Disclaimer - die hard Florida, and strong SEC in general, fan speaking....
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If you watch Pac 10 Ball you see that generally teams like USC,Oregon, and recently Stanford are playing at a much higher level than anything the SEC has to offer ( just my opinion again) How bad did USC strut into town and kick Auburns butt a few yrs ago? Its not like its a recent thing.
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It's like Miles shuffles them in and out of the game randomly.
On the overhype of SEC in the media, I would agree with you somewhat. It gets hard for me to believe that we keep 5-7 teams ranked nearly all the time - that smells of either an awesomely unstoppable conference, or the media enjoying the kool-aid. I try to temper it by thinking, all these voters aren't SEC fanboys, they have to be taking a less biased approach....they keep ranking out teams, so we must be better than
*I* think.....hell, I look at our OOC against real teams, or at least teams from BCS conferences, and we do okay, but not 'omigod awesomely unstoppable'

= SEC is over rated, IMO.
However, you want to argue PAC10 strength, and hold up a USCw-AUB game as your point of argument? Was that the 2002 season (AU went 9-4, USCw 11-2), or the 2003 season (AU 8-5, USCw 12-1)? I'm wondering, because most of us are talking about *this* year....you know, the one where USCw had to hang on against UVA. U-fucking-VA!
But your comment was, "teams like USC,Oregon, and recently Stanford are ... Its not like its a recent thing." Oregon has been a top tier team for awhile, I'm not going to argue that. And USCw has been a top program for most of Pete's time there. Stanford, as you point out, is recent....but it isn't a recent thing? I r confuzed.

Still, over the past 5, hell even 10 years, I'd take the SEC over the PAC10 in nearly every matchup top-to-bottom. Hell, the PAC10 can't even sniff the BCS NC's we've been winning for the last 4 yrs straight (oh, that's a recent thing....). Anywho, take your 3rd best PAC10 and put 'em against the 3rd best SEC, in any of those years, tell me honestly who'd win on nuetral ground? Take the 7th best teams from any year....who'd win? Seriously? In all those matchups, I sincerely see the SEC winning 70+%. Not blowouts, but definitely wins. Any way you want to stack it, SEC >>> PAC10 over the past few years.
Les Miles? Freaking nutjob. I just have images of him in a straight jacket getting shock therapy as his off-season personal regimen. The only thing you can count on with him is that he won't make sense....but you can't take him out back an shoot him, to put him out of your misery....yet.
Ironically ,I do think Urban Meyer is the best coach in CF right now.
You must be loony. I eat, live, and breath FL football....and until the UGA game UM has been out of touch and it's shown with our coaching and players. He's just now waking up and getting back into things, but to have made that kind of mistake (leaning on assistants who can't do what he can)....no, he's a step or two behind Saban, who I'd put at the top of the coaching pile these past few years.
You said right now. Ok, right now, Saban is sitting with 2 losses and looks on the brink of crying about his team being unfairly compared to last year's squad (cry me a river 8) ). Right now, I'd probably go with ORE's head coach, in that he's got a system that has continued despite graduation and player turnover, that has steadily grown to dominate their conference (USCw gave them an honest fight when USCw was good, Ore ST also plays them well - but that's a serious rivalry), but all in all, I'd want him as my coach over anyone else.
Urban's probably hurt a bit in that he's lost his best OC (Dan Mullen to head coach MSU) and his best DC (Charlie Strong ot head coach L'ville), and had a lot of other key coaches leave, so transitions in staff tend to hurt a team and reflect on the head coach - maybe I'm being hard on him. But all in all, given a choice of today's head coaches, I'd take Chip Kelly and his staff. Behind him I'd have the likes of Saban, Meyer, and even Mack Brown (something is rotten in TX, but overall, their program has shown the strength and durability of a top program). Note, Tressel is *not* on that list. Sorry, Buckeye fans, I know you may appreciate the solid, top level conference championship program he runs, but even you don't have a lot of warm love for someone so plain, honest, and good....you want someone a little more exciting, dangerous, and perhaps insane - dontchya?
