Someone Please Explain To Me

I have always hated this as well. I do not understand the whole confrence pride thing. If your not LSU then piss off.

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It only indirectly helps LSU by helping the SEC stay atop the college football world so that when an SEC team has a loss, they still have a better shot of getting into the NC.

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+10000

This is huge. Dont be short sighted about it.

I hope Auburn gets spanked in every game they play

Anyone worth their salt wants to be the best by beating the best.

It's why SEC football is what it is - you know you are going against the best week after week.

Losers, bullies and little-sister-beaters love everyone else being weak so they can be on top.

Which one are you guys?

we beat the last 2 national champ this year.
And some still question whether we are worth our salt.

The SEC being a dominant conference helped LSU get into the title game in '07. Reputation of the conference helps strength of schedule. And honestly, I don't think winning a national championship bolsters recruiting that much.

Sure it helps, but its not like you get any kid you want just because you won a title last year.

For me, besides SEC pride, its economics. LSU gets more money from the SEC for more SEC teams playing in bowl games, especially if we get 2 teams in BCS bowls.

If LSU has no shot at playing for the national champioship even if Oregon and Auburn have losses, I would much prefer Auburn to play in the National Championship game and take the $17 million back to the SEC. In that scenario, we would likely also get a BCS bowl for another $17 million payout to take back to the SEC. The SEC teams would split $34 million, just from those two games.

If Auburn or LSU do not play for the national championship, we may only get $17 million total to split amongst the SEC teams.

This is not to mention the prestige of the SEC and getting better bowl tie-ins, for even more bowl money to split.

Although, I do understand the hate of SEC schools. I only root for them if it helps LSU atheltics.

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Someone Please Explain To Me
how pulling for Auburn or Alabama or Florida or any other team that LSU recruits against in ANY sport DIRECTLY helps LSU.

LSUs championships are used to entice recruits to come to LSU instead of other schools. Won't Auburn or Alabama or others use their championships in the same way?

So I again ask for a CLEAR EXPLANATION of how any SEC school's championship helps LSU to recruit or win games or be more competitive in a game?

To put it another way, if you are rooting for another SEC team to be more successful than LSU in pursuit of championships, are you also rooting for them to be more successful in recruiting?

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First you're going to have to explain to me how a fan pulling for a team that they're watching play on TV actually helps that team win the game.

Then I'll tell you that LSU is only as good as its competition. The better the teams LSU beats, the better LSU is perceived.

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It doesn't. Some people have this "SEC pride" for some reason. Personally, i couldn't give a rats arse about the SEC. They'll cheer for Auburn to win a NC because its "good for the SEC" without realizing it could possibly hurt LSU.

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You do realize that if Auburn beats Oregon in the BCSCG this year, LSU will have a chance to beat the defending national champs next year AND the team they beat for the championship...?

Lately LSU has had the chance to beat the defending national champs every year (and DID this year) exceoept for those years LSU won it. That's why SEC teams get the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the polls.

If other SEC teams didn't win championships, LSU's schedule would look like TCU's and we'd all be sitting around worrying about if LSU would get enough credit to stave off a one-loss challenger for a spot in the BCSCG.