The Dull Fix

"SEC only! All other conferences need not apply regardless of record!"

The greatest advantage of growing up in the hood is that you learn how to spot a hustle even before it gets out of the ride. When it turns the corner and comes down the street you can see it putting its pistol in his waist. So when it jumps out of the car and starts jackin' boyz you aren’t surprised. As a matter of fact you’ve already taken cover.

All I’m saying is that boyz shouldn’t be surprised when the BCS rankings come out in the next week and the SEC is bottle necked at the top of the rankings. When the preseason rankings came out there where 5 SEC teams in the top 10; #2 Alabama, #3 LSU, #6 Georgia, #9 South Carolina and #10 Arkansas! From my vantage point on the stoop I told boyz that the fix was in. The only team that was a legit top 5 team at the time was Alabama!

I’ve been saying for years that Georgia is Mark Richt’s Georgia but the media keeps drinking the Kool Aid and keeps giving them the benefit of the doubt. Florida was ranked 24^th in the preseason poll and after beating a dull LSU team that has been riding on a donut for the past few weeks, struggling with a terrible Auburn team and then Towson, has jumped all the way to 4^th in the latest poll. Arkansas started the season with dull John L Smith and they were still ranked 10th. He was horrible at Louisville and Michigan State but because was coaching in the SEC he was all of a sudden a top 10 cat. SMH

South Carolina beats Mark Richt’s Georgia at home and now I’m listening to sports radio yesterday and they’re saying that if the Gamecocks beat dull LSU in Death Valley this weekend that they could be #2 behind Alabama in the first BCS rankings. The fix is in bruh!

How in the world can you just bypass Oregon (Parliament Funkadelic), West Virginia and Notre Dame? All three of these teams have been playing lights out. Now West Virginia’s defense is suspect but you can’t match them on offense and until they lose you can’t discount them.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st!  The best indicator of future behavior is to look at past behavior! When you peel back all of the hype surrounding the Gamecocks they’re still dull South Carolina! They’ve won 1 conference title in the history of the program, 1 Heisman (George Rogers) and had 3 measly All-Americans in 120 years! Stop trying to sell South Carolina to me bruh! It's like trying to sell Noni Juice! Stop it! Just stop it! You're trying to sell me a vacuum cleaner and I've got hardwood floors! You're trying to talk me into using Soul Glo and I've been rockin' a bald head for more than 20 years!

 There is a reason that boyz are in Columbia and not in Tuscaloosa, Baton Rouge or Gainesville etc. Granted  they have a couple of exceptions to that rule in Jadeveon Clowney and Marcus Latimore but two cats can’t take you to the promise land because this ain't round ball. That’s real talk.

It kills me that these duns in the media keep selling you teams outside of Alabama as the best in America. LSU can’t throw the football across the street but if South Carolina beats them this week they deserve to be #2? Real talk, LSU is going to drop 2 or 3 ball games before it’s all over so how does beating them justify a #2 ranking?

That’s why I’ve been saying for years that they shouldn’t have preseason rankings because personal bias gets in the way and it screws teams like Notre Dame because nobody expected them to be undefeated at this point in the season. They've played a legit schedule so far but boyz are completely ignoring them because the SEC fix is in. When it's all said and done the Irish will have played Michigan (dull but a rivalry game so it's intense), Michigan State, Stanford, Miami and both Oklahoma and USC on the road. That's a better schedule than Bama is going to play.

Even if Alabama drops a game this year they’ll get in even with a garbage schedule. Look at this joint bruh: Michigan(dull), Western Kentucky(so dull), Arkansas(John L. Smith dull), Florida Atlantic(extra dull with mild sauce on the side), Ole Miss( dull as usual), Mizzou(couldn’t win in the Big 12 dull), Tennessee( will pull the dull upset on Bama because of their passing game), Miss State( southern drawl dull), LSU(riding on a donut dull),  Texas A&M(1^st year coach & new in the conference dull), Western Carolina(well done dull), Auburn( Gene Chizik will be fired by then dull). So you mean to tell me that a 1 loss Bama should get in playing that schedule over lets say Notre Dame? C'mon bruh!

Remember when the BCS first came out and strength of schedule and margin of victory were two thirds of the formula? Then in 2003 #1 Oklahoma got beat by Kansas State in the Big 12 title game and only dropped to #2 because of their strength of schedule and margins of victory all year. The writers were upset that there wasn’t enough human element involved so they changed it. Now there is too much human element and way too much SEC bias! I'm cool with the top SEC teams being in the hunt but just because you're in the family doesn't get you into the VIP section!

It's like when No Limit was hot and boyz were buying Silk The Shocker's music! He was the worst rapper of all-time but because he was affiliated with No Limit folks bought into the hype! It was the same way with ODB of Wu-Tang! He was straight garbage and selling on the strength of the group. Well that's what's happening with the SEC right now. South Carolina, Arkansas, Georgia, LSU all got a pass at the beginning of the season because of affiliation. You would think that these boyz are GD Folks or something the way they get to "bo-guard" the joint.

So the only way Notre Dame, Oregon or West Virginia gets into the VIP section in Miami is to run the table because the fix is in to get the SEC to play it all over again this year and that is so Dull! Now if the two best teams in the country are from the SEC when the smoke clears. I'm cool with that but don't try to hustle me in week 7!

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
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