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re: Division Realignment - A Common Sense Approach

Posted on 1/3/15 at 3:31 am to
Posted by SpidermanTUba
my house
Member since May 2004
36128 posts
Posted on 1/3/15 at 3:31 am to
Bro - SEC West and SEC East are just NAMES. Its OK if they aren't literally applicable to every member...the directions won't get their feewings hurt. Hell the Atlanta Falcons played in the NFC West for decades and the world didn't explode.
Posted by Mizz-SEC
Inbred Huntin' In The SEC
Member since Jun 2013
19232 posts
Posted on 1/3/15 at 7:30 am to
quote:

Call them the Grits Division and the Coke Division instead of East and West and there is zero reason to change anything.

It's a geographical name problem, not an alignment problem.


I prefer the Bandit and Snowman divisions, but yes. These coonasses and rednecks want us to start all over (again) in setting up recruiting contacts and it's pure bullshite.

The divisions aren't going to change until the day two more teams are added.

Until then, they need to deal with it.




This post was edited on 1/3/15 at 7:31 am
Posted by WG_Dawg
Hoover
Member since Jun 2004
86441 posts
Posted on 1/3/15 at 7:36 am to
quote:

Need someone to give me some good reasons why we do not switch Missouri and Vanderbilt to the West and move Alabama and Auburn to the East.


quote:

Arkansas
LSU
Mississippi State
Missouri
Ole Miss
Vanderbilt
Texas A&M


quote:

Alabama
Auburn
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
South Carolina
Tennessee



there's your reason, idiot.
Posted by LSURulzSEC
Lake Charles via Oakdale
Member since Aug 2004
77294 posts
Posted on 1/3/15 at 7:44 am to
This needs to happen..its absurd the way it is...like when New Orleans and Atlanta was in the NFC West division with San Francisco and Los Angeles all them years...
Posted by Mizzou4ever
Kansas City, Mo
Member since Nov 2011
15229 posts
Posted on 1/3/15 at 7:49 am to
quote:


The SECC game didn't teach you much. Why the hell would a bowl have that much more if an effect?


So groovy guy, tell me what the SECC game was suppose to teach me. Keep in mind I didn't think we would beat Bama. Besides, I'm not the one puffing out my e chest saying how the West would be a calk walk for us if it was set up that way.

The current SEC West got their collective arse' handed to them in the bowl games, so only a delusional and stupidly arrogant fan base would strut their shite in this thread instead of having some humility. Not hard to figure out.
Posted by WG_Dawg
Hoover
Member since Jun 2004
86441 posts
Posted on 1/3/15 at 7:49 am to
quote:

its absurd the way it is...like when New Orleans and Atlanta was in the NFC West division with San Francisco and Los Angeles all them years...


It makes far, FAR more sense to have the divisions as is than it does to completely and utterly shite on competitive balance. You can't have alabama, auburn, florida, georgia, and tennessee all in the same division. It's not possible.

Hell while you're at it just exchange SC and UK and bring in clemson and florida state too.
Posted by davesdawgs
Georgia - Class of '75
Member since Oct 2008
20307 posts
Posted on 1/3/15 at 8:24 am to
The current divisions are about as balanced as you can get historically. Yes, the East has been down but it hasn't always been that way and it might well change again. No matter how you slice it, Alabama and Auburn need to be in one division and Georgia and Florida in another. Tennessee has been an equal with LSU over the long haul. Missouri is at least as good as A&M and borders 2 East division states and only one West division state. Kentucky and Vandy have not be that much different from MSU and Ole Miss over the years. But yea the West is stronger but unless you split up Alabama and Auburn, I don't see how it can be more equitable.
Posted by ballscaster
Member since Jun 2013
26861 posts
Posted on 1/3/15 at 9:12 am to
This is the kind of stuff Clay Travis writes, and it's why I don't read Clay Travis. Your idea isn't nearly as well thought out as you think.

LSU vs Alabama
Mississippi State vs Alabama
Mississippi State vs Auburn

Two of those three traditional games get the ax in your idea, and that's why your idea will live on only on message boards and Clay Travis articles.
Posted by LeeHOswald
Dallas
Member since Oct 2014
144 posts
Posted on 1/3/15 at 9:25 am to
The cross-divisional "rivalry" game needs to just go away.
Posted by coachcrisp
pensacola, fl
Member since Jun 2012
30593 posts
Posted on 1/3/15 at 9:29 am to
Isn't there any way that you can get Kentucky into LSU's division and move A&M or Ole Miss or Arkansas out?
Posted by KajunGator
Lake Arthur, LA
Member since May 2011
7284 posts
Posted on 1/3/15 at 9:31 am to
quote:

I say we split the Alabama and Tennessee schools.


I can see this. Send Vandy West and Auburn East. Should have better balance.
Posted by ljhog
Lake Jackson, Tx.
Member since Apr 2009
19055 posts
Posted on 1/3/15 at 9:49 am to
quote:

Is this a joke? 5 of the Big 6 in one division?

No. LSU guy wants away from Alabama as fast as possible.
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora, Georgia
Member since Sep 2012
63897 posts
Posted on 1/3/15 at 9:56 am to
quote:

A Common Sense Approach


When the conference was expanded with two teams west of the Mississippi river, the problem was that you couldnt have 8 teams in the west and only 6 teams in the East.

So either you fight with the different AD's about which West team would move to the east, or you just place Mizzou into the east until such time you can expand to 16 teams with two new programs located geographically in the east.


Common sense.

Logic.
Posted by socraticsilence
Member since Dec 2013
1347 posts
Posted on 1/3/15 at 10:19 am to
Because then basically all the conference power schools (Bama, Florida, Georgia, Auburn, Tennessee or Mizzou) are in the East and the scrubs are in the West with the exception of LSU.
Posted by socraticsilence
Member since Dec 2013
1347 posts
Posted on 1/3/15 at 10:29 am to
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The west would be murderers row in your scenario....
Granted ole miss would get to play the weakest east teams.

But the east would still have three weak teams.
USC Vandy Kentucky
West would have one
Texas am and they are going to swing up

Would have to move another weakfish team from east to west



Not sure this is true, the West in this scenario would still have Arky and the two Mississippi schools that's pretty equivalent or worse than having UK, Vandy and USCe
Posted by MrLarson
Member since Oct 2014
34984 posts
Posted on 1/3/15 at 10:48 am to
Most people don't want change. This is why people bitch about HUNH, they still want 10 yards and a cloud of dust.

There is no way Mizzou should have ever been in the east more than 1 year. But, you have the east stacked and all it will do is give LSU more West Conference Titles, it will make them weaker by playing such an easy schedule.

The easier way is to not have divisions and the 2 best teams play for the title.
Posted by JCdawg
Member since Sep 2014
7788 posts
Posted on 1/3/15 at 10:50 am to
The current map makes the most sense. If we add any more teams east, likely two, then Mizzou would be moved to the west.

Mizzou instead of SC playing Arky every year makes great sense because nobody cares about South Carolina outside of Columbia. Maybe the new game of Texas A&M and South Carolina will spike more interest than Arkansas and South Carolina.
This post was edited on 1/3/15 at 10:51 am
Posted by tjtiger9
MS
Member since Aug 2005
3843 posts
Posted on 1/3/15 at 11:07 am to
Why not go North and South, splitting OM and M ST. Ole Miss to.North and Ms St to south
Posted by bmy
Nashville
Member since Oct 2007
48203 posts
Posted on 1/3/15 at 11:09 am to
West:
LSU
Arkansas
Auburn/Bama
Tamu
Oklahoma/TCU/Okie St
Mizzou
Ole miss
Miss st

East:
Florida
Georgia
Auburn/Bama
Kentucky
Vandy
Tennessee
South Carolina
Virginia tech/NC State/Clemson

This post was edited on 1/3/15 at 11:11 am
Posted by cokebottleag
I’m a Santos Republican
Member since Aug 2011
24028 posts
Posted on 1/3/15 at 12:18 pm to
Why are things so bad how they are now? The competitive balance is 9000x more important than geography, and that's how we're split now. Don't fix what ain't broke.
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