Les Miles wants to do away with permanant SEC opponents...

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#51
mad4vols said:
I love the bama rivalry. But I would be fine with playing them less often. If we regain our power status we should play them every year in the SECCG anyways. Would also like to put the cupcakes Vandy and UK in the early part of the year and move Florida and Georgia to November.
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Never will happen; there for historic reasons
 
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iluvsmesumdooley said:
Miles is often a blithering idiot, but he's right with this one. We'll only beat Bama once every 4 or 5 years IF Butch is a good coach because Satan will be there until he descends into The Pit and Bama has a huge recruiting advantage. I don't want to play those Nazis every frickin year. Besides, their fans are mostly turds. I would rather have a yearly rivalry with respectable fans, like Carolina's.
Wouldn't y'all like to have UGly's weak arse sked for a change?
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nope im a competitor.....i like to shut up the big dogs. not brag about beating vandy or uk
 
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Vol4life25 said:
I like our rivalry as it is....


But Les has a valid point...

It isn't fair for LSU to play Florida every year, while Bama plays UT and A&M plays Mizoo.
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That's all cyclical though; the point was, looking at the schools overall, to match up the more power schools of the conference (UT, UF, Bama, UGA, Auburn, LSU) to provide a means to better balance play between divisions while doing the same with the...more times than not, well, somewhat lower or lesser teams (Ole Miss, Miss St, Vandy, UK), not giving anyone too unfair an advantage in most years (and not making the last four one of the bigger school's punching bags, while also preserving at least some historic rivalries...UGA-Auburn, UT-Bama, Vandy-Ole Miss...made up about half the conference).

USCe's matchup with Arkansas was just a manner of their joining later than the others; same with Missouri-A&M during the schedule "transition" years

And anyways, A&M is likely to be trading off Missouri soon for South Carolina (the conference sees Missouri-Arkansas as having enough rivalry potential to push it in that direction). On a side note, I wonder if spurrier will complain less when his team is the only one able to regularly recruit/play in Florida, Georgia, AND Texas...
 
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UTwild82 said:
I would like to see 9 conference games. Bama/UT and UGA/Auburn need to stay intact. One of the things that has made the SEC the best is we have went out of our way to keep rivalries intact. I hated it when OU/Nebraska was lost to the Big 12 division split. Now Nebraska is completely off their schedule and replaced with their stunning rivalry with West VA
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They'll eventually have to now that the PAC-12, Big 12 and Big 10 are all doing it (and whatever the ACC+Notre Dame scheduling is considered...8.5?)...heck I might be wrong but I think even the conference formerly known as the Big East is going to have 9 game schedule as well
 
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99gator said:
the question is do you value rivalries more than temporary problems.

on a personal level, i don't care because florida already lost its western rival (auburn).

but, do you change your schedule permanently because one school or another happens to be on top at the time.

i think it would be bad for auburn-georgia or alabama-tennessee to go away

and as usual everyone is concerned about themselves. no one is concerned about the other schools that they don't perceive to be a threat
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If it's any comfort, we lost regular rivalries with Auburn and Ole Miss as well.

Personally, I actually kind of liked that initial "two cross division rivalries" the league had for its first 10 years post 92-expansion...wish TN had gotten one of those two though instead of Arkansas, though
 
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#58
It would not be football season without the 3rd saturday in october to look forward to...Yeah they have kicked our rears for a few years now but when the tide turns it will all be worth it...And that friends is coming soon.
 
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99gator said:
let me also say that it's not just the permanent opponent thing they are upset about.

this season the top 3 west division teams play the eastern opponents as follows....

lsu plays florida and georgia

texas a&m plays vanderbilt and missouri

alabama plays kentucky and tennessee
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With all the talent LSU lost, they'll be looking up at Bama and A&M this season regardless of the schedule.

You can't control when a particular school rotates back on the schedule. It seems like UF always catches Auburn or one of the Mississippi schools when they're on the upswing.
 
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#60
Lock Bama-UT and UGA-AU and let the other 10 schools rotate both cross-division games. The Pac 12 does it and it works just fine.
 
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#62
If Tennessee stops playing SmellaBuma every year so they can rotate with A&M, Mizzu and Ole Miss, I'll stop watching football.
 
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#63
I think you should play everyone in your division and 2 different teams from the other division every year so you get to play all SEC in your career. BUT I think ONLY your division games should determine who wins your division!! If we play Michigan, it is a good game but does not enter into whether you win division or not... make the cross-division games electives as well---Lets have true division champs!!
 
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#64
Can you imagine if Dooley didn't have to play Bama? He might have actually won the game, went to a bowl game every year and still be here.
 
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#65
... to whoever has the most seats in their stadium. Or at least require 60,000 seats to stay a member of the SEC...
 
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bamawriter said:
Lock Bama-UT and UGA-AU and let the other 10 schools rotate both cross-division games. The Pac 12 does it and it works just fine.
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Isn't the Big 10 also about to do that? I think like Indiana-Purdue is the only one being locked in the new expected proposal
 
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#69
Go with the most fair system to determine SEC champion. Coach Miles has a point. But when Bama is not on our schedule that counts we can play them anyhow even though it won't count in the standings... Their record was poor against us when we had Neyland and Fulmer as our coaches anyhow.... and I believe Coach Jones will rise to the top when he gets his system rolling also...
 
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What's somewhat amusing about all this perceived bias in scheduling is that Alabama just finished playing USCe and Florida during the 2010-11 seasons. Getting beat by Florida last season didn't cost LSU the SECCG. Just beat Bama in Baton Rouge and you're in Atlanta.
 
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gardners_51609 said:
This article has to be a first, Steve Spurrier actually makes a decent comment about Tennessee without whining...
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Classic underhanded insult by Spurrier. Poor little fragile Tennessee has to play big mean Alabama. Shut up! Spurrier was a fumble away from losing to Dooley and a bad call away from losing to Franklin last year, so he needs to worry about his own team.

And we gladly played Alabama when they stunk and we were good, so they will kindly return the favor.
 
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#75
Probably a typical shot saying that if we get rid of the hard teams we might actually when a game....

:lolabove:


Wow, win*
 
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