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re: Only idiots would support further expansion
Posted on 6/3/13 at 10:53 pm to IAmReality
Posted on 6/3/13 at 10:53 pm to IAmReality
Shouldn't have expanded the first time in the early 90's.
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Posted on 6/3/13 at 11:33 pm to USMC Gators
I stand by the thread title. Someone asked how the people I listed would get the shaft:
1) Student athlete- winning conference championships becomes ridiculously hard. Road trips become ridiculously long. Kids pursuing serious degrees will really suffer.
2) Student body- its awesome seeing a team you support win championships when you are a student. Those championships are not going to come around often with a 16 team conference.
3) Fans- not many people can afford to travel halfway across the country for a road game. Fans also want to see championships come around more than once in a blue moon. Your team will likely be on tv LESS. Games fans love to see will be sacrificed for someone else to make money
4) Coaches- Who wants to coach in a 16 team league?? Too many good teams in one conference is not a good thing. The pressure from the fans to win is not going to subside because the conference got bigger. The conference will just get tougher and tougher to win
5) Tradition- Tradition drives collegiate sports. Traditions are what make collegiate sports so much different(and IMO better) than pro sports. Im sorry but I like seeing Bama play Tennessee every season. I like seeing Bama play Auburn every season. Heck I even like seeing Auburn play UGA every season. I stand by my title because I truly believe it. Why support someone wrecking what makes college sports so great just so OTHER ALREADY RICH PEOPLE CAN GET RICHER? YOU MORONS WHO ARE ALL GIDDY ABOUT EXPANSION WONT SEE ONE DIME.
The conference is called the Southeastern Conference. The fans in this conference once shared a bond. We hated each other on gameday but the rest of the time we were brothers. We were all southerners who had southern values, loved southern food, and enjoyed a southern brand of athletics.
Fans that talk about TV contracts and markets just like to listen to themselves talk and gawk about how smart they are. Someone mentioned that more money=more winning. Thats not true if everyone else in the conference is getting the same amount of money!
To the expansioners: why stop at 16? why not 18? or 20? or 30? Why not just go get USC, Notre Dame, Ohio State etc to join? Heck Notre Dame is closer to more SEC schools than Oklahoma.
12 to 14 was totally unnecessary. 14 to 16 would be even more so.
Whatever
1) Student athlete- winning conference championships becomes ridiculously hard. Road trips become ridiculously long. Kids pursuing serious degrees will really suffer.
2) Student body- its awesome seeing a team you support win championships when you are a student. Those championships are not going to come around often with a 16 team conference.
3) Fans- not many people can afford to travel halfway across the country for a road game. Fans also want to see championships come around more than once in a blue moon. Your team will likely be on tv LESS. Games fans love to see will be sacrificed for someone else to make money
4) Coaches- Who wants to coach in a 16 team league?? Too many good teams in one conference is not a good thing. The pressure from the fans to win is not going to subside because the conference got bigger. The conference will just get tougher and tougher to win
5) Tradition- Tradition drives collegiate sports. Traditions are what make collegiate sports so much different(and IMO better) than pro sports. Im sorry but I like seeing Bama play Tennessee every season. I like seeing Bama play Auburn every season. Heck I even like seeing Auburn play UGA every season. I stand by my title because I truly believe it. Why support someone wrecking what makes college sports so great just so OTHER ALREADY RICH PEOPLE CAN GET RICHER? YOU MORONS WHO ARE ALL GIDDY ABOUT EXPANSION WONT SEE ONE DIME.
The conference is called the Southeastern Conference. The fans in this conference once shared a bond. We hated each other on gameday but the rest of the time we were brothers. We were all southerners who had southern values, loved southern food, and enjoyed a southern brand of athletics.
Fans that talk about TV contracts and markets just like to listen to themselves talk and gawk about how smart they are. Someone mentioned that more money=more winning. Thats not true if everyone else in the conference is getting the same amount of money!
To the expansioners: why stop at 16? why not 18? or 20? or 30? Why not just go get USC, Notre Dame, Ohio State etc to join? Heck Notre Dame is closer to more SEC schools than Oklahoma.
12 to 14 was totally unnecessary. 14 to 16 would be even more so.
Whatever
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