re: Is Clemson and fsu both still announcing intent to join SEC tomorrow?

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They're nowhere near AAU status.


Is AAU a measurement of how adequately a university pushes leftist propaganda and programs their students?

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Not at all actually, it's all about Research spending. The AAU is basically a sign your school gets a ridiculous amount of grants and does heavy duty research. The B1G is especially concerned about that because they work together to build a brand around it and get that money. There are 69 US Schools in the AAU (2 in Canada) and they dominate research spending. The SEC will have 5 after Texas joins (A&M, Texas, UF, Vandy, and Missouri). A&M and Texas are both at around $1.1 Billion in Research Spend and UF and Vandy are around $1 Billion.

Essentially it comes down to 5 main factors:
1. Research Spending
2. Med School on Campus
3. ABET Engineering School
4. Land Grant School
5. Politics

The Politics is the most annoying part and has screwed over the Southern and Mountain schools for the most part. The NE, B1G, and UC schools dominate and have very different bars of entry for schools based around that. I don't know how USF pulled off getting voted in though, that really surprised me.

SEC schools also suffer because very few have Med Schools on campus (if it's not on campus it doesn't "count"), Med Schools are massive Research spending machines. Most of them have a divided system of a Liberal Arts/Business focused Flagship, an Engineering/Ag focused Land Grant, and a Med School in a separate location.

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As a Florida fan, how can you possibly want FSU in the SEC?

It will help them. It's throwing them a life raft when they're sinking.

Just stop.

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This is my thought on Clemson. frick em', let them drown.

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Maybe?
Arkansas vs Ole Miss
Texas vs LSU
OU vs Clemson
A&M vs UNC
Miz vs UVA
State vs Kentucky
SC vs Vanderbilt

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how the frick would you not have SC and Clemson....

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Wouldn't you flip Fl. with somebody to keep both state schools together?

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the idea was the keep the original 10 in west/east pods with each other because they always say that the SEC was best at 10 members.. this gives them at least 4 of those games every year, and 5 for all teams except LSU and FL because FL needs to play FSU each year. It would still play LSU as well 4x in 6 years.

I personally don’t care what the pods are, or what the schedule is.. I imagine most Texas fans wouldn’t care as long as we get to play OU.. and most would like to also play A&M.. I’m just trying to figure out a schedule that everyone is happy with..

works for me.. needs a little tweaking imo to make everyone happy..

A&M will scream from the rooftops with that schedule.. not that they matter with 1 vote, but they would have a valid beef.

You need to separate the groups into 10 and 10..

Won NC since 1998
Alabama
Auburn
Georgia
Tennessee
Florida
LSU
Texas
Oklahoma
FSU
Clemson

Other 10
everyone else

Perm = 2 from top, 2 from bottom

Schedule = Perm + 2 from top + 2 from bottom
Last game = top/bottom to make it work

So each year, all teams would play 4 from the top, 4 from the bottom + 1 that rotates from top to bottom

I like the pod schedule better though.

Year 1 & 4
Pod A + Pod B = Division 1
Pod C + Pod D = Division 2

Each division would play the same 9 game schedule + 1 permanent opponent

Year 2 & 5
Pod A + Pod C
Pod B + Pod D

Year 3 & 6
Pod A + Pod D
Pod B + Pod C

Easy format and easy scheduling and it can’t get any more fair than that. Just my opinion.

and I have a different idea for the SEC Championship.. instead of 1 game with the champions from each division, give the champions a bye and play 2 games instead of 1

D1 2nd place vs D2 3rd place
D2 2nd place vs D1 3rd place

That leaves a top 4 teams for the playoffs to choose from.
2 division champs + 2 playin game winners

So the goal each year is to finish in the top 3 of your 10 team division. Makes the regular season even better imo.

eta: or make it a 3 game weekend and let the champs play to see who earns the bye for the playoffs..

SEC 4 teams
B1G 4 teams
1 Big 12
1 G5
2 Wildcards

Idk the exact format, but something like this could be really good for the game imo.

Well...good luck with that.

Different people will tell you which teams are rivals & which aren't. Then there are those that don't want any rivals while others want all.
Last, you have those that want a FULL ROTATION in 4 years while others say that's not possible due to A, B, C, ......

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lots to like about this format imo

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For UGA our permanent would be AUB. So in a year where we play the "west" as our pod, where does the extra game come from?

We'd play the 4 other teams in our pod, we'd play the 5 teams in the "west" pod, but since our permanent opponent AUB is in that pod that means we've got 9 SEC teams scheduled instead of 10. Where does the extra game come in?

May all who support the sheep humping sister bangers and criminoles joining this conference, may all who keep starting these threads .... may you all be inflicted with Herod's Crotch.

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For UGA our permanent would be AUB. So in a year where we play the "west" as our pod, where does the extra game come from?

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Every team would have a permanent.. in your case.. Auburn..

When you play the West Pod, you would then play a replacement permanent (ie someone from the other 2 pods you aren’t playing)

Everyone would have the same setup.

4 Pod Games
5 Division Games (other pod)
1 Perm or Replacement Perm

I was going to say it initially.. but too much info al at once shuts a lot of people down

FL - FSU / LSU
GA - AUB / OU
AL - TN / TX
OU - CLEM / GA
or something like that
etc etc

Each team plays
your pod 6x in 6 years
your perm 6x in 6 years
your replacement perm 4x in 6 years
all other teams 2x in 6 years