re: Support for nine-game SEC football schedule is dwindling

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Which means each school will lose at least 2 home games along with the revenue and recruiting weekends that go along with it.

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Fans have to vote with their wallets… if we don’t want to see LSU vs UAB for example, don’t go to the game and don’t watch it. Do that across the entire SEC and they’ll go to 9 or 10 games with the quickness

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Make a deal with Nick Saban. Let Alabama have Arkansas to be one of the 3 permanent opponents.

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Make a deal with Nick Saban. Let Alabama have Arkansas to be one of the 3 permanent opponents.

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I know you are new to the SEC dance but even Mizzou should know that Miss State and BAMA have played the most in the SEC. These schools are also the closest to each other.

Auburn, Tennessee, and Miss State. If the SEC can't figure that out then we'll take 8 games.

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-Alabama ended up being that school, and now they’re changing their vote.

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You say that like, Oh, here's ALABAMA, we haven't done them yet.

Sankey knows the problem. If he went to Destin thinking it's all just going to happen anyway, he is probably rethinking that.

There’s really no excuse for Bama not to have MSU as our third opponent. The LSU/Bama series wasn’t even remotely relevant until this millennium.

The idea that the SEC would give up it’s most relevant and financially lucrative game just so Alabama can have an easier schedule is hilarious.

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Oh, the horror of losing a recruiting weekend. It isn’t like these schools aren’t bringing in recruits every other weekend in offseason. However, sure, let’s show them what it looks like to play a FCS school at noon in September so they get the true experience of what a SEC juggernaut looks like.

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LMAO! You REALLY think schools/AD's want to give up the revenue that goes with 2 home games? Coaches want to lose TWO recruiting weekends?

How can you not get those realities?

Hey,I'm all in on a 9 game SEC schedule
and 3 P5 OOC's and the 9 game schedule might happen depending on how much $$ TV wants to kick but there's no way in hell the 3 P5 OOC's thing is gonna happen.

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How did all the other conferences go to 9 games? Were recruiting weekends not a consideration?

I don’t care about 3 OOC P5 games, but I care very much about 9 game schedule.

As for recruiting weekends, at this point recruiting is about showing them the money and the facilities and winning. That can happen any weekend. And non game weekends probably allow a better view of campus life in general.

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Another option is the rotating pod solution with one fixed out of pod opponent.

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And what happens the year you play the pod that your permanent opponent is in? Do you play that opponent twice? Where does the 8th conference game come from?

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And what happens the year you play the pod that your permanent opponent is in? Do you play that opponent twice? Where does the 8th conference game come from?

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You play an alternate from a different pod. Preferably an available school with some history.

I actually love the idea of ten conference games per year it would just require a big television deal to supplement revenue lost with fewer home games. Competitively it would be a disadvantage when the other conferences aren't playing ten.

But supposing the financial incentive was there I really like the five : three pod solution.

Here that would be:

Fives
Alabama : Tennessee
Auburn : Georgia
LSU : Florida
MSU : Kentucky
OM : Vanderbilt

Threes
Texas : Oklahoma
Arkansas : Missouri
USC : A&M

To explain by example how this would work

Alabama schedule:
Year1&2: Auburn, LSU, MSU, OM, Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, Texas, Arkansas, USC
Year 3&4: Auburn, LSU, MSU, OM, Tennessee, Florida, Vanderbilt, Oklahoma, Missouri, A&M

Texas schedule:
Year 1&2: Oklahoma, A&M, Arkansas, Missouri, USC, Alabama, Auburn, LSU, OM, MSU
Year 3&4: Oklahoma, A&M, Arkansas, Missouri, USC, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Vanderbilt

The fives are playing one of the "threes" pods and half of the rotating opposite fives to get ten games

The threes play all of the threes every year and one of the fives to get ten games. The whole rotation (home & away against all 15 conference opponents) takes four years maximum for every team

The one program that is arguably getting screwed by this is South Carolina. They aren't playing their #1 in Georgia every year. You could replace Vanderbilt in the five east pod with USC if that was consensus (since Vanderbilt has the smaller fan support, the negative in that case being the loss of the annual Tennessee vs Vanderbilt game)