Dude you can't be freakin' serious, can you? We played W. Va on the road. They won the Orange Bowl. We also blew them out. Did the same to Oregon...Pac-12 and Rose Bowl champs. Are you serious? Is he serious?! Also, West teams rotate home and away series against the non-permanent East team. EVERY SEC team DID that. Fair and balanced. That is luck of the draw. Not this BS scheduling Bama has had for 2011, 2012, 2013 while LSU plays UGA and SC.
2010, Penn State, Florida, at South Carolina, along with the usual West division suspects. 6 of the 8 SEC opponents had 2 weeks to prepare for Bama. That's only two years ago.
You're asking me if I'm serious in the same thoughts on LSU scheduling West Virginia and Oregon? What does that have to do with this SEC bias that's being perpetuated here? Absolutely nothing. You're assertion of BS scheduling in 2011 is irrational. We played Florida, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt last year. You played Florida, Tennessee, and a Kentucky team that lost to Vanderbilt last year. We caught UofSC in 2010, you caught them in 2012. Expansion and the results of having to add two teams has shifted things for a lot of teams. It was bound to happen and there's no way that some teams would not have an easier path than others. That's the luck of the draw. Separate yourself from your being wore out of seeing coverage of Alabama as of late and consider this. Would you be this wound up if Arkansas was in ATL this year?
Penn State was unranked 7-6, also not in the SEC. So How'd ya do that year, when you weren't playing Vandy, Kentucky & Dooley 13th Man?
For everyone suffering from attention deficit disorder, again, the SEC schedule does indeed cycle around. Apparently with great frequency.
Dude the schedule was set for rotation plus a permanent opponent because your gump group yelled and screamed to keep the tenn rivalry game annual. Now I understand it was because of the traditional rivalry not strength of schedule....but what does that say about alabama's power in the conference? If they don't get their way they will take their ball and leave...That is what we mean by the SEC office in Birmingham bowing before the mighty tide. Likewise the old rotation was exactly as you say but it is more than suspicious that the 2 "odd" years the gumps don't play at least one of either SC or UGA while LSU plays both (SC twice) along with Fla as a permanent. The SEC office did that knowing strengths of teams in the 2 years or so they have the "temporary rotation" in place. That they chose to lay the weakest eastern teams with Alabama and the strongest with bama's number 1 threat for leadershipin the west is let's say interesting. These are two pretty strong indications...."If it swins like a duck, quacks like a duck then it may be a duck"
1992, The 2 divisions are created to play an extra meaningless game in the first SECCG. Undefeated Alabama vs 8-3 Florida. Same year, due to new scheduling, Alabama has to make back to back trips to Baton Rouge. No moaning, no groaning, no quacking like a duck. Got to put those big boy pants on and kick some tail feathers.
This is the point I've been trying to make, that temp schedule wasn't made years in advance, it was made THIS YEAR. do our bama posters really think that the schedule makers (headed by a Bama grad) didn't know that they were laying a golden path for bama? Did they not know that we've been to Ga. more recently that bama? Did they not know that our regular opp from the east is going to be better next year than a horrible tenn team with a new coach? Just a fluke? Please, stop pissing on my feet and telling me it's a rainstorm.
"Your gump group yelled and screamed..." The wording is a little over the top, but I get your point despite your view being myopic. We did want to keep those rivalries as did the conference as a whole? Why? Because it gives the conference a lot of leverage with television contracts for one. However, let's not just set aside Georgia, Auburn, and Tennessee wanting to keep those games alive as well. They all did and adamantly so. If we step back before the expansion in '92 we can look at Vince Dooley and Georgia role in the move the CFA made in the early '80's. They made the move because they understood the money the networks were making off of football and the attractions those Saturday afternoon games were becoming. Dooley, just using one guy here, understood the value of rivalries like Auburn and Georgia when it came to selling the TV rights to the networks. Kramer, closely tied to Tennessee, understood the value of the Alabama vs Tennessee game. The "Third Saturday in October" was a nationally televised game long before the conference split and brought a lot of money into the conference coffers. Maintaining those rivalries wasn't a one school move/desire. It wasn't limited to the four schools I mentioned. All 12 wanted those games continued. It made the value of the TV rights grow to where they are today. Now, the LSU vs Florida game is a staple of the college football year. Eliminating that game because it's a tough game each and every year devalues the conference as a whole. Value of the conference. There's something you'll find first and foremost in the school administrators eyes when it comes to decisions regarding where the conference moves.
..."headed by a Bama grad" assisted by administrators from all the SEC schools. Let me repeat that but be more precise. There was a representative from LSU involved in the scheduling for 2012 as there was from each and every school. Did they not know you've played UGA more recently? Of course they did. It's the luck of the draw. Did they not know Mizzou had played at A&M this past year? Yes, but as it ends up Mizzou is traveling to Kyle Field three times in a row. Are we supposed to assume there's a conspiracy for A&M as well? Mississippi State is traveling to Kentucky for the second straight time. Is Kentucky football now favored as well?
