Time to End Guarantee Game??

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#2
That article is as retarded in 2013 as it would have been if a Knoxville writer had written it in 2000. The series has been one of streaks going back to the 70s
 
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I don't understand why no one is arguing for keeping TSIO and DSOR and letting the other ten teams rotate both games. The Pac 12 and Big 10, both have similar set-ups.
 
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bamawriter said:
I don't understand why no one is arguing for keeping TSIO and DSOR and letting the other ten teams rotate both games. The Pac 12 and Big 10, both have similar set-ups.
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You're going to have to help me with the acronyms.
 
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This character that wrote this al.com article is amusing. He must not know much about the history of the UT-Bama rivalry. But, like Finebaum, he must pander to a Bama-centric readership, so I guess we can excuse his stupidity.
 
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Truly one of the most idiotic pieces ever written. I really don't even know how to respond other to say Bama was is much worse condition prior to Saban then UT is now. There is an ebb and flow to the top tier of the SEC and to pretend that no longer exists is idiotic.
 
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The article is spot on. Bama has dominated UT with the exceptions of a couple of streaks since 1970. As an older Vol fan I detest Bama and if the SEC ever decided to clean up its act and hold programs accountable then Bama would never win another championship.

The "Third Saturday in October" is a rivalry in name only. Not one time since 1967 or 1968 has the UT-Bama game meant anything to a conference championship. Since that time one team or the other has been dominant and the other team in a depression. Also, you would think that if the game was a headliner then you would have seen at least one rematch in the SEC Championship Game since it began in 1992. Afterall, we have played in different divisions for 21 years now.

The UT-Florida game has a much greater bearing on whether UT can get to Atlanta. And before that it was the UT-Auburn game which had a larger impact on our season than the Bama game.

I am not for eliminating the UT-Bama game to retain an 8 game SEC schedule because the AD's will just book another patsy as an OOC game. The SEC needs a 9 game schedule to bring some of the fans back to the stadiums. Empty seats were evident in every SEC stadium last year and it going to get worse if Mike Slive and the AD's do not wake up. Scheduling patsies is even a bigger problem for UT. Ten years ago the AD thought that it did not matter who you scheduled at Neyland Stadium 108,000 would show up. That became a false perception.

Majors and Doug Dickey built this program back up by scheduling schools like Notre Dame, UCLA, Miami, USC, and Pitt, when they were good. That line of scheduling brought recruits that wanted to compete against those teams. I know that we have Oregon on the schedule now but knowing our recent history of buying out some series I have to question if we will ever play Nebraska, Oklahoma, or Ohio State. Even Oregon hinted that we were trying to buy out that return trip this year.

If we are going to play a subpar OOC schedule then we need to go to 9 SEC games and keep the money in the conference.
 
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