“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.” William Shakespeare, Henry IV
“If he can’t beat Georgia and Bama every year what are we even paying him for?!?!?” Billy Tom in Wetumpka, The Paul Finebaum Show
SEC football fans are a notoriously demanding and fickle bunch. Give us five wins a season and we expect bowl eligibility. Give us eight wins a season and we expect conference titles. Give us ten wins a season and we expect national championships. Give us national championships and we start worrying about next year.
But no fans in all of the Southland are as perennially misinformed about their stature in the gridiron hierarchy as those who attend Pat Dye’s School For Kids Who Didn’t Get Into Alabama (or Georgia, or sometimes Ole Miss).