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re: Why the hell are we playing at Neyland again this year?
Posted on 10/16/17 at 3:12 pm to jlovel7
Posted on 10/16/17 at 3:12 pm to jlovel7
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We’re a 14 team league!
You're right - I'm old AF. 14 teams should have killed it, for sure.
You play your division and 2 rotating teams - every kid gets a chance to play every other SEC team at least once - and will have the chance to play in 11 of the 14 SEC stadiums.
With permanent cross division crap, he gets 9 SEC stadiums, at most, and only 5 cross division opponents.
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Posted on 10/16/17 at 3:16 pm to LSU
There's lots of mystery surrounding cross divisional rivalries. How did KENTUCKY become a permanent rival for State, and S. Carolina permanent for A&M? Georgia vs. Auburn, and Bama vs Tennessee, now that makes sense because those yearly rivalries have been happening for hundreds of years. But Arkansas vs Mizzou as a permanent game? Give me a break.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 3:17 pm to roger79
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a ninth conference game
That's going to be tough - that's asking every team in the conference to give up a home game every other year.
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expansion
Contraction is more likely, IMHO.
I know the SEC would love a Virginia or NC team, but what will that really add? Folks are realizing that Mizzou and aTm might not be the additions we wanted (of course, the big get would have been FSU or Da U, with Clemson perhaps a third opportunity, but neither of those happened - hell the ACC is stronger than ever).
Realignment might work - shipping Auburn (or Bama) to the East and making Mizzou, rationally, a SEC West team. That would make their beloved rivalry games a division game. Problem solved.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 3:19 pm to Ace Midnight
So we're basically going 16 years between trips to Athens. That's insane.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 3:19 pm to tarzana
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There's lots of mystery surrounding cross divisional rivalries. How did KENTUCKY become a permanent rival for State, and S. Carolina permanent for A&M? Georgia vs. Auburn, and Bama vs Tennessee, now that makes sense because those yearly rivalries have been happening for hundreds of years. But Arkansas vs Mizzou as a permanent game? Give me a break.
It’s only that way because of UGA/Auburn and Bama/Tenn.
The SEC “wanted” these cross-divisionals rivalries to persist so basically everybody else had to get made-up ones so the scheduling would work.
This post was edited on 10/16/17 at 3:20 pm
Posted on 10/16/17 at 3:24 pm to StupidBinder
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Their little relationships shouldn’t be the rest of the league’s problem.
those "little relationships" are what make college football so great.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 3:39 pm to Ace Midnight
Playing favorites to Ala. & Auburn is what hurts LSU. And as long as the SEC favors Ala. the rest of the league gets screwed. Can you imagine Stankey telling LSU with six injured starters that its their choice to make about playing the game and then screwing Fla by making them play here two years running. If you can you're probably retarded like Stankey.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 3:43 pm to Golfer
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They can always play them, just not counting to the conference rankings in years they aren't in the rotation.
that would never work
Posted on 10/16/17 at 3:44 pm to Mrtommorrow1987
SEC has said that if LSU is not in the premier game of the week that LSU will play at night.
these were the breadcrumbs that the redheaded stepchild LSU was given while the Head of the Table Alabama feasts on Tennessee.
these were the breadcrumbs that the redheaded stepchild LSU was given while the Head of the Table Alabama feasts on Tennessee.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 3:44 pm to StupidBinder
Jeez...I just can't hardly wait until 2023 when we get to geaux to mizzou for the first time...LOL
Posted on 10/16/17 at 3:46 pm to Mrtommorrow1987
We will have more fans there this year anyway....
Posted on 10/16/17 at 3:50 pm to atltiger6487
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But Bama-Tennessee, Auburn-Georgia, etc, those games deserved to be preserved.
College football survived when conference realignment brought an end to the yearly matchup between Oklahoma and Nebraska so I am sure it would survive if Alabama and Tennessee didn't play each other every year.
If anyone in the league office had any balls, they would say "here is the schedule. You play teams in your division every year, plus 2 rotating teams from the opposite division. If you desire to play a team from the other division that is not on your schedule in a given year, then you are free to do so and count it as a non conference game. And Alabama and Tennessee, we will even be nice enough to leave the third Saturday in October open for you"
But we know better than that.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 4:05 pm to Mrtommorrow1987
It's OK. That is my 2nd favorite SEC trip next to USCe (Charleston).
Posted on 10/16/17 at 4:09 pm to atltiger6487
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those "little relationships" are what make college football so great.
Correct. We aren't advocating them not playing.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 4:10 pm to Topwater Trout
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that would never work
It's done in nearly every other team sport in the SEC on an annual basis, why not?
Posted on 10/16/17 at 4:11 pm to LSUGrad9295
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College football survived when conference realignment brought an end to the yearly matchup between Oklahoma and Nebraska
well, Nebraska went to a different conference, so that doesn't really apply.
All major conferences have gone to great lengths to keep rivalry games alive. Again, it's what makes college football so great.
Again, I already said I'd love for us to play 2 (expand it to 3) rotating East teams. That would be the ideal way to schedule it most fairly. But a lot of that is because we don't have a long rival in the East, so I don't care much about the East.
But I like rivalries being preserved. I just do.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 4:14 pm to atltiger6487
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no, they just wanted to keep traditional rivalries intact when teams are in different divisions.
Well put them in the same F'ing division.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 4:15 pm to Mrtommorrow1987
There is no way anyone can defend the current schedule set up. We don't return to Athens until 2025 and we last played there in 2013. It's unreal how stupid this is 
Posted on 10/16/17 at 4:27 pm to JETigER
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these were the breadcrumbs that the redheaded stepchild LSU was given while the Head of the Table Alabama feasts on Tennessee.
you do realize that Tennessee used to be an absolute powerhouse in the SEC. Yes, they've been down since Fulmer left, but before that they were a beast. Florida was a monster with Spurrier and Meyer, and now they stink. I'd argue that the SEC didn't do Alabama any favors by making Tennessee their permanent East game.
It all goes in cycles, folks.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 4:29 pm to omegaman66
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Well put them in the same F'ing division.
yea, well, there's geography too. I'll admit the SEC's scheduling isn't perfect, but they're just trying to balance everything.
No perfect way to do this, my man.
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