You Auburn folks are always the first to declare the SEC dead, right up until you have to play in it. I remember when y'all thought you'd built something permanent after 2010, and then the league ground you down for a decade. This conference's strength has always been its middle, the teams that can ruin your season on any given Saturday. You're right about one thing, the hype never finds us until it's too late, just ask that 2019 squad nobody saw coming. But don't you dare lump us in with your rebuilds, we've been developing NFL talent since Billy Cannon was taking snaps. While you're celebrating a quiet off-season, we're remembering what it means to line up in Death Valley when the nation has already written the obituary.