SEC Bias discussion

[utparothed]

"Refusing to ruin the lives of two young men" just because they're football players is why we end up with entitled thugs with no discipline, no accountability and no moral compass.  Excusing this...

...is why we end up with this...


 
...and with this...
List of College Football Sexual Assaults Through 2015
 
Who cares about right/wrong when there's no accountability and there are no consequences for your actions because you are a high school/college/pro athlete?
There are plenty of parents, coaches and athletic departments who'd benefit from taking a page out of Coach Strong's book...

 

[Sirhornsalot]

Nice nostril shots

 

[J.B. TexasEx]

If only ESPN had let Baylor off this easy...

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[J.B. TexasEx]

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[Sirhornsalot]

Today's ESPN App, College Football Headlines:

Elite SEC matchups: Leonard Fournette vs Reuben Foster.

DE Beal, No. 5 recruit for 2017, selects Georgia

Georgia's Michel has surgery on broken arm

Wake Forest DT Rodney to miss 2016 season

Can't miss games for each SEC West team

 

[J.B. TexasEx]

Dodged a bullet not landing this thug, Trey LMFAO

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[J.B. TexasEx]

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[dillohorn]

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Figures.

 

[J.B. TexasEx]

 

[J.B. TexasEx]

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[ah-blong]

public opinion is a little bit like a boot.  you can eyedropper water into a boot for a long, long time.  at some point it's believed that you can't fill a boot so people dump their water there.

then one day, a little water comes over the top.  the boot is full and you'll never put water there again.

public good will toward college athletics will one day turn.  baylor and penn state have done enormous damage, and the sec, bob stoops, etc, continue to rampage.  when public opinion turns, it will be a hard day for colleges, but the big offenders - the programs, the coaches, the players, and the boosters - still don't believe it possible.  that boot cannot be filled.

 

[ah-blong]

a true life example of what i'm talking about regarding public opinion:  domestic auto production and sales.

in the fifties and sixties the arrogance of detroit was beyond incredible.  ed deming tried to interest detroit in building better cars through his quality control process.  an amused detroit told him they thought they knew how to build cars and made sure he knew which door led out.  there was a dribble of business back then for foreign carmakers in the u.s., but detroit mainly thought it cute.  turns out the japanese, in particular, were interested in what deming had to say.

by the time detroit realized the tide of public opinion was changing, it was too late.  the momentum was so strong that kissing untold numbers of babies in well-rehearsed performances of contrition and declarations of intent to build better cars fell on deaf ears.  the tipping point probably came well before anybody knew it was changing.  we may be past that point in college football, but the college bad boys think they know how to put a game on the field as well as in the bars and the back alleys.

 

[J.B. TexasEx]

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[tejasrulz]

Mizzou is a pit right now. There is no way in hell I'd let my kids go there.

 

[Sirhornsalot]

Paging Chris Flanagan. lol

 

[TeamMayhall]

 

[J.B. TexasEx]

Cowherd never said anything like this while employed by ESPN. Now he's the Pac12's shill.

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[J.B. TexasEx]

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[irishfred]

Cowherd never said anything like this while employed by ESPN. Now he's the Pac12's shill.

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Spot on.

The SEC has been doing this for years.  Nobody ever calls them out on it.

And they ALL do it in that conference.

As opposed to teams like ND, USC, etc... that never schedule FCS teams or cream puffs...

That's why a conference championship, in my opinion, is a hollow victory for those teams that beat up on multiple FCS teams.  Wins against FCS teams should not count towards the playoffs, in my opinion.

 

[Sooner55]

With some sort of rearrangement of college football conferences on the distant horizon and a possible separation from the NCAA still a possibility, it makes me wonder if another change might be forthcoming.

We've talked a lot on this board about a perceived SEC bias. Sometimes good evidence is presented in these threads/posts, sometimes it's knee-jerk stuff after we hear/see what is sometimes so painfully obvious.

It's no secret that ESPN is behind the bias and has been cultivating this line of thinking for quite some time, perhaps since they proclaimed the 2005 USC Trojans to be the best college football team of all time.

If the perception by non-SEC conferences becomes that the bias is unfairly working against them, could it be possible that at some point we see a split as a result of that? I mean, why hang around and play a schedule if the powers that be are working to arrange an unfair result?

OU strummed Bama last year in one of the last games played last season. I hate OU like anyone else, but the game left me hopeful that the heat of the SEC bias would die down. OU has two losses. LSU has two losses. Don't look now but ESPN is working to get LSU back into the thick of it all. They ran a story on it just today.

Like you, I can't stand the SEC and the media bias. I'm a Sooner fan, but unlike you, I don't have any sort of hate for the great University of Texas. Don't sweat it; I'm not calling you out for hating the Sooners. I just love everything about Texas because IMO Texas is the greatest state in the entire country. I lived there most of my life, but had to move BACK to Oklahoma because of reasons that I'll not expound upon. 

I'm watching the movie "My All American" on Netflix right now, and it FWIW I'm loving every moment of it. 

Right now, in my head and in my heart, I'm a Longhorn fan and I say "Hook 'em Horns!"

God Bless you all.