Athlon Sports: Big 12's Four-Word Response to Nick Saban's Criticism is Going Viral

[TopFrog]

Big 12's Four-Word Response to Nick Saban's Criticism is Going Viral​

Story by Jordan Sigler



Former LSU and Alabama head coach Nick Saban made some comments Wednesday on The Pat McAfee Show that didn't sit right with the Big 12.

Saban argued that there are "subjective" issues with college football that won't change because conferences have different levels of talent.

"The subjective part of this that you can never fix is that conferences are not equal," Saban said. "They're not equal in depth of good teams, nor are they equal in the quality of the best teams."

Read more at https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ot...k-sabans-criticism-is-going-viral/ar-AA1uSJwH

 

[ShreveFrog]

Hahahaha great comeback by Big XII!

 

[bmoney214]

Will somebody put this [ mother farger ] in a nursing home already!! Shut the scheiss up Nick!! The sec is 8-11 against the big 12 since 2020!

 

[TxFrog1999]

 

[82 Frog Fever]

Outside of the top 3-4 brands in each conference, most conferences are pretty much the same.
There are maybe 15 elite Power teams/brands that elevate conference status, and they are very hard to come by. This is where the B12 lags. We don’t have any huge teams that capture headlines.
The middle 35 Power teams are somewhat equal. Just about any team could beat any other team on any given Saturday.
The final 15 Power teams should really be Group teams.

 

[FroggleRock]

We beat Michigan. You lost to Michigan. Cry about it.

 

[Wexahu]

Outside of the top 3-4 brands in each conference, most conferences are pretty much the same.
There are maybe 15 elite Power teams/brands that elevate conference status, and they are very hard to come by. This is where the B12 lags. We don’t have any huge teams that capture headlines.
The middle 35 Power teams are somewhat equal. Just about any team could beat any other team on any given Saturday.
The final 15 Power teams should really be Group teams.

IMO the SEC is better at the top, in the middle, and at the bottom than any other league. And it’s been that way for a long time.

For the most part all large state schools with huge budgets in the middle of the best recruiting territory and in football crazy part of the country. How could they not be better than the others? They beat up on each other just like they do in other leagues so they aren’t going to have 6 teams with 10 wins, but the depth in that league is better than any other by a wide margin.

 

[The TCU Football Jerk]

Funny, but the SEC has OU and Texas now. As I recall, they didn't do much in the B12 as far as the playoffs go. TCU has finished 2nd and 3rd in the country in the past 10 years since joining the Big 12.

All Saban is doing is pushing the narrative that the SEC and B10 need to break off and form their own thing. First he ripped TCU getting into the playoffs, now he's pumping up his old conference. If he actually looked at stats and wasn't just talking out of his bung hole, he'd find teams from less than conferences doing the same. Unfortunately, this is just the start.

 

[82 Frog Fever]

IMO the SEC is better at the top, in the middle, and at the bottom than any other league. And it’s been that way for a long time.

For the most part all large state schools with huge budgets in the middle of the best recruiting territory and in football crazy part of the country. How could they not be better than the others? They beat up on each other just like they do in other leagues so they aren’t going to have 6 teams with 10 wins, but the depth in that league is better than any other by a wide margin.

Take out Georgia, LSU, & Alabama, the SEC has a sub .500 record vs. other power teams in this century.
193-198 .493 is about as mediocre as it gets. It’s nearly the same as the B12 at 160-174 .479 without OU/Tx.

 

[TCUBetterThanYou]

The interesting thing to me is that conference superiority is a big part of the culture for SEC fans. If they kill off or break off from all the other conferences, all you have is an SEC championship, which removes the needed datapoints to feed the superiority complex. It is like a snake eating its tail.

 

[gohornedfrogs]

We don’t want to hear them complaining about not getting enough teams in the playoffs when they are the ones consolidating power through realignment. When you put more top level programs in one conference, somebody’s got to lose.

 

[NORMLFROG]

The interesting thing to me is that conference superiority is a big part of the culture for SEC fans. If they kill off or break off from all the other conferences, all you have is an SEC championship, which removes the needed datapoints to feed the superiority complex. It is like a snake eating its tail.

It’s a Deep South cultural thing. It goes back about 160 years.

NF

 

[Sangria Wine]

We don’t want to hear them complaining about not getting enough teams in the playoffs when they are the ones consolidating power through realignment. When you put more top level programs in one conference, somebody’s got to lose.

They thought they’d figured out a way to avoid that consequence.

 

[Limey Frog]

Ole Miss will play eight conference games and should finish with five wins. 5-3 in an eight game season means you're really good in the SEC but an Iowa State that goes 11-2 after playing ten Big 12 games should miss a bye in favor of Boise State. That makes sense.

I loath these people.

 

[HG73]

We play 9 conference games, right? Still not fair compared to SEC 8 game schedules.