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re: Can anyone make a rational argument that Auburn should stay in the west?
Posted on 6/1/17 at 4:16 pm to lsufball19
Posted on 6/1/17 at 4:16 pm to lsufball19
We already play Georgia, LSU and Bama every year. How is it so bad if we added florida and tennessee..?
Sorry you don't have any good rivalries, I guess.
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but by all means for the sake of "traditional rivalries"
Sorry you don't have any good rivalries, I guess.
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Posted on 6/1/17 at 4:18 pm to RT1941
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I've seen PLENTY of UF fans on here want our game back regularly. How can you say by and large that they wouldnt?
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Georgia
Wait, I'm genuinely confused as to why they would be opposed. We already play them each year.
Are you calling them pussies?
Posted on 6/1/17 at 4:20 pm to AeroSpaceTiger
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We already play Georgia, LSU and Bama every year. How is it so bad if we added florida and tennessee..?
5 games>3 games. This isn't NCAA Football on xbox where you make all your OOC games against top 10 teams and it doesn't matter. I think you're also dismissing what will be the outcome as far as your OOC schedule is concerned. You will never schedule good OOC matchups again if that is your SEC schedule every year.
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Sorry you don't have any good rivalries, I guess.
I don't think many people care about the Auburn/Tennessee and Auburn/Florida "rivalries." I doubt you're even old enough to remember when they were. And there should be a limit on the number of games you call rivalries. When you view damn near half your conference schedule as a rivalry game, then IMO you can't really call all of them rivalries. They are just games you used to play every year. We've played State more than any other school in the SEC, but that doesn't make it a rivalry. We've played Florida every year since 1971, and it's not a rivalry game either, it's just a good series we enjoy playing.
This post was edited on 6/1/17 at 4:23 pm
Posted on 6/1/17 at 4:28 pm to AeroSpaceTiger
The move should have been made when adding the Saggies and Mizzou. Get things arranged logically by travel distance.
In a year, no one will give a shite. The Cheetahs will love playing Kentucky and Vandy every year.
In a year, no one will give a shite. The Cheetahs will love playing Kentucky and Vandy every year.
Posted on 6/1/17 at 4:36 pm to lsufball19
Maybe. Again, number of times played doesn't necessarily constitute rivalry rhough.
At the end of the day, I at least want to see 9 games. I want to play Florida and UT more again. I'm only 19, but I remember some DAMN good florida games, 06 and 07 come to mind. Tennessee, bc we haven't gotten to play them as often, has usually matched up against us as an inferior team (2013). But I know what was there once.
Anyway, none of it will happen anyway lol.
Edit: I really do believe regardless we need a 9 game schedule
At the end of the day, I at least want to see 9 games. I want to play Florida and UT more again. I'm only 19, but I remember some DAMN good florida games, 06 and 07 come to mind. Tennessee, bc we haven't gotten to play them as often, has usually matched up against us as an inferior team (2013). But I know what was there once.
Anyway, none of it will happen anyway lol.
Edit: I really do believe regardless we need a 9 game schedule
This post was edited on 6/1/17 at 4:38 pm
Posted on 6/1/17 at 4:43 pm to AeroSpaceTiger
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I'm only 19
so why do you care? Those games haven't been played every year since long before you were alive. That would be like me being pissed because LSU doesn't play Rice every year anymore like we did from 1932-1983, or Tulane for that matter, although that series ended it's yearly matchup long after I was born, but you get the picture
The best scenario for everyone in the conference would to be to leave the divisions alone but to expand to 9 SEC games so we'd have two rotating cross-division games like we did prior to the 2012 expansion. That would have you playing every team from the other division every 3 years instead of every 6, meaning every player on your team would play every team in the conference at least once while he's on campus. That is much more ideal than blowing up the divisions so one team can play all the teams they want to every year.
This post was edited on 6/1/17 at 4:46 pm
Posted on 6/1/17 at 4:46 pm to AeroSpaceTiger
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Wait, I'm genuinely confused as to why they would be opposed. We already play them each year.
Read the thread.
We do not want 9 games, and AU in our division doesn't benefit us in any way.
Posted on 6/1/17 at 4:50 pm to AeroSpaceTiger
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Edit: I really do believe regardless we need a 9 game schedule
Agreed and that will be seen as a compromise because it will at least help you see teams on in the opposite division more often
Posted on 6/1/17 at 5:07 pm to lsufball19
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lsufball19
Can anyone make a rational argument that Auburn should stay in the west?
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Two permanent, one rotating. I know it doesn't fix everything. If we want to be able to play everybody very other year or so, we will probably have to abolish divisions all together and make a new scheduling system, like pods.
Or we could move to a 9 game schedule and keep the divisions as they are now and have 2 rotating teams for everyone. Pods are a terrible option from every scenario I've seen over the years. It would work for some schools and wouldn't for others. For instance, the last mock-up I saw had LSU in a pod with A&M, Ole Miss, and State as their permanents. First off, I would never want a schedule where we didn't play Alabama and Florida every year. Second, how fair does that sound to other schools?
What you saw, it would depend on how the pods were made.
In this scenario, that really doesn't matter. Every 3 years, you'ld be partnered with everybody. Some have said go to 4X4 pods & 9 games with a perm rival from each pod. Therefore, the pods you're not partnered with, you will play your rival from them. This way you play 6 teams EACH year. The other 9 will rotate in 3 year cycles.
ex. (LSU in Pod A)
Year 1: A/B vrs. C/D (winners from each paired pods = SECCG teams)
3 games vrs. Pod A members
4 games vrs. Pod B members
1 game vrs. Pod C rival
1 game vrs. Pod D rival
Year 2: A/C vrs. B/D (winners from each paired pods = SECCG teams)
3 games vrs. Pod A members
4 games vrs. Pod C members
1 game vrs. Pod B rival
1 game vrs. Pod D rival
Year 3: A/D vrs. B/C (winners from each paired pods = SECCG teams)
3 games vrs. Pod A members
4 games vrs. Pod D members
1 game vrs. Pod B rival
1 game vrs. Pod C rival
Year 4: (same as Year 1 with locations flipped)
Year 5: (same as Year 2 with locations flipped)
Year 6: (same as Year 3 with locations flipped)
This post was edited on 6/1/17 at 5:13 pm
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