(06-03-2019 12:07 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(06-03-2019 12:01 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(06-02-2019 10:01 PM)JRsec Wrote:  Well, when you can figure out what appeals to Tennessee Hill Folk let me know. I like 'em. They're fine people. But in my years of dealing with them you never really know what it is they want, or why they want it. So it is quite possible they would find schadenfreude in that arrangement.

Tennessee gets Bama every year while most of the rest of the SEC East escapes. Having Bama in the division helps spread those losses around evenly. It's not that TN doesn't want to play Bama ... they're rivals. But TN is athletically a bit dysfunctional right now. So they really don't have much of a shot. While it may not be what you want, having everybody else in the division suffer the same fate does weirdly elevate you compared to where you were previously.

It's similar to the situation GT is in with Clemson as a crossover. We want to play that game but there needs to be a lot of in house clean up or a Dabo depart for that game to have the competitiveness it has had historically.

Oh, I fully understand how all of that works. I just was just making a quip about the hill folk. I did business with them. Loved them. But never fully understood what motivated them. An interesting breed.

Being left alone while simultaneously not being left out. Just your average contradiction that permeates most of Appalachia.