re: Is Slive hated as much as Beebe?

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e's going to piss off a lot of Alabama and Tennessee fans, if this move of Texas A&M to the SECw (and Auburn to the SECe) causes an end to The Third Saturday in October.

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I can see and appreciate that. And as an LSU fan, I am probably as biased as the next, because I think adding A&M and a WVU or Missouri would actually be better for the conference in the long run, even if it does cause some old-time rivalries to take a breather.

Also, because LSU really has no legitimate rivalry game (where both LSU and the rival feel the game is "THE" game that must be played each year) - I'm curious: do you think the Bama/TN game is more important to the conference than say, more revenue and the potential for forcing NCAA to create a play-off system? My thinking, if/when the 'super-conferences' are created, the NCAA will be forced to create a playoff system. If that does occur, we could finally see a potential of two SEC teams playing for the National Title.

Sorry - I didn't mean to hi-jack my own thread and turn it into a conference expansion discussion.