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<blockquote data-quote="GTpdm" data-source="post: 162270" data-attributes="member: 1451"><p>I heartily agree with this. [USER=2175]@Skeptic[/USER] said "The ACC will get respect when it deserves it..." I tend to agree with that, too. Part of the problem, however, is that the standard for "deserving respect" has <u>not</u> been consistently applied, conference-to-conference. With one or two exceptions, SEC teams padded out their regular-season non-conference schedule last year with cupcake opponents. Their OOC wins were against <u>very</u> poor teams, generally, and their track record against OOC P5 opposition was no better than the ACC (12-11 SEC vs 11-12 ACC—FYI, I'm counting ND and BYU as equivalent to P5, even though it works <em>against</em> the ACC). In head to head matchups, the ACC was 5-2 over the SEC.</p><p></p><p>That <em>should</em> earn some respect from the media, but it doesn't. (There was a little talk about that at the end of bowl season, but the media dropped that like a hot potato as soon as they possibly could, and it has all but disappeared from the 2015 preseason narrative.) The SEC's mediocrity against quality OOC competition should raise some questions, but it does not. Tell me—which conference's record last year <em>deserves</em> more respect, and which one is <em>getting</em> more respect right now?</p><p></p><p>I also tend to agree with Skeptic that part of the problem is due to poor marketing--but as Northeast points out, part of it is due to ingrained bias that gives SEC teams higher initial rankings, and that practically guarantees higher final rankings for the same overall season performance. If the standards for determining what is "respectable" are not applied consistently across all conferences, all the marketing in the world won't help. Maybe several years of "good marketing" will earn us the same standard of respectability, but personally I doubt it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GTpdm, post: 162270, member: 1451"] I heartily agree with this. [USER=2175]@Skeptic[/USER] said "The ACC will get respect when it deserves it..." I tend to agree with that, too. Part of the problem, however, is that the standard for "deserving respect" has [U]not[/U] been consistently applied, conference-to-conference. With one or two exceptions, SEC teams padded out their regular-season non-conference schedule last year with cupcake opponents. Their OOC wins were against [U]very[/U] poor teams, generally, and their track record against OOC P5 opposition was no better than the ACC (12-11 SEC vs 11-12 ACC—FYI, I'm counting ND and BYU as equivalent to P5, even though it works [I]against[/I] the ACC). In head to head matchups, the ACC was 5-2 over the SEC. That [I]should[/I] earn some respect from the media, but it doesn't. (There was a little talk about that at the end of bowl season, but the media dropped that like a hot potato as soon as they possibly could, and it has all but disappeared from the 2015 preseason narrative.) The SEC's mediocrity against quality OOC competition should raise some questions, but it does not. Tell me—which conference's record last year [I]deserves[/I] more respect, and which one is [I]getting[/I] more respect right now? I also tend to agree with Skeptic that part of the problem is due to poor marketing--but as Northeast points out, part of it is due to ingrained bias that gives SEC teams higher initial rankings, and that practically guarantees higher final rankings for the same overall season performance. If the standards for determining what is "respectable" are not applied consistently across all conferences, all the marketing in the world won't help. Maybe several years of "good marketing" will earn us the same standard of respectability, but personally I doubt it. [/QUOTE]
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