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re: There won't be PODS
Posted on 7/24/21 at 9:56 pm to OKBoomerSooner
Posted on 7/24/21 at 9:56 pm to OKBoomerSooner
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Arkansas: Texas, Missouri, South Carolina
frick that. Damn. Basically Mizzou is fricking all this up for Arkansas fans. None of us care about that game.
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Posted on 7/24/21 at 9:58 pm to CauleyHog
LSU is Arkansas' rival more than mizzou.
Posted on 7/24/21 at 10:00 pm to CauleyHog
Missouri and Oklahoma both force the hands of a couple of other pairings because they have so few ties to the conference at large. It's lame but there's not much to be done about it. At least you're still seeing everyone else twice in 4 years.
Posted on 7/24/21 at 10:03 pm to Slackaveli
Yea the issue is that the importance is one-way. I don't mean that as a dig, just that even if you set aside Alabama as "not a real rival" (which isn't really true, but for sake of argument), LSU still has Ole Miss, A&M and Florida ahead of Arkansas, maybe even Auburn. It's a fun game and no disrespect is meant at all by that assessment.
Posted on 7/24/21 at 10:06 pm to OKBoomerSooner
If the pod was Arkansas, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, and Mizzou I'd be down. I could see all four of those schools pushing for that tbh.
This post was edited on 7/24/21 at 10:08 pm
Posted on 7/24/21 at 10:59 pm to Slackaveli
LSU vs Arkansas was a forced rivalry. I doubt any fans would lose much sleep over that one being dropped.
Posted on 7/24/21 at 11:48 pm to Laman1978
It's a trophy game, man.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 5:15 am to Slackaveli
quote:A trophy most fans don't give a damn about though. It's nothing against the Hogs, but I can think of at least five teams that the large majority of LSU fans are more excited to play: Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Ole Miss, A&M. Like I said, it's a forced rivalry that most LSU fans just haven't gotten into as much as those other games.
It's a trophy game, man.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 7:14 am to Slackaveli
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Mostly Mizzou and Gaggy fans trying to use Arkansas to shield themselves lol.
Sheild themselves from what?
You're the only one bitching about the pod proposal put out on the SEC Network.
You want to pack one pod and stick Mizzou in it in hopes if LSU ever stumbles you have a shot. If anything Mizzou should be in the LSU-OM-MSY pod, but if it has to happen I'd enjoy UT-OU-MU-Ark. It's balance and regional.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 7:17 am to CauleyHog
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Mizzou is fricking all this up for Arkansas fans. None of us care about that game.
Neither apparently does your team.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 8:33 am to Slackaveli
Arkansas will either agree to the pairing with Texas and Oklahoma or they will be forced to do so as the rest of the conference will pass.
Arkansas just like in the SWC has no say or power in the SEC. That is the bitch of not being a charter member.
Arkansas just like in the SWC has no say or power in the SEC. That is the bitch of not being a charter member.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 9:04 am to JKChesterton
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I think you are correct, a reporter at DAWGpost said he is hearing from UGA sources that PODS are out. Just watched it.
JK, it sounds like maybe you and I may have figured this thing out!
Posted on 7/25/21 at 9:06 am to JKChesterton
quote:That's not happening.
10 games, 7 with 1 permanent cross over and 2 rotate, would work and provide lots of excellent matchups across the board.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 9:37 am to tigerburningbright75
THE ULTIMATE PROPOSAL:
West: Arkansas, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Texas A&M
East: Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee and Vanderbilt
7 games in division
4 games in other division (rotates to where you play every non-division team every 2 years) - NO PERMANENT OPPONENTS are necessary because the real ones will be within the divisions)
1 non-conference, Ga/Ga. Tech, USCe/Clemson, Fla/FSU, etc.
That's 11 conference games per year(very exciting), BUT if that can't pass, play 9 conference games and every non-division team every 4 years.
West: Arkansas, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Texas A&M
East: Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee and Vanderbilt
7 games in division
4 games in other division (rotates to where you play every non-division team every 2 years) - NO PERMANENT OPPONENTS are necessary because the real ones will be within the divisions)
1 non-conference, Ga/Ga. Tech, USCe/Clemson, Fla/FSU, etc.
That's 11 conference games per year(very exciting), BUT if that can't pass, play 9 conference games and every non-division team every 4 years.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 9:58 am to Slackaveli
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no. you get Aggie and OU and Texas, Bud. You dont get to dodge aggy LOL. Thats your lil butt buddy you came over with.
Why are the noobie lil 12 pussies so scared? Why do they suddenly need Arkansas? LOL. frick outta here, Nub Nub.
Clearly 4 teams were lil 12 members and if there was pods would be together. We'll never know, though, bc
THERE won't be pods.
Stop crying all over the board about it. You scared?
Posted on 7/25/21 at 10:22 am to coachcrisp
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here won't be PODS
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I think you are correct, a reporter at DAWGpost said he is hearing from UGA sources that PODS are out. Just watched it.
JK, it sounds like maybe you and I may have figured this thing out!
Coachcrisp: You know I think you are correct. As I said in another post, LSU media are not reporting anything. I understand why as "Woody" our AD, while a Baton Rouge native and LSU alum, was A&M's AD and despite what you would think based on what you see here (which no rationale person should ever do), our ADMIN gets along real well with A&M's ADMIN. No need for LSU to have some leaks come out and LSU get in the middle of this Public media battle between Texas A&M and Texas.
Now the Media who cover schools are little more East given what will likely happen with scheduling will not be impacted by all this Aggie/Horn feuding but LSU is going to be playing them regularly if Divisions are the way for football and likely be permanent opponents in Basketball and Baseball as well.
So that is why our discussion about what the Cecil Hurt and the Bama press were reporting was productive and I just started looking for Media that cover other programs like UGA, Florida, TENN and this Dawgpost reporter had some good information.
So Divisions are 1 option and you play a 7-2, 7-3 or we can hope a 7-4 type format.
A second option is no Divisions and a 3 team permanent and 6 team rotation, etc, where the 3 team permanent would look like for example for Alabama (Auburn, TENN and somebody else).
Auburn would be (Bama/UGA and say TENN), etc
LSU might look like (Texas A&M, Ole Miss, and fill in here a 3rd maybe from Miss. State, Florida if both mutually agree, etc)
But Coachcrisp, PODS based on the basic geographical clustering that the SEC Network put out will not work. Texas A&M and Texas are not in same POD, so that game is out and UGA and Auburn are not in the same POD so that game is out.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 10:22 am to Slackaveli
I feel like a 3-3-3 pod would work great just in terms of schedule. Play your pod, 3 permanent rivals, and then 1 opponent from each pod every year. That equates to playing everybody in the conference every 3 years.
I think the main pod issue is that it probably requires a semi-final game for the SEC championship. And with the CFP likely expanding to 12 teams sooner than later that would be wayyyy too many games for a SEC playoff team to play.
I think the main pod issue is that it probably requires a semi-final game for the SEC championship. And with the CFP likely expanding to 12 teams sooner than later that would be wayyyy too many games for a SEC playoff team to play.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 10:29 am to JKChesterton
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A second option is no Divisions and a 3 team permanent and 6 team rotation, etc, where the 3 team permanent would look like for example for Alabama (Auburn, TENN and somebody else).
Not saying it's happening but this my preference.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 10:51 am to Slackaveli
i do have a hard time seeing how we annoint a conference champion with pods. either you tie 2 weeks up for just 4 teams to play, or maybe you do one of those high school tournament things where you also have games to determine 5th, 7th, 9th place, etc.
can't see a tiebreaker determining which 2 pod winners play a single championship game.
can't see a tiebreaker determining which 2 pod winners play a single championship game.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 10:53 am to WRhodesTider
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A second option is no Divisions and a 3 team permanent and 6 team rotation, etc, where the 3 team permanent would look like for example for Alabama (Auburn, TENN and somebody else).
Not saying it's happening but this my preference.
Mine also. The true nightmare is if they do a 7 div 1 perm 1 rotating , meaning it will take 14 years to get through a home and home rotation. Don’t put it past them. The current rotation already takes 12 years. It has just never seemed like the powers that be value a schedule that sees all the teams play each other more often.
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