SEC guy Paul Finebaum...

[Pennick4]

"I think the SEC schedule this week is a complete and total joke. It's a disgrace.
...I'm embarrassed for a great league."

That's coming from one of the biggest SEC supporters and media contributors in the country. Nice to hear this is finally being recognized on the national leve.

 

[SALittleGiant513]

This is has been going on all season. Times are a changing

 

[NDSMC78]

"I think the SEC schedule this week is a complete and total joke. It's a disgrace.
...I'm embarrassed for a great league."

That's coming from one of the biggest SEC supporters and media contributors in the country. Nice to hear this is finally being recognized on the national leve.

He's right. It is a total joke. Happens every year the week before rivalry week in the SEC.

 

[deadirishpoet]

"I think the SEC schedule this week is a complete and total joke. It's a disgrace.
...I'm embarrassed for a great league."

That's coming from one of the biggest SEC supporters and media contributors in the country. Nice to hear this is finally being recognized on the national leve.

It's been recognized, just kept under the rug.

When you have Southern voters abusing their vote it wreaks of bias incompetence.

 

[SwlaDukie]

Sec teams do this every year, but so does every other Power 5 conference except the ACC and Pac 12. Its not a surprise, and why not continue to do so until penalized for it.

 

[deadirishpoet]

Sec teams do this every year, but so does every other Power 5 conference except the ACC and Pac 12. Its not a surprise, and why not continue to do so until penalized for it.

The ACC doesn't need to. As a whole the ACC isn't regarded as a very strong conference except two to three teams

 

[echowaker]

The ACC doesn't need to. As a whole the ACC isn't regarded as a very strong conference except two to three teams

i don't get the hand wringing. playing creampuffs is playing creampuffs. should the time of year matter ? big12 schedule was awful this year until now.

 

[Toby Smart]

How about six of NDs opponents enjoying a bye the week before they play ND? Coincidence? BC is one of those opponents who had extra time to prep.

 

[LH24ND]

This is has been going on all season. Times are a changing

Times are changing?? Better take another look at the league overall recruiting. Awesome as usual.

Go Irish.

 

[SALittleGiant513]

The statement was in reference to the media coverage of the SEC. The media's long held notion that the league's lower tier teams would be upper tier teams in other conferences is fading. As far as the recruiting goes... SEC recruiting has been awesome for years now but it doesn't always translate.

 

[twalsh]

Sec teams do this every year, but so does every other Power 5 conference except the ACC and Pac 12. Its not a surprise, and why not continue to do so until penalized for it.

It's not the playing of these lower level teams, it's the timing. If you had this SEC game schedule the second week of September, nobody would be talking about it. Right now you have the other four conferences getting ready to play their key games of the year, especially the Big 10 and Big 12, and you have most of the SEC with a glorified bye week right before the end of the season.

 

[echowaker]

It's not the playing of these lower level teams, it's the timing. If you had this SEC game schedule the second week of September, nobody would be talking about it. Right now you have the other four conferences getting ready to play their key games of the year, especially the Big 10 and Big 12, and you have most of the SEC with a glorified bye week right before the end of the season.

I see what your saying but that doesn't make what the SEC is doing wrong. sounds like a little envy to me.

 

[mokpra37]

The PAC is the conference that is really getting screwed here. They play 9 conference games. They play a conference game before those rivalry games. This increases the number of losses for half of the teams. Meanwhile the SEC teams cakewalk through with very few losses during that same Saturday.
It is time for the NCAA to step in and insist that the SEC play 9 conference games thus leveling the playing field for playoff spots.

 

[NDEwing18]

The PAC is the conference that is really getting screwed here. They play 9 conference games. They play a conference game before those rivalry games. This increases the number of losses for half of the teams. Meanwhile the SEC teams cakewalk through with very few losses during that same Saturday.
It is time for the NCAA to step in and insist that the SEC play 9 conference games thus leveling the playing field for playoff spots.

I don't see how the NCAA would have jurisdiction to insist on that, especially since other conferences don't play 9 conference games. The SEC could argue, instead, that the Pac-12 should play 8 conference games.

Considering our scheduling arrangement is different than all non-independent teams, I don't think we want the NCAA insisting on schedules being uniform.

 

[stu4don]

Another reason to cut the season schedule by one and to have a 8 team playoff.

 

[twalsh]

The PAC is the conference that is really getting screwed here. They play 9 conference games. They play a conference game before those rivalry games. This increases the number of losses for half of the teams. Meanwhile the SEC teams cakewalk through with very few losses during that same Saturday.
It is time for the NCAA to step in and insist that the SEC play 9 conference games thus leveling the playing field for playoff spots.

The ACC plays only 8 conference games too. The NCAA telling the conferences how many conference games you have to play is akin to the people who want the NCAA to tell Notre Dame they have to join a conference. You make your own decisions, and live with the consequences.

 

[schadenfreude]

The ACC plays only 8 conference games too. The NCAA telling the conferences how many conference games you have to play is akin to the people who want the NCAA to tell Notre Dame they have to join a conference. You make your own decisions, and live with the consequences.

What people forget is that if a PAC team was undefeated, they would have a leg up on others WRT SOS. You can't have it both ways. Play a tougher schedule and with the same record (and a similar MOV), you should have the advantage over a rival for one of the four slots (see Baylor).

 

[deadirishpoet]

i don't get the hand wringing. playing creampuffs is playing creampuffs. should the time of year matter ? big12 schedule was awful this year until now.

I agree 100 percent

 

[TDIrish27]

The SEC lacks QB's this year------lots of clubs playing with sub standard ones.

 

[pumpbeef]

What people forget is that if a PAC team was undefeated, they would have a leg up on others WRT SOS. You can't have it both ways. Play a tougher schedule and with the same record (and a similar MOV), you should have the advantage over a rival for one of the four slots (see Baylor).

Paul Finebaugh wrote a book called 100 reasons to Hate Notre Dame...enough said,,,,by the way a stupid book that did not sale,,,,,,,,