re: If LSU Were to Secede from the SEC...

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6. Those who seem to believe in an SEC-Alabama conspiracy conveniently forget that the week before the Tennessee game, South Carolina was only down one score with 5 minutes left, and Alabama had about 120 yards in penalties compared to only about 60 for South Carolina. Someone please show me the conspiracy in that.

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I suppose you can argue that the fact that Alabama consistently is the least penalized team in the SEC is due to discipline and coaching (Bama was the least in 2008, least in 2007, 4th in 2006), but how do you explain the fact that opponents of Alabama consistently are the most penalized? In 2006, Alabama's opponents were the most penalized team in the SEC. Ditto for 2007. 2005, the refs went easy on Bama's opponents... Bama's opponents finished 4th most.

2005
OPPONENT PENALTIES G No Yds Avg/G
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1. Vanderbilt.......... 11 84 769 69.9
2. Kentucky............ 11 74 675 61.4
3. Georgia............. 13 104 756 58.2
4. Alabama............. 12 83 679 56.6
5. South Carolina...... 12 64 620 51.7
6. Mississippi State... 11 67 553 50.3
7. Ole Miss............ 11 71 547 49.7
8. Tennessee........... 11 79 541 49.2
9. Auburn.............. 12 78 567 47.2
10.LSU................. 13 86 610 46.9
11.Florida............. 12 64 493 41.1
12.Arkansas............ 11 58 440 40.0

2006
OPPONENT PENALTIES G No Yds Avg/G
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1. Alabama............. 13 90 732 56.3
2. Mississippi St...... 12 75 657 54.8
3. South Carolina...... 13 83 671 51.6
4. LSU................. 13 82 666 51.2
5. Kentucky............ 13 83 658 50.6
6. Vanderbilt.......... 12 69 598 49.8
7. Arkansas............ 14 81 618 44.1
8. Florida............. 14 81 595 42.5
9. Ole Miss............ 12 59 495 41.2
10.Georgia............. 13 70 529 40.7
11.Tennessee........... 13 66 481 37.0
12.Auburn.............. 13 59 472 36.3

2007
OPPONENT PENALTIES G No Yds Avg/G
1. Alabama 13 99 863 66.4
2. Ole Miss 12 86 700 58.3
3. Kentucky 13 84 737 56.7
4. South Carolina 12 78 667 55.6
5. Auburn 13 90 715 55.0
6. Mississippi State 13 84 695 53.5
7. Georgia 13 89 692 53.2
8. Vanderbilt 12 83 631 52.6
9. Florida 13 83 600 46.2
10. Tennessee 14 91 641 45.8
11. Arkansas 13 70 566 43.5
12. LSU 14 67 566 40.4

Isn't anyone in the LSU-AD office capable of connecting the dots?

2004 - "leverage" penalty gives Auburn a 2nd chance at a missed PAT. The rarest penalty in organized football, has not been called before or since.

2007 - Chad Ramsey commits the most blatent chop block ever against LSU's defensive star, no penalty.

2009 - Refgate, numerous, almost weekly, laughable attempts to favor the Gumps. Bama booster supervises replay booth.

SEC only conference without a round robin in scheduling other division, favors home schools.

This could become a book, but we are the suckers of college football. SEC officials are like the Russian judges at the Olympics. Are you blind?

If you are in a poker game for more than 4 hands and you don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy. LSU has allowed itself to be the patsy of the SEC.

This is the dumbest fricking thread I have ever seen.

Ask Sewanee, Tulane and Georgia Tech how leaving the SEC benefited them.

Then go ask Arkansas and South Carolina how much joining the SEC benefited them.

There are a million reasons Louisiana has more in common with the midwest, and a million reasons we have in common with the Deep South.

The fact is we are one of the founding members of what is the best conference in America. Yes, something may be rotten in Denmark, but that doesn't mean you secede.

That's is like cutting off someones head to fix a broken leg.

Funny, two years ago our "LSU Tigers" were chanting "SEC" after we beat Ohio State in the National Championship game, which we likely got in based on our resume in the SEC. And now everyone wants out to go play in a conference with shittier teams and shittier coaches so that we can "win".

The pussification of LSU.

Go to the big 12, don't let the door hit you in the arse, we will be in ATL every year for sure

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And now everyone wants out to go play in a conference with shittier teams and shittier coaches so that we can "win".

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This is a 5 page thread. Link to every post that claimed we want to leave the SEC so we can "win"?

And a Big 12 league with LSU and Arkansas would be equivalent to an SEC without LSU and Arkansas.

#1 Florida
#2 Alabama
Ole Miss 45 votes
Auburn 9 votes
UGA 9 votes

#3 Texas
#10 LSU
#12 Okla State
Nebraska 64 votes
Oklahoma 5 votes
Texas Tech 4 votes

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Also BCS standings 1/UF 2/Bama 3/UT, all are undefeated, but why do you think the top 2 are from the SEC? Because it's the best conference in the NCAA.

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Or because those are the only undefeated teams from BCS conferences and the teams have jumped around since the beginning of the year.

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Go to the big 12, don't let the door hit you in the arse, we will be in ATL every year for sure

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FWIW, if LSU and Bama switched schedules, they would both be 9-1 right now.

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If LSU Were to Secede from the SEC

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Our fans become dumber by the day.