re: Baseball permanents

As an A&M baseball fan, I really don't care who our permanent opponents are. With just two permanent opponents, and rotating the other 8 slots between 13 teams, you are going to see everyone two years out of 3 at a minimum, so no use in getting worked up over who the 2 permanent ones are, at least from a competitive standpoint.

However, I would rather have seen the league go with five permanent opponents, and rotate the other five, because it would have preserved some regionality to the schedule, and it works out so that you play everyone every other year. But, for whatever reason, they chose to go another route.

As to LSU fans complaining about being stuck with A&M, cry me a river. I saw someone suggest that LSU and Mississippi schools should play each other every year, and while I would have no problem with that, I don't think they wanted these pairings to result in the creation of a sort of "pod" where you had 3 schools that exclusively played each other as permanent opponents. They could have done something like that with A&M, Texas, and Arkansas, but opted not to. So, we get some matchups that not everyone is happy about.