SEC must return to divisions and should have four based on geography

[truebluewildcat]

I like your ideas on a solution. Unless I am misunderstanding their post some want a sport with every team equal, if someone is doing a better job they get punished, but if they do a poor job they are given advantages.

I like your idea of exhibition games, how bout adding it to being played on your by weeks and your top 44 don't play? Makes for a competitive game, gives your younger players experience and giys who just can't climb the depth charts a chance to play. It wouldn't count on your records.

UGA won’t suffer or be “punished” with non traditional scheduling.

Dawgs playing any combination of opponents other than traditional east foe won’t affect them.

UK playing Arkansas, Miss St, and Missouri next year instead of UGA, UF, and Vols…that’s a game changer.

How fair is it that we get Texas two years in a row? With those 3 teams being our “perm/rival” games.

Big dogs still get theirs in any scheduling format.

See BIG. Their elites got theirs. IU got a little nibble. Got lucky with a schedule. Next year it may be some other middle or lower class team that doesn’t get stuck with 4-5 best programs in the conference and country.

Go look at the Vols schedule this past year and next year compared to ours. Absolute bullshit.

When do we get a beatable OU? Playing Horns two years in a row…their best teams ever maybe…again, bullshit.

 

[gamalielkid]

I like your ideas on a solution. Unless I am misunderstanding their post some want a sport with every team equal, if someone is doing a better job they get punished, but if they do a poor job they are given advantages.

I like your idea of exhibition games, how bout adding it to being played on your by weeks and your top 44 don't play? Makes for a competitive game, gives your younger players experience and giys who just can't climb the depth charts a chance to play. It wouldn't count on your records.

I like that idea also Grumpy. I know you can as I can - I remember when we had freshman football games. They would play 2 or 3 each year.

Go Big Blue!

 

[Grumpyolddawg]

UGA won’t suffer or be “punished” with non traditional scheduling.

Dawgs playing any combination of opponents other than traditional east foe won’t affect them.

UK playing Arkansas, Miss St, and Missouri next year instead of UGA, UF, and Vols…that’s a game changer.

How fair is it that we get Texas two years in a row? With those 3 teams being our “perm/rival” games.

Big dogs still get theirs in any scheduling format.

See BIG. Their elites got theirs. IU got a little nibble. Got lucky with a schedule. Next year it may be some other middle or lower class team that doesn’t get stuck with 4-5 best programs in the conference and country.

Go look at the Vols schedule this past year and next year compared to ours. Absolute bullshit.

When do we get a beatable OU? Playing Horns two years in a row…their best teams ever maybe…again, bullshit.

Not sure i am following you here, you think UGA had a soft schedule but UK got the shaft? We played 5 of the same teams and each other. You beat OM and they throttled us.

 

[truebluewildcat]

Not sure i am following you here, you think UGA had a soft schedule but UK got the shaft? We played 5 of the same teams and each other. You beat OM and they throttled us.

I don’t necessarily mean this year. Dawgs had a tough schedule we had a tough schedule. Great.

I’m talking over the course of time I think UK gets the shaft when 3 of our regular games are UGA, UF, UT.

I don’t see anything wrong with going through an entire conference schedule over the course of two seasons.

We don’t have divisions anymore and thats a start. I see no reason or harm in cycling through the complete roster of teams now.

If folks want to keep a rival they just can’t live without. Cool. I’d argue UK doesn’t have one, and we sure as hell don’t have two or three programs we need to see every year for the sake of nostalgia. So no need to play all the above mentioned every year.

 

[sieken]

I don’t necessarily mean this year. Dawgs had a tough schedule we had a tough schedule. Great.

I’m talking over the course of time I think UK gets the shaft when 3 of our regular games are UGA, UF, UT.

I don’t see anything wrong with going through an entire conference schedule over the course of two seasons.

We don’t have divisions anymore and thats a start. I see no reason or harm in cycling through the complete roster of teams now.

If folks want to keep a rival they just can’t live without. Cool. I’d argue UK doesn’t have one, and we sure as hell don’t have two or three programs we need to see every year for the sake of nostalgia. So no need to play all the above mentioned every year.

That actually would work currently with 16 teams, even with a permanent rivalry game.

Year #1
Permeant Rival
(7) conference games

Year#2
Permeant Rival
(7) conference games rotating home and away from previous year

Year #3
Permeant Rival
(7) (new teams) conference games

Year #4
Year#2
Permeant Rival
(7) conference games rotating home and away from previous year

Year #5
start all over

 

[truebluewildcat]

That actually would work currently with 16 teams, even with a permanent rivalry game.

Year #1
Permeant Rival
(7) conference games

Year#2
Permeant Rival
(7) conference games rotating home and away from previous year

Year #3
Permeant Rival
(7) (new teams) conference games

Year #4
Year#2
Permeant Rival
(7) conference games rotating home and away from previous year

Year #5
start all over

Exactly.

With that, overall SOS evens out because everyone plays everyone more often.

Top tier teams don’t really suffer because they can pretty much survive and thrive in any schedule.

Middle lower tier teams have opportunities at catching an IU type of season.

 

[sieken]

Exactly.

With that, overall SOS evens out because everyone plays everyone more often.

Top tier teams don’t really suffer because they can pretty much survive and thrive in any schedule.

Middle lower tier teams have opportunities at catching an IU type of season.

Agreed for the most part. Even with doing it that way, the effort should be put towards balancing the difficulty of everyone's schedule. To the best of their ability, eliminate the cupcake schedules and the murder's row schedules.

 

[Grumpyolddawg]

I don't have an answer, I would like some kind of balance. I don't think the conference wants the top 6 teams playing on the top teams or the bottom 6 playing only the bottom 6 every year. UF hadn't been to a bowl in 2-3 years but look to have things turned around, while playing what was the toughest schedule in the country in pre season. I expect AU to be much improved in 25 after 3 sub par seasons. As much as I hate it, turning a program around is as simple as buying top players who have hit the portal. Not career backups, they are backups for a reason, but starters from other teams, it isn't cheap, but the only reason a team doesn't make a big jump is because they aren't spending enough. Nothing to do with history anymore, kids are auctioning themselves off to the highest bidder.

 

[truebluewildcat]

Agreed for the most part. Even with doing it that way, the effort should be put towards balancing the difficulty of everyone's schedule. To the best of their ability, eliminate the cupcake schedules and the murder's row schedules.

Yeah like I said in another post about UT.

Look at their schedule last season and next compared to ours.

I want to avoid that.

Also don’t know that we have to play teams consecutively for sake of home and home. Could go home, off, home.

OU/Horns perfect example. We’re getting the best version of Horns two years running. Vols and everyone else that got Sooners are getting a down and very beatable OU twice.

We didn’t get a transitioning Bama. We don’t play them next year. Our luck we’ll get them year 3 and 4 when Deboer has figured things out and got his roster and system humming.

That’s the type we f shit I want to avoid and spread out evenly amongst everyone.