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Pac 10, Big 10 Fans – Stop Whining
Published by MoonDog on August 26, 2008
I posted an article a few weeks back, Do you Hate The SEC? Get Over It!, highlighting the teams I felt were the legitimate contenders to win this season’s BCS championship. In response to that post, I received quite a few e-mails, many of which were from fans that took umbrage to a comment I made within the article stating my belief the Pac 10 Conference would be weak this season.
Frankly, I don’t understand why so many got upset with that comment. Outside of USC, the Pac 10 doesn’t have a team with a legitimate chance of winning the national championship. Arizona State, Oregon and perhaps Washington will be the only teams from the Pac 10 that will spend time in the Top 25. Moreover, I see the Pac 10 having trouble filling all of their bowl tie-ins for a lack of teams having the qualifying six wins.
Some of these e-mails were completely off-topic and were mindless ramblings of those attacking the SEC and my belief it is the best football conference in the nation. Some suggested SEC teams weren’t scheduling tough non-conference opponents and thus were padding their records giving them a better opportunity to earn a berth in the BCS championship.
I’ve already proven that argument is baseless, writing an article several months ago about college football schedules in the coming years. Instead of regurgitating the facts, please read the article here.
Other e-mails suggested the SEC was overrated; anyone knowing college football and having a modicum of common sense would understand the SEC is never overrated. The statistics speak for themselves and I wrote another article proving the SEC’s success against the other BCS conferences. Take a moment to read that piece here.
Then the Big 10 fans started chiming in with e-mails complaining about the SEC having an unfair advantage because the majority of bowl games are played in the south. Bowl games have been played in the southern and western states for decades and for good reason. Not to mention, the Big 10 Conference gladly negotiated these bowl tie-ins knowing where the games would be played.
Several months back Lisa Horne wrote a great piece about this subject and I highly recommend you take a moment and read it here. For the record, Lisa is a California girl and a supporter of the Southern Cal Trojans so you SEC haters can’t claim the opinion was from a biased source.
As if that wasn’t enough, Big 10 and Pac 10 fans were claiming the SEC had an advantage because they play a conference championship game. I wrote an article addressing that subject as well. Please read it here and you’ll discover the SEC, ACC and Big East don’t necessarily have as big an advantage playing a conference championship game as some suggest.
What I found most amazing is the responses I received didn’t have anything to do with the subject of the post. As mentioned above, the article was about the teams I felt had a realistic chance of playing for the national championship. Somehow a multitude of readers got off track and turned the comment section into a hate fest, with supporters of the Big 10, Pac 10 and SEC bad-mouthing one another.
I was having trouble understanding why so many fans of the Pac 10 were writing me even when I’d selected USC as one of the teams I believed would appear in the BCS championship game. Did you read that Pac 10 fans? I said USC – a Pac 10 team – would be in the BCS championship game.
Do me a favor – before you write me, I’d appreciate it if you actually read the entire article. At the end of the day, I really don’t care which teams play for the national championship. I just want to see the two most deserving teams play for college football’s ultimate prize.
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F. C. King Links « Loser with Socks on Tue, 26th Aug 2008 08:46
[...] Big 10 Fans? STFU [...]
GoPurple on Tue, 26th Aug 2008 12:07
Ahh but whining is what the Little 11 does best.
Mo Johnson on Fri, 29th Aug 2008 20:53
Great Job Moondog — as always. really enjoyed your article about the SEC’s new TV deals too. good stuff. i haven’t read such a clear explanation anywhere else.