re: Cowherd takes shots at Alabama scheduling and the SEC

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I said Mark Womack, not the other AD's who very likely did not intensely inspect any schedule other than their own.

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Fine you win. Its a REC conspiracy that we got the whole conference to go along with.

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So your position is that's its unreasonable to suspect anything shady here yet when prevented with facts you are unable to so much as even provide an alternative hypothesis as to how else that could have happened?

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What facts have I been presented with?

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I'm not putting in the effort to sift through the pages and see the exact point you were making. I'm lumping you in with the general mob mentality. Speaking in generalities is much easier.

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You look foolish when you respond so lazily. I doubt you would be so generous to others doing the same to you.

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Sorry if you're an outlier who got caught in the fray

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I didn't get caught in any fray. I made a comment about the schedule and you intentionally took it out of context and responded to it.

Why is LSU playing UGA this year?

Who the frick cares what Colin Coward says? This is a man that still had USC winning the title last year AFTER Stanford demolished their O-line all game long and exposed every weakness they had in muck-raker fashion.

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Why did you cherry pick years?

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Sorry I cut and paste from a prior post I made and left out how I came up with those years; those are years either Bama or LSU won the national title (in the case of '11 one won the SEC the other the BCS, splitting their meetings 1-1 and were the 2 best teams in the country). We can compare the schedules to see what each went through prior to getting to the SECCG and BCS title game. In the aggregate, LSU face the toughest road for when comparing the three years each team has reached the pinacle of college football since 2000. I'd rank the toughest schedules as LSU in '03, then '07, Bama '09, both teams' eastern schedules were even in '11, then Bama '12.

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So it was even that year? What about 2010?

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As stated above the 2011 schedules were roughly equal. If we look at a Bama '10 or LSU '10, or an LSU '05 or '06 or Bama '05, those are years where the schools fielded excellent teams; however those teams didn't maximize their potential or weren't good enough to get to the top.

My opinion on the Bama/UT traditional rivalry game is that why does the SEC office want to protect the tradition of a particular game, yet expands the conference outside of the SEC's traditional footprint and add two schools into the conference that have nothing in common with the others? Either the SEC wants to preserve tradition or not. I think the league's answer was we'll sacrifice tradition for money. So we need to sacrifice tradtion across the board. LSU gave up a long time rivalry game with UK to make UP the permanent cross divisional game. If we would've kept our longest tenured eastern opponent, we'd be playing UK every year not UF. Then the shoe would be on the other foot and Bama would be the complainers.

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There are 12 other teams in the league, some years some teams have tough schedules someyears not so bad

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That's fine when there is a set, regular rotation. It's not when we get into these bridge schedules and suddenly certain teams start getting much easier schedules than others and scheduled rotation games are moved around with little rhyme or reason but by and large left alone for everyone else.

Yea.

look I'm not claiming conspiracy.

but how the schedules were formatted this year is complete and utter ridiculousness.

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His only argument is, "Auburn is bringing down Alabama's SOS."

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It is more than just Auburn. The Vols are #2 all time in the SEC and were kicking butt when the Gators were still messing their diapers. UT still has a bigger stadium and more long term history so why complain about LSU having to play the Gators?

The Gators are up right now as are the Tigers but historically who is really fighting the uphill battle? This is not a pissing contest or a dick measuring contest as much as how skewed fans are by where they are in the cycle at this very moment. Good teams rise and fall but great ones keep rising from the ashes. If another generation goes by and the Gators and Tigers can maintain the top 2 spots in the SEC then great. If not quit moaning about it because over time things will correct themselves.

From 2008-2011, LSU played Florida 4 times.

From 2008-2011, Alabama played Florida 4 times.


But in 2012, LSU played them and Alabama didn't.



That's really what this entire LSU obsession over Bama's schedule comes down to. It's amazing, really.

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In the rotational schedule, which was discarded.

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It sure was wasn't it?