Kentucky writer argues for SEC realignment

#152
#152
You can't get rid of traditional rivalry games.

You can't get rid of the SEC Championship game.

The writer is a proven Tennessee hating idiot from KNS so anything he writes should just be flushed and not even read.

Keep things as they are because any and all other suggestions will ruin some traditions and rivalries and we've lost enough traditions already.

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VolFootballnut said:
So would everyone else in the SEC West.
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Auburn would be upset. Both because they'd have to drop either the UGA or Bama game and they'd probably rather have that combined GA+FL recruiting advantage (especially not wanting for Alabama to have it).
 
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TrueOrange said:
Yeah but it throws away either the iron bowl or the deep south's oldest rivalry.
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Who cares about the oldest rivalry? As far as I am concerned that died the day they discontinued the UT-Auburn series. They need to do what I takes to provide schedule fairness. This is not your Father's SEC.
 
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onevol74 said:
Who cares about the oldest rivalry? As far as I am concerned that died the day they discontinued the UT-Auburn series. They need to do what I takes to provide schedule fairness. This is not your Father's SEC.
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The fairest method is to do away with divisions.
 
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#157
What if Alabama and Auburn came to the east and Mizzou/KY went to the west? Would never happen but just for discussion.

This would bring back UGA-Auburn and maintain Bama/Auburn, Bama/UT. The west would still be strong assuming Ole Miss and Miss St continue to due what they're doing, Arkansas continues to improve, and LSU stays about the same or gets better.
 
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#158
Drop ATM, MO, Candy, and KY. Play all the teams. Schedule a top-tier every year, a mid-tier and a cupcake.
 
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onevol74 said:
Who cares about the oldest rivalry? As far as I am concerned that died the day they discontinued the UT-Auburn series. They need to do what I takes to provide schedule fairness. This is not your Father's SEC.
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Yeah...UGA-Auburn's a lot older.

It and Alabama- UT are the reasons we have permanent cross-divisional opponents to begin with.
 
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#160
Maybe we could have two divisions, but let Kentucky and Vanderbilt be "floaters". That way, they could be passed around the league like prison **** and everyone would get an equal opportunity to beat their azz.
 
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VolFan4Life87 said:
What if Alabama and Auburn came to the east and Mizzou/KY went to the west? Would never happen but just for discussion.
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Then it would be LSU vs the East in Atlanta almost every year.

This would bring back UGA-Auburn and maintain Bama/Auburn, Bama/UT. The west would still be strong assuming Ole Miss and Miss St continue to due what they're doing, Arkansas continues to improve, and LSU stays about the same or gets better.
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UGA-Auburn doesn't need to be brought back...it's still being played.

And more than likely, Ole Miss and Miss State are heading back towards their norms...unless Freeze finally breaks through the ceiling that's been hanging over that program for half a century.
 
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onevol74 said:
Who cares about the oldest rivalry? As far as I am concerned that died the day they discontinued the UT-Auburn series. They need to do what I takes to provide schedule fairness. This is not your Father's SEC.
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It didn't matter when Florida-Auburn was killed either.

The schools only played 80+ times.
 
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#167
Find one more team and create three divisions.

Placing Bama, Auburn, and Tennessee across all three preserves the rivalry games. Four division games plus two teams from the other two divisions (one permanent).

The only problem this creates is how to deal with the championship game.
 
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gemlek said:
Maybe we could arrange a swap with the ACC for their big sister, Louisville.
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One of the main reasons you would even put UK in the ACC is the fact that UL, UNC, and Duke are there. We'd finally be in a conference that cares about basketball and provide some really good conference games. 6 times a year vs those 3 would be great.
 
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#169
I like things just the way they are. Everything passes through phases, and East-West balance is just one of them. It'll eventually flow back the other way, when Kentucky gets back to contributing (remember the Tim Couch years?), and USCe finds a new hot coach along the lines of Spurrier or Holtz, and maybe even Vandy strikes gold again for a year or two as they did with Franklin.

Did a chart a couple of months ago on this question, here, I'll find it and repost it to show that things weren't always imbalanced in the West's favor:

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So yeah, we're down now. But we won't always be. Vols can only do their part to bring the East back to prominence. Go Vols!
 
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bamawriter said:
Oh yeah. Those incredible three years when UK went 16-18.
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Hey, wins against the West contribute to balance, even if it's not a Natty run. Kentucky spanked your team's butt in '97, and Bama was even ranked when they did it. :)
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
I like things just the way they are. Everything passes through phases, and East-West balance is just one of them. It'll eventually flow back the other way, when Kentucky gets back to contributing (remember the Tim Couch years?), and USCe finds a new hot coach along the lines of Spurrier or Holtz, and maybe even Vandy strikes gold again for a year or two as they did with Franklin.

Did a chart a couple of months ago on this question, here, I'll find it and repost it to show that things weren't always imbalanced in the West's favor:

East%20vs%20West%201992%20to%202015%20v2.jpg


So yeah, we're down now. But we won't always be. Vols can only do their part to bring the East back to prominence. Go Vols!
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No matter how many times you say this, it still is wrong. As has been stated many, many times, the issue isn't with the top teams (which can be more cyclical) it is with the difference in strength of the bottom teams .Vandy and Kentucky are not in some "down phase"- they just suck.
 
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volgrad500 said:
No matter how many times you say this, it still is wrong. As has been stated many, many times, the issue isn't with the top teams (which can be more cyclical) it is with the difference in strength of the bottom teams .Vandy and Kentucky are not in some "down phase"- they just suck.
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No matter how many times you deny it, the numbers don't lie. You forget that Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Auburn, Arkansas and eveb Bama have all had their own "suck" phases as well. So the East's suck teams are always (or almost always) the same, while the West's rotate. Down is still down, and up is still up.

Again, the numbers don't lie. The divisions were balanced for all but the last 7 years of the SEC's 2-division history.
 
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