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re: How many schools has to be added before SEC teams lose that SEC family feel?
Posted on 7/26/21 at 8:30 am to Rroth
Posted on 7/26/21 at 8:30 am to Rroth
Are you kidding? Most LSU fans hate the conference and pull against it every chance they get, while holding both hands out to get all the benefits that the conference brings in.
PS- reminds me of a a particular group of people in this country.
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Posted on 7/26/21 at 10:04 am to turnpiketiger
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How many schools has to be added before SEC teams lose that SEC family feel?
I get your point with the states being similar but religion doesn’t have as much to do with it as you’re implying. Oklahoma has more in common with Iowa Kansas and Nebraska than it does Alabama Georgia and Mississippi. Texas with the exception of Eastern and some of central to northern has more in common with New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado than it does with the rest of the southeast.
Well I have always found Oklahoma folks more similar to Southerners than plains midwest, culturally. I think they are going to fit in just fine.
So on that point, I stand by my position. You of course can hold to yours.
Best Regards
Posted on 7/26/21 at 10:48 am to Rroth
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Over 12?
Fixed it for you.
Posted on 7/26/21 at 11:10 am to Rroth
I never cheered for the other Big 8 or Big XII schools, but I always cheer for other SEC schools. So even if some of the other fans are resistant to Mizzou or look down on us for being in the conference, I do like the family feel of the SEC
Posted on 7/26/21 at 11:25 am to Rroth
The history of the SEC is really one of groups, both natural and forced. For most of our existence, teams didn't always play each other very often. Hell, I believe there was one 26 year period where we played GA only once.
We've only had two brief periods where we seemed to be a single conference. The first was from 88-91. We played 7 games; 5 permanent and 2 rotating. Took 4 years to do home and away with whole conference.
Expansion killed that with the forced grouping and 2 permanent games. In 2002 we dropped one of the permanents and it only took 5 years to get through the conference.
The family feeling can come from two different approaches. We can continue to be separate groups for the most part and your family will be your group. You'll get used to them.
The other way is to design it where you get to experience everyone frequently. You can do this with 16 teams easily. My favorite approach is the use of virtual pods; 9 games, 3 mutually agree common opponents, and rotate home and home with the remaining teams over 4 years.
But the kind of growth (>16) is really more like the birth of a new division of football. After the dust from the rationalization occurs, you are going to have to break it back up into groups again.
We've only had two brief periods where we seemed to be a single conference. The first was from 88-91. We played 7 games; 5 permanent and 2 rotating. Took 4 years to do home and away with whole conference.
Expansion killed that with the forced grouping and 2 permanent games. In 2002 we dropped one of the permanents and it only took 5 years to get through the conference.
The family feeling can come from two different approaches. We can continue to be separate groups for the most part and your family will be your group. You'll get used to them.
The other way is to design it where you get to experience everyone frequently. You can do this with 16 teams easily. My favorite approach is the use of virtual pods; 9 games, 3 mutually agree common opponents, and rotate home and home with the remaining teams over 4 years.
But the kind of growth (>16) is really more like the birth of a new division of football. After the dust from the rationalization occurs, you are going to have to break it back up into groups again.
Posted on 7/26/21 at 12:29 pm to redfish99
Every time I drive to Fayetteville, College Station, and damn Columbia, Mo instead of Gainesville, Knoxville and Columbia.
Posted on 7/26/21 at 12:30 pm to BigRedNewKingOfSEC
Sit down until your in.
Posted on 7/26/21 at 1:28 pm to MackDaddyBrown
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Lol no. It really is just A&M is a backup school, and nowadays it's especially a backup school with your enrollment numbers. I'd planned on going to A&M until I got accepted by UT
But putting trolling aside, what is the difference between say getting a Engineering degree from UT or A&M. I would say not a penny's worth. Both are going to have faculty that have PhD's from other top notch PhD granting Schools.
My guess is the difference in the night life scene say in Austin vs. College Station might have played a role why you went to Austin over College station.
Posted on 7/26/21 at 1:30 pm to Contra
Why so many Alabama people in that region?
Posted on 7/26/21 at 1:34 pm to turnpiketiger
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Well we already have two yankees in Missouri and Oklahoma we might as well go all in and add Nebraska and Iowa at this point.
We still fighting the civil war? Oklahoma was not even a state until I think 1907. It was largely land set aside for Native American Indian territories.
Jeez
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