BreakawayZou83

1. Eliminate the NBA Draft in its entirety. Rookies are free agents.

2. Create a new and improved "loyalty bonus". Each team may grant 33% salary bonuses to up to five players that are not counted against the cap. Players must have played at least one season with the team to be eligible. This would help small markets teams keep their star players and their core players together.

3. Reduce the regular season to 58 games to have a clean double round-robin format to increase the value of each regular season game, reduce injuries, and drive higher viewership.

4. Eliminate divisions and conferences.

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This is literally the stadium at kickoff vs SC State last year at 9:21 ET that occurred after a 2 hour delay. We do a pretty damn good job of filling the stadium.

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SCAR has the best fans in football.

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Man, Sikeston is the deep south.

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Anyone here who argues that southeastern Missouri isn’t southern has clearly never visited that part of the state. On the other hand, anyone arguing that KC or St. Louis are southern has never spent time in the South.

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Donors are where it's at ... but the SEC has plenty of big money donors.

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Exactly. If it was a simple matter of schools with the wealthiest alumni translating to the best football programs, then the blue bloods would be Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Penn, MIT, etc.

It’s looking like it’ll be a tough year. Guessing 7-5, buoyed by a weak non-conference schedule. I think we will beat Arkansas and Kentucky and scrape by with one other win. We’re losing a lot on defense. Should be fun watching Hardy and our QB situation can’t be worse than last season. Still, we look to have one of the weaker SEC rosters heading into the Spring.

Austin is the most overrated city in America. It's hot. It's full of aggressive homeless people. Sixth Street is downright nasty. Traffic is atrocious. It's somehow still insanely expensive. The University of Texas feels like it is 90% international students, so the campus feels more like a Model U.N. convention than a big state school.

Sure, Lake Travis is nice. But that's a 40 minute drive from campus to the nearest edge of the Lake.

Any SEC fanbase (except Vandy) calling another SEC fanbase trashy:

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drive most SEC fans away and become an LSU circle jerk board

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So it returns to its origins.

You should do it, Florida. Look how well it worked out for Georgia Tech!

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Why are basketball fans so whiney about the different generations of their sport

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Basketball has evolved a lot faster than baseball or football, and it has seen incredibly significant rule changes. It's really only had a few generations of professionals come and go. And the old heads are weirdly defensive and make ridiculous arguments about how the league is "soft" these days and "MJ would dominate these kids". But they ignore the fact that MJ got to play and dominate in an era where not only was the average player far, far, far worse than today, but by his own admission, he would not be able to do today what he was able to do in the NBA during his time when the illegal defense rule existed. To oversimplify: that rule forced defenses to either play 1v1 or fully commit to a double-team. Zone defenses were illegal. Further, you couldn't double off the ball, or commit to a double from the weak side.

Watch how the Warriors defend LeBron here:



In Jordan's era, both Curry (30) and Lee (10) would have been called for illegal defense. Curry is not within the required distance to his offensive player and Lee cannot stand in the lane as he is not closely guarding his man. LeBron scores here anyway, but in MJ's era, LeBron either gets a clean 1v1 against Iggy, or Lee has to fully double-team LeBron, leaving his man wide open for a dunk/alley-oop.

Here's another example of the Warriors all collapsing to guard Durant:



In MJ's era, this would've been an immediate whistle - and you could pick from three of the five Warriors defenders who are illegally cheating off their coverage to collapse on Durant if necessary.

By contrast, here is how a defense was forced to legally guard MJ during his era, compared to how LeBron was guarded in his era post the illegal defense rule:



LeBron in MJ's era would have run down the court, forced a switch (or gotten a free drive through an empty lane if the team didn't switch), and dominate the worst defender on every possession with no threat of help defense unless it was a full double (which would leave a teammate wide open for a LeBron pass). In his own era, LeBron has three guys waiting to collapse on him if he beats Kawhi one-on-one. But since the Spurs can float in the zone, switch, and recover, he can't simply throw a pass until he forces them to commit and recover defensively. Only then can LeBron try to find a gap in the defense.

You can all act like this isn't a big deal, but it would be the equivalent of outlawing zone coverages on defense in football and forcing defenders to stay within a certain distance of their own man, or hard commit to double teams on every play. Guys like Megatron would have average 200 yards receiving per game.