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jgvol

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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #658 on: July 21, 2025, 05:43:59 PM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on July 21, 2025, 05:36:29 PM
Your assessment of Tennessee as a viable dark horse candidate is fine and I don't disagree.

I'm talking about their playoff appearance being used as a data point, which is really no different than under the old format where they don't make the playoff, but finish first in line behind the other SEC contenders, and your point stands fine without the playoff really mattering.  To me, citing a team's playoff appearance in this discussion is an appeal to a certain caliber of team, i.e., one that can make the playoffs.  I think you have a good point about Tennessee, I just don't consider their playoff appearance* necessary to your point, and potentially misleading to the casual observer as to the actual quality of last year's team.  That said, I reiterate, while I think it's misleading, it does belie a legit reality, that TENN was next in line and kind of by definition a dark horse candidate.



* if they did appear.  It's possible OSU killed them all in the parking lot before entering the stadium and what we saw was an effect similar to chickens running around with their heads cut off....they're all dead, but their nervous system hasn't figured it out yet. 

There has been some very public innuendo that our shithead 5 star, all-everything, knucklehead QB --- threatened to sit out the week of the game unless he got paid a bonus to play in the game (that his NIL was for regular season only).

I won't use it as an excuse -- we just got clobbered -- but I could see how that scenario may have sewn a bit of discord amongst the team the very few days before the biggest game of their lives.  So there may be something to some folks 'not showing up'.
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MikeDeTiger

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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #659 on: July 21, 2025, 05:46:36 PM »
I hope that wasn't the case, but sadly, it has something of a ring of truth to it in this day and age.  I mean, it sounds like something one of these kids would do.  
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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #660 on: July 21, 2025, 05:57:18 PM »
I used Tennessee's playoff inclusion, alongside Georgia and Texas, as evidence of their quality as a team.  In this case, specifically, as an SEC team, and being compared to other SEC teams.  And even more specifically, as an SEC team not named Georgia or Texas, being compared to all other SEC teams not named Georgia or Texas.

So I think it's really weird to call out my use of their inclusion in the playoff as an indicator of their relative quality compared to all of the other non-Texas and non-Georgia teams in the SEC, none of which were included in the playoff.

And with that, I'm done with the topic.  I'm actually sorry I even bothered to answer it.

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Gigem

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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #661 on: July 21, 2025, 06:59:14 PM »
Nobody’s acting weird about anything. I don’t know why you keep bringing that up. 

Your opinion on Tennessee winning the SEC as a dark horse candidate is just as valid as if I said it would be Vanderbilt. Then we could discuss why my pick is flawed, and xyz reasons etc. 

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jgvol

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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #662 on: July 21, 2025, 07:50:17 PM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on July 21, 2025, 05:46:36 PM
I hope that wasn't the case, but sadly, it has something of a ring of truth to it in this day and age.  I mean, it sounds like something one of these kids would do. 

https://247sports.com/article/nico-iamaleava-other-players-threatened-to-sit-out-college-football-playoff-games-248756546/amp/
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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #663 on: July 21, 2025, 11:57:42 PM »
Quote from: Gigem on July 21, 2025, 06:59:14 PM
Nobody’s acting weird about anything. I don’t know why you keep bringing that up.

Your opinion on Tennessee winning the SEC as a dark horse candidate is just as valid as if I said it would be Vanderbilt. Then we could discuss why my pick is flawed, and xyz reasons etc.



Whatever.  Ole~.  Weak sauce.
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