re: It's official; SEC to remain at 8 games, but must play one other "major" team

I got you. I thought you were in favor of going to 9 over this

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Damn Good Dawg
It's official; SEC to remain at 8 games, but must play one other "major" team
As a Georgia fan you should be happy about the decision. Or that G next to your handle is a farce in which case you're a damn communist.

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Am I happy the rivalry games are kept? Yes
Do I think we should have stayed @ 8? NO - for the reasons I mentioned above (you INCREASE the conference, you INCREASE conference games (same arguments were made about 1992))

1. 6-1-2 seeing the West teams 4X in 12 years (as opposed to 2X in 12) gets more teams playing each other - which coaches want....also what FANS want.
2. People want to see 7 MORE SEC vrs. SEC games.....NOT 14 SEC vrs. Podunk College - which is what WILL happen if they don't prohibit that. Are you happy seeing the Miss. schools scheduling ONLY to get to 6 W's a year (4 of them being the non-conf. games)?
3. I honestly don't know what ESPN will do - as in can they force the 9 game setup?
4. As I've ALWAYS pushed, 6-1-2 + 1 "Power 5" game puts everybody @ 10 quality games.
5. The 1 side has 5H/year is an unfortunate drawback to going to 14 teams (a difficult # to schedule around). Teams can work around this & follow the WLOCP by having a neutral site game.....unless you prefer to move the Ga./Fl. game to the school sites (which I'ld be happy to see). However, the positive about that 5H/year setup would be that the whole division is experiencing it. & those with only 4H get their turn next season.

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1. 6-1-2 seeing the West teams 4X in 12 years (as opposed to 2X in 12) gets more teams playing each other - which coaches want....also what FANS want. 2. People want to see 7 MORE SEC vrs. SEC games.....NOT 14 SEC vrs. Podunk College - which is what WILL happen if they don't prohibit that. 3. I honestly don't know what ESPN will do - as in can they force the 9 game setup? 4. As I've ALWAYS pushed, 6-1-2 + 1 "Power 5" game puts everybody @ 10 quality games. 5. The 1 side has 5H/year is an unfortunate drawback to going to 14 teams (a difficult # to schedule around). Teams can work around this & follow the WLOCP by having a neutral site game.....unless you prefer to move the Ga./Fl. game to the school sites (which I'ld be happy to see). However, the positive about that 5H/year setup would be that the whole division is experiencing it. & those with only 4H get their turn next season.

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1) no one bitched and moaned as much as you when UGA played LSU twice in a three decade span during the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

2) The conference is requiring all teams to schedule AQ OOC games. And the conference has also changed the scheduling order that the conference gets first pick of who goes where and the schools fill their OOC around that. So... TV will absolutely not be a problem.

3) ummm... what?

4)If everyone does what UGA does, they'll have their 10 top games almost every season (more-so than a 9 conference game matchup which would encourage more conference games against Vandy, Kentucky, and Miss St). It's not like UGA just inventied this type of scheduling. Getting 10 solid games isn't difficult with the 6-1-1 format.

5)I don't want to lose the Jacksonville game. Nobody wants to lose the Jacksonville game. Media and other team's fans want to visit the Jacksonvill game. Why even go somewhere that jeopardizes that game?

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meansonny

1) no one bitched and moaned as much as you when UGA played LSU twice in a three decade span during the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

2) The conference is requiring all teams to schedule AQ OOC games. And the conference has also changed the scheduling order that the conference gets first pick of who goes where and the schools fill their OOC around that. So... TV will absolutely not be a problem.

3) ummm... what?

4)If everyone does what UGA does, they'll have their 10 top games almost every season (more-so than a 9 conference game matchup which would encourage more conference games against Vandy, Kentucky, and Miss St). It's not like UGA just inventied this type of scheduling. Getting 10 solid games isn't difficult with the 6-1-1 format.

5)I don't want to lose the Jacksonville game. Nobody wants to lose the Jacksonville game. Media and other team's fans want to visit the Jacksonvill game. Why even go somewhere that jeopardizes that game?

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1. I have NEVER said that. Must have me confused with another poster.

2. Where is this written? Only thing I saw on the SEC site was that the 9th game has to be a "Power 5" team (which UGA already has with GT).

3. Can ESPN veto this ruling & force the SEC to go 9 conf. games since that's who's housing the SECNetwork.

4. & getting 10 with a 6-1-2 + "Power 5" 10th does that instantly. Besides, EVERYBODY has to play Miss./MSU/Vandy/Kentucky sometime (@ least 2 of them yearly).

5. Then with the 6-1-2 format, make everybody have a neutral game. It will just be setup as 4H/1N/4A.


& I'm looking out to stop all the nay-sayers for SEC football. & it's going to take time to see which format was the better path to take (which we won't know until 2016 earliest).

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meansonny

And facing a kentucky, winless auburn, or miss state does not get any team closer to 10 respectable games. It is easier to schedule that respectability with a home and home or neutral site OOC.

We can agree to disagree.

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Trouble is, nobody knows what anybody will be like in the future when those scheduled games are played.

& yes - agree to disagree. As I stated above, we'll just have to wait & see how this all plays out.

I can probably look across 4 other conferences and pick better consistent matchups than a Kentucky, Vandy, Ole Miss, and Miss State.

But I understand what you mean with your, "you never know" variable.

Georgia has played Bama 36 times more than we've played LSU.

Besides... the only 9th conference game that ever matters happens in the ccg.

so it will take each team from both divisions over a decade to cycle through the entire conference in a home and home

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It's official; SEC to remain at 8 games, but must play one other "major" teamso it will take each team from both divisions over a decade to cycle through the entire conference in a home and home 

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Welcome to the sec, by the way.

So, you are 'that' guy who adds teams to the conference and all of a sudden cares about moving the teams through the schedule 'faster'. If faster was anything more than a superficial issue, you would still be sucking at the tit of Texas in the Big XII.

Faster has never been a focus in the sec until Saban's thinly veiled comments 2 years ago that he hoped would help his recruiting pitch ( that's all he cares about, by the way). His fabricated issue got you hook, line, and sinker.

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bmy
It's official; SEC to remain at 8 games, but must play one other "major" team
hasn't it been like 6 years since Alabama has played UGA during the regular season?

Oh that's right.. bridge schedules

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FYI, UGA/Ala. was SUPPOSED to be 2012, but that got replaced due to Mizz. joining the group.