re: ESPN: "Because of a scheduling quirk, these two teams (bama-UGA) haven't met

I didn't hear everybody whining in 2008 when we played at LSU, Bama, at Auburn, national champ Florida, at South Carolina, the other east teams, Georgia Tech, and at top 25 Arizona St.

The schedule worked in cycles, like has been said countless times on this board. Missouri and A&M messed up the rotation. Blame them.

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Tired of hearing you ppl whine about "it's so unfair that we have to play tough SEC teams every year".

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You played 2 tough teams. 1-1 record

LSU played 4 tough teams. 2-2 record

That one extra loss may have cost us the rematch you got last year. Sure, you beat us head to head at our place. That sounds fricking familiar.

We had to go to Florida. You got to vacation in Tennessee.

Tennessee requires exceptional out of state recruiting to compete. Florida does not. Even in our championship '03 season with the almighty at the helm, we lost to fricking Zook at home.

Outside of commom opponent arguments, the cycling of the schedule left very few points of contention. But, please explain the inequities of this and next year's schedule during the transition to a different cycle.

Believe me, I'd rather sit back and watch the meltdown if things were reversed. But, I'm the guy who always gave the benefit of the doubt when a foul was called, in the name of fairness.

When a great coach like Mike Shula has your team disciplined enough to lead the SEC in fewest penalties, while your fledgling SEC coach has you in the middle of the conference, yet when he takes the reins of Shula's team, they also are the conference's least penalized team, it put's a bad taste in your mouth.

When your common opponent draw is decidedly tougher, it doesn't help. Then, you see the obvious discreprancies of this and next year in cross divisional foes, and it makes me feel much like the loyal taxpayer in this dying country.

In the past, I've never flinched in my support of this conference, but I'm really not sure how I feel at this point.