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re: League Imbalance Update: The march towards 0-14
Posted on 10/17/16 at 11:19 am to Kafkas father
Posted on 10/17/16 at 11:19 am to Kafkas father
If the SEC weren't planning any more expansion they should split the SEC along actual nearer geographic lines:
East:
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
South Carolina
Tennessee
Alabama
Auburn
West:
Arkansas
LSU
Mississippi State
Ole Miss
Texas A&M
Vandy
Missouri
This not only actually puts teams in a more correct geographical locations and addresses the imbalance you cite but eliminates the justification for the "permanent opponent" as Alabama vs. Tennessee and Auburn vs. Georgia are now intra-divisional games and Alabama and Auburn can continue to play each other each year, which seems to be the major consideration of the SEC in scheduling. Then the SEC could get to a true rotation of the opposite division and have each team play all conference teams more often than once a decade.
But since this would conceivably benefit LSU I know I will be accused of proposing it simply for that reason. I also don't think we'd see any talk of this until the SEC gets to 16 teams and where those teams come from (say we get NC State and Virginia Tech- they obviously go East; Oklahoma obviously goes West).
Personally, I see a lot in the the roommate switch to like, but I know that realignment isn't really the subject at hand.
East:
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
South Carolina
Tennessee
Alabama
Auburn
West:
Arkansas
LSU
Mississippi State
Ole Miss
Texas A&M
Vandy
Missouri
This not only actually puts teams in a more correct geographical locations and addresses the imbalance you cite but eliminates the justification for the "permanent opponent" as Alabama vs. Tennessee and Auburn vs. Georgia are now intra-divisional games and Alabama and Auburn can continue to play each other each year, which seems to be the major consideration of the SEC in scheduling. Then the SEC could get to a true rotation of the opposite division and have each team play all conference teams more often than once a decade.
But since this would conceivably benefit LSU I know I will be accused of proposing it simply for that reason. I also don't think we'd see any talk of this until the SEC gets to 16 teams and where those teams come from (say we get NC State and Virginia Tech- they obviously go East; Oklahoma obviously goes West).
Personally, I see a lot in the the roommate switch to like, but I know that realignment isn't really the subject at hand.
Posted on 10/17/16 at 12:08 pm to frankenfish
quote:How does that address imbalance? Just shifts the weakness from east to west. It doesn't balance the divisions.
This not only actually puts teams in a more correct geographical locations and addresses the imbalance you cite
This post was edited on 10/17/16 at 12:09 pm
Posted on 10/17/16 at 12:10 pm to frankenfish
East:
Tennessee
Alabama
Auburn
Vanderbilt
Kentucky
Georgia
Florida
West:
LSU
Arkansas
Mississippi State
Ole Miss
Texas A&M
South Carolina
Missouri
They've already shown Geography doesn't matter with Missouri.
Ship South Carolina out east and I could deal with the change.
Would be nice for TN to still play all their long term rivals (Aub, Bama, UF, UGA, Vandy and UK)
Tennessee
Alabama
Auburn
Vanderbilt
Kentucky
Georgia
Florida
West:
LSU
Arkansas
Mississippi State
Ole Miss
Texas A&M
South Carolina
Missouri
They've already shown Geography doesn't matter with Missouri.
Ship South Carolina out east and I could deal with the change.
Would be nice for TN to still play all their long term rivals (Aub, Bama, UF, UGA, Vandy and UK)
Posted on 10/17/16 at 12:17 pm to frankenfish
quote:
If the SEC weren't planning any more expansion they should split the SEC along actual nearer geographic lines:
East:
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
South Carolina
Tennessee
Alabama
Auburn
West:
Arkansas
LSU
Mississippi State
Ole Miss
Texas A&M
Vandy
Missouri
This is actually one of the better hypothetical reorganizations of the SEC I've seen. You keep the traditional rivalries like TSIO and DSOR and make those divisional games and you keep the Iron Bowl as a divisional game. Since Auburn and Ole Miss both lose their cross-division rivalry opponent, they become an East-West matchup. You then make Alabama-LSU a cross-divisional matchup to keep that rivalry, and figure out the rest.
Posted on 10/17/16 at 3:56 pm to frankenfish
quote:
actual nearer geographic lines
quote:
East:
Alabama
quote:
West:
Vandy
Isn't Tuscaloosa further west than Nashville?
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