re: If UF fires Mullen who they going to hire?

mullen won't be fired this year.

I think UF would hire Kiffin, Tucker, or Cristobal.

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with Bama possibly moving East when OU and Texas come, Id like to have Lane vs Nick over most other names out there

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I dunno what the SEC is actually going to be doing about the conference divisions if Texas and OU join. The "leaked" proposal was for four team divisions instead of eight team mega divisions

Eight team divisions option:
West
LSU
OU
A&M
Texas
Arkansas
Missouri
Ole Miss
MSU

East:
Alabama
UGA
Florida
Auburn
Tennessee
South Carolina
Kentucky
Vanderbilt

Positive: Simple to understand
Negative: Even with nine or ten conference games a year it takes years to rotate through the other division. Essentially teams like LSU and Florida or Alabama are no longer in the same conference.

Four Team Divisions option
NW
OU
Texas
Arkansas
Missouri

SW
LSU
A&M
Ole Miss
MSU

SE
Florida
UGA
USC
Kentucky

S Central
Alabama
Auburn
Tennessee
Vanderbilt

The four team divisions would need clarification RE how do you get a championship game (if NCAA does or doesn't allow an extra round of playoffs for the four mini champs). The advantage could be playing every team in the conference every four years with three division games, two permanent rivalry games, and a home/away rotation of five of the remaining ten conference teams which switches to the other five teams after each home and away.

Anyone who really sits down with pen and pencil quickly realizes this is complicated when you try to arrange for rivalry games while balancing schedule strengths.

The third option would be five and three team divisions. Two five team and two three team divisions with the three team divisions playing each other and one of the two five team divisions. The five team divisions play the assigned three team division, their permanent opponent from the opposite five team division and two more teams from the opposite division (e.g LSU always plays Florida and either Auburn and Georgia or Alabama and Tennessee).

Pod5A:
LSU
A&M
OU
Texas
Arkansas

Pod5B:
Florida
Auburn
Alabama
UGA
Tennessee

Pod3A:
Missouri
Ole Miss
MSU

Pod3B:
South Carolina
Vanderbilt
Kentucky

Although it seems unfamiliar this option actually ends up more balanced in terms of consistent schedule strength than the eight team divisions or detailed four team pods mapped out over the four year rotations.

TLDR: Expansion makes money but destroys the already diluted conference game rotations. To remain a conference some planning is required

I think Tom Herman will do well at Florida.