re: Evidence showing the SEC schedule bias for Alabama and Auburn

It's official...YOU'RE ANGRY.

"Things that make you go hmmmmm....These gumps don't even need our help making our argument.

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Also, I saw in some responses to this post that the SEC Headquarters being in Birmingham give Alabama and Auburn an advantage. The HQ has been in Birmingham for 65 years. How does this possibly give Alabama and Auburn an advantage? Wouldn't that mean that Alabama and Auburn should win at least the SEC championship every year? "


So, let's move the SEC HQ to New York so that LSU will have a better team.

Note the progression of the thread and you will see a parade of Gumps making our case for us. Objective Fact is met with insult. Every legitimate concern that LSU has had for a decade is ridiculed and minimized. Every scheduling anomaly is explained away with a middle finger. An office packed with Alabama loyalists is perfectly acceptable. Every concern is met with derision and mockery.

Now you know what the LSU brass have been dealing with for a decade. The Alabama posters here are a PERFECT demonstration of Alabama culture. The same culture that gives us Harvey Updyke and The Tuscaloosa Teabagger and envelopes full of cash exploding in the mail and Bama full body tattoos and 1500 guys named Bryant...IS THE SAME CULTURE DECIDING LEAGUE BUSINESS, LOBBYING FOR BOWL ASSIGNMENTS,PUTTING TOGETHER BRIDGE SCHEDULES,HANDLING COMPLIANCE ISSUES,etc.

There is a rat in our midst. The Gumps will go FULL ALINSKY if you point this out to them,they will ridicule you, build strawmen, insult you etc. But one thing they will NEVER do, is honestly consider the facts, admit to the irrefutable bias and corruption inherent in the current Bama-centric office, and work to ensure all members are treated EQUALLY.

AS ALWAYS-BAMA CULTURE REQUIRES THE MULLIGAN.

You guys crack me up. Well, us Bama fans will need to talk to the brass at HQ because they didn't do a good scheduling job in 2007.

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Well, us Bama fans will need to talk to the brass at HQ

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Take an English course before you do.

BOOM /thread.

It's not really a theory, more of a fact based on reality. When you can actually lay out what the schedule should be, and how it was changed, it's pretty compelling.

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Your OOC games are traditionally pathetic

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Since 2008: Clemson, Penn St.(2), Va. Tech(2), Michigan.. I remember you guys playing Oregon and West Virginia, other than that, who have y'all had since '08?

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Please explain your decade long concerns. I believe your team has been the most successful in the conference, if not the nation, the past ten years. While only 5 years ago, Bama was mired in mediocrity brought on by getting caught cheating. Then they were hammered again in 2008. Please show me where Bama received preferential treatment. Again, decade long concerns? Your team has won 2 national titles and what, 3 conference titles? Hell, in 2004 and 2006, it was Those cheating Auburn refs!. But somehow the Gump culture was responsible? That dog don't hunt, Pimp.

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Nothing to the latest SEC weirdness then. It's all a matter of happenstance? Coincidence?

First off, I'm not sure where you were going with dismissives related to officiating problems in '04 and '06. Just a very odd, apparently uninformed, perspective. In processing those comments, I'd have to guess you simply are not familiar with the particular games. You should be, after choosing to come to an LSU board and run your mouth about them, but it's probably par FTC.

You seem to blithely posit LSU's results must have come without a headwind. You've no basis for that, other than assuming adversity eliminates chance of the kind of W-L results we've enjoyed. History is rife with examples of quality groups overcoming bias and duplicity to achieve improbable goals.

Fact of success does not mitigate Fact of dubious oppositional efforts aimed to rein it in. That is the case here. As with the Auburn games you cited, Alabama's SEC scheduling speaks for itself. It makes it's own case. Was Gump culture responsible? Who knows. Someone was responsible. You'd probably claim there is no such thing as gump manipulation in the SEC to begin with. Right? But someone did it. Why?

We do know the scheduling switch happened. That much we know. We do know the decision came out of Birmingham, Alabama. We do know how the league has reacted to subsequent criticism about it. The SEC has chosen not to provide adequate explanation as to how this latest idiocy occurred.

Those are knowns.

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Bama was mired in mediocrity brought on by getting caught cheating. Then they were hammered again in 2008.

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The SEC hammered Bama? Really?
Or are you saying that the NCAA, responsible for Bama's probation, was also responsible for this SEC schedule switch.
Is that your point?

As you're over here on this board discussing others' lost perspective, how about gaining a bit yourself?