The Blue Board

There are only a handful of fan bases outside of the SEC that realize defense is important.

All of those doppelgangers out there think when their zippy, cool offense gets shellacked that just need to improve upon it's efficiency. They refuse to truly acknowledge that defense is more than that annoying thing the rule book says you have to do between offensive positions.

As for it being termed "SEC style" well, history is written by the winners.

Noobs everywhere. Calm down there little buddy.

As a young lad I watched the precise moment The Boz's football life ended.

I didn't know FSU was taking credit for Miami's glory. Interesting. You do know that during this time from 1980-1990 that FSU was revolutionizing football, they had a losing record against Florida and Auburn. Not to mention, but this team FSU was supposedly teaming up with was 8-3 against them during that time.

The only blueprint FSU created was the join a crappy conference, dominate it, and ride that to national exposure. Boise did follow suit, so I guess one team went along with it.

Too bad VaTech came along and ruined that.

lol, just messing with you. FSU does have a good D this year. The only problem for you guys in a National Title game with either Bama or LSU is both of us have much better OLine play.

FSUe has an SEC style schedule this year

BetterOff, what did I say that was wrong? I fail to see how you could misconstrue my post as coming from a person who is "mad." We beat a Florida team, who's defense you equate to ours, last year. We beat South Carolina in 2010 in the bowl game, by knocking out their best player. I am not saying we are Bama or LSU's defensive level, as we are not. However, we are better than the teams that were mentioned as our equal ITT.

Agreed. No doubt FSU has a great d-line and good secondary, but who has heard of their LB'ers?

I think FSU has a very good defense, but I'm not sold on them being 'elite' just yet.

1-90s ACC was not crap
2-vtech has beaten us twice since joining the ACC and has a 22-11 all time record vs us.
3. I stated previously that FSU copied Miami and UF copied us and took it to the SEC and won almost every SEC title...

Been here quite a while

Dude on what earth do you have to play a top 3 team to know you have an elite defense? I understand you have to play competition better than what we have to "prove" it to everybody but you can also prove it by simply sustaining you're level of play throughout the year by dominating those who are in front of you. We can't help who we play but we know how high our potential is and we know we're an elite defense.

And although I get your point of " you need to play a top 3 team....", you have to realize only a handful of teams are even given the opportunity to play teams ranked that high so it's unrealistic to use that as a bench mark for everyone. You can still be an elite defense and simply dominate those in front you

My post was a joke. I thought it was pretty obvious. Just a little fun in an otherwise stupid thread.

Not sure why that would be thbe measuring stick honestly, if I can be allowed to stop trolling for a minute. I agree with you. I think anyone can understand the skeptics on FSU right now. It's because of 2 FCS schools and WF. Tomorrow will answer a little more of course. Personally I think Clemson sucks, but I could be wrong. Even without Watkins, there is no way Auburn should have been able to hang with them, much less move the ball like they did.