re: UGA hasn't playing in Tuscaloosa since 07

I like the idea of dropping a division game to add one from the other division(5-2,1), you would rotate either two, three or four teams in your division, I'd say just two though to keep most rivalries in tact. Division games count the same as non division conference games do so why do we have to go a decade without playing some non-divisional foes? The way it would look using South Carolina as an example, We would keep playing uga, uf, tn, mz rotate playing Vandy and Kentucky, play Texas AM every year and get two additional teams from the west every year.

Or, just schedule an extra conference opponent instead of an OOC game like they used to do. Maybe this is the compromise for keeping or killing permanent rivals. PRs just schedule each other as one of the 12 regular season games. When the rotation comes up for the two to play it is a conference matchup that year.

Vandy last visited LSU in 2009 and won't return to Baton Rouge until 2024.

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A 9 game schedule is better all around but it was shot down for two reasons

1. Saban was for it, and the haters are so blindly anti-Saban they didn't want to support a good idea just because he was vocal about it.

2. The scrub teams are worried it will be harder to get to 6 wins and sneak into the Weedeater bowl playing an extra conference game.

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3. Schools that have a regular non-conference opponent they play away every other year would get screwed out of a home game every other year, adding up to millions of dollars in direct revenue and many more millions in economic impact to their towns.

South Carolina - Clemson
Florida - Florida State
Georgia - Georgia Tech

These teams already have an additional quality opponent scheduled, and a history of playing that rival that predates the existence of the SEC and Slive's entire life by decades.

From the perspective of an SEC team like, say, LSU, your rival (s) are all included in your conference play, so your OOC schedule can be 5 rent-a-wins at home. From your perspective, it's completely reasonable to schedule only 4 rent-a-win home games and add another quality conference game.

What that LSU (or Bama) fan doesn't realize is that Carolina, Georgia, and Florida already do this with traditional out of conference rivals, so your proposed schedule change only leaves them with 3 potential rent-a-wins at home. Then you have schools like Georgia and Florida who go the extra step and schedule Clemson and Miami out of conference, leaving them with only 2 potential rent-a-wins at home, to LSU/Bama's 4.

The compromise was that everyone now has to schedule a game against a Big 5 conference opponent.


Florida, UGA, Carolina already have this built into their schedules.

Everyone else now has to step up their schedules.

Finally, UGA's AD told Slive straight up that if we are forced into a 9 game schedule that we'd leave the SEC.

That's no BS.

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With revenue sharing and TV deals do you think a rent a win generates that much more $$$ than a 0.5 road sec games per year?

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Revenue for the town.... many businesses that pretty much make all their money 7 or 8 days a year. All the restaurants, merchandise, shops, people who run parking lots, hotels, taxi drivers, grocery stores selling beer and ice and charcoal etc.... all of that money that gets spent in a town like Athens during a home game weekend, just instantly sucked out of the town.

SEC TV money does nothing for that loss of revenue for the community.





ETA- ticket money for the rent a win... maybe they don't sell out everywhere but they do at UGA. Maybe not everybody shows up but the tix are all purchased. 97500 tickets x 60 = almost $6m straight up cash, gone.

6-2 would make way more sense than 6-2-1.

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A 9 game schedule is better all around but it was shot down for two reasons

1. Saban was for it, and the haters are so blindly anti-Saban they didn't want to support a good idea just because he was vocal about it.

2. The scrub teams are worried it will be harder to get to 6 wins and sneak into the Weedeater bowl playing an extra conference game.

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More likely though, within the confines of the 12-game regular season, a 9 game conf schedule simply doesn't solve all the problems and actually creates more.

The ONLY correct scheduling solution without altering the schedule fundamentally is the rotating pod system, aka "The Roommate Switch".

That or increasing the regular season to 14 games or so. Then we could run a 10 game conference schedule and maintain our OOC rivalries, etc.

Those are the only two true solutions that have been presented anywhere, by anyone so far.

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GT :rofl:

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They'll beat Ga. Southern on Sept. 13th this year...

GT has been to 17 straight Bowl games, tied with UGA at 17 & only behind FSU at 32 & VT at 21..

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