re: Did anybody’s SEC pride disappear after 2011

I used be part of the SEC,SEC,SEC,SEC mantra. But I finally realized this does not benefit LSU in anyway. To hell with the SEC and if the right opportunity presented itself I might even support LSU leaving the SEC. This league does absolutely nothing for LSU.

I’ve always been an LSU fan and understood that pulling for other SEC teams was dumb. All those idiots who pulled for Bama, you feel better about yourself now?

I've never had SEC pride. LSU gets the short end of the stick at every turn in this conference.

Here's a stat that should end any SEC rah rah bullshite. Alabama's last 4 coaches have had at least one team that led the conference in fewest penalties. That should be impossible. To take that a little further, when Saban was at LSU his teams were some of the most penalized in the league. At Bama, they are always in the top 3 fewest penalized and obviously the least penalized team over his 10+ years there.

This conference is a crooked joke.

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But after the 2011 championship game having any SEC pride just seemed foolish.

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It has always been foolish to take pride in something you haven’t accomplished. We’re just fans, there’s no pride to take.

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Screw Bama, Auburn, Florida, Ole Miss, and Arkansas. I hope they lose every game.

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Wishing ill on Ar-Kansas validates their rivalry delusion.
But screw UForfeit (obvious), 'Bama (Saban was still a jerk, but I do respect them as a good football team--I'm just sick of them), Auburn (some of the best football in the sport at any level is b/t us), and Ol' Piss (classic rivalry) in that order. Everyone else, I'm cool with--just beat them.

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If you’re pro SEC then you’re not an LSU fan. Period.

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Very stupid statement. I root for LSU against any team. When the SEC is good, it makes our victories look good. SOS counts when getting into the playoffs.

Yes. The Bama mulligan completely changed the way I pulled for the SEC. I only pull for LSU, South Carolina, and Vandy now. frick the rest.

To Hell with the SEC. I rooted like crazy for Clemson over Bama a couple of years ago.

Its only gon to serve the teams who make it through the league near the top. As we have become less relevant, that position has gone stale because it only served the interests of Alabama to recognize their accomplishments in beating us and whoever else and in doing so given them better benefits in the selection process.

Conference prestige meant more pre 2011 for two reasons. One reason was the reality was that it was unequivocal and undeniable that the SEC was deeeper, tougher, and superior by any meaningful performance measure.

Two, LSU was always apart of that equation every year and we gained status and benefits from it with the BCS.... so we bought into it. Hell, LSU actually most heavily benefited from it In 2007 when we weren’t capable of determining our own fate when we dropped games in October and November to Kentucky and Arkansas.

We bought it bc it was actually the reality the SEC was supperior and we were apart of that reality and by being apart of it, we benefitted from it. However, now we have had people drop that line of thought for good reason. We haven’t been relevant to the chase for the SEC crown or divisional for some time. Why help Alabama’s cause? We have also dropped that line of thought because it is absolutely true that the SEC just isn’t very good anymore. Way more so than it was and in most years you can make a case that other conferences were better.

When we get great again, it will once again go through the same cycle and people will pick it up again once they see how it help us when the committee looks at us in evaluating our schedule strength.