Carl Pickens
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This conference made "conference loyalty" it's official brand from like 2000 onward. What do you think the "SEC" chants in the conference commercials are about?I think we may be the only conference that doesn't have the "conference loyalty". All the others do so they think we do as well. Misconception.
Here in Tennessee many of us don't even have state loyalty. We like to see Vandy and Memphis lose too.
This is the new reality of the portal and NIL. Every year is a rebuilding year. I just saw that one of our starting OL is hitting the portal. He can to us after leaving LSU. How does a coach design a team with this kind of **** going on?
I agree with what you are saying - I was really speaking to the others who seem to think that the current coaching staff took a bunch of lower rated players out of HS and coached them up. As you said that is not what happened here at all. They were good at finding portal players that would work in their system.
It is similar to Pavia and Joey who took different routes to get into the spotlight at more prestigious universities. They would have never been recruited to those schools out of HS.
