if a&m joins who will join the east

#76
#76
It will be hard to keep rivalries without adding another conference game.

It'll be hard to preserve rivalries even with another conference game. Say you have 9 conference games. 6 division games. 2 inter-division rivals. That's only one game left to rotate among the other five teams in the other division.
 
#77
#77
Then you lose Vandy/Tennessee.

IMO, this needs to be done in a way where every school gets to keep playing their arch-rival at least. Some schools really have two that they need to keep (for instance, Bama has to play UT and AU; Georgia has to play UF and AU).
Yeah not playing Vandy would be a tragedy. :zeitung_lesen:
 
#78
#78
Why do you think A&M is that important to me? Or the SEC for that matter. That's a ridiculous statement and makes me laugh. Thanks for the humor.

not calling you out as a hater or some bizarre anger obsession or something; saying that you seem like you'd prefer pretty much take anyone other than aTm coming. misread what you had been saying elsewhere?
 
#79
#79
Then you lose Vandy/Tennessee.

IMO, this needs to be done in a way where every school gets to keep playing their arch-rival at least. Some schools really have two that they need to keep (for instance, Bama has to play UT and AU; Georgia has to play UF and AU).

Selfish me, I really only care about UT's rivalries. I think the super conference would be cool; however, I think it would include a bunch of teams that have to build up their SEC cred and rivalries.
 
#80
#80
It'll be hard to preserve rivalries even with another conference game. Say you have 9 conference games. 6 division games. 2 inter-division rivals. That's only one game left to rotate among the other five teams in the other division.

Could have 3 division games with one perminant team from the other divisions with 3 rotating.
 
#83
#83
not calling you out as a hater or some bizarre anger obsession or something; saying that you seem like you'd prefer pretty much take anyone other than aTm coming. misread what you had been saying elsewhere?
Again I have no animosity towards A&M. I'm sure it's a great school. Just don't understand why it is so high on the SEC's priority list for expansion. There's a bunch of more glamorous schools and markets to choose from.
 
#84
#84
The one idea I had is to try to split teams among the traditional in-state (or border) rivalries breaking points and making that the protected game.


Alabama Auburn
Tennessee Vandy
Florida Georgia
Kentucky South Carolina
Miss St Ole Miss
Arky LSU
NEW Team NEW team


How does that look? That's the absolute best I can do. Formatting fail. Putting one division in bold to separate them.

edit: It loses Florida/LSU. But Florida still has their Georgia rivalry, and LSU still has Ole Miss and Arkansas. I really think that's about the best that can be done to keep most rivalries and some competitive balance.
 
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#88
#88
It'll be hard to preserve rivalries even with another conference game. Say you have 9 conference games. 6 division games. 2 inter-division rivals. That's only one game left to rotate among the other five teams in the other division.

to get each team playing each team in a conference 14 teams large playing each other within like 5 years.....still pretty good management; you just might have to throw away the practice of doing a home and home before you move on to the next cross-divisional opponent
 
#90
#90
Could have 3 division games with one perminant team from the other divisions with 3 rotating.

I was talking about with two divisions. With four, the rivalries get a lot easier, the new problems are just logistical of how to make four divisions work.
 
#93
#93
So maybe Vandy could play A&M every week.

I know we make fun of them, but I can't rob somebody of their biggest rivalry in a new divisional lineup. If Vandy can't try to beat Tennessee once every 25 years, why do they even have a football team?
 
#94
#94
Again I have no animosity towards A&M. I'm sure it's a great school. Just don't understand why it is so high on the SEC's priority list for expansion. There's a bunch of more glamorous schools and markets to choose from.

gotcha

(that's what i was really trying to say, sorry my wording can get shuffled this late)
 
#95
#95
I know we make fun of them, but I can't rob somebody of their biggest rivalry in a new divisional lineup. If Vandy can't try to beat Tennessee once every 25 years, why do they even have a football team?

So who would be in our division? USC Kentucky and vandy? We should be going to the playoffs yearly.
 
#96
#96
that could feasibly work regardless of whether the team came from east or west of the conference....though i wouldn't be surprised if it went nothing like such


also not expecting OU

I don't expect OU would be in either and would rather see someone geographically closer to us. I don't think we will add A&M either but if we did we would need to add two schools.
 
#97
#97
So who would be in our division? USC Kentucky and vandy? We should be going to the playoffs yearly.

That's one way to split it (provided the new teams are in the West).

More likely is USC/UK/UGA/UF in one division and UT/Vandy/Bama/Auburn in another, with Kentucky as our permanent rival.
 
#98
#98
I don't expect OU would be in either and would rather see someone geographically closer to us. I don't think we will add A&M either but if we did we would need to add two schools.

The way the montana fans talked, maybe they would want to join.
 
#99
#99
So who would be in our division? USC Kentucky and vandy? We should be going to the playoffs yearly.

Yes. We go back to playing Ole Miss every year again and keep Alabama. Rotate the other schools with special emphasis on creating a rivalry with Mississippi State. I like that division!!!
 
That's one way to split it (provided the new teams are in the West).

More likely is USC/UK/UGA/UF in one division and UT/Vandy/Bama/Auburn in another, with Kentucky as our permanent rival.

Yeah, I don't think I like that too much. I liked mine better.
 

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