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They got a chance in the EAST
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totenkopf13
Gator Fan
There are a lot of questions about this team that will start being answered today. They actually do have a good shot at it at this point, in theory. I'm not just saying that because everyone starts anew. We will have to see if there is a dominant team in the east or if it's a bunch of mediocre teams beating each other depending on the week.
totenkopf13
Couldn't agree more, man--a "pretty good SEC team" (meaning "better than most other teams in the nation", by definition) could take the East this year, while the rest of the "mediocrities" knock each other off, allowing the "experts" to further rationalize their eagerness to dismiss a portion of the SEC, even taking the whole conference down a peg or two, based just on a shallow view of the actual records, ignoring of course the fact that any one of those teams would STILL be capable of plowing under their counterparts with similar records in those other conferences--such is the innate impatience to play DOWN SEC superiority and play UP the supposed (but hardly proven--in fact, post-season results having dashed such arguments) idea that there is a "growing parity" among the conferences, in college football at large. Once again, "sports journalism", especially as practiced on ESPN specifically and TV in general, is clearly an oxymoron, a sadly near-perfect demonstration of that time-worn philosophical approach, "Never let the facts stand in the way of a good story".
Couldn't agree more, man--a "pretty good SEC team" (meaning "better than most other teams in the nation", by definition) could take the East this year, while the rest of the "mediocrities" knock each other off, allowing the "experts" to further rationalize their eagerness to dismiss a portion of the SEC, even taking the whole conference down a peg or two, based just on a shallow view of the actual records, ignoring of course the fact that any one of those teams would STILL be capable of plowing under their counterparts with similar records in those other conferences--such is the innate impatience to play DOWN SEC superiority and play UP the supposed (but hardly proven--in fact, post-season results having dashed such arguments) idea that there is a "growing parity" among the conferences, in college football at large. Once again, "sports journalism", especially as practiced on ESPN specifically and TV in general, is clearly an oxymoron, a sadly near-perfect demonstration of that time-worn philosophical approach, "Never let the facts stand in the way of a good story".
The Gators need to separate themselves from the rest of the SEC East, or at least make it a two-team battle between Florida and Georgia. Right now, hours before Gator kickoff, I do not see the right pieces lined up, but that is what I would like to see before I get overly optimistic about winning more than 7-8 games. (Note that just a month ago I was optimistic about 8-9-10 wins. I have downgraded my optimism to 7-8.)
I'm also downgrading my optimism myself after the Bowling Green game. If they play like that against them, I afraid how they will play against Texas A&M in College Station. Plus Texas A&M will be ready for us since their first game got cancelled. I'm worried, very worried.
As I've said elsewhere, it would literally take a "Jeckle/Hyde"-turnaround between yesterday and next Sat. in order for us to beat A&M--and since the Stevenson work is allegorical fiction describing one man's chemically augmented "quick change", I'm not counting on Muschamp & Co. pulling it off with 75 young men and a pep talk: In other words, unless TAMU is even more screwed up than we are, we're likely about to get CREAMED.
