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Playing Florida - the positive sides
Posted on 5/30/12 at 4:05 pm
Posted on 5/30/12 at 4:05 pm
No use bitching about this one, as it is completely out of our hands.
As a season ticket holder, I am VERY pleased to have the Florida game on the schedule at home every other year. This means we have either Florida or Bama at home each and every year. With the advent of the TAF/Tradition fees and the 8-home game reality (most years), season ticket holders deserve to get as many top-tier games as possible. It also enhances the road schedule on the travel-to-Gainseville years.
Sure, it would be IDEALISTIC to get to play all teams in the conference as many years as possible, but face it, larger conferences do not afford such. Heck, LSU NEVER played Bo Jackson, Hershel Walker or Peyton Manning, and that was when we had a different rotation and less conference teams. There is no idealism here, so we get what we get and should not throw a fit. Might as well look at the positive side on this one, unless the unlikely happens. Up to and until that happens, some of us are happy with the Florida game as our east game, and some are not. Sounds like life to me....
Deal with it.
As a season ticket holder, I am VERY pleased to have the Florida game on the schedule at home every other year. This means we have either Florida or Bama at home each and every year. With the advent of the TAF/Tradition fees and the 8-home game reality (most years), season ticket holders deserve to get as many top-tier games as possible. It also enhances the road schedule on the travel-to-Gainseville years.
Sure, it would be IDEALISTIC to get to play all teams in the conference as many years as possible, but face it, larger conferences do not afford such. Heck, LSU NEVER played Bo Jackson, Hershel Walker or Peyton Manning, and that was when we had a different rotation and less conference teams. There is no idealism here, so we get what we get and should not throw a fit. Might as well look at the positive side on this one, unless the unlikely happens. Up to and until that happens, some of us are happy with the Florida game as our east game, and some are not. Sounds like life to me....
Deal with it.
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Posted on 5/30/12 at 4:07 pm to therocketscientist
I am happy that LSU is in an up cycle and Fla is in a down cycle, and we can give them some much-deserved payback.
I was at that 56-13 game.
I was at that 56-13 game.
This post was edited on 5/30/12 at 4:09 pm
Posted on 5/30/12 at 4:08 pm to therocketscientist
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I am VERY pleased to have the Florida game on the schedule at home every other year.
Same here.
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Deal with it.
Agreed. Can we get over this already?
Posted on 5/30/12 at 4:11 pm to la_birdman
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Can we get over this already?
Sure. Just as soon as people start to understand that the objection is not to playing Florida. The objection is to any permanent rival game. Ours happens to be against UF and if we're going to have a permanent rival, then they're as good as anybody. But as the conference grows, it means that we will play the other SEC-E teams less and less often.
Posted on 5/30/12 at 4:17 pm to MountainTiger
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But as the conference grows, it means that we will play the other SEC-E teams less and less often.
True. But, we have several rivalries with conference teams EACH year
Plus, we get to play the other East teams at some point, and if they are worth a shite, we could play them in ATL also.
This post was edited on 5/30/12 at 4:56 pm
Posted on 5/30/12 at 4:18 pm to therocketscientist
i think playing florida helps us ALOT in recruiting kids from that state...which is where most of our out of state studs seem to come from
Posted on 5/30/12 at 4:28 pm to MountainTiger
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as the conference grows, it means that we will play the other SEC-E teams less and less often.
Like the OP stated, it's out of our hands. Enough already.
This post was edited on 5/30/12 at 4:35 pm
Posted on 5/30/12 at 4:37 pm to therocketscientist
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Plus, we get to play the other East teams at some point, and if they are worth a shite, we could play them in ATL also.
The same could be said for Florida too.
Posted on 5/30/12 at 5:17 pm to redfieldk717
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i think playing florida helps us ALOT in recruiting kids from that state
Exactly what I was thinking. Extra exposure in that talent-rich state can do nothing but help recruiting.
Posted on 5/30/12 at 5:38 pm to redfieldk717
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i think playing florida helps us ALOT in recruiting kids from that state...which is where most of our out of state studs seem to come from
this. Playing a game every other year in the heart of Florida is good for LSU recruiting top Florida athletes.
Posted on 5/30/12 at 5:43 pm to redfieldk717
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i think playing florida helps us ALOT in recruiting kids from that state...which is where most of our out of state studs seem to come from
this. Playing a game every other year in the heart of Florida is good for LSU recruiting top Florida athletes.
Posted on 5/30/12 at 5:47 pm to therocketscientist
i want to play the university of florida EVERY YEAR. it is the only SEC team that i feel that way about with ala-friggin-bama as 2nd. it's the big time, baby! under the lights. to me, anyone that shys away from that just to "make the schedule easier" is a pussy. simple. we have done very well playing these top tier teams and to try to avoid them is b.s. c'mon arkansas beat us more than these guys. immaterial though, we are their biggest challenge just like they are ours. if you don't believe me, talk to the gator people just before the LSU game or the bama turds (sorry, i could have called them assholes) before the LSU game. we, LSU, are the real deal baby! 
Posted on 5/30/12 at 6:19 pm to LSU GrandDad
You love the Fla. game that is great. More power to ya. I on the other hand love the Georgia game. To bad you get to see your fav each year and I have to wait a decade. Oh and my brother likes the Tenn./LSU game to bad his son will have graduated college before they get to enjoy that game together again.
Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:20 am to therocketscientist
I have no issues in playing florida every year however the gumps feel its will be the end of the world if the 3rd saturday in October they are not playing tenn. we are about to see who wears the pants in the SEC and we all know who that is.
Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:28 am to liquid rabbit
What positive side is their. Do you realize bama plays an awful team every year. LSU plays the gators, the best team in the east. Gators won 2 nat champs in a row.
Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:46 am to therocketscientist
I'm very pro perma-Florida. I like having competition. That's what makes us strong. Thats why even when another conference actually does have a good team, they aren't battle tested.
Either way. There's nothing we can do,
Either way. There's nothing we can do,
Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:50 am to therocketscientist
For the most part, I applaud how the SEC has set up the permanent rivals. It is balanced, historically relevant and has worked so far.
Big 6
Bama (22) - UT (13)
LSU (11) - UF (9* one vacated)
Auburn (7) - UGA (13)
Old SEC Teams
Vandy - Ole Miss
UK - MSU
Newcomers
Arkansas - Mizzou
A&M - USC
It isn't that unfair to anyone. Each year there will be scheduling oddities, and one schedule or another will appear easier than the other, but this will all balance out. UT will eventually get off the mat and this will be a non-issue.
I could be wrong, but I don't recall a deserving team not qualifying for the SECCG because of the permanent rival.
Like others have stated, I can only hope that with the move to a playoff, we can increase the # of conference games with out fear of beating each other up and costing the conference a shot at the title. Then everyone wins. We play historic rivals and see more teams from the other side.
I would love a 10 team conference slate. 6 division games 1 permanent rival and rotate 3 games vs the opposite division. Then, everyone would play in every stadium in a 4 year career.
Big 6
Bama (22) - UT (13)
LSU (11) - UF (9* one vacated)
Auburn (7) - UGA (13)
Old SEC Teams
Vandy - Ole Miss
UK - MSU
Newcomers
Arkansas - Mizzou
A&M - USC
It isn't that unfair to anyone. Each year there will be scheduling oddities, and one schedule or another will appear easier than the other, but this will all balance out. UT will eventually get off the mat and this will be a non-issue.
I could be wrong, but I don't recall a deserving team not qualifying for the SECCG because of the permanent rival.
Like others have stated, I can only hope that with the move to a playoff, we can increase the # of conference games with out fear of beating each other up and costing the conference a shot at the title. Then everyone wins. We play historic rivals and see more teams from the other side.
I would love a 10 team conference slate. 6 division games 1 permanent rival and rotate 3 games vs the opposite division. Then, everyone would play in every stadium in a 4 year career.
Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:51 am to redsox75
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What positive side is their. Do you realize bama plays an awful team every year. LSU plays the gators, the best team in the east. Gators won 2 nat champs in a row.
Cry about it. If the recruits had your mentality we wouldn't get top players bc "the other school has an easier route to PT".
Besides. What game would you, as a fan, rather go to; LSU/Florida or LSU/tenn?
One more thing: there was a time when tenn was better than everyone not named Bama, and Florida sucked. Do we just swap out teams according to what's easier to us? Y'all sound like crying little bitches.... With all due respect.
Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:52 am to omegaman66
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I on the other hand love the Georgia game
You mean the team we didn't play at all from 1954-1977? The team we played a whopping two times in the 80s? Expansion has actually caused s to play Georgia more than we ever have. We have no historic ties to playing UGa, and while they are a great program, I can't see how LSU fans must have this game, seeing as we've never had it in our history.
Go to nine games, play them every three years, and it'll be more than we've ever played them in our school's history.
Posted on 5/31/12 at 11:13 am to liquid rabbit
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liquid rabbit
October 9, 1993, Baton Rouge, LA, Florida, 58–3
stayed the whole time
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