Realignment: The ACC enters the Suck Zone

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  1. VaxRule

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    It’s better football, but I’m not going to agree it’s more entertaining. Lots more weird shit happens in CFB. And regardless of the quality of play, no NFL game has ever been as fun to watch as a game where Alabama loses.
     
  2. Corch

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    No one in this thread has said they hate the NFL or anything close to it. I enjoy it and like I originally said, it's on in the background most Sundays for me, I'm just not planning my life around it.
     
  3. Corch

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    Tenn-Alabama last year was more enjoyable to watch than any NFL game that's ever been played.

    Kidding, kind of.
     
  4. IV

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    well anytime someone decides to just not cover a wide receiver everyone is gonna have a good time
     
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  5. DrTomOsbourne

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    Fellow Husks.... Don't take the bait from a fan base of a school that has a 99% acceptance rate
     
  6. jokewood

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    CFB dominates the NFL in "stupid shit that makes the game entertaining."
     
  7. IV

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    During the glory days of the BCS you could maybe lose 1 occasionally 2 games, anything else any you were out of it, that means almost every single team was playing the spoiler

    Think you’re going to cruise past a 5-7 state team and go to the national championship? Think again
     
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  8. Where Eagles Dare

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    IMO College football can be a better product and more enjoyable to watch than the NFL, which is the highest level of play.

    To me, CFB is infinitely more enjoyable than the NFL. I don't hate the NFL
     
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  9. Where Eagles Dare

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    From a sheer quantity standpoint, I don't think this is true. There are 14-16 NFL games a week? There are 60 college games?

    Claiming "great college games are few and far between" is just flat out fiction
     
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  10. Where Eagles Dare

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    Or you could literally win every game and get nothing :tebow:
     
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  11. killerwvu

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    I mean MACTION is great
     
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  12. IV

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    It may not have been the best system, but it might have been the most fun
     
  13. Where Eagles Dare

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    Luckily Cam wiped away the sins of the BCS
     
  14. Nostradumass

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    This is the secret sauce. The NFL has games with players who are indisputably more efficient, better trained, and skilled.

    Even the very best college teams are still loaded with kids whose brains aren't finished developing, who make panic decisions, that create a chain reaction of insanity.

    I will take the unpredictable chaos of a random college game over the boring efficiency of a typical NFL game every time.
     
  15. IV

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    Plus you only got one shot at each team every year, went 11-1 but lost to Auburn, get ready to fucking hear about for 365 days
     
  16. TC

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    Plus in the NFL they legislate the rules down to where every offensive play is a gain and every game fits in a perfect tv window.
     
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  17. Where Eagles Dare

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    Maybe one good thing vs CBS 4.5 hour games
     
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  18. Goose

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    The NFL is a lot more fun to follow when your team is good
     
  19. Fidelio

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    this is where I’m at. I used to hate the nfl for many reasons not worth getting into, but the product is much better, even with my connection to duck football. I’m thinking interest in college football is waning and quickly
     
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  20. NineteenNine

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    I’m a few pages back, but adding UConn would be colossally idiotic.
     
  21. IvanTheTerrible

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    I’ll be honest, the stupid conference commissioner make CFB much less enjoyable. Everything has to be a battle instead of doing what’s best for the audience .
     
  22. Jimmy the Saint

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    The bottom feeder SEC schools (and Bama) trying to keep an 8-game conference schedule so they can get to 6 wins and the Poulan Weedeater Bowl is frustratingly stupid.

    The SEC brought in two of the biggest brands in college football and we might end up in a world where Texas and A&M aren't playing annually in the same conference. That is fucking absurd.
     
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  23. Cornelius Suttree

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    One can hope but the south still exists. Spend your fall weekends outdoors, folks
     
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  24. Handcuffed

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    i think CFB is going to get a nice boost in watchability from the running clock. The NFL is the best in part because it's such an excellent TV product in ways that a 4-hour CFB game can't be.
     
  25. 20/20/20/20

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    Not exactly realignment related, so prob not the right thread:
     
  26. TC

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    Wow. Really strong for the schools that are
     
  27. Daddy Rabbit

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    Tailgating and watching the games live he said
     
  28. VaxRule

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    Booooo
     
  29. theseasonisover

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    i agree now because my nfl qb is v good but when i was watching a huard brother or matt cassel as opposed to a chip kelly offense on saturday my opinion wasn’t the same weird i know
     
  30. Deuce

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    If they gave Alabama: Auburn Tennessee and Mississippi State (the team we are closest to and have played the most) as permanent rivals it would be 9. But they tried to screw us.
     
  31. GoodForAnother

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  32. Where Eagles Dare

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    :laugh:
     
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  33. Where Eagles Dare

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    Whaaaaaa they tried to give us a team we are 36-17 against since 1970"
     
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  34. jokewood

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    Many people are complementing Michigan on our SEC-like schedule.
     
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  35. I<3privatedances

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  36. Prospector

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    Oh yeah?! We might make a decent bowl!!!! Suck on that, loser!
     
  37. herb.burdette

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  38. HotMic

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  39. IV

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    :golfclap:
     
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  40. fsugrad99

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    Give me the absolute clusterfuck of CFB over the boring competence of the NFL any day
     
  41. steamengine

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    Yet we’ll get another year of media telling us how hard the conference is. It’s quite the little system they’ve set up.
     
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  42. Jimmy the Saint

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    It is just so difficult in the conference you can’t expect them to schedule tough games outside of it.
     
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  43. PSU12

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    Kentucky beats ball state, EKU, and Akron to open the season…rises to 15 in the polls. Goes 5-4 rest of the season, never leaves the top 25 and thus gives quality wins all over the conference! Rinse and repeat for 2-3 others every season.
     
  44. GoodForAnother

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  45. $P1

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    Unlikely
     
  46. GoodForAnother

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    this is likely mostly revenue from crop and meat judging thanks to the two pillars of this conference, Kansas state and Texas tech
     
  47. Goose

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    How many years does UC need to be in the Big 12 before we won’t get the Bengals/NFL treatment from the league officials
     
  48. Goose

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    Or does the Big 12 shake hands and play fair the midwestern way
     
  49. GoodForAnother

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    our officials are always terrible for all teams equally
     
  50. Bo Pelinis

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    It is but still not nearly as fun as when your CFB team is good.
     
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