schedules. C'mon...you're going to say that two weeks after FSU looked like a mediocre I-AA team for three quarters against the Citadel?

Oh...our conference is so difficult we can't play the top teir teams out of conference. B.S.!!! The Citadel.

The proof is in the pudding, look at the winning percentage of the SEC verse ranked non-conference opponents and compare to the ACC's winning percentage against ranked non-conference opponents. The ACC's winning percentage against RANKED non-conference opponents is higher. The actual numbers show that in any way you want to measure the strength of the conference the ACC, top-to-bottom, is a stronger conference. Blah, blah, blah. The fact is, it's a fluke that you can even make that argument for one year. So this ACC is relatively strong this year. But you know that par for the ACC course is one or two good teams, plus a bunch of door mats.

So little gator, you be happy with your SEC conference win. I am happy with an SEC championship. I'd love to see how FSU would do in a conference where they had to play Georgia, Auburn and FLorida back-to-back-back, year in and year out.

For me, I expect to win the ACC every year, even now with Miami, Va. Tech, and BC in the conference. I would, too, in a conference filled with perrenial doormats. What happened last year? Oh yeah...no ACC championship, and a loss to Florida. No wonder all the hostility.What I also expect is to challenge for a National title. When was your last one? Oh yeah. 1999. Been a long time, huh?

And contrary to your assertion... A conference title IS NOT as good as winning a National Championship! Yeah...you already said that. Running out of arguments? It's an excuse that SEC teams keep chanting to themselves...."Our conference is the toughest, so wining the conference is just as good as winning a National Title....." Keep saying it enough and you might actually believe it. Oh... and FSU isn't in the SEC so what are the Gators excuse for the 'Noles relative lopsided winning percentage against the Gators from the mid 80's through the present? Florida 20, FSU 13 (at Doak, no less). Is it because the Gators are so beat up from playing that tough SEC schedule every year. Must be tough winning against the likes of Eastern Michigan, Middle Tenn State, vanderbilt, So. Carolina, Miss St., Kentucky, Arkansas, Wyoming, Lousiana Tech., FAMU, San Jose State. The Citadel.

FACT: Since 1998 the Mighty gators are 4-11 against non-conferance ranked opponents. I guess that's why the SEC championship is so important, because your likelyhood of beating a non-conference ranked opponent is practically nil! Unless it's FSU.