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"Which brings us to that second question: Does this year's SEC deserve the benefit of the doubt? "

Posted by crash davis (aka crash davis) Oct 11 '10, 11:32

"Only the most staunch SEC apologist (and there are millions of them) would argue that the league isn't "down" this year. In recent years one could legitimately argue that the conference's eighth- or ninth-place team would finish third in a league like the Big Ten, but this year the SEC sports at least five mediocre-to-bad teams (Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Ole Miss). The Pac-10, which has seven teams ranked in the top 40 of CollegeBCS.com's simulated BCS standings, is a deeper league."

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/stewart_mandel/10/10/alabama-sec/ (sportsillustrated.cnn.com)

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Stewart Mandel belongs on AM sportstalk radio, not SI. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 11, 11:41
(He does this column every year.) - David Oct 11, 11:36 10
- so every year, the Pac-10 is deeper than the SEC? -- nm - crash davis Oct 11, 11:38 1
  - He's the guy who always bets against the Harlem Globetrotters, because the Washington Generals are due. -- nm - David Oct 11, 11:40
- Your IM makes it clear he just CnP a previous year's column for it. -- nm - Spawn Oct 11, 11:37 7
  - All he changes are the names. Two years ago, he 'staked his reputation' on the Big 12 being better than the SEC. - David Oct 11, 11:39 6
    - "he shouldn't call that team who've lost 3 conference games in a row down, as this time they lost by just a little" -- nm - crash davis Oct 11, 11:41 5
      - The key word there is "conference games". Randall Cobb would be the best player on Boise and by quite a bit. - David Oct 11, 11:42 4
        
        I'm sure there are a lot more physically gifted athletes there. But really that is irrelevant. The concepts of player and team /= interchangeable -- nm - crash davis Oct 11, 11:46 1
        
        Couch it in whatever terminology you want. Cobb is a better football player than you have. - David Oct 11, 11:50
        
        I wonder if he gets tired of Tex jokes. -- nm - Reagen Oct 11, 11:43 1
        
        Kim had never made that connection until he was crushing Auburn all by himself on Saturday. - David Oct 11, 11:46

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