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What? FSU replacing Auburn in the SEC?
Posted on 1/9/24 at 6:56 pm
Posted on 1/9/24 at 6:56 pm
Have seen some talk out there about FSU coming into the SEC, but replacing Auburn as a member.
I wouldn't have a problem with it, but still, this is over the cliff a bit.
I wouldn't have a problem with it, but still, this is over the cliff a bit.
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Posted on 1/9/24 at 6:58 pm to JetDawg
Aaaaaaaand the off-season fricktards have started!!
Posted on 1/9/24 at 7:00 pm to JetDawg
Yeah, the SEC is going to kick out a founding member in order to add a program that turned them down before. Makes sense 
Posted on 1/9/24 at 7:01 pm to teamjackson
Its not gonna happen but ousting auburn out of the SEC would be the best thing ever. I'd take South AL or Memphis over them.
Posted on 1/9/24 at 7:04 pm to JetDawg
Auburn has by far the most tolerable fans in the SEC outside of schools like Vandy, Mizzou, South Carolina, etc… places where you can’t win anything.
This post was edited on 1/9/24 at 7:04 pm
Posted on 1/9/24 at 7:07 pm to Dingbag
quote:If you lived in the same state with them, your opinion would change. Wish Louisiana could take them.
Auburn has by far the most tolerable fans in the SEC
Posted on 1/9/24 at 7:09 pm to Opry
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Its not gonna happen but ousting auburn out of the SEC would be the best thing ever. I'd take South AL or Memphis over them.
Yeah that would just like be so fricking funny. Ong. Ong.
Posted on 1/9/24 at 7:10 pm to JetDawg
You stupid frick
Posted on 1/9/24 at 7:11 pm to JetDawg
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Have seen some talk out there about FSU coming into the SEC, but replacing Auburn as a member.
No, you haven't.
Posted on 1/9/24 at 7:11 pm to JetDawg
Trading a rodeo for a circus. Worth considering.
Posted on 1/9/24 at 7:42 pm to JetDawg
There are some legs to this per a couple sources I know. SEC can’t just kick out a member unless said member breaks some conference bylaws from what I understand. But a school can ask to leave and the conference can approve it.
1. Sankey and many other SEC university presidents have a bad taste in their mouth about AU hiring Freeze. Auburn apparently got a lot of heat from that and has been shunned/ignored in many meetings on the inner workings/behind the scenes stuff
2. Auburn boosters and university staff are unhappy with the SEC as a whole. They don’t like the new scheduling format, and they see the blatant favoritism for rival Alabama when it comes to refs and playoff bias.
3. AU would owe a lot of money if they chose to leave. From what I understand, they’re putting feelers out to FSU to try to work out a swap that AU doesn’t have to pay that money to the SEC and FSU doesn’t have to pay their huge sum to ACC. They’ll just swap places. Both conferences would have to approve it, and that’s the hurdle. AU would keep their rivalry with Georgia and Bama as an OOC game if they agree to use a “neutral” ref crew from another conference.
4. Auburn sees the ACC as an easier path to the playoffs because without FSU it’s a weak conference. AU doesn’t have the financial prowess to compete in the NIL era with the likes of UGA, Alabama, Florida, etc.
1. Sankey and many other SEC university presidents have a bad taste in their mouth about AU hiring Freeze. Auburn apparently got a lot of heat from that and has been shunned/ignored in many meetings on the inner workings/behind the scenes stuff
2. Auburn boosters and university staff are unhappy with the SEC as a whole. They don’t like the new scheduling format, and they see the blatant favoritism for rival Alabama when it comes to refs and playoff bias.
3. AU would owe a lot of money if they chose to leave. From what I understand, they’re putting feelers out to FSU to try to work out a swap that AU doesn’t have to pay that money to the SEC and FSU doesn’t have to pay their huge sum to ACC. They’ll just swap places. Both conferences would have to approve it, and that’s the hurdle. AU would keep their rivalry with Georgia and Bama as an OOC game if they agree to use a “neutral” ref crew from another conference.
4. Auburn sees the ACC as an easier path to the playoffs because without FSU it’s a weak conference. AU doesn’t have the financial prowess to compete in the NIL era with the likes of UGA, Alabama, Florida, etc.
Posted on 1/9/24 at 7:43 pm to deltaland
I'd go with any plan as long as Bama never had to play them again.
Posted on 1/9/24 at 7:44 pm to JetDawg
Response threat because you’re scared of Kirby leaving is pathetic
Posted on 1/9/24 at 7:45 pm to JetDawg
quote:theres that uga education for ya
Have seen some talk out there about FSU coming into the SEC, but replacing Auburn as a member.
Posted on 1/9/24 at 7:46 pm to JetDawg
I can’t stand Auburn but they are charter members of the SEC. They belong. If the SEC is determined to add more teams they can do better than a bunch of whiney FSU losers who threw a temper tantrum and left when things didn’t go their way.
Posted on 1/9/24 at 7:46 pm to deltaland
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There are some legs to this per a couple sources I know.
This guy...
Posted on 1/9/24 at 7:48 pm to borotiger
Right? I respect the commitment to the bit.
Posted on 1/9/24 at 7:55 pm to Opry
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I'd go with any plan as long as Bama never had to play them again.
Alabama passed a law after WWII that Auburn has to play Alabama annually, so unless that’s off the books now, it would be an unlawful for them not to play.
Posted on 1/9/24 at 7:57 pm to AUTubaHerd
Laws can be changed.
Posted on 1/9/24 at 8:01 pm to AUTubaHerd
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Alabama passed a law after WWII that Auburn has to play Alabama annually, so unless that’s off the books now, it would be an unlawful for them not to play.
I'd like to see the actual statutory citation for that law.
Edit to add:
I Googled it, and all I found was a Wiki article stating that the AL House passed a resolution that the two teams should play. This is not a law. The AL Senate never voted on it, and it never went to the governor.
Per the article, the legislature did threaten to withhold funding if the rivalry wasn't renewed, but it was never passed into law.
I'm not trying to pick on you. I've just heard/read the same thing about several other rivalries.
This post was edited on 1/9/24 at 8:36 pm
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