2008 SEC Discussion

[Gatorubet]

[Buckeneye]

ESPN - Florida's Munroe lost for season to knee injury - College Football

that...could sting; I mean, what were you guys? 89th against the pass last year?

[MD Buckeye]

Originally Posted by Buckeneye

ESPN - Florida's Munroe lost for season to knee injury - College Football

that...could sting; I mean, what were you guys? 89th against the pass last year?

Florida loses two defensive backs for season with knee injuries - NCAA Football - CBSSports.com Live Scores, Standings, Stats

Originally Posted by sportsline.com

Florida loses two defensive backs for season with knee injuries

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Florida safeties Dorian Munroe and John Curtis will miss the upcoming season because of knee injuries.

Munroe tore the ACL in his right knee and will have season-ending surgery. The junior played in 26 games the last two years and was a key contributor on special teams. He led the Gators with 13 special teams tackles last season.

Curtis tore his left ACL for the third time. The senior already had two surgeries on that knee, and coach Urban Meyer said the latest injury could end his career.

Curtis played in 17 games the last three years, including 11 last season.

"I'm confident Dorian will battle through the rehabilitation process and come back a better football player," Meyer said. "John has suffered through multiple knee injuries, and the medical staff along with John and his family will need to evaluate his long-term future in football."

[Gatorubet]

I was too [censored]ing depressed to post this before.

I'm thinking we'll see some folks passing on us again this year.

We will be starting some freshmen in the defensive backfield.

[Gatorubet]

Originally Posted by Buckeneye

ESPN - Florida's Munroe lost for season to knee injury - College Football

that...could sting; I mean, what were you guys? 89th against the pass last year?

Look - we're no Appy State, OK!

[TheIronColonel]

I think I've got the solution. Just put Percy Harvin and Tim Tebow as your safeties. I mean, they're so fast and so good and so wholesome that they should find it easy to play both ways.

Sorry, little schaudenfraude there. That sucks man. I can only hope that enough of your rising juniors will stay for a senior season and you can get everyone healthy.

[sepia5]

I'm still sore about you guys landing Major Wright. I really thought we had a shot at him a couple years ago, and he's an absolute stud. In fact, in recent years, other than Eric Berry, I'd say he's the guy we were close but missed on that I really regret not landing. We're putting an OK DB class together for '09 though.

[IYE2]

Will Hill FS and Major Wright SS. Pretty darn good to me.

[generaladm]

From Mr. Bucknut's Bucket of Bullets on Bucknuts.com - THE Independent Ohio State Sports Site (don't click on the link, it's an ad)

Act like you’ve been there before…

That was the advice that Paul Brown used to give to his players if they celebrated in the end zone. And that’s good advice for all the SEC teams – all of which are notoriously shy of playing anyone outside their conference; and never on the road. This is a conference that is obviously so good that they don’t have to prove it. In fact, they never leave the comfy confines of home. In farming, we call this mentality “barn blindness”…
But, now – what? There is an actual quality game on the horizon. And the fans are stoked. They don’t know how to act, ‘cause – well, they’ve never been there before. Here’s a write-up about the Georgia Bulldogs from their local Athens Banner herald:
Georgia football fans are lining up by the thousands to travel to Phoenix for the Bulldogs' longest regular-season road trip in decades, when the team plays at Arizona State University on Sept. 20. Georgia hasn't played a non-bowl game outside of the Southeast since 1967, when the Bulldogs lost 15-14 to the Houston Cougars. Georgia hasn't even traveled outside the states of South Carolina and Georgia for a non-conference road game since 1972. In all those years, the only schools outside the Southeastern Conference Georgia has played on the road are Georgia Tech, Clemson and South Carolina before the Gamecocks joined the SEC in 1992. Now, fans by the thousands plan to head to Phoenix in September for what could be a matchup of top 10 teams. Georgia is ranked 1 or 2 in most preseason polls, while the Sun Devils (who actually play in Tempe, a suburb of Phoenix) rank in the top 20.

It doesn’t look like much of a match-up really. But these kind of games should cause some heads to turn (or – otherwise - some should roll…).

Wow. I knew they never travelled far, but only going to one state for OOC games in 36 years is beyond ridiculous. If you ever see a UGA team bus for sale, buy it! Low miles, only driven five Saturdays a year.

[Gatorubet]

Fox Sports signs deal with Gators - Jacksonville Business Journal:


Fox Sports signs deal with Gators

The University of Florida and Fox's Sun Sports have signed a media rights
deal that is not only one of the most lucrative in the country, but also
could end the likelihood of an SEC channel being created any time soon.

The deal will pay Florida's marketing arm, the University Athletic
Association, roughly $10 million a year for the next 10 years. Florida, one of
the Southeastern Conference's most marketable schools, was one of the
few major colleges that handled many of its marketing and media rights in-
house.

[BB73]

From the article quoted above:

The Florida-Sun Sports deal takes yet another school off the board that had handled some of its own marketing and media rights in-house. Multimedia rights holders will now turn their attention to Ohio State, one of the few remaining schools that has not bundled its rights into a single deal with an agency.

[ScriptOhio]

Yeah, this sucks; however, it is kind of clever and there may be some truth to it.

[TheIronColonel]

There's not really any truth to it at all, because it ignores almost half of OSU's games against SEC teams (yeah, when you include them we're 3-11-1, but the point is valid). If you conveniently ignore 40% of any data set to make your point, then you have a lot more freedom to make assertions.

[BB73]

Originally Posted by TheIronColonel

There's not really any truth to it at all, because it ignores almost half of OSU's games against SEC teams (yeah, when you include them we're 3-11-1, but the point is valid). If you conveniently ignore 40% of any data set to make your point, then you have a lot more freedom to make assertions.

If you include all of tOSU games against teams now in the SEC, it's 7-11-2.

cfbdatawarehouse.ohio_state/vs_SEC

[TheIronColonel]

Ah, I forgot that Stassen uses the conference at the date of the game, not current conference. More to the point, I'm sure.