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re: Will Alabama continue to fight against the 9 game schedule?
Posted on 3/11/24 at 4:12 pm to southernboisb
Posted on 3/11/24 at 4:12 pm to southernboisb
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Then what is your solution?
To conference scheduling in general?
8 game schedule, keep 2 or 3 permanent rival games and rotate the rest.
But adding more games to the conference will just make the conference weaker. That's just a matter of math because all conference games equal out to .500 records. So as a conference if you played only conference games, your record no matter what will be .500. It's when the teams go out and beat the crap out of other conferences that you get records above .500, and the more conference games you have, the less you can do that.
You're just adding 8 extra losses minimum to the conferences overall record. And that will have an effect on things when it comes to rankings. Especially when they are kind of stupid and pay attention to record before everything else.
9 games is bad.
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Posted on 3/11/24 at 4:24 pm to 3down10
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But adding more games to the conference will just make the conference weaker.
No, it will make the records slightly worse. It won't make the conference weaker. Given that the only conference other than the SEC that matters will be playing 9 games, it really has little to no negative impact on the SEC.
The only negative impact would be on borderline bowl teams missing bad bowls.
This post was edited on 3/11/24 at 4:25 pm
Posted on 3/11/24 at 4:45 pm to 3down10
I understand your point.
BUT
the only way to achieve your idea is to have SMALLER conferences. The catch is, smaller conferences means MORE CONFERENCES. & from what I've seen/read, NOBODY is in favor of that.
BUT
the only way to achieve your idea is to have SMALLER conferences. The catch is, smaller conferences means MORE CONFERENCES. & from what I've seen/read, NOBODY is in favor of that.
Posted on 3/11/24 at 5:47 pm to 3down10
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8 game schedule, keep 2 or 3 permanent rival games and rotate the rest.
They aren’t going to do this and not have Oklahoma visit the Swamp for many years. The networks want these type of games to happen regularly.
They also want to keep LSU-Alabama as an annual game.
This post was edited on 3/11/24 at 5:57 pm
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