re: Vote to keep 8 game schedule was 13-1

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Dr RC
Vote to keep 8 game schedule was 13-1
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Thanks for the info about the McNeese State game. So aTm has an FCS game scheduled before they ever came into the SEC. I wasn't aware of that. So basically what you're finally admitting to is that aTm was playing FCS teams before they ever came into the SEC, and the issue of playing FCS teams isn't merely a problem with the SEC not following suit with the other conferences.


I never said playing FCS teams is an SEC issue.

I said playing them LATE in the season is something that seems to only happen in the SEC.

Most teams in other conferences tend to get their OOC out of the way early in the year so its much more likely that you won't have nearly an entire conference all playing an FCS game on the same day.

But when everyone in the SEC saves a spot for a non rivalry OOC game late in the year you are almost always going to have to play an FCS team b/c damn near every other school in the nation will be playing a conference game and is unavailable.

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The point is that we shouldn't be playing FCS teams at all...early, late, whenever. Whether it's the SEC because they save an OOC game for late in the year, or because teams like aTm pre-SEC wanted to play them just for the sake of playing them, it makes no difference. Most SEC fans seem to like playing conference games as early as we do. Playing a 9th game, especially if it's the next to last game of the year, will help eliminate the FCS games.