if a&m joins who will join the east

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#126
DjCrenshaw said:
We could go to a 24 team conference where we do everything like we already do and our conference champ would play theirs. Maybe beef up the big 12 and just become the SEC Bigs.
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Honestly, that's kinda my reductio of the 16 team conference with two eight-team divisions. It's like having two conferences with a championship game and maybe one game between them each year (SEC/Big XII challenge?)
 
#127
#127
DjCrenshaw said:
I believe they had the 2 stationed other division games in order to bring some history and tradition for USC and Arky in the SEC. Wouldn't they need to do something similar to any new comers?
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do you mean would aTm and team B get 2 stationed other division game?
 
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#129
TrueOrange said:
do you mean would aTm and team B get 2 stationed other division game?
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I am just assuming the sec would do 10 years of trying to build up rivalries with the new schools. I mean atm has kind of one with arkansas, but I could see them trying to re-wire the rivalrys all together just to make the new conference work.
 
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#130
Incipient said:
I know they used to, but then it was an eight game schedule and one rotating out of four. This would make it a nine game schedule with one rotating out of five. If they disliked the former enough to scrap it, I don't imagine the latter is going to be more appetizing.
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well at a certain size too, it's what you can reasonably pull off
 
#132
#132
TrueOrange said:
well at a certain size too, it's what you can reasonably pull off
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Yeah. The bigger you get, the more unwieldy. If we do the seven team divisions, I think my attempt on the previous page was about the best we can do.

Alabama Auburn
Tennessee Vandy
Florida Georgia
Kentucky South Carolina
Miss St Ole Miss
Arky LSU
NEW Team NEW team
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Bold teams in one division, team listed next to them is their single cross-division rival.

It loses you some games like Florida/LSU, but that's not too much different than the loss of Tennessee/Auburn back in '92. It's nothing like losing the Iron Bowl or the Third Saturday or the World's Largest Outdoor Party that Has Nothing to Do with Alcohol or Drinking or Cocktails.

If we go 16, I say a modified super-WAC.
 
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#133
Incipient said:
Yeah. The bigger you get, the more unwieldy. If we do the seven team divisions, I think my attempt on the previous page was about the best we can do.



Bold teams in one division, team listed next to them is their single cross-division rival.

It loses you some games like Florida/LSU, but that's not too much different than the loss of Tennessee/Auburn back in '92. It's nothing like losing the Iron Bowl or the Third Saturday or the World's Largest Outdoor Party that Has Nothing to Do with Alcohol or Drinking or Cocktails.

If we go 16, I say a modified super-WAC.
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UF-LSU is more of a force-tied one anyways; i've heard way plenty of UF fans complaining about being made to play LSU each year just because "the SEC wanted to keep AL-TN together"
 
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TrueOrange said:
UF-LSU is more of a force-tied one anyways; i've heard way plenty of UF fans complaining about being made to play LSU each year just because "the SEC wanted to keep AL-TN together"
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Didn't even realize that. In that case, I still think that's about the best we can do. Go totally non-geographical, but I think it preserves both competitive balance and all the big rivals.
 
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#136
DjCrenshaw said:
Ok, but lets be frank. 3rd saturday in october is waaaaay more important than the iron bowl.
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Obviously. But just to be sure, Auburn needs to get hammered so that everyone else will realize that they're not an important game anymore.
 
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Incipient said:
Obviously. But just to be sure, Auburn needs to get hammered so that everyone else will realize that they're not an important game anymore.
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And let UF cry about their little game with the bayou bengals. I mean their OOC games, aside from Fsu, is a joke.
 
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#141
I would rather have FSU or Miami join over A&M/Oklahoma..I think they should at least be in the South over the West, but then again, nobody thought Arkansas would be a good fit back when they left the SWC for SEC. FSU/Miami is a bigger market which would produce more revenue but have a lot less tradition than A&M/OU...either way, I hope SEC doesn't expand, starting to look inevitable though.
 
#142
#142
Texas A&M will become a member of the SEC in 2012. There will be uneven divisions for one season, with the West having 7 teams and the East having 6.

West teams will play a six team round-robin, and two teams from the East (permanent and Class III, so we would play Kentucky and at South Carolina).
The East teams will play a five team round robin, and two teams from the West. The SEC will apply for an exemption for one season so that the East teams can play 11 games, but they will be able to schedule teams if they can find them.

Beginning in 2013, it seems like the buzz is another East team will be added. The SEC will stop at 14. The teams that seem to be generating the most buzz are the usual suspects, Virginia Tech, Florida State and Clemson. Maryland and NC State were mentioned, but the SEC presidents are seemingly wanted to go to 14, and that means keeping geography a factor. Those five teams are on the radar.

The SEC will go to a 9 game schedule in 2013. Six game round robin in division, one permanent cross division and two rotators. There might be a reset of permanents and the rotation cycle
 
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#143
tnvols72 said:
I heard on the radio that it could be Mizzu or VT.
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Either would likely work well

Mizzou might be more willing than the other to jump in at the invitation, given the current situations of each
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#144
#144
I personally would like to see Clemson. My short list for the East would be...
Clemson
North Carolina
Virginia Tech
Miamia
Florida State


Governor Perry is a grad from A&M and seemed pretty confident the meetings were going well and a possible deal could be reached.
 
#147
#147
I look at it from a market perspective. VT almost gets you to the D.C. market . I personally like USF & being able to use Tampa facilities & market access. I recognize FSU is the obvious choice but USF makes sense too
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#149
#149
you can say no to louisville, clemson, ga tech, miami, and fsu.

the member schools of those states will block those moves.

the other possibilities are okie, mizzou, va tech, maryland. the #1 choice would be north carolina, but that ain't happening

it depends on how many they want to add to the league.
 
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