I'll keep downvoting you. After you stop upvoting yourself, I'll likely continue to keep downvoting you, simply because I don't think this is board material. I encourage you to create your own blog or to write for Bleacher Report because I think these posts will better serve that type of audience and it will allow you to keep pursing your obvious passion.

I used to live in Auburn territory for a while. No one really cares about this rivalry

There is one quotation mark in the region of your Neil Callaway quote. It is in a one-sentence non-paragraph that you wrote, and nowhere near the quote itself.

I actually enjoy these. It is kind of dumb you upvote yourself but whatever. I don't understand how in the offseason people complain that this is not board material. It is something football related when there is not much going on and the board is semi-dead on most days. Keep up the good work, but there are definitely a few ways you could improve this.

As someone who sadly has to grade a bunch of undergraduate writing, this could use a lot of work. I'd suggest that you go pick up elements of style, read it ten times, and try again next year. Now I'm not claiming to be a great writer (or even competent for that matter), but I can rewrite your first sentence in half the space:

"Now I don't live in Georgia nor Alabama (tell us a what you think if you are), but from what I have read, it seems like the Georgia- Auburn rivalry is similar to the Michigan-Notre Dame rivalry-- it's more of a friendly, yet very competitive, rivalry."

----->

From an outsider's perspective, the Georgia- Auburn rivalry seems similar to Michigan- Notre Dame, friendly yet competetive. 

You also have many problems with transitions, active verbs, and any establishing even a tiny resemblance of flow.

If you want people to read your stuff (or you want to get paid for this as you seem to be unemployeed) you need to learn how to write. That won't happen if you are producing volumes of crap every day rather than working on a less ambitious achievement and really trying to get it to be readable. Last 101 thread I'll click on, but good luck.

I didn't want to comment. Writing for public consumption is a risky sort of thing, because there is always a chance of negative feedback.

I'm glad this is just a board post; a wise move by the OP. However, over the course of a summer, even in a dead period, I suspect the negative feedback will grow. I will, rather, echo what others have suggested: the OP should start his own blog to post this material. It will remain posted, be linkable, and never go away. That will give the OP a chance to develop his skills and the discipline necessary to produce the massive amounts of material that have been promised, and perhaps develop a way to present material that is new and unique to the readers. 

MGoBlog is a tempting place because there is guaranteed readership; however, the readership is there because Brian has worked hard at his craft and has jealously guarded the quality of his work. He has taken a risk and it has paid off. I have tremendous respect for others who take similar risks in a crowded field and carved themselves small niches. 

The OP ought to do the same thing; to continue posting here risks drawing the ire of the entire MgoBlogosphere and receiving so many negs that the OP's posting privileges could be frozen. This has the potential to be highly frustrating, even embittering for the OP; I would hate to see that happen to someone who demonstrates this kind of enthusiasm and energy. 

A better strategy would be to fire up a blogspot or wordpress blog, post the content there, and then every five rankings or so post a board post listing those rankings. Be careful about overpromoting yourself; if I recall correctly from the FAQ, Brian isn't the sort to look kindly on people who shamelessly use his site to promote their own. Michigan bloggers who have their own blogs rarely if ever do so (MichiganHockey.net comes to mind, I don't know if I've ever seen him link to his own site on here--but Brian does link to him in UV). 

Don't quit, but use the feedback to learn. There are people commenting here who have been through these sorts of things on the internet for decades; in the multitude of counselors there is safety.

There are going to be a whole shitload of people who can no longer post the old bullshit standby, "If you don't like the topic, dont click on it."  You know that I'm batshit crazy and I'll remember you. Welcome to club!!!

You are way out of line suggesting I have any respect for Notre Dame. Fuck Notre Dame

2011, 2005 and 1959.

1959!

OP I suggest you read stephenjrking's comment a few spots above mine. It's definitely one of the best pieces of advice I've seen, and it will save you unneccesary grief and bitterness

tl; dr

Not really sure why everyone is so negative on these. Is there some history with this user? I dunno, they're offseason fodder and it's not like (OT) threads are flying off the front page right now.

I went to this game this past fall in Athens. Georgia beat the piss out of them, and seeing a football game and the tailgating scene in Athens is a pretty awesome experience. But I did not get the feeling that I was at an intense rivalry game. It's probably like Mich-Wisky or something. Of course you WANT to win this game and it looks good on the resume, but its not a season defining matchup or anything.

What'd you do, Richard?!?!?!

Do not complain to the OP if you yourself have not attempted something as involved as he is attempting. And this offseason is resoundingly terrible right now so I'll take anything football related I can get. Including watching the Nebraska and Ohio games for the 12th time.

Guiding principles:

1) Posting lots of content is not bad

2) Posting OT content is not bad, at least during the offseason

3) Posting lighthearted things without a ton of research isn't bad.

The problem comes in when you add all these things together. This content is voluminous, OT, and frankly not very insightful. The OP is dominating the blogspace with stuff that's frankly not really worth reading. It's filler for people to wade through, even during the offseason when there's less stuff going on. It just seems like the OP is trying to promote himself in Bleacher-Report style series rather than add insightful stuff for us to mull over. 

Start a blog, man; you clearly plan to have enough content to do it.

Does the guy still have a karma of 0? If so, he shouldn't be able to post threads/diaries

I think the concept here is good... it's the off season, I don't actually know much about the Auburn Georgia rivalry, and I'd be interested to learn more so that I am a better educated college football fan.... but the execution falls short.  The "I'm not sure about this, but this is what I heard" tone that leads to a sense of lack of credibility on the part of the writer and a feeling of "did I just waste 5 minutes of my life" on the part of the reader, is unlikely to keep me coming back.