Not sure what it is with Sankey/the whole SEC in their reluctance to play MORE conference games in basically every major sport. Agree with you on 20-game SEC schedule for men's and women's hoops, and football should play 9 SEC games. Hell, I even wouldn't mind seeing more SEC games in baseball and softball.
Weird things like that pop up, especially when you add new teams into the conference scheduling. It seemed to most be a factor when we'd get the rotating teams into the schedule to play twice. The year prior to and after the year we play that team twice don't align with alternating home-away.
It’s because they want to have extra compensation from ESPN if they are getting more quality games. From the SEC’s viewpoint, why would we give you more quality content to broadcast without you compensating us for those games? ESPN’s viewpoint, we just gave you a new deal that is taking effect this season with the addition of Texas and Oklahoma so why would we turn right back around and give you even more money? Always about the
I’m with you. I wish the sec, big10, big12 and acc would do a round robin challenge in season. So the acc/sec have a series one weekend while the big10/big12 does theirs. Then just rotate to switch the conferences up. Take those three games and then play all sec teams once. It’ll never happen and probably realistically can’t with the conferences having different numbers of teams but in a perfect world that would be a great way to pad everyone’s nonconference schedules
With a 20 game conference schedule you can still have those games. Rick Barnes is always going to schedule tough OOC. It’s only taking away 2 of the more meaningless games vs lower level competition. The 15 plus 5 format would guarantee you play everyone in the conference every season and then guarantee a home/away series with every team every 3 years. 20 games would be perfect for our 16-team SEC.
