re: LSU, UF… Just Man Up and Stop Whining - Permanent Opponents Article

So, a certain bama grad and ex athletic dept. kingpin...a certain Mr. Womack is NOT now in charge of SEC scheduling...????? Bama gets the by far easiest schedule TWO yrs. in a row...nothing to see here...right ?
How naive can a person possibly be ????

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LSU fans? stop whining? ain't going to happen....

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I love how some bama fans act like they never whine. I remember a whole lot of you guys crying about playing us again in 2011. Hell, even your coach was being a hypocrite and saying it didn't matter that ya'll didn't win the division. I'm all for the UF game every year btw. Our fans that do bitch about that game are idiots.

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I remember a whole lot of you guys crying about playing us again in 2011.

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I believe you misremember. Only one fan base was running from that game (seems like a theme).

The only real way for everyone to a balanced schedule would be have no divisions, with the option to have 2 permanent games/ Bama vs UT/Au Au vs Bama/UGa and everyone else can either pick two from the rest or rotate


The real reason LSU fans are foaming at the mouth is because they thought UF wasn't going to be worth a shite this past year and would be a win, instead uf bloodied their vaginas . Plus Bama toyed with their emotions by letting them think they had beaten us only to kick their tampon in further with a last minute winning drive. That was more than their fragile egos could take after 21-0 so they're lashing out looking for any and every excuse possible to help ease the pain of Saban at Bama winning 4 of the last 6 games vs LSU and 3/4 BCSNCG.

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How naive can a person possibly be ????

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So you are saying that even though it is so blatantly obvious that Womack is a Bama pawn, the other 13 SEC presidents and ADs are either too stupid to see it, or they are somehow complicit in setting up Bama with this easy schedule?

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I think the real issue is that Georgia was taken off your schedule for 2013 when ya'll were supposed to play them.

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They don't like re-matches for the SEC Championship Game. That's a league decision, not a Bama or UGA decision.

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Only one fan base was running from that game (seems like a theme).

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Of course we didn't want to play you again. We beat you at your place, played an extra game against a top 10 team and got rewarded by having to play the only team that could beat us again!! Saban would've had a stroke if that happened to ya'll. I saw that arse beating coming though. The players didn't even want that game.

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They had a heavy hand in the two bridge schedules.

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This. I don't know why this keeps degenerating into a permanent opponent argument, and why Bama fans keep trying to make this the argument. I suspect it is to try to take away attention from the real and undeniable advantage that they've garnered from the bridge schedule. The current process of schedule making in the SEC is completely subjective - there's no process to it at all, actually, and Alabama appears to be reaping the benefits of that. I don't think it's is malicious or anything, but I'll continue to say that there shouldn't even be the mere appearance of bias that goes into making a schedule. There should be a consistent process to it, not, "hey, let's get a bunch of SEC bigwigs into a room and hammer this year's schedule out."

Mostly, LSU fans bitch about playing UF every year because it's a dumb, fabricated "rivalry" that was only implemented to facilitate UT-UA and UGA-AU. Fine, whatever. It's a fun game anyway so we'll accomodate you. Back when there was a rotating schedule even with the permanent opponents, some years teams would get favorable schedules due to the cyclical nature of college football - but you knew it was only because of that, and that one of these days it would come back around and you would get an equally favorable schedule. These days, you DON'T know that. The schedule is arbitrary. It's "okay, let's give LSU to Georgia...let's see...Alabama can take Kentucky. Yeah, that works. Let's do that."

That is where the real shite sandwich is. So Bama fans, let's stop talking about LSU-UF and focus on the real issue, or does that not suit your agena?

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So Bama fans, let's stop talking about LSU-UF and focus on the real issue, or does that not suit your agena?

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Look, we all know that the bridge schedules worked to Bama's advantage. But it is only a temporary deal. I still contend that next year will be different.

But there is a large and vocal contingent of the LSU fanbase, coaches, & administration that want to end the permanent cross-divisional games. That is what really gets under our skin. I couldn't care less if LSU folks whine and complain about a temporary schedule. But when they start complaining about our right to keep our rivalry, that ticks me off because that would be permanent.

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LSU fans want a fair schedule. That is all. Is wanting to get rid of the permanent opponents misguided? Maybe so and hopefully there's a better solution out there, but it doesn't change the fact that this shite needs to be fixed. And really, it's not that much to ask for. If Bama were getting fricked, you'd be shouting from the rooftops too.

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I guess you haven't watched football for long. Every year can't be the same, we can't all play an equal schedule, someone will always play a harder schedule, that's how it is. You're not getting screwed, hell our 09 and 2010 schedules were two of the toughest schedules in back to back years for anyone in a long time, you're asking that scheduling is changed to specifically favor you just because your window may be closing for a title, that isn't fair. You're playing a harder schedule now, but in a few years we'll be playing a harder schedule, and we sure as hell won't be whining about it.