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#86
#86
BigOrangeAl 1979 said:
That’s the point I’m trying to make it’s been 13 years since we have been in the SEC title game it’s just too tough and more top heavy now than it’s ever been even the lower tier teams are not cupcakes anymore and some teams get squeezed out from the top rung like us. We certainly couldn’t waltz our way thru the ACC but it would be a far easier road to playing for a conference title.
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Which is why giving automatic bids to the playoffs is so, so dumb. Look people are gonna flame you on this, but I like intriguing/novel discourse. I'd never considered what you posited before reading this thread. Not agreeing or disagreeing with you, but I bet the ACC would leap at the opportunity.
 
#88
#88
CrybabyVol said:
Which is why giving automatic bids to the playoffs is so, so dumb. Look people are gonna flame you on this, but I like intriguing/novel discourse. I'd never considered what you posited before reading this thread. Not agreeing or disagreeing with you, but I bet the ACC would leap at the opportunity.
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The only thing intriguing is that anybody is spending time pretending this is a good idea. The loss in rights fees, exposure and reduced recruiting base make this insanely stupid.
 
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#90
CrybabyVol said:
Ok. Well then the post is over. However, I will say this. The next round of contracts with the affiliates will not be as lucrative.
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I'll bet you're wrong there. CBS just dropped out of the bidding for the SEC Game of the Week because Disney is coming with a huge offer. Live sports are still making a killing in the ratings.
 
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#91
#91
BigOrangeAl 1979 said:
I know this thread might ruffle some feathers but I’ve thought for awhile now we would be better served moving to the ACC. We would’ve been the second best team in the ACC this year really and would be right at the top every year with Clemson. Knoxville is pretty close to ACC country as well and we border NC, and Virginia so natural annual rivalries with Va. Tech and Virginia along UNC and NC st. would naturally be formed.
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I fart in your general direction.
 
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#93
#93
CrybabyVol said:
Which is why giving automatic bids to the playoffs is so, so dumb. Look people are gonna flame you on this, but I like intriguing/novel discourse. I'd never considered what you posited before reading this thread. Not agreeing or disagreeing with you, but I bet the ACC would leap at the opportunity.
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Well I expected to get flamed over this post but it’s just food for thought something I’ve thought over since 2010. I love the Vols grew up as young kid witnessing the glory days of the 90’s run and thought that it was always going to be that way for UT football. The last decade plus has been the worst stretch in the history of UT football and sometimes you have to wonder if we can ever achieve annual 10 to 12 win seasons again and compete on a annual basis in the present day SEC not the SEC of the 20 plus years ago.
 
#95
#95
BigOrangeAl 1979 said:
Think about it and it makes some pretty good sense. We would be a annual top 3 team in the ACC. When was the last time we were that in the SEC?
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Before we change a conference that we helped build how bout we dnt hire a Kiffin, Dooley, & Botch to further set us back. Do u know the message u would be sending if we switched to the ACC bc we couldnt win the SEC??? At the end of the day if u are trying to win a natty then the road goes through the SEC. So whenever we do win big again we would have earned it with 0 debate.
 
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#96
#96
It is better to have the SEC competition:


"As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17

"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace." – Ovid

"When a man can do better than everyone else in the same walk, he does not make any very painful exertions to outdo himself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends." - William Hazlitt

"Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far. The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time." - Henry Ford

"I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it." - Walt Disney

"You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that." - Michael Jordan

"To be the Man, you've gotta beat the Man." - Ric Flair


We need to be in the SEC, because we want to be the the best. Anyone that skirts competition will never be great. To end this out, let me leave you with another of Ric Flair's quotes - "If you don't like it, learn to love it."
 
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