Former Auburn Coach Pat Dye Thinks SEC Should Realign Its Divisions

by Staff Reporter

May 16, 201713 Comments

John David Mercer-USA TODAY Sports

Former Auburn coach Pat Dye joined the Paul Finebaum show this week and said that SEC should realign its division by moving Missouri to the West and Auburn to the East. Per AL.com:

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"Just think about the inconvenience of the Missouri fans having to travel to the East to watch games on the road, of the families that want to go watch their children play," Dye said. "It just makes no sense for Missouri to be in the East.

"(Auburn is) on the Eastern part of Alabama. We're 30 miles from Georgia. We touch Florida and Tennessee, and we need to be in the East. And Missouri needs to be in the West. They could build traditional games with people that are closer to them, where the fans could travel. ... It's a tremendous disadvantage to Missouri being in the East."

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TigerTalker16•83 months

Old idiot doesn't know what he's talking about.

finestfirst79•83 months

Sure he does. That problem is Mizzou fans would still have some pretty tough road weekends for fans. Throwing out Auburn, the average distance to SECW teams from Mizzou is 568 miles. The average distance to other SECE teams is 686 miles, or roughly 2 hours farther. But either way it sucks for fans.

TailbackU•83 months

Coach Dye just pointing the obvious. It's as plain as the poop swastika on your bathroom wall.

ninthward•83 months

Damn, does he want to avoid Bama or what?

PorkRoast•83 months

That's all I see. He wants the easy way out on the scheduling.

southernboisb•83 months

&, as been mentioned NUMEROUS times on here, who's HE wanting to give up...."The Iron Bowl" or "3rd Sat. In Oct."?

BAMAneck•83 months

They should move to the coastal division . They have been begging for this for years , before Missouri and Texas A&M even joined .....Laughable and cowardly

AUsteriskPride•83 months

Cowardly? It's just common sense. Geography is hard.

Broadside Bob•83 months

Mizzou should just move out of the SEC.

imjustafatkid•83 months

Wouldn't bother me at all, as long as Bama can keep Tennessee as our permanent cross-division game. Would give the Iron Bowl its proper level of importance...none.

AUsteriskPride•83 months

Terrible attempt at a troll. When's the last time the UT game meant anything whatsoever for both teams outside of just being a rivalry game?

YStar•83 months

They have been begging to run from Bama well before Mizzou entered the SEC. Cowards

Cobb Dawg•83 months

Yeah, he's all concerned about Mizoo fans. He, and the rest of Awbun, are trying to get out of Bama's division. Plain and simple.

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