re: SIAP: Mike Slive cowers down to status quo, changes South Carolina vs. Arkansas

I still think the best possible solution would be to make a move and jump to 16 teams and split the conference in 4. Rotate the divisions every year so that you will play every school at least once in three years. With the 12 game schedule that leave you with 7 conference games, and 5 open slots. If anyone wants to play another team in conference who they are not lined up to play that year(Ex: Bama wants to play UT) they can schedule them in one of their open slots and just call it a OOC game so that some teams don't have more conference games.

With the current 14 team conference no one is going to be happy with how the games get scheduled. UF/LSU don't want to play, Bama/UGA/UT/Aub want to keep their games, and OM/Vandy don't want to risk losing each other.