Porter Wagoner

8/10 from the West? Questionable.

They will lose to Boise State in week one and go back into hiding.

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It does if Mizzou wants to recruit TX. TAMU basketball has never been a super power and putting Mizzou in TX as the SEC school trying to beat the B12 schools for recruits makes the most strategic sense.

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Texas isn't a big recruiting state for Mizzou in basketball like it is for football. Think we have only one guy from TX on our roster. Mizzou focuses a lot more on St. Louis and Memphis. Ole Miss would be an interesting rival given the proximity to Memphis.

I'm on the verge of doing something I swore I would never do - go back to Comcast.

I will give Verizon through this weekend before I do the unthinkable.

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If I could pick it would be Kentucky, LSU, and Alabama.

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Yeah I think Kentucky, and Florida to a lesser extent, will be high on everyone's wish list.

Realistically Kentucky only has one available spot because Tennessee is almost certainly going to be their second rival after Florida, and I think they will give that spot to a school close to them like Vandy or Mizzou, or maybe Arkansas.

I'm not positive on who Florida should get. Georgia and SC seem like natural fits, but neither are big basketball draws.

The league announced earlier this summer that they will increase the number of permanent rivals (i.e. teams that will play home and away games every year) from one to three. Each team will keep their current permanent rival and add two more.

The main goals of this are to get more SEC teams in the tournament (good teams play more good teams and increase RPI) and increase fan interest (play more teams against local rivals). Based on this criteria, I took a stab at trying to predict the new permanent rivals.

What does everyone think about these? THIS IS JUST MY GUESS - NOT OFFICIAL

Alabama - Auburn, Tennessee, Miss State
Arkansas - Mizzou, LSU, Texas A&M
Auburn - Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina
Florida - Kentucky, Georgia, South Carolina
Georgia - South Carolina, Florida, Auburn
Kentucky - Florida, Tennessee, Mizzou
LSU - Texas A&M, Arkansas, Ole Miss
Miss State - Ole Miss, Texas A&M, Alabama
Mizzou - Arkansas, Kentucky, Vandy
Ole Miss - Miss State, LSU, Vandy
South Carolina - Georgia, Auburn, Florida
Tennessee - Vandy, Kentucky, Alabama
Texas A&M - LSU, Arkansas, Miss State
Vandy - Tennessee, Ole Miss, Mizzou

OU for me. Can't stand the Gooners. In the last 15 years, they single-handedly stopped us from going to a national title game in football and going to the Final Four in basketball.

Dude Clemson's pre-game intro gives me chills. It is by far the best in the sport.

I love the Rock M - think it is one of the only features that makes our stadium unique.

However, these are the changes I would make:

- stop counting hill seating in our total capacity; it clearly should be overflow.
- eventually build permanent seating on either side of the Rock M
- somehow use the Rock M in the game intro - maybe have players run down either side of it, similar to Clemson and Howard's Rock (this may be stupid but I am just spit balling here)

Thank you kind sirs.