The "Grow a pair, Georgia" Thread

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This thread is my attempt at an online petition. A big problem with SEC scheduling that many like to point out is the frequency of "cupcakes" on the schedule of a number of teams. While I, along with others, use this to rip on those SEC teams, I would like to change that. I'm all about earning respect, and I would like to see the scheduling habits of SEC schools change, and be more like that of Tennessee, for instance. So, I say to you, fans of other schools, grow a pair!

One team that is worse about this than most others is the University of Georgia. The year was 1965. Lyndon B. Johnson was in the middle of his term, Operation Rolling Thunder was starting in Vietnam and The Sound Of Music Soundtrack was topping the charts. It was also on October 2nd of this year that the Georgia Bulldogs registered a 15 - 7 win over the Michigan Wolverines in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was the last time Georgia ever scheduled a football game outside of the south.
 
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Not a single game north of Lexington in 40 years! But they have played Temple a few times at home so they don't duck northeastern teams completely. They have also played Western Carolina and some other heavyweights. Not sure Auburn schedules any tougher though.
 
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Yeah, I'm just bored this season. And although I've been aware of this whole situation, I'm still astounded that a relatively high-profile program such as Georgia hasn't willingly left its own region in nearly half a century.
 
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Georgia is a little more limited schedule-wise than other schools since they have a built in out of conference game every year with Ga Tech AND they play Florida at a neutral site every year. It's tough for them to schedule a big time opponent because they'd probably have to agree to an extra road game which would be a big revenue hit.

Still, you'd think they would occasionally step out and play somebody on the road.
 
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(volinasheville @ Jun 7 said:
Not sure Auburn schedules any tougher though.
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As bad as Auburn's out of conference schedules have been the past couple of years, they have taken trips to USC and to Syracuse fairly recently.
 
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(GAVol @ Jun 7 said:
As bad as Auburn's out of conference schedules have been the past couple of years, they have taken trips to USC and to Syracuse fairly recently.
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I don't have THAT much of a problem with scheduling Sun Belt/D-IAA teams as long as the big names are there to offset it.
 
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It's tough to defend Auburn too much when you consider that Tommy Tuberville's first act as Auburn head coach was to convince his AD to buy out the agreement to play a home and home against Florida State.
 
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(GAVol @ Jun 7 said:
It's tough to defend Auburn too much when you consider that Tommy Tuberville's first act as Auburn head coach was to convince his AD to buy out the agreement to play a home and home against Florida State.
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I thought that was Little Bowden's last year?
 
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It doesn't seem to hurt Ga. or Aub. as far as the polling goes but may have cost Aub. a chance at the national title afew years back. We want them to play tougher schedules but in the same breath we don't see our non conference games as a big deal, unless we win.
 
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UGA is my least favorite SEC team by far (right now), that said, just playing the SEC teams in your division and beating them is enough IMO without scheduling anyone else.As long as the SEC stays strong and continues to consistently have top ten teams,I don't find it to be that big of a deal who the non conference teams are.That said, I understand your reasoning though.
 
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(utfantilidie @ Jun 8 said:
UGA is my least favorite SEC team by far (right now), that said, just playing the SEC teams in your division and beating them is enough IMO without scheduling anyone else.As long as the SEC stays strong and continues to consistently have top ten teams,I don't find it to be that big of a deal who the non conference teams are.That said, I understand your reasoning though.
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Well, unfortunately college football is a popularity contest. While most level-headed football fans will tell you that the SEC is generally the best conferece from year to year (I also agree with this statement, don't blow your tops), most people outside the south are not of the opinion that the SEC is so vastly superior to the rest of D-IA that it grants the teams within it a free pass to schedule patsies. This was proven in the 2004 season, like crimedawg said, as Auburn's scheduling of D-IAA Citadel (I believe that was the team) was one of the deciding factors in USC and Oklahoma being selected over Auburn to play for the national title.
 
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(orangetd88 @ Jun 8 said:
I thought that was Little Bowden's last year?
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No - It was Tuberville's first year. He caught some flack for telling some recruits they were opening against FSU and then later admitting that he already had known the game was going to be bought out.
 
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I could have sworn Junior was still there.

Doesn't surprise me about TT, though. He has his moments when he turns into a little weasel.
 
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(orangetd88 @ Jun 9 said:
I could have sworn Junior was still there.

Doesn't surprise me about TT, though. He has his moments when he turns into a little weasel.
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He should have tried to pimp his team into th 2004 Orange Bowl. The same tactic worked for Mack Brown to get Texas into the Rose Bowl that year.
 
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about the auburn thing said, most people use it as an excuse for why auburn was screwed over, instead of coming out and saying the bcs sucks.
 
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Is it or is it not a fact that strength of schedule is no longer a factor in the BSC computations? If it is a team like Georgia is to be congratulated on smart scheduling. Or is it that technically it isn't a factor but those teams that play ranked opponents and get quality wins are held in a higher esteem than those that roll over mediocre teams? I think if the latter is correct in reality it points to one reason why fans mock the validity of BCS rusults. Why was strength of schedule taken out of the computations, and who pushed for the decision? And one more question for debate among the vaunted minds of college football, who are the person(s) who make the decision that bowls will continue to be played rather than playoffs as most people I think prefer the playoff system? Can anyone here name this person or group of persons?
 
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I'm in the microscopic minority that doesn't want a playoff. I could go for a BCS +1 format, but that would be it. I just don't see why it's that big a deal.
 
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Im just trying to understand the things that make college football make the moves it makes. no one seems to want to answer the questions like who and why made the decision to toss SOS out of the mix. For me knowing who puts a face on it.
 
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(dan4vols @ Jun 14 said:
Is it or is it not a fact that strength of schedule is no longer a factor in the BSC computations? If it is a team like Georgia is to be congratulated on smart scheduling. Or is it that technically it isn't a factor but those teams that play ranked opponents and get quality wins are held in a higher esteem than those that roll over mediocre teams? I think if the latter is correct in reality it points to one reason why fans mock the validity of BCS rusults. Why was strength of schedule taken out of the computations, and who pushed for the decision? And one more question for debate among the vaunted minds of college football, who are the person(s) who make the decision that bowls will continue to be played rather than playoffs as most people I think prefer the playoff system? Can anyone here name this person or group of persons?
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The university presidents.
 
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Maybe...but does seem kinda funny to me that unversity officials can keep an entire collegient cash cow system entact but start talking about players who make millions for these universities get a hamburger bought for em and omg we're talking unscrupulous behavior. I guess its just another example of those with $ and influence control everything, just the way it is.
 
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