Here's a radical thought after NSD. Could it be that the SEC is successful in football not because of weak scheduling or media bias, but because it has a lot of really good players?https://t.co/bh4kcADM85
— Tony Barnhart (@MrCFB) December 20, 2018
Same as it ever was…
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“We remember the Sugar Bowl, I think it my junior year of high school, we let Alabama beat us twice,” Brinson said of a team that also lost to the Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship game. “We’re not letting Alabama beat us twice. In the Sugar Bowl in 2018, they… thought they should have been in the playoffs and lost to Texas.” -- AB-H, 12/27/23
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My goodness. Tony’s out on the limb here again.
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LOL…Great handle!
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Wish I’d thought if that.
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real men of genius
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No, no, no. It’s clearly a bias by the northeastern news media.
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Yeah, but sometimes the fans outside the southeast need to hear the unvarnished truth.
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I wonder what the per-word rate on that kind of thinking comes to. I’ll bet those two highly-charged sentences put some serious groceries on the table.
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It’s kind of like paying the mechanic $100 to tighten a bolt so the engine will start. You’re not paying for the effort, but for the years of expertise that enabled the lack of effort.
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It’s not how long it takes you, it’s what people think you know.
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Is that anything like paying a lawyer $250 to listen to you for five minutes and tell you that you have no case? 🙂
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I wouldn’t know. 😉
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I would. 😉
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Missed your chance. Should have told him to stop by the office and you would discuss it.
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At whut point in time did Capt.Tony of the S.S. Obvious gain the title of “maven”…….by definition”master of the obvious” does not qualify for mavendom type status!
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Part of me dislikes how the internet has given every mentally deficient nutjob a platform. But a bigger part of me thinks that establishment pundits’ points of view are of no better – and often even worse – quality.
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“The Wit and Wisdom of Mr. CFB.” Who among us is putting together this fine book of comedy? It would make a great stocking stuffer for any football fan.
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Wit and wisdom of Mr. CFB? That’s not enough material for a book, that’s a greeting card at most. A succinct one.
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Who would have thought…
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I think his comment was tongue in cheek. Nevertheless it is a pretty obvious thing to say fitting in quite well with his persona.
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gotta go with the Mayor on this one. I don’t know how he could have made it any clearer that this actually NOT a radical theory it’s … .as Sgt Joe Friday says …just the facts. Is it an effort to NOT hear sarcasm or is this the jealousy of those of us who don’t make a decent living following what most of us do for fun and actually at our own expense. I understand that his insights are not John Grudenesque …but as it turns out neither are John Grudens. So now I’ll go back to my pathetic life and try and determine what is constitutionally wrong/infirm with the Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act.. I don’t need or want any Twitter trash talk about my opinion of Mr Conventional Wisdom but if anyone has ideas about the Street Gang law I’m all ears.
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Have y’all read any of his other stuff?
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Analysis of that statute: “Street gangs and terrorism are bad.” Tony Barnhart
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GATA, Tony.
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On the other hand, it becomes something of a feedback loop.
SEC schools recruit really well, so recruits that are being targeted by SEC schools must be good. Then pollsters look at SEC schools and build into their projections the fact that they have respected recruiting classes, so they rank them a bit higher, giving teams who put together a decent record in the SEC a boost in the rankings. Any bowls that show evidence otherwise are discounted because of lack of motivation.
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Do you think Auburn lost to UCF because of lack of motivation, or do you think UCF was really the better team? I watched it and it looked like Auburn DGAS for most of the game.
If we’re going to admit that teams can play really well because they are sky-high and motivated, it would follow that they can play really poorly when they are disinterested and unmotivated.
Is that taken into consideration for rankings? I don’t think so. If Georgia loses to Texas I believe they will be pushed back in the final polls. Same for LSU if they lose to UCF. Both losses, if they occur, may be attributed to disinterest on the SEC team’s part. That’s a sad thing to have to say.
But as a lot of people are saying.. Don’t worry, Kirby’s on the mother.
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I think it matters quite a bit for early season rankings, which make a big difference for end of season rankings.
There are squads like Boise State and K-State that manage to produce some NFL talent to go with a solid record despite never sniffing the top 25 in recruiting rankings. I know that Boise at times in the last 15 years produced more NFL draft picks than Texas, while Texas had several top 10 recruiting classes and BSU had zero top 50.
Not throwing shade at Kirby in particular or Georgia in general, however.
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Great, now I have to go back and apologize to about 50 people. I told them we made the SECCG because of playing Austin Peay and Middle Tenn, but now I come to find out its because of the players Kirby has recruited? Oy vay
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He’s the anti-Herbie.
Herbie ignores the obvious and continues to want us to believe the Big10 is superb with the absence of real basis.
(But since it’s not and Herbie knows it, we’re going to 8. Get used to playing a Big10 team in January a lot of years)
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That’s okay. A Big10 team is like playing Vandy or Kentucky. The bye game in the playoff scheme, if you will.
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As is the ACC. Can this be discussed?
Is there no outrage that Syracuse was the best conference team Clempsun played all year? There is not an ACC team, outside of Clemson, that is better than Kentucky.
And….if Syracuse takes care of business, just once, we’re in the playoff.
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But Dabo is awesome cuz natty. Just like les miles!
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LOL!
Well done.
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In the words of Deon Sanders…
PAY THE MAN!!!!
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Capt. Obvious also mentions Clemson is crushing it on the recruiting trail and football field, but he failed to explain why Tennessee and GT can’t recruit or why FSU sucks.
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I stood next to Tony in line at the bookstore last week. He’s a genuinely nice man, and was willing to talk college football while we waited. When I asked him what he thought about the Sugar Bowl, he said, I kid you not , “Bowl games are about who shows up. If Georgia doesn’t come prepared to play, they’ll lose.”
It was all I could do not to laugh out loud. Mr. Conventional Wisdom, indeed.
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that is some trenchant insight. Did Tony appear to be bathed by a bright, heavenly light as he delivered said insight?
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We’re going to have to score more points than Texas to win.
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Or hold them to fewer points.
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Radical indeed, Mr. Barnhart. I never would’ve thunk it!
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In his defense, I listen to CFB fans and talking heads from all over the country daily, and this message would enlighten over 75% of the fans around the country from non-SEC areas. They are convicned of 1) a media bias, playing FCS schools once or twice per year, weal OOC schedule, and most SEC teams saving a cupcake for the third weekend in November. It completely blows by them that the SEC gets the most top athletes every recruiting cycle, has the most players drafted every April, wins almost all the playoff games they play in, and plays in the most intense environments every conference game. I hate the lack of good games the weekend before Thanksgiving, but it doesn’t matter when you play those games, and everyone can schedule games when they wish. And SEC teams play more good teams than any of them every year, doesn’t matter about OOC, you cannot dodge having to earn the conference title. So cut Tony some slack, over half of his audience is really just that dumb
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Agreed. Tony may not provide any insight, but he is not a bad guy worthy of derision.
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Who gives a rats ass about conferences? Dogs only baby!
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I’ll say this for my Better Half, having followed him on the twitters for about 10 days now, he has been going to war with UCF fans over their tissy with Florida and their attitude in general. This was 100% shade and sarcasm thrown across their bow.
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