It must be nice to be in the SEC
 

Man, it must be nice to be in the SEC. You guys get warm weather (except for kentucky and arkansas, and even they get fairly nice weather), you all have a really strong greek system which is envied by all of the country, and to top it off you guys are home to the best football to grace the land (i.e. Iron Bowl and Florida vs. Georgia).

Is there seriously any drawbacks to going to an SEC school? From the outside it doesn't look like it, but I'd love to know if it's really as great is it seems to be.

SMSUBear

There are no drawbacks to attending an SEC school, until you realize that there is the ACC; the most prestigous NCAA 1-A conference ever. EVER!!!

I have 3 degrees from SEC schools. I have never regretted it and would say that the only drawback was that due to the schools' size, it was hard to get a decent schedule the first year. Otherwise:

WAR EAGLE!!!

WOOOO, PIGS! SOOIE!!!!

HAIL STATE!!!!

Yes, the SEC is fabulous!!! I was in Oxford this weekend and the weather was gorgeous! It was 85 degrees and we went to the baseball game (we are now 18-1) and the went to Sardis Lake.

I love SEC...screw the ACC they don't have great weather in February & March ...or the Mannings.

Did anyone here know that Mississippi has more players in the NFL than any other state. And good ones to...Steve McNair, Brett Favre, Deuce McAllister...

Arkansas, Mississippi St. and Auburn? I don't know about Auburn, but that's the only thing I could think of. There are lots of hog fans up here in Southwest Missouri. Sometimes I wonder if they even realize Missouri has a University too. Oh well, I guess it's the lure of the SEC.

I'm a Mizzou man (Mizzou-RAH!), but there is zero denying the fact that SEC is where football is best.

SMSUBear

Edit: Does it bother you that Favre went to Georgia? Just wondering.

Um, Brett Favre went to Southern Miss...so no, it doesn't bother me...

Steve McNair went to Alcorn State...random school and turned out to be one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL today.

I was talking professionally, when he first played for the Falcons. My bad, I should have said that.

SMSUBear

Just for that comment, I hope that FSU plays Ole Miss in football, just so I can see your players leave the field on stretchers.:p

SEC is the best place to be! From all perspectives: football, weather, beautiful campuses and of course large, strong greek systems.

As we say at UGA, it's a place that gets in your blood and stays forever!

Go Dawgs!

GO ACC!!!!!!!!!!

Even though I am only about 9 miles from GA Tech, go SEC and go Dawgs!

Hmm... Drawbacks to the SEC...





Still thinking....




Wait, it'll come to me....





hmm....


I'll get back to you later on that one.

;)

GO COCKS!

Oh please...Ole Miss was the only team this year who gave LSU a run for their money this year except Florida.

Also FSU got thier coach from the SEC :D


And OK, so we'll trade you the weather of Clemson and Tallahassee for Knoxville and Lexington.

I love this thread!

WAR EAGLE!!!

ME TOO!

HOTTY TODDY!!

Actually, the BIG 10 rules
 

Actually, the Big Ten rules.

You have the real academic power houses, real schools that their states can be proud of, especially Indiana (birthplace of Crest toothpaste and the Kinsey Institute), Michigan (World's best fight song), Ohio State (Woody Hayes still lives), Penn State (the Beast of the East), and Illinois (the Indian, best campus live mascot). There's nothing to be ashamed of at Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan State, or Northwestern either. (Even the lesser school in the Hoosier state, Purdue, can't be compared to the feces-covered athletic houses of ill-repute in the SEC)

Compare those academic and athletic world-class Big Ten schools to Mississippi, Miss. State, South Carolina, and the other dregs of the SEC. Sure, Vanderbilt is a decent school, but one goody can't pump up 11 losers.

Football may rule in the SEC (except at Vandy), but sports are pretty good and the academics are very good in the Big Ten.

Bobby Bowden coached at WVU before he came to FSU. As an student, he attended Samford. :D

LMAO. The SEC has some funny names for their teams. If you screamed, "GO COCKS!" in New York City, you would get all kinds of offers. :eek: :p

I used to go to SEC parties for alumni and friends in NYC despite the fact that I never attended an SEC. They were nice people with interesting accents. All the guys from Arkansas sounded like President Clinton. :)

Oh, yeah, I forgot that orange overalls are SO much classier than being able to wear cute little garnet or black dresses to football games.

And, come on, you can insult my school all day long, but where else can you yell "Cocks" and not have it be derogatory? I mean, people in CALIFORNIA collect our baseball caps.

Love,
Your All-American SEC Girl

I'm still waiting for the South Carolina 'Cocks to play the Oregon State Beavers.

Actually, Alabama has had more Academic All-Americans than any other school in the nation. I like to think we have it all.... we get ranked academically AND in the top party schools in the country! :D Of course, the legendary greek system speaks for itself. I'm not condoning the actions of "the machine," but where else does being involved in student government lead to becoming a US senator?

Sorry this Cali girl just HAS to butt in and say... I think the Pac 10 has SEC beat on weather.. (well minus U-W)

Um actually yes, he did go to Alabama his freshman year and played quarterback...he finished at Howard and he is from Birmingham. Don't argue with me about football, you won't win.
:D


Bowden was an outstanding football player at Woodlawn High School in Birmingham, Ala., and went on to Alabama as a freshman quarterback, fulfilling a lifelong dream to play for the Crimson Tide. He lasted one semester in Tuscaloosa before high school sweetheart Ann Estock lured him back to Birmingham. They soon married and Bobby transferred to Howard College (now Samford University) in Birmingham. The two celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in the same year (1999) that FSU won it’s second national championship and Bowden coached his only undefeated team, which was the first team ever to go wire-to-wire as the AP No. 1.

That doesn't count as getting "thier (sic) coach from the SEC."

And you can't win football. You're from Ole Miss, I'm from FSU.:p :p :p

The last time UGA met FSU, the Dawgs won. Doesn't really matter that UGA's coach once worked for Bowden and at FSU .:p

UGa's claim to fame. How sad.:p

To Hotty-Toddy
 

Thanks for your good info on our Coach Bobby Bowden. Since you are a Phi Mu, you know that Ann Bowden was president of her Phi Mu chapter at Samford when Bobby Bowden was president of the Pike chapter there.
I wouldn't dream of challenging you on football trivia, but is it you who contends that Mississippi has more NFL players than any other state??!! I know that FSU and Notre Dame take turns having the most current NFL players. And when it's not one of us it's Florida or Miami. How can Mississippi have more NFL players than Florida, with FSU, Florida and Miami?

Re: Actually, the BIG 10 rules
 

Cool. Academics ROCK! I bet their greek systems are cool too.




ooooh Crest toothpase!! I'm sure every state and every school has their claim to fame.

Best fight song? Who decided that one?


Never had Bear Bryant's record (though Paterno and Bowden did) and he was fired for having a temper tantrum. Oh, yes, and...HE'S DEAD.

[Quote]Penn State (the Beast of the East), and Illinois (the Indian, best campus live mascot).[/Quote}

Who decided this too?

Eli Manning also won some academic and athletic awards (Can't remember)...and Peyton graduated Cum Laude in 3 years.

Also...I agree that some of the schools in the Big Ten are excellent schools...but don't insult my school.

Re: To Hotty-Toddy
 

Let me clarify. The state of Mississippi has more NFL players than any other state. Not Ole Miss. Many of these went to various schools...however more people in the NFL are FROM Mississippi than any other state.

Lol UGA has been doing better than FSU in the past 3 years. UGA is due for a national championship soon especially since they only lost a few players this year.

wow, I created a monster.

Purple and orange tigers, huh? The SEC has purple and gold tigers, and their tigers won the National Championship (tied, since someone will think I wasn't fair). I will say the Big 10 is big, but there is so much population up there how could it not be? The SEC has set the record for over 20 years for best football attendance of any conference, and the Big 10 has Michigan, Ohio State, and Penn State (all stadiums which can seat over 100,000 if I'm not mistaken). The only stadium in the SEC I know of which can seat over 100,000 is Tennessee. To top that, there's probably more people who go to Big 10 schools than SEC schools, cause Minnesota and Ohio State are close to 100,000 people on their own. Sure Florida and Georgia are big, but overall I'd say there are more people in the Big ten than in the SEC.

SEC football is unlike any other football, period. It's unlike the ACC, the PAC-10, the big 12 (go Mizzou), and unlike the Big 10. I knew a LSU fan who was insane with pride. He never didn't have some purple and gold on his clothes at some point in time. He would rattle on about the earthquake bowl and any other game that happened over the last 20 years. It was amazing, he was hands down the biggest football fan I have EVER seen. To tope it off, the guy was in his 50s. And I soon found out this isn't just LSU, this is the SEC.

Anyway, much love to all conferences, even the Missouri Valley conference to which my beloved Bears belong (who beat So. Illinois in the tourney). But to compare yourself to the SEC is like comparing your weather to Hawaii. There may be days which your weather is better, but you can't beat them day in and day out.

SMSUBear

P.S. Do Auburn and Alabama really hate eachother as much as it's said? I know there's no love on game day, but just as far as the campuses are concerned.

edit: BTW, Michigan's fight song is not the best. The best is Mizzou's:) , followed by Tennessee (good ol' rocky top), and then Notre Dame (the only fight song my grandma would know). After that is Michigan, then UTEP (if you can't tell I love the old country music).

I think I love you. ;)

Wisconsin's ranked well above Bama in both academic AND party-school charts (U.S. news academics ranks us 32 to Bama's 99 and Princeton Review charts us 2nd to UA's 11 in partying). Illinois and Indiana both chart above Bama in partying and academics. Plus y'all can say what you want about "SEC football being like no other," but it's not an SEC school who was #1 in Sports Illustrated's Best College Sports Towns . . .

I'm afraid some of you might have Wisconsin beat when it comes to Greek systems though. ;)

HECK YEAH!!! There is no rivalry like Auburn/Alabama!

I'll give the Iron Bowl props for most deep-seeded hatred (so I've heard), but the second longest rivalry in all of college football is the Border War. Kansas and Mizzou have been battling it out longer than all except for one (Harvard and Yale). The hatred is deep, but IMO it doesn't get the same respect cause both teams aren't exactly juggernauts of football (until this year, Mizzou-RAH!)

How do you get a KU graduate off your front porch? Give up? You give him the tip for the pizza!!! HA HA HAAA!!!

SMSUBear

Athens was 2nd....Knoxville was 8th, Baton Rouge was 12...Oxford was 17th....I think Gainsville might have been on that list too....but yeah none were #1, even though we had a lot on the list.

Speaking of Sports Illustrated on Campus...What was the #3 thing everyone had to do before they graduate? :D

I can't seem to remember :D


Oh yeah and I hear the weather's great in Wisconsin ;)

But you can't forget the south's oldest rivalry...

Auburn/Georgia!

Re: Re: Actually, the BIG 10 rules
 

This has to be the funniest post I've read in days!!!! Much love goes to hottytoddy!!!!!

Come now people...

At least we can all agree that UGA has the best mascot in the nation. Even friends of mine who are fans or alumni of other schools must admit that UGA is one cute dog. Afterall, he was the only mascot to ever have attended the Heisman Trophy Ceremony.

http://www.onlineathens.com/images/ugaz/SI_uga.jpg

Here's a picture of the current UGA, UGA VI.

http://www.onlineathens.com/images/0...uga_vi_2LR.jpg

Actually, Cocky won best mascot in the nation. Cute puppy, though.