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re: Why is Alabama scared to play Florida more often?
Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:44 am to WildTchoupitoulas
Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:44 am to WildTchoupitoulas
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In short, Alabama has NEVER played as tough a schedule as LSU played last season. And now Alabama wants to avoid playing Florida as much as possible. Yeah, "gutless".
This reminds me of some Lsu fans thinking other conferences are equal to the SEC in touting how they beat Oregon and W. Virginia. Oregon was a good team, no doubt, but still overrated and overly matched. They would have had 3 or 4 losses in the SEC. W. Virginia..this is a team that lost by 26 points to Syracuse and lost to Louisville, a 7-6 team last year.
Ooooooooooooooh!
not really. 
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Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:44 am to Draconian Sanctions
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If UT was your #1 rival I would get that, but they aren't. This would be like UT demanding Vandy be kept on their schedule because it's "such a big rivalry"
Auburn also wants to keep their game with Georgia. Same situation.
Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:44 am to therick711
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you didn't care
And you know this how?
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my recollection is USC didn't come close to winning the East.
I don't understand the relevance. Travel and difficulty of opponent were my main points. Could Arkansas being a superior opponent hindered us from winning the East before? Certainly.
Does it make a frickwad of difference when it comes to travel time? No. It's completely irrelevant.
Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:44 am to WDE24
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The way I understood it, they don't just want ot get rid of permanent rivalries, they don't want cross divisional games to count as SEC games.
That's another argument entirely. They have a legit reason for the former, but there is no rational justification for the latter.
Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:45 am to Choctaw
quote:Thank you for continuing to define and clarify the definition of deflection for me.
actually...its the crying by all of you. not just the gumps. its kinda sad to watch
Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:45 am to Draconian Sanctions
This post was edited on 5/31/12 at 10:45 am
Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:46 am to LSUsuperfresh
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UF is the most successful team in the SEC
Interesting.
Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:46 am to Alahunter
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This reminds me of some Lsu fans thinking other conferences are equal to the SEC in touting how they beat Oregon and W. Virginia. Oregon was a good team, no doubt, but still overrated and overly matched. They would have had 3 or 4 losses in the SEC. W. Virginia..this is a team that lost by 26 points to Syracuse and lost to Louisville, a 7-6 team last year.
the fact remains....it was the toughest schedule in college football history.
Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:46 am to Draconian Sanctions
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If UT was your #1 rival I would get that, but they aren't.
But UT is my #1 rival.
Glad to know that you now "get that".
Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:46 am to WDE24
Thank you for acknowledging the fact that it is uneven and making a valid counterpoint. I feel like I'm in middle school all over again when all anyone can argue with is "ya'll are crybabies". I'm all for making things more fair when you have the opportunity, but I can see your way of thinking too.
Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:46 am to Draconian Sanctions
Tennessee is one of the big 6. They will be competitive again.
And even if they stay at their current level, going to Knoxville is still way harder than going to Nashville, Lexington, and in most years, either Columbia. Bama is manning up by keeping UT.
See what you made me do! You made me defend Bama!
And even if they stay at their current level, going to Knoxville is still way harder than going to Nashville, Lexington, and in most years, either Columbia. Bama is manning up by keeping UT.
See what you made me do! You made me defend Bama!
This post was edited on 5/31/12 at 10:47 am
Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:46 am to WDE24
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The way I understood it, they don't just want ot get rid of permanent rivalries, they don't want cross divisional games to count as SEC games.
We proposed the idea of being awarded for going undefeated in your division. Whatever that award may be, I'm not too sure.
I know one proposal was that cross divisional games counted as half games. We threw our dicks on the table to see what would be said. It was just an idea.
Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:47 am to LSUsuperfresh
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this is unfair
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then I really see how the stereotype for you guys came to be.
Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:47 am to WDE24
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Thank you for continuing to define and clarify the definition of deflection for me.
you're welcome.
anything else about LSU you'd like to whine about today? im all ears
Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:47 am to Choctaw
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Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:48 am to Choctaw
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meh....we just played the toughest schedule in college football history. we're good.
After reading this thread and many others like it the past few days, it seems like Southeastern Conference football is too tough for y'all. Maybe y'all would be happier in the Big East?
Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:49 am to bamawriter
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That's another argument entirely.
Is it? This year the SEC schedule was HANDPICKED. UGA got an extremely favorable schedule getting Ole Piss instead of Bama, and SC got LSU @ LSU.
Because of permanent CD opponents. How are they not related?
This post was edited on 5/31/12 at 10:50 am
Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:49 am to CNB
This thread has become a major slapfest. Here are the two sides and honestly, both of them have merit.
All Alabama wants to do is keep playing Tennessee because it is an important rivalry to us and if you started watching college football before 2000, you'd understand that. The UT-Bama rivalry is probably the streakiest series in college football. There's no telling what it will be like 10 years from now. I'm sure UT fans believe the same thing we do. Other schools want to keep their rivalries going as well. It'd suck to see the AU-UGA go away as well. None of this has anything to do with wanting an easier path to Atlanta for UA while making it more difficult for LSU by keeping Florida. You're reaching if you are making that case.
LSU doesn't want Florida on their schedule every year because A) Florida isn't a true rival B) They don't want to have a decade go by before playing an SEC team again. I get that it sucks and it was one of the big reasons I was against expansion. Considering LSU has scheduled some pretty legit opponents over the years, I doubt they are complaining about their schedule being too tough.
All Alabama wants to do is keep playing Tennessee because it is an important rivalry to us and if you started watching college football before 2000, you'd understand that. The UT-Bama rivalry is probably the streakiest series in college football. There's no telling what it will be like 10 years from now. I'm sure UT fans believe the same thing we do. Other schools want to keep their rivalries going as well. It'd suck to see the AU-UGA go away as well. None of this has anything to do with wanting an easier path to Atlanta for UA while making it more difficult for LSU by keeping Florida. You're reaching if you are making that case.
LSU doesn't want Florida on their schedule every year because A) Florida isn't a true rival B) They don't want to have a decade go by before playing an SEC team again. I get that it sucks and it was one of the big reasons I was against expansion. Considering LSU has scheduled some pretty legit opponents over the years, I doubt they are complaining about their schedule being too tough.
Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:49 am to LSUsuperfresh
quote:There is no doubt scheduling in the conference is uneven. Hell, the East teams have had a much easier go of it for the past several years. With the way teams improve and regress as well as the number of teams in the conference v. the number of games played, competitive balance is impossible to achieve.
Thank you for acknowledging the fact that it is uneven and making a valid counterpoint.
One could argue as some have here that random imbalance is better than the current system, but I don't think that is true. It may be a slightly fairer way to do it, but I don't think it is better for the conference, college football or most of the fans in the conference.
Posted on 5/31/12 at 10:49 am to crimsonsaint
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After reading this thread and many others like it the past few days, it seems like Southeastern Conference football is too tough for y'all. Maybe y'all would be happier in the Big East?
nah. like i said...we just played the toughest schedule in history. we'll be just fine. thanks for asking though
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