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Can’t play much worse than that half….which is why I’m expecting a victory. Win or loss, hopefully this is the wake-up call we need.

I keep hearing this, but haven’t seen anything saying it outright.

Also, if we aren’t tearing down the end zones, we are continuing to polish a turd and making it look less uniform.

At least we have uniformity in the grade of the bowl at the moment. The renovations suggested would disrupt that if there isn’t a plan to do the end zones over time.

I’m not saying it’s not completely infeasible to tear down the whole thing, but for such an important and historic place for our campus, you’d think we’d want something to be proud of long term. Idfk

Not to be negative or sacrilegious before the beginning of football season, but I found it to be an interesting thought experiment.

Any players or coaches that rubbed you the wrong way while seemingly being beloved among our fans?

Mine would probably be the Nkemdiche brothers. They were good, but I was over it by the time they left. Early Denzel was great. Might be because that’s when I was in school and saw a lot of off the field behavior.

Also, Hugh Freeze. I knew there was something disingenuous from the start. Wins will solve a lot, but I was ready for the Freeze era to be over as soon as he got to Oxford.

Why is your keyboard typing all this stuff? Seems dishonest

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but looking at Tennessee and Kentucky for example, they'd play what, at most three traditional SEC teams per season, if that?

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True, I guess 4 would be the unlikely. There would be a few teams in that situation, but you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet I suppose. Minnesota, Colorado, Texas Tech, Mizzou, etc.

Most of them would be able to maintain regular play with their traditional rivals/opponents

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Not my favorite overall, simply because it disintegrates too many traditional rivalries, although we're probably headed there eventually anyway (unfortunately).

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I left room to retain those with the lottery games, but I'm honestly not seeing too many in the first place. The legacy conference pairings would solve a lot of that, albeit not every year.

What rivalries are you talking about?

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No North Carolina?

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Damn it. You could just add them to Atlantic South, shift SC to Southeastern, Auburn to Midsouth, and remove Tulane or Memphis.

My thesis followed the accident. This all came from like 15 minutes sorting towns on excel at work just to see what it would look like.

I created this like 3 months ago and figured I would post it instead of letting it die. Take a look if your interested!

I was playing around with excel the other day and decided to sort every P5 school by coordinates....this is what it spit out. The powers that be would never allow something so simple and logical, but I thought you guys would like it.

I'll list details and my proposed tweaks below for the Vols, Cocks, and Commodores.



These divisions were mathematically created by sorting coordinates from East to West into 5 sections, then halving them by sorting them from North to South. You can look at it as an abstract map of the United States.

Notes:
I added Memphis and Tulane to round it out to 70, but they could be changed.
Texas Tech, Tennessee, SC, and Kentucky kind of get screwed without tweaking. Everyone else is relatively unscathed, if not improved.

Tweaks:
Vandy and Tennessee should trade spots
SC and UCF should trade spots.
Sorry UK and Vandy. (I actually think this works out well for both of you.)


Format:
*1 League - 70 Teams - 10 Conferences
*Rotating Sister/Legacy Conferences to maintain regionality (Color coded)
*Rotating Non Conference Games
*Randomized lottery games every year

*No Conference Championship games
*16 Team Playoff (10 Champs + 6 next best based on W-L and h2h)


-12 Regular Season Games Total
-6 Conference Games - Teams play all other teams in their conference
-2 Legacy Conference Games - Teams play 2 games against "sister" conference. Example: Midsouth team a plays Home&Home against 2 Southeastern teams, then rotates (7 years to cycle).
-2 Rotating Non Conference Games - Same concept as Legacy games, except you rotate every two years to a completely different conference. Think Pacific North vs. Midwest Challenge type thing that we have in basketball, but with a Home&Home format.
-2 Lottery/Rivalry games - Yearly lottery games that produce randomized opponents across the country. These game slots could also be reserved to preserve a rivalry if needed.
***Rotating matchups for Legacy and NonCon games could be totally random, based on previous year standing like the NFL, or a combination of the two. NFL style model creates more parity, compelling matchups and more meaningful games all the way down.
***Add one or two more games if you want so everyone has a G5 game(s). Could be good for all levels of cfb, G5 and P5 alike.

This isn't my wheelhouse, but profits and money distribution can be done in a lot of ways, but I'm in favor of a system that rewards the players and programs for winning and investing time and resources to be better. Reward teams based on wins and contribution to the overall product. Bonuses to players, coaches, and programs for making the playoffs and winning championships etc.

This checks all the boxes as far as I'm concerned. Regionality is preserved, rivalries are preserved, and parity is increased without punishing blue bloods, and PLAYOFFS/CHAMPIONS ARE BASED ON W-Ls.

Thanks for humoring my grand idea. Thoughts?

Ain’t nobody talking about the Rebs today? Did I just jinx us by posting?