Another year, another one-score loss to a ranked SEC opponent highlighted by an obvious no-call on pass interference to Vanderbilt’s detriment. Should be used to it by now, and honestly, we need to take better advantage of our opportunities. Eight trips across midfield needs to yield more than 6 points.
But I’m fucking sick of it. When those toothless morons chant “SEC!” they don’t mean us. When ESPN endlessly jocks the “TOUGHEST CONFERENCE IN AMERICA” they don’t mean us. When the national media comes calling for the SEC, they mean LSU and Alabama and Florida (OH GOD DO THEY MEAN FLORIDA). We’re not “real” SEC. Kentucky and Ole Miss – OLE MISS WHO WE BEAT FOUR OF THE LAST SIX – pencil us in as their likely win. Everyone else pencils us in for an automatic. Hell, Texas A&M and Missouri are already assuming wins on us, which is fucking rich after spending two decades in a league that doesn’t know the meaning of defense. No wonder the league office thinks we obviously need to be de-emphasized in favor of the “real” teams.
Fuck the SEC. Fuck this shithole league. We are too good for this conference. We play fair, we stay off probation, we graduate our players, and we have fans and alumni who can read and write. No other school in this garbage league can say all of those. So fuck you, Mike Slive. Fuck you, Steve Shaw. Fuck your slack jawed hillbilly Klan troglodyte Neanderthal league right up its fucking cornhole.
I’m done defending this conference, and if I had the cash, I’d get General William Tecumseh Sherman’s ancestors on the phone tomorrow and ask for an estimate.