New SEC Alignment

ELTEXAN said:
I’d s

ay the same thing if I were an sec sycophant for the last decade. That ooc scheduling was staasaank
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Compare our OOC to yours, see how you do.
 
Codaxx said:
That is an issue. One team in you pod could play the 2 toughest teams from other pods, while you play the 2 weakest. It’s a random generator scheduling system. Honestly, I would rather go to 20 teams and play 9 teams every year and meet the the other side in playoffs (I would bet the SEC would get a waiver for a 4 team conference playoff for the money). The idea that you are going to play everyone in a large conference is just a childish thought.
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Just not the way pods work. You try to balance them as best you can. Then they work out the schedule for the other 6 as best you can. It will change over the years. Last year UF has the easier schedule. This year UGA does. Just the way it works.

There is nothing childish about wanting to play more teams more often. It's great for TV. The idea that UGA would only play OU and UT and LSU in the CCG makes zero sense. You see that, correct? TV will want UGA v. OU, TX, LSU, TAMU as often as they can get them. It's called building an inventory of great games. It's why the SEC will makes so much money.

As a fan, it's what you want ... more great games. It's why all the big boy schools started scheduling great OOC ... more better games is a good thing.
 
WhosYourDawggy said:
Just not the way pods work. You try to balance them as best you can. Then they work out the schedule for the other 6 as best you can. It will change over the years. Last year UF has the easier schedule. This year UGA does. Just the way it works.

There is nothing childish about wanting to play more teams more often. It's great for TV. The idea that UGA would only play OU and UT and LSU in the CCG makes zero sense. You see that, correct? TV will want UGA v. OU, TX, LSU, TAMU as often as they can get them. It's called building an inventory of great games. It's why the SEC will makes so much money.

As a fan, it's what you want ... more great games. It's why all the big boy schools started scheduling great OOC ... more better games is a good thing.
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It is childish in the fact that it isn’t an elegant solution. The NFL would love to do it also, but numbers get big and it is just hard to try and have equitable SOS and let everyone play each other, unless you go to 10-12 conference games. I would actually be a fan of that, but it isn’t happening
 
Codaxx said:
It is childish in the fact that it isn’t an elegant solution. The NFL would love to do it also, but numbers get big and it is just hard to try and have equitable SOS and let everyone play each other, unless you go to 10-12 conference games. I would actually be a fan of that, but it isn’t happening
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The use of the word "childish" is just dumb. We are talking alternatives, no one know what is going to happen, and pods have been discussed extensively by sports writers, etc. I actually think that it is likely that will be the pods ... it is more attractive from a TV perspective, and this is all about TV.

The NFL does have pods, they are just called divisions within the conferences. And they adjust the non pod games each year. The reason they can't play each other more often is there are 32 of them.

The key decision is whether the SEC goes to 9 games. If they do that, 2 divisions will work and you would play each team at least once per 4 years. It's currently once every 6 years. Why I like divisions is because it really makes the east sort of old school SEC (minus LSU and the MS teams), and west sort of like the old SWC/B12 brining Arky, Mizzou and TAMU back in. Both will have somewhat of a nostalgia feel to it. As a 55+ year SEC fan, playing UF, AU, UA, UTjr every year sounds nostalgically good.

At the end of the day, I like pods because I would prefer to play each time every other year. But, with a 9 game schedule, I could live with every 4 years.
 
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Since this got bumped, I will state that the Format seems to be moving towards Pods based on some loose comments from Sankey.

Any rumors that anyone on here has picked up?
 
Volbound1700 said:
Since this got bumped, I will state that the Format seems to be moving towards Pods based on some loose comments from Sankey.

Any rumors that anyone on here has picked up?
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yeah Texas boards keep hearing that we'll be in a pod with ou, arkansas and mizzu. Aggy will be in a pod with LSU, MS, MSU.. well that's the rumor
 
Thiefery said:
yeah Texas boards keep hearing that we'll be in a pod with ou, arkansas and mizzu. Aggy will be in a pod with LSU, MS, MSU.. well that's the rumor
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Nobody knows but you definitely will be with OU and Auburn will be with Bama, UGA with Florida. Those are the three most valuable combinations not to be screwed with.

Other Games that will be preserved on a yearly basis:

Ole Miss vs State
Auburn vs Georgia
KY vs TN
TN vs Vandy
Bama vs LSU
TN vs FL
LSU vs aTm

Big Games that are in jeopardy:

TN vs UGA
TN vs Bama
Auburn vs LSU
 
Wild Turkey said:
Nobody knows but you definitely will be with OU and Auburn will be with Bama, UGA with Florida. Those are the three most valuable combinations not to be screwed with.

Other Games that will be preserved on a yearly basis:

Ole Miss vs State
Auburn vs Georgia
KY vs TN
TN vs Vandy
Bama vs LSU
TN vs FL
LSU vs aTm

Big Games that are in jeopardy:

TN vs UGA
TN vs Bama
Auburn vs LSU
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From what I hear, this would be the lineup

Pod 1

Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
South Carolina

Pod 2

Alabama
Auburn
Tennessee
Vanderbilt

Pod 3

Ole Miss
Miss State
LSU
Arkansas or Texas A&M

Pod 4

Oklahoma
Texas
Missouri
Arkansas or Texas A&M

Not sure if the teams would keep a game outside of their pod on the schedule every year or not. I think it would happen though. For example Auburn-Georgia would still play; Tennessee-Kentucky would still play; and Texas would play both Arkansas and Texas A&M no matter how the pods setup.
 
Three perm rivals is better than pods. This guy came up with a good chart.
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Volbound1700 said:
From what I hear, this would be the lineup

Pod 1

Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
South Carolina

Pod 2

Alabama
Auburn
Tennessee
Vanderbilt

Pod 3

Ole Miss
Miss State
LSU
Arkansas or Texas A&M

Pod 4

Oklahoma
Texas
Missouri
Arkansas or Texas A&M

Not sure if the teams would keep a game outside of their pod on the schedule every year or not. I think it would happen though. For example Auburn-Georgia would still play; Tennessee-Kentucky would still play; and Texas would play both Arkansas and Texas A&M no matter how the pods setup.
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The pods I hear the most:

Auburn
Alabama
Ole Miss
Miss State

OU
TX
Mizzou
Ark

The others I don’t see any consistency.
 
Volbound1700 said:
People (i.e. Auburn) would whine about difficulty of schedule. The pods are fairly balanced.
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Your claim has no merit. Why are the pods fairly balanced and why won’t they cause whining?

plus, pods lose more traditional rivalries.
 
For location give me OU, Arkansas, Texas, and A&M. That way OU has one hard game in Arkansas and one easy game in Texas every year.
 
Wishbone said:
For location give me OU, Arkansas, Texas, and A&M. That way OU has one hard game in Arkansas and one easy game in Texas every year.
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ELTEXAN said:
Your claim has no merit. Why are the pods fairly balanced and why won’t they cause whining?

plus, pods lose more traditional rivalries.
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i actually like the pod system compared to two 8 school divisions. Pods set up for schools to face each other at least once every 4 seasons.. Also there will be permanent crossover games.. that's a total of 4 permanent games for each school, and now have 5 games (conference plays 9 games now) to play other schools from other pods.

If you want a mix, this is the way.
 
ELTEXAN said:
Your claim has no merit. Why are the pods fairly balanced and why won’t they cause whining?

plus, pods lose more traditional rivalries.
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To some degree, you are right about rivalries but some of the traditional rivalries are fairly new in the SEC.

Take Tennessee, we did not even play Florida and Georgia that often until the division split and we lost Auburn and Ole Miss with the split. However, with our decline, I am now totally fine if we drop Florida and Georgia and play other teams for a while.
 
Volbound1700 said:
People (i.e. Auburn) would whine about difficulty of schedule. The pods are fairly balanced.
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What the fuck are you talking about? Auburn has had the hardest SEC schedule since expansion.

We started out having our two permanent opponents being Georgia and Florida.

We’ve regularly played home and home with Clemson over the last 10 years.

We are on record saying the SEC should play 9 conference games.

You fuckers dodged Army. Army!

GTFO with that BS.
 
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