re: Spurrier doesn't think the SEC should keep permanent cross-division foes.

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Dude has a point. If they didn't want out then why is it continuously brought up?

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I don't know why i have to say this over and over and over but I guess I do. It's not about our schedule being too hard, it's about certain other teams' schedule being too easy.

Drac, are you saying outside of the last two seasons? (bridge schedules) Because the numbers don't back that up..

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Because the numbers don't back that up

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I have explained, over and over, that I don't believe Tennessee is likely to return to the levels they enjoyed before the proliferation of college football on television because it's very unlikely a gamechanging coach would take that job because of their in-state talent disadvantages.

ergo, I believe Alabama has a built in schedule advantage by getting to play them every year.

Take the example of 2006. LSU, Auburn and Arkansas all beat each other, but because their permanent opponent was South Carolina, Arkansas went to the SEC Championship Game.

Now lets say you're right, and Tennessee somehow someway is a worldbeater again, as is Florida. If Alabama, LSU and Arkansas all beat each other and tie for first in the SEC West, then it will likely come down to what each team does against their Eastern Division opponent. Lets say all 3 get easy W's for their rotational opponent. LSU and Alabama will play top flight teams and Texas Arkansas will play weak Missouri. They now have a built in advantage and an easier path to get to Atlanta. I don't believe that's the way things should be set up.

And heaven forbid Ole Miss ever get good enough to get involved with this with their Vandy perm opponent.

LSU has the talent and coaching to beat anyone in the SEC. 2011 proved that. Don't let the schedule become an excuse for our own retardness (at times). We could have won all the games we lost this past season. Everybody who was at the Bama game last year knows we blew it, and if it weren't for the idiotic Beckham fumble against UF the game would have been much different.

We should quit worrying about Alabama's schedule and just worry about beating them in Bryant-Denny again.

I think we have the toughest schedule in the country this year, but at the same time there is no reason why we can't beat any of the teams we face.

Like I said, the real problem with the current format is the number of years between facing certain schools.

When Florida ended their annual game agaisnt Miami in 1987, the Canes fans accused the Gators of being afraid of losing. At the time, Miami had won 7 of the last 10 match-ups and had just earned its second national championship.

So much for keeping a long standing traditional game against a powerful opponent.

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When Florida ended their annual game agaisnt Miami in 1987, the Canes fans accused the Gators of being afraid of losing. At the time, Miami had won 7 of the last 10 match-ups and had just earned its second national championship.

So much for keeping a long standing traditional game against a powerful opponent.

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I think it's disingenuous in the context of this discussion to cite an example from 25 years ago, regardless of whether you are correct or not. Additionally there is no reason to expect Florida to play Miami and FSU every year as well as their SEC slate.

DRAC even if we rotate with no permanent opponents there is still no guarantee that that scenario will not play out arbitrarily anyway. I am all for us getting two more team's geographically further west that are at least equal in talent and prestige to Alabama and Auburn and move us to the east. As it is now the divisions are separated as equally as possible. I disagree on TN just because they are beginning to obtain the kind of talent to be competitive but will not have the depth for a couple of more years. If Spurrier do this at SC, I don't see why TN can't be competitive again.

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And they joined the Big East over the SEC in the early 90's, so what's your point?

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I understand why the Gators wouldn't want to keep losing to Miami year after year. And we all know the Gators would have lost a lot of games to Miami back then.

Is it true Florida found a way to scedule Miami again this year? Very brave of them.

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I think it's disingenuous in the context of this discussion to cite an example from 25 years ago

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In the context of this discussion, Florida fans keep accusing the LSU fan base of being afraid of playing them, which is very disingenuous, don't you think?

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Sure it's possible, I just think it's much, much less likely that a coach of Spurrier's caliber would go to Tennessee in the first place as opposed to Florida

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I agree that Florida has built in job and recruiting advantages over every sec school including LSU, that's the nature of this league, we will not all ever be equal. Until this bridge schedule I didn't find Bama's schedule to be that much less than LSU as Florida, GA and SC had just rotated off the schedule. The good news is that now that we won't be seeing every east opponent for a few yrs then maybe y'all will not have FLa and GA in the same year or as often. Perhaps the way to do this adjust the schedules to where no school is required to carry more than one of the big three from each division if that can somehow be worked out.