Why do so many people hate on the SEC?

Question

i am a huge Tennessee fan and clearly the SEC is the dominant conference just look at the way the games are when an SEC team plays am team from another conference. I'll say PAC 10 fans has an argument if there is one but I'm not seeing why The Big 10 argue it when their best team has been crushed the last two years in the national title

Answer 1

cause they always win. people hate on winners, just like with the pats. their cheaters.   indy won it, they got no D bucs won they got no O pepole always find a reason to hate on winners

Answer 2

its not that we hate the SEC, its we hate certain teams in the SEC.

so we just lump them all together.  I have nothing against Tenn, but I hate Florda, LSU, and Georga.   I cant say why for sure but I do,    just like every other college football fan out there. they have there teams or conferences they like or hate, and you and I have ours..

Answer 3

Before I give my answer, I'm a UCLA fan and therefore a Pac-10 fan (when USC is involved, it's a coin-toss), and that may or may not affect your reading of my answer.

I dislike the SEC because it seems that year in and year out, the SEC, more than any other conference, is shoved down our throats by national sports networks, primarily ESPN.  During football season, I hear all about the greatness of the SEC and just how tough a conference it is while other conferences, primarily the Pac-10, are seemingly forgotten.  I'm not saying the Pac-10 is better, but it bothers me that it's almost crazy to say that any conference is close to the SEC.  I also remember several times last season when I actually turned off ESPN because on a day with 5 Pac-10 conference games, they spent maybe 3 minutes talking about the Pac-10 and then spent at least 15 minutes doing in depth analysis on just a couple of the SEC games.

It bothers me that the SEC is consistently called the toughest conference in America, too.  I've all but resigned myself to the fact that the SEC is the best conference, but the best does not mean the toughest.  When I think of a truly tough conference, I think of one in which any of the conference teams can beat any other conference team.  From what I see, the SEC is not like that, while the Pac-10 consistently is.  Why do you think there's usually only one Pac-10 team in the top 10?  The conference beats itself up.

Nothing that the SEC does makes me not like the SEC.  Except Florida (for beating UCLA in the Final Four TWICE).  It is important to know that.  It's the fact that no other conference is ever seriously considered as being close to the SEC in the national media that makes me dislike the SEC.

As a sort of side note, Tennessee plays at UCLA on Labor Day (I'm sure you already knew that).  I'll just go ahead and let you know that you'll probably have a much more enjoyable Labor Day than me.

Answer 4

Probley the SEC is a very diifcult con. to be play and the teams in them always do well and soem people do think pac 10 is better beacuse of usc

Answer 5

because they talk too much **** and cant always back it up. when the pac 10 beats up on them they don't talk **** about how bad the other divisions are

Answer 6

That is two games. The big ten and the SEC are dead even in bowl games head to head over the last 10. Michigan is 7-1, and Wisconsin 2-1. USC is 3-0 the last 3 times they played an SEC team, beating them all by more than 20, and 2 of the games were against teams that won their division that year. All you have is OSU. If there was no OSU, no one would care about the SEC.  

Answer 7

Posted by ESPN.com's Chris Low

In the football vernacular, nothing defines the survival of the fittest quite like the Southeastern Conference.

You think presidential politics are tough? Try a spin through an SEC season.

"I can't imagine that there's a more competitive league out there," LSU coach Les Miles said. "I think that great teams in other conferences can be and will certainly contend for national spots. But I think year after year, if you go through our schedule and if you go through those people that play in this conference, they will be representative of every national honor."

That's Les-speak for: The SEC is sitting atop the college football world, and everybody else is looking up.

The numbers in the last decade don't lie. The SEC has produced four BCS national champions since 1998, including the last two and three of the last five. The SEC is 11-4 in all BCS bowls during that span. The next closest is the Pac-10 with an 8-4 record.

A year ago, the SEC produced the Heisman Trophy winner in record-setting Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, who became the first sophomore in history to win the coveted award.

You want head coaching muscle? The SEC is the only league in America with five coaches who've won national championships, and two of those -- South Carolina's Steve Spurrier and Tennessee's Phillip Fulmer -- rank among the top six coaches all-time in total SEC wins.

The SEC had the most players on NFL opening-day rosters a year ago, and its seven bowl wins in 2007 was an NCAA record.

Heading into this season, Georgia is No. 1 in the coaches' poll. Four of the next 17 teams in the preseason poll are also from the SEC -- No. 5 Florida, No. 6 LSU, No. 11 Auburn and No. 18 Tennessee.

What separates the SEC, even more so now than a decade ago, is that there are no easy outs.

The 2007 season was pure chaos. In a league that epitomizes balance, it bordered more on cannibalism a year ago.

LSU lost twice in triple overtime to Kentucky and Arkansas. The loss to the Hogs was at home and came on the final week of the regular season, but the Tigers recovered to win the SEC championship game over Tennessee and vaulted into the BCS title game after West Virginia was upset by Pittsburgh and Missouri lost in the Big 12 championship game.

Once on college football's center stage, the Tigers did what the SEC has made a habit of doing in bowl games. They torched Ohio State to win their second national title in five years.

Can this season match the craziness and unpredictability of a year ago? Stay tuned.

But this much we know: The SEC is thriving and has earned the kind of "street cred" with voters in the two BCS polls that should serve the league well.

Even with one loss, the SEC champion is now a virtual lock for one of the two spots in the BCS national championship game. Another two-loss team making it the way LSU did last season may be a stretch. But if any conference has earned that kind of respect, it's the SEC.

"That's why our goal has always been to win the SEC," said Spurrier, who won six SEC titles at Florida. "People like to talk about winning national championships. The SEC is our focus. It was the same way at Florida because if you win the SEC, everything else usually has a way of working itself out."

Just don't tell that to Auburn fans.

Off the field, it's been an equally profitable time to be a part of the SEC, especially with commissioner Mike Slive putting the finishing touches on what figures to be another blockbuster television package for the conference.

But, then, money in this conference is no object. Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, LSU and Tennessee are all paying its head coaches $2.6 million or more a year.

And that is why people hate the SEC...because the media now lets the world know how dominant the SEC is!

Geaux LSU  

Answer 8

Ok, they are the best conference for now but that is a cyclical thing which follows the best coaching from conference to conference.  Right now they have the best coaching which attracts the best players.

Stop acting like you are God's gift to football and enjoy what you have for now.

Answer 9

I don't think anybody hates on the SEC. Even ESPN says the SEC is the best conference every year. Now USC or Oklahoma or Ohio State fans may disagree, but would they be good fans if they didn't?