re: LSU should protest if

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LSU should protest if


(a) We are saddled with Florida as a permanent eastern division opponent

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Why? It's a great series and always a high profile game nationally. I think we benefit from playing them more than we suffer from it.

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AND/OR

(b) Have to move to a 9 game SEC schedule.

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That's the only way to have 14 teams, keep inter-divisional rivalries and play all the teams in the conference with a reasonable frequency.

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Playing Alabama and Florida year in year out and/or 7 other SEC schools sucks

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Playing Alabama and Florida every year is part of what makes LSU football so exciting.

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Florida has a money and recruiting advantage over us.

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Maybe, but we are 6-4 against them over the last 10 years, so we're certainly holding our own.

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Besides now that Texas A&M is in the SEC West, we have to play them every year

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So? We have to play Arkansas and Auburn every year, too. Why would Texas A&M be any different?

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Give a good coach, the fertile south Texas recruiting base and membership of the premier conference/division in the land and they can be another Florida

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Maybe they will be. That's life in the SEC.

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Besides they have more money as well.

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They are a better funded university overall than LSU is, but in athletics, football in particular, LSU is competitive with every school in the country in funding, facilities, etc.

I don't get why any LSU fan is afraid of playing Florida, Alabama and the rest of our SEC opponents when we have been doing it for over 40 years and it hasn't stopped us from becoming the superpower we currently are.