The Official 2016 SEC Thread- It probably won't be YOUR team... again

It's August again... the beginning of the two-month period where every trailer park dweller is a homer for his big state program. By October, half will be "conference" fans again, their lives hanging on the exploits of someone else's favorite program.

Soooo... who's gonna march into the shamoff under th' Stars and Bars this season? Vanderbilt? LSU? Kentucky? Georgia? I'm tired of hearing and reading about Nick Saban, and I know you all are, too. Can somebody else please pick up the cross and the Zippo and make 13 states' worth of American citizens start stompin' their feet?

Anyway, let's get this started right. CKS, maybe you need to pay attention to what your staff is doing while you lose games.

http://www.scout.com/story/1690547-texas-a-m-chalk-talk-features-sex-jokes

 

http://www.si.com/nfl/2016/08/02/ro...diction-drug-suspension-cowboys?xid=si_social

On that lean and 40 lbs overweight... I don't know what to say anymore.

 

http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...igers-top-preseason-amway-coaches-top-25-poll

Same old, same old.

1. bama
2. Clemson
3. OU
4. FSU
5. tOSU
6. LSU
7. Stanford University
8. Michigan
9. University of Notre Dame
10. Tennessee

The only Top 3 team that I think should do as well as last season is Clemson. Problem is, they suck when it's time to close the deal, so zero props for their ranking. Unless history reverses itself, LSU is wasting its time in the poll (not winning the West snuffs out any chance of the shamoff) and so is Tennessee. Nobody cares how good Stanford is or isn't. No shot at the shamoff. Go back to doing what you came to school to do- study. ND will not finish in the top ten. You go study, too.

 

I figure Miles now has two seasons to accomplish something worth bringing up at the dinner table, which, for that program's level, is winning the conference at a minimum. I'd have given him just one before LSU looked really bad in their attempts to run him off. If they can open a hole or two for Fournette, it might happen.

I have none for Clemson but maybe winning the ACC and losing the shamoff yet again. OTOH, FSU showed me in 2013 they can close the deal as a program, and I think that one kid's multiple fumbles cost them against Oregon a couple years ago. But they have to beat Clemson.

Might have been Butch. I cant see anybody else doing it.
Spurrier used to vote Duke #1 (his first coaching gig, IIRC- he's the only coach to win the ACC for them in recent history) at the start of the season. It's just the first poll, doesn't matter.

 

http://www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/2016/08/former_alabama_running_back_tr.html

Trent Richardson let his fam spend all his money on shit he didn't even participate in personally.

The SEC needs to teach basic accounting to their hosses

 

Dak Prescott is showing Jacob Coker and the rest what a QB does, at least in the preseason. My guess is he wins his first NFL start rather quickly, as Romo is somewhat brittle at this point.

 

College kids on The (soon to be) Frozen Tundra... is like a preschooler's fingerpainting in the Louvre.

I think NFL-specific stadiums (IOW, are not also a school's home stadium and haven't hosted a bowl) ought to be off limits to prospective players until they've earned the right to play on them by being drafted. Something to look forward to and work for, so to speak. I get the drawing power, but Camp Randall's good enough for this game. LSU wins by at least ten.

 

It talks, no doubt. I had my week wrong, too, FWIW. I thought all this was gonna pop off today instead of next Saturday.

In other news, Bama can't be satisfied with just winning the USC game (by a decent margin, I suspect)- they have to try to claim Tusk, too. Now, the actual Trojan musicians who recorded with Fleetwood Mac are loooong graduated, but it's not like the Tide or the Hundred Dollar Band had anything to do with it until recently...

 

I didn't see the games, but traditionally, Wisky's been an old-school, smashmouth big boy program. I figured LSU's speed and natural athleticism would rule the day. Probably nothing wrong with LSU's ranking --still an upset-- but Wisky should have been ranked, if rankings matter at this point.

You talking about the weather or the talent? The weather's still great up there (it's early September), and any B1G program can sign a Jacob Coker, an A.J. McCarron or a Greg McElroy. Cam excepted, the good former SEC QBs (Eli, Stafford, Cutler) didn't come from programs that were successful while they were training there. I think these three have one division title among them.

He knows that. I guess he figures this is Georgia's year (the law of averages has to kick in at some point, like it did in 1980), or he knows a nine-point win v. a basketball school isn't worth talking about here, so he talks abut Auria instead. David Greene (LMMFAO) ain't walking thru that door...

 

I do watch, just didn't today for being at a family reunion. The USC-Bammer score doesn't surprise me, tho I hoped it would be more respectable. But this is not a game for student-athletes, hasn't been since 2004 or so.

It exists for me to remind SEC fans here that it isn't their big school team that's poking the media in the mouth, saying, "Hey, Becky, I got some friends here who need it, too". I really hope Fish's Dawgs can accomplish something bigger than a conference title again one day, but eleven seasons have gone by since they even managed to do that.

Surely you have some eligibility left- why not drag your own pudgy stumps out there and lift UGA to glory?

Sorry, I've got three degrees. And I've lived in Athens, absolutely no desire to spend another day watching Black people do nothing of interest. If I'm going to attend/play for a White school, I'll play at Mount Union before Georgia. I have a better shot at a natty, I'm sure to get a conference ring or two and the NFL will see me regardless.

They're a solid team, certainly on Georgia's level. But they should get boatraced by any program with UGA's fans' expectations.