re: What is a acceptable record for Coach Ed Orgeron this year?

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All you're saying is that a top heavy league is better in your opinion than a league that's good 1-6.

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Madking, That sentence gets to the crux of the matter. Imagine this: if the West had six 0.500 teams, and you added a half dozen NFL players to two of the teams, the league's records would spread out. The four other teams would have worse records, and the lucky two would probably have one loss between them.

Alternatively, if you took that same balanced league and removed a half dozen good players from two teams the league's records would also spread out.

In the first example, the league would clearly be stronger, but in the second it's clearly weaker.

It appears to me that the first example more closely resembles what actually happened. The SEC became the premiere league, and the talent flocked in - even to Ole Miss, for goodness sake.

If neither example is reflective, then I would say that a team fighting for championships would rather face a league with parity than one with a couple of great teams, but an average team would rather face a balanced league in which it would stand a fighting chance of winning out.

Anyway, good point above.