The Roommate Switch (Scheduling)

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#4
This was good. Lengthy article but worth the read. This might Saban's head.

Might be simpler to add to more teams and go to four divisions. Who knows but I expect another expansion in the next 2-4 years. Maybe why we are staying at 8 for the short haul.

Did hear that a PAC 12 coach was upset because we did not go to a 9 game SEC schedule.
 
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Sudden Impact said:
This was good. Lengthy article but worth the read. This might Saban's head.

Might be simpler to add to more teams and go to four divisions. Who knows but I expect another expansion in the next 2-4 years. Maybe why we are staying at 8 for the short haul.

Did hear that a PAC 12 coach was upset because we did not go to a 9 game SEC schedule.
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Shaw. I guess the other coaches rather SEC teams beat each other up versus playing Non SEC teams. Wimps.
 
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Totally unnecessary. It starts off with Saban's hypothesis that every player should play every school in his 4 year career. Stupid premise, resulting in an unnecessary convoluted plan. The 6-1-1 is just fine.
 
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macrovol said:
Totally unnecessary. It starts off with Saban's hypothesis that every player should play every school in his 4 year career. Stupid premise, resulting in an unnecessary convoluted plan. The 6-1-1 is just fine.
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I do like how every player has a chance to play every team in the conference and we preserve the rivalries. How long do you think the 6-1-1 will stand? I think something will change within the next 5 years and I'd be happy with this format.
 
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6-1-2 would work fine and meet everyone's needs. This is like the overly complicated plan the WAC tried before part of it split off after and made the Mountain West conference
 
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macrovol said:
Totally unnecessary. It starts off with Saban's hypothesis that every player should play every school in his 4 year career. Stupid premise, resulting in an unnecessary convoluted plan. The 6-1-1 is just fine.
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It needs to be 9 games, 1) so the schools play each other more than...what a home and home every 12 years. (and 2 - because every other major conference is moving to 9 games by 2016/2017)
 
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Sudden Impact said:
This was good. Lengthy article but worth the read. This might Saban's head.

Might be simpler to add to more teams and go to four divisions. Who knows but I expect another expansion in the next 2-4 years. Maybe why we are staying at 8 for the short haul.

Did hear that a PAC 12 coach was upset because we did not go to a 9 game SEC schedule.
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No other conference has commented negatively on it.
 
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TrueOrange said:
It needs to be 9 games, 1) so the schools play each other more than...what a home and home every 12 years. (and 2 - because every other major conference is moving to 9 games by 2016/2017)
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This.

I'm totally in favor of keeping the important cross-divisional rivalries, so I'm glad that's happening. But it is absurd that each team only sees the other six teams in the opposite division at home once every 12 years. That's beyond stupid.
 
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bamawriter said:
This.

I'm totally in favor of keeping the important cross-divisional rivalries, so I'm glad that's happening. But it is absurd that each team only sees the other six teams in the opposite division at home once every 12 years. That's beyond stupid.
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I agree. That's why I like this format or something similar. Keep the rivalries and play a home and home with every SEC opponent within 4 years.
 
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Sudden Impact said:
This was good. Lengthy article but worth the read. This might Saban's head.

Might be simpler to add to more teams and go to four divisions. Who knows but I expect another expansion in the next 2-4 years. Maybe why we are staying at 8 for the short haul.

Did hear that a PAC 12 coach was upset because we did not go to a 9 game SEC schedule.
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Nearly all of them were upset because they know if SEC goes to 9 there is more chance of a PAC 12 team getting in the playoff as the SEC beats up on itself.
 
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MrBiggles said:
Nearly all of them were upset because they know if SEC goes to 9 there is more chance of a PAC 12 team getting in the playoff as the SEC beats up on itself.
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Just the Stanford coach said something, and in all honesty, that's probably because he'd rather his team get to play another Alabama A&M or Western Kentucky than a 9th game against a 9th PAC-12 team.
 
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MrBiggles said:
Nearly all of them were upset because they know if SEC goes to 9 there is more chance of a PAC 12 team getting in the playoff as the SEC beats up on itself.
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I agree with this. And then it would bring on a whole new argument if we went to 9 games and a two loss SEC team makes the playoffs over a one loss PAC-12 team.
 
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allsgood21 said:
I agree with this. And then it would bring on a whole new argument if we went to 9 games and a two loss SEC team makes the playoffs over a one loss PAC-12 team.
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That likely would not happen.


Even a 1-loss 9-conference game SEC team over an undefeated major conference team - while still not terribly likely - seems like it would have more of a chance of happening than a 2-loss team passing a one-loss team.

(And note, I'm not saying either of those is terribly likely to begin with)


Unless you had a really weird, 2007-esque-but-worse type season.
 
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allsgood21 said:
I agree. That's why I like this format or something similar. Keep the rivalries and play a home and home with every SEC opponent within 4 years.
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Except this guy throws away a bunch of other school's rivalries (especially in the 8 game model); he's really only "protecting" a handful of the big ones (and maybe renewing 2 old ones as far as Auburn goes).

The pods really aren't terribly balanced either, especially with regards to LSU's position.

allsgood21 said:
I do like how every player has a chance to play every team in the conference and we preserve the rivalries. How long do you think the 6-1-1 will stand? I think something will change within the next 5 years and I'd be happy with this format.
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If something changes in the next 5 years, it would be a move to a 9 game schedule
 
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I like the pods as well and the rotations. I just don't know that any other formats that preserve the rivalries and also allows a player to play a home and home with every SEC school in 4 years.
 
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TrueOrange said:
The 6-1-2 format would help a lot. We are eventually going to have to play 9 conference games. What will happen when we expand to 16 teams? 6-1-3 format?

I think when it's all said and done, we will go to a full playoff system. Forget all the bowl games and just have a five round playoff with 32 teams while limiting the season games to 10
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