Fierce Grind of SEC Caused Injuries Weakening Bowl Performances

[rogdochar]

I heard a TV-pundit say that the SEC, with the heaviest fastest players, have hurt their win-dominance
in bowl games by having so many starters out with injuries. I couldn't find any comparisons of conferences
relating to # of injuries.??

Opine and give research evidence if you find some.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Total lack of interest in offense in 11 of the 14 SEC teams lead to many losses.

 

[rogdochar]

Total lack of interest in offense in 11 of the 14 SEC teams lead to many losses.

Swonky, you should focus your reply on injuries ... oh, unless you're saying Nuss has crippled our Offense?

 

[BMF]

Yeah, those other conferences are so soft none of their players got injured.

Bottom line, the SEC was weak this year (and the East has been weak for about 5-6 years). No sugar-coating it...

 

[gingerlover]

Zero top QBs in the league and half have coaches that should be coordinators

 

[ThreatMatrix]

Swonky, you should focus your reply on injuries ... oh, unless you're saying Nuss has crippled our Offense?

LOL Good luck with that. Law never met a post he couldn't respond to with "Nuss has the 127th ranked offense" or "Butters can't recruit DT's". Pretty much a broken record.
Regarding the OP though and expanding - YES! I have to believe that the SEC schedule, including the SECCG causes more injuries relative to other conferences. All we need is someone to do the research.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Swonky, you should focus your reply on injuries ... oh, unless you're saying Nuss has crippled our Offense?

Terrible HCs and OCs have crippled the SEC. The SEC lost to the ACC almost across the board and to several midmajors. Many of these losses or pitiful offensive performances occurred before the SEC season games started. UF couldn't score against North Texas and there's about 10 other teams in the SEC that aren't much better.

Injuries are just another excuse from the perpetual excuse crowd. They blamed injuries on our loss to Georgia Southern also, even though GS had more.

SEC teams can't score points. If you don't score points you don't win. That's the end of the story.

 

[Jbossgator8]

The injuries didn't hurt us in our bowl game...

 

[ThreatMatrix]

A) The first question is does the SEC incur more injuries than other conferences - easy enough to find out.
B) The next question is are the injuries caused by the competition or by poor S&C, etc. - a little harder to prove.
C) The final question is that assuming A & B are true has that caused poor bowl performance.

Swamp Dick (aka Captain Obvious) enlightens us with the illuminating, if not original, thought that poor bowl performance is a result of scoring less.

 

[KronoGator]

Sounds like an excuse.

 

[Gator Fever]

Maybe the ACC caused a lot of those injuries considering their record against the SEC this season.

 

[rogdochar]

Threat's ABCs were solid enough to make me an alpha-bettor.

Sounds like an excuse.

Wellll, excuuuse me.