Tommy Tuberville (official thread)

[Gatorubet]

Originally Posted by OH10

And then you get to something where Tommy Tuberville and I would agree... the playoff system, which obviously has been argued over and over. But it would be nice if the Big Ten realized that a playoff system might work if we could negotiate first-round home games.


You also miss one big aspect of the cold-weather thing and the Big Ten. Ohio State prepares for the Michigan all year long. Not just in November, but in September, August and March. But the game is played in November.. in the cold. So the team prepares for the probability that the game will not be played in ideal conditions. That affects the kind of football you play. You can't play the SEC spread offense offense in that kind of weather. The coaches have to prepare the "3 yards and a cloud of dust" offense to win that type of game. And it does affect a team to turn it around and prepare a different game plan for a game in a dome down south... just as it would affect an SEC team to turn it around and come up north.

More than likely the increased speed of SEC play would excite the atoms in the stadium, as friction is a component of the increased interplay of atoms rushing together off SEC athletes' wake. As friction produces heat, it is only reasonable to presume that the field would soon heat up to normal balmy SEC temperatures...where Tommy Tubberville would be seen, his staff resting in the large shade fields produced by his enormous ears, Tommy dressed in his shirt sleeves, picking his nose and eating his boogers while mumbling gibberish about beating 'bamer that only the double-wide denizons of that state could care about.

[OH10]

Originally Posted by Gatorubet

More than likely the increased speed of SEC play would excite the atoms in the stadium, as friction is a component of the increased interplay of atoms rushing together off SEC athletes' wake. As friction produces heat, it is only reasonable to presume that the field would soon heat up to normal balmy SEC temperatures...where Tommy Tubberville would be seen, his staff resting in the large shade fields produced by his enormous ears, Tommy dressed in his shirt sleeves, picking his nose and eating his boogers while mumbling gibberish about beating 'bamer that only the double-wide denizons of that state could care about.

So that's the cause of global warming. Someone call up Al Gore. We need a new movie... "An Inconvenient Truth 2: SEC Speed"

[Albert Gore, Jr]

Originally Posted by OH10

So that's the cause of global warming. Someone call up Al Gore. We need a new movie... "An Inconvenient Truth 2: SEC Speed"

Already in post-production.

[Muck]

Originally Posted by Nutriaitch

let the Auburn bashing begin!!!!

Keep your shirt on Les.

[generaladm]

Tuberville still hasn't gotten over his hissy fit from when he was "snubbed" in 2004. That's when all this "SEC teams can't play any tough OOC games because our conference is too hard. WAAH!" crap got started. The reason Auburn got left out of the NC game? Their OOC schedule that year? Louisiana=Monroe, Louisiana Tech, and (drum-roll) THE CITADEL! Ever since, the mid-level SEC coaches have started whining about the conference schedule earlier in the season, now preseason. You wanna prove that your team is better than the BCS runner-up? Try losing less than four games! Meyer and Miles can talk all the smack they want (I don't think they do), but TT and Spurrier are definitely boosting their egos by riding coattails. Does TT really think that OSU would have lost to USF and Miss. St. at home in the same season? (or decade) Please.

As for the hot/cold weather thing, most OOC games are played before Oct. The point is not about SEC teams playing in the snow, just get on a plane once in a while. When Georgia goes to ASU this year, they will travel farther than they have for all of their OOC games since 1998 COMBINED. If you look at the possible OOC opponents in the region, and take out Clemson, Georgia Tech, and FSU, you're left with a bunch of teams that most people would assume were community colleges. Too bad the OSU/Tennessee series doesn't start until 2018. The whole "SEC is the best conference from top to bottom" argument sounds good if you only look a select games. But when you look at all conference standings year after year, you see the same thing. 2-3 teams with 0-3 losses, 4-6 teams with 4-6 losses, and the bottom dwellers. To say an 8-4 SEC team is far superior to an 8-4 Big Ten team is just provincial chest puffing. It's fine if it's a bunch of drunk guys in a bar, but when a coach says it to reporters, it's asinine.

I like the Tuberville - Ross Perot image. "Puttin' Ohia State in the championship game is like dressin' up a chicken to look like Mae West. It just don't make no sense!"

[FCollinsBuckeye]

Originally Posted by generaladm

As for the hot/cold weather thing, most OOC games are played before Oct. The point is not about SEC teams playing in the snow, just get on a plane once in a while.

Excellent point, Tennessee notwithstanding.

[Gatorubet]

Originally Posted by generaladm

To say an 8-4 SEC team is far superior to an 8-4 Big Ten team is just provincial chest puffing. It's fine if it's a bunch of drunk guys in a bar, but when a coach says it to reporters, it's asinine.

I think if we matched up every SEC team to its Big-10 counterpart, and played numbers 1 through 11 (based upon the prior year's finish), the SEC would win last year, this year and next year.

I wouldn't say more, as that would be bragging.

( yeah - and I agree the top of each conference are equal, so don't start )