Greg Byrne talking about removing the SEC Championship game and I have to sit here and think about what this sport has become. We used to live for that second Saturday in December down in Atlanta. I remember the 1992 SEC Championship when we shut down Florida and that high powered offense of Spurrier's. The whole season built to that moment. You earned your way to Atlanta through the grind of the SEC West. Now we are talking about taking it away because the playoff committee might punish a team for losing an extra game. That is not football. That is math homework dressed up as a sport.
And Byrne is right about the coaching carousel too. Three years and people are already chirping about DeBoer. Back when Coach Stallings took over in 1990 we gave him time to build something. He went 7-5 his first year and nobody was screaming for his head. You do not tear down a program every two seasons and expect to build anything that lasts. The transfer portal has turned roster construction into a fantasy league and now fans expect instant results or they want the coach gone. It is absolutely ludicrous like Byrne said.
I watched the 1992 defense hold Miami to 13 points in the Sugar Bowl and that was a team that took years to build. We had homegrown kids who sat on the bench for two or three years before they got their shot. Now everybody wants everything right now. If we pull the SEC Championship game what is next? Do we start skipping rivalry games too because they might hurt our playoff resume? I remember when you had to earn everything you got and that is what made the championships mean something.