Rip
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quote: Originally posted by hound-hunter101
What cracks me up is all this hype of how the SEC is always great, this and that SEC this SEC that. When they play non confrence games they NEVER blow other confrence teams out. So by them always playing each other tough the fans think there something special every year. Guys say Georgia and Tennessee would only have 2 or 3 losses this year if they were in a weaker confrence is a joke.
Rip youre team doesn't ever deserve to be said in the same sentence as Boise State. Boise would beat them by 30 or more. Look what Oregon did to them and Oregon hasn't played anybody. They had to go in to OT to beat a pathetic UAB team who has one win on the year. Georgia can't even beat Colorado.
There is 3 good solid teams in the SEC, South Carolina, Alabama, and Arkansas. It's a simple as that. The rest of the SEC with exception of LSU and Auburn is just avarage teams that are good at home and terrible on the road.
Youre top SEC team (LSU) had to squek a win out against West Virginia and North Carolina and both of those teams are nothing shy of average and both games were HOME.
Isn't it funny how all the SEC teams 90% of the time have HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE against non confrence teams?
Well I never said anything about "my team". I did talk about Vanderbilt. Yes Vandy would likely only lose a couple of games with the schedule that Boise has.
Heck Tennessee may even still be undefeated right now with Boise's schedule if they played like they did against LSU or Florida when they played the one decent team on their schedule (VT).
There is that big a difference in schedule.
So using my team, which I haven't until now except to show that they will schedule plenty of away games with big teams. They have Miami, Oregon, UCLA, Ohio State, etc etc etc.
So you are Tennessee. You are a big time college football program. Your football team supports the university, not the other way around. You need so many home games to support said university and make a profit.
You can schedule a home and home with Ohio State or Boise. Which one are you gonna schedule? Do you really think Boise can draw enough to their piss ant stadium to justify the trip there or do you think the draw for Ohio State vs Tennessee would be better financially, recruiting wise and football wise?
Besides, if Tennessee goes to Boise and beats them then all they have done is beat a midmajor team that they were supposed to beat. Big deal.
If they lose, even if it is in overtime by one point, it is embarassing because it's just Boise. It hurts recruiting.
If you lose to Ohio State, even if you get blown out, it's not as bad as losing to Boise by one point in triple overtime. It may actually help your recruiting because you are in a hotbed of talent (Ohio) and they will have bigtime recruits there as opposed to the one step above Div II recruits that Boise will have.
It's a nobrainer.
Again until Boise makes the trips and takes their payday for coming to the big time programs to play and builds their program up to where they can have something to offer they have no business trying to make a home and home deal with a bigtime program.
Big time teams not taking Boise on a home and home isn't ducking them. It's Boise not being worth a home and home and being like the kid hiding behind his momma sayin "it's a good thing she's here or I would whoop you".
If Boise was offering to come visit without a return game and that team had the opening THEN you could say they were ducking them, but not if Boise is asking for a return home game.
If they want to be bigtime then they need to do like Florida State did and play the bigtime programs away from home and build up their program til it is actually worth the big time programs time to come to Boise.
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