Regarding SEC Expansion

7 Responses to Regarding SEC Expansion

1. JMF says:

   October 7, 2011 at 11:14 pm

   Lawyer, elder, theologian, and comedian! 🙂

   I’m a Missouri guy, and I was hoping we’d go Big 10…after all, MU actually has academic standards which is going to put them at a serious disadvantage in the SEC. 🙂 Kinda joking, but kinda not.

   All of that said, I was talking with one of my hillbilly Tennessee friends today, and these are the key thoughts I have on this (with #4 being my favorite!):

   1) Expands SEC footprint hugely.
   2) Mizzou is basically made up of the fourth and fifth tier players out of TX.
   3) Hopefully this gets our local talent to stay home, and maybe we can pull a notch better out of TX.
   4) Lastly, Jay, imagine this scenario: It is Nov. 26 and Alabama plays Missouri in the last reg. season game of the year.. in Columbia!! It is a night game, light snow, and 29 degrees (falling). Wil you swamp dwellers be able to play in inclimate cold weather?

   As I see it, that will be our one (and only one) advantage.

   That said, the Cardinals are going to the NLCS!
2. Jay Guin says:

   October 8, 2011 at 3:07 pm

   JMF,

   You need to learn the SEC vocabulary if you’re going to play with the SEC boys.

   “Swamp dwellers”? The Florida Gators play in a stadium nicknamed “The Swamp.” After all, they’re alligators. And it can be really, really humid there early in the season. But the University of Alabama would never answer to such language. We’re referred to the “Crimson Tide” and with an elephant mascot. “Pachyderms” works. Other plays on the elephant theme are common. And references to, you know, tides will work. But not swamps.

   Swamps are Florida. Or maybe LSU. “Bayou Bengals” is a common nickname for the LSU Tigers – and a bayou is much like a swamp. But not Alabama.
3. Johnny says:

   October 8, 2011 at 7:38 pm

   “They got a name for the winners in the world
   And I want a name when I lose
   They call Alabama the Crimson Tide”

   From Deacon Blues by Steely Dan
4. Brent says:

   October 9, 2011 at 4:28 pm

   May God have mercy on your soul!
5. Jay Guin says:

   October 9, 2011 at 4:45 pm

   Brent,

   It’s the Aggies who will be asking for mercy. You need to pray that the SEC admits Missouri — so Auburn gets moved from the SEC West and you don’t have to play them every year.

   If we admit, say, West Virginia instead, then you’ll have to play Ala, LSU, Arkansas, and Auburn every year. That’s a brutal schedule.
6. Brent says:

   October 9, 2011 at 6:50 pm

   Let the blood bath begin.
7. Charles McLean says:

   October 10, 2011 at 9:14 am

   Texas fans snigger a little as TAMU, in an attempt to escape its status as Texas’ strange little brother who always gets the ugly chick, runs headlong into the jaws…er…arms of the SEC.

   Then, we snicker at the fact that the butt of every joke in Texas goes to a place where they are now, by comparison, a beacon of academic excellence.

   In essence, A&M has apparently decided to change venues so that they are no longer considered “uglier than Texas” and instead are now simply “smarter than Alabama”.

   Now, if you will excuse me, I have to go back to licking my wounds after our misadventure with Zero U. That was embarrassing.

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