Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Overall Rankings: The Southeastern Conference
With Biggus Rickus in Oregon I post for the listening audience, his ranking of the 12 SEC schools in terms of overall direction in Football. This encompasses tradition, recent successes, facilities, coaching, the whole shabang.
1. Georgia: Richt's going into his seventh year, and they've won ten games a year under him, along with two SEC titles. Traditionally it's the third best program. Facilities are as good as anybody's. The fan-base is pretty much the same as the rest of the SEC's (with the exception of Bama, whose fan-base is a liability). I don't know how you quantify perception, so I'm not going to.
2. Florida: I thought about LSU, but their coach has yet to win anything depsite their talent. The facilities are probably the best in the league. The talent's good. The tradition isn't very good, but they've been more consistently good for the last couple of decades than anyone else in the league. If Meyer proves he can keep winning consistently I think it would go back and forth between Georgia and Florida from then on.
3. Tennessee: Yeah, they aren't the program they were in the nineties, but they've been to two SEC title games recently, rank second to Alabama historically and their coach has been there forever.
4. LSU: They have a solid history. They've won two SEC titles and national title recently (under another coach) and they're loaded every year. I think Miles is an average coach however who will never quite get over the hump before he's fired.
5. Auburn: Solid history (of cheating), Tuberville's been there a while. They've won an SEC title recently and have been consistently tough otherwise. They haven't won enough to jump LSU yet, though if they get to the SEC title game this year I'd put them ahead of them next.
6. Arkansas: Yeah, there's been a lot of shit off the field lately, but they've been to three SEC title games under Nutt and they're returning a lot of talent next year. Of the second tier teams they have the most tradition, and Alabama has been a shambles since they lost Stallings. Speaking of...
7. Alabama: The once mighty Tide haven't been to an SEC title game since Dubose was coaching them and it's been a coaching carousel ever since. Saban won't change that. Their tradition is great, but they're the most unstable program in the conference. I don't see it improving anytime soon.
8. South Carolina: They don't have much history at all, but they have a good coach and have consistently gone to bowl games lately. Really, at this point you could pick teams from a hat almost, but they seem to be on an upswing at the moment.
9. Ole Miss: They suck at the moment, but of the teams at this bottom area, they've had the most recent success and have a far better history than the others. But wow they are bad. Still, not the worst team in the state.
10. Kentucky: Kentucky is looking at making a bowl game this year. They have the best combination of talent and coaching of the bottom-feeders, but they'll still only occasionally manage an above .500 record. Their tradition and fan-base both suck.
11. Vandy: Poor Vandy. They have what I think is a very good coach and no players at all. They were a power in the teens and twenties though!
12. Mississippi State: Mississippi State has never been and never will be good unless they hire another ubercheater like Sherill. If I remember correctly, they're the only original member of the conference to not win a title. Oh, and they're not stable between the probation they're just getting off of and the new coach and all (they fired Croom right? They should've. He blew).
1. Georgia: Richt's going into his seventh year, and they've won ten games a year under him, along with two SEC titles. Traditionally it's the third best program. Facilities are as good as anybody's. The fan-base is pretty much the same as the rest of the SEC's (with the exception of Bama, whose fan-base is a liability). I don't know how you quantify perception, so I'm not going to.
2. Florida: I thought about LSU, but their coach has yet to win anything depsite their talent. The facilities are probably the best in the league. The talent's good. The tradition isn't very good, but they've been more consistently good for the last couple of decades than anyone else in the league. If Meyer proves he can keep winning consistently I think it would go back and forth between Georgia and Florida from then on.
3. Tennessee: Yeah, they aren't the program they were in the nineties, but they've been to two SEC title games recently, rank second to Alabama historically and their coach has been there forever.
4. LSU: They have a solid history. They've won two SEC titles and national title recently (under another coach) and they're loaded every year. I think Miles is an average coach however who will never quite get over the hump before he's fired.
5. Auburn: Solid history (of cheating), Tuberville's been there a while. They've won an SEC title recently and have been consistently tough otherwise. They haven't won enough to jump LSU yet, though if they get to the SEC title game this year I'd put them ahead of them next.
6. Arkansas: Yeah, there's been a lot of shit off the field lately, but they've been to three SEC title games under Nutt and they're returning a lot of talent next year. Of the second tier teams they have the most tradition, and Alabama has been a shambles since they lost Stallings. Speaking of...
7. Alabama: The once mighty Tide haven't been to an SEC title game since Dubose was coaching them and it's been a coaching carousel ever since. Saban won't change that. Their tradition is great, but they're the most unstable program in the conference. I don't see it improving anytime soon.
8. South Carolina: They don't have much history at all, but they have a good coach and have consistently gone to bowl games lately. Really, at this point you could pick teams from a hat almost, but they seem to be on an upswing at the moment.
9. Ole Miss: They suck at the moment, but of the teams at this bottom area, they've had the most recent success and have a far better history than the others. But wow they are bad. Still, not the worst team in the state.
10. Kentucky: Kentucky is looking at making a bowl game this year. They have the best combination of talent and coaching of the bottom-feeders, but they'll still only occasionally manage an above .500 record. Their tradition and fan-base both suck.
11. Vandy: Poor Vandy. They have what I think is a very good coach and no players at all. They were a power in the teens and twenties though!
12. Mississippi State: Mississippi State has never been and never will be good unless they hire another ubercheater like Sherill. If I remember correctly, they're the only original member of the conference to not win a title. Oh, and they're not stable between the probation they're just getting off of and the new coach and all (they fired Croom right? They should've. He blew).
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