Attending West Point is not “serving your country.” Serving as a recruiter ‘part time’ is a dodge, and anyone who served in uniform knows it. Someone compared Roger Staubach’s service. Amen. I’ll add another.

Some years ago I served on active duty with a West Point officer who was a football star at his position When his four year commitment was almost up he tried out for the NY Giants and was immediately offered a contract. After reflection, however, he turned it down and continued his military service.

He was awarded a Silver Star for valour in the first Gulf War, has had two tours in Iraq and is now up promotion to General.

Of the two, Campbell and the officer I mentioned, which do you think has truly ’served his country?’

Nuff said.

Sullivan013
MAJ, USAR (Ret)

These Luddites like Delaney and that guy that wrote a book about 1980s Texas high school football are surely a spectacle to watch.

I agree Brandon, let’s have a playoff starting tomorrow. Get rid of conference tournaments and have higher seeds play at home.

I am sure the SEC commissioner would sign onto a plan where he loses the income from the conference tournament, and his teams might have to play in 30 degree weather.

SEC 11-4 .733 winning percentage
PAC 10 8-4 .666
Big East 6-4 .600
Big Ten 8-9 .471
Big 12 6-8 .429
ACC 1-9 .100

The SEC is 3-1 against the Big 10. Now you could sell this that the SEC owns the Big 10 whenever they turtle out of the Rose Bowl but if I were a Big 10 fan I would prefer to point out that we have a record slightly above .500 against all other conferences.

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I hope he answers his call to duty to “play football”, gets cut, and steps back into the Long Gray Line.

And when Army continues to lose to Navy, what then?

I am assuming you would put Florida in last years list? The team that got drilled by Michigan. A Michigan team Ohio State drilled?

Your conference comparisons of outcomes of games never played are retarded.

Honestly, there were 4 maybe 5 SEC teams last year that would’ve beat tOSU. There were 5 maybe 6 that would’ve beaten tOSU in 2005.

For the record, I did 10 years in the Army, and met many officers that attended West Point. To a man, they wanted to be in the Army. That was their goal, and why they enrolled at West Point.

Delaney said that he could come up with a post-season playoff that the SEC and ACC and Big East commissioners wouldn’t support, so let’s not act like Delaney is ruining everything:

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“I could put forward a revolutionary 16-team playoff idea that they couldn’t support. Eliminate conference title games and go back to an 11-game schedule.

“Have four sites in the Midwest and four in the Sun Belt, and the higher-seeded team hosts games. You could have games in Madison or Michigan. LSU would have played at Ohio State [in the BCS title game]. And eliminate the bowl system. I can create a system that would probably have support in the public and one that they would reject.”

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Also a reminder, if there were a 4 team playoff last year, Georgia and USC would not have been in it.

It would have been Ohio State, LSU, Virginia Tech, and Oklahoma.

Everyone is fighting for their own piece of the pie, no commissioner is more pure.

Also, don’t forget the stupid anti-SEC missive he sent out last year that Orson so deliciously deconstructed. He’s a colossal jerk, and loves every minute of it.

And before you pop off at the mouth, I am a service academy graduate who served 5 years active duty.

There are 10 applicants for every 1 slot in the average class at an Academy. If he brings 2 more people in, that’s just 2 more people out. It’s not like the service academies are having a hard time filling their classes.

Face it, he is following a policy that the army is using to skirt around a DoD directive that prohibits any grad of an academy leaving before doing at least 2 years active duty. Army is saying that spending a Tuesday afternoon recruiting is equivalent to serving active duty, which is bullshit. They just want a chance to bring in better athletes so they won’t get stomped by navy in most every sport year in and year out.

And while I didn’t have anything against campbell personally atfirst, him saying shit like “it’s my duty to play football” makes me lose respect for him.