Tenn to SEC West?

#26
#26
The biggest thing with all of this is getting the SEC into different markets.

Miami / Florida St dont really do that. Virginia, Virginia Tech, WVU are all in markets that would be new. Maybe not a huge area which is why Texas and A&M are the more sought after of all. Texas will jump in a heartbeat if the Big 12 gets raided by the Big 10.

But it doesnt really matter who they would bring in. Tennessee will never, ever be in the Western half of any merger.
 
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#27
What do the divisions look like if the SEC just adds two and they are Tex and A&M?

Does Auburn come to the East? If they do how does Bama play TN and Aub both?

or do they move Bama to the East so they can retain TN and AUB on their sched?
 
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Ericvol2096 said:
What do the divisions look like if the SEC just adds two and they are Tex and A&M?

Does Auburn come to the East? If they do how does Bama play TN and Aub both?

or do they move Bama to the East so they can retain TN and AUB on their sched?
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We should just kick Auburn out.
 
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#29
tvolsfan said:
Vandy and Kentucky aren't rivals, at least not from a football perspective. They're more or less, irrelevant. We'd be trading our second and third biggest rivalry for our first biggest rivalry.
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they're irrelevant only from the streaks from the 80s on. History wise, there's a great deal of bad blood there till Tennessee ran away with it all the more recently (recently being in terms of looking at the length of the rivalry, not saying last few years).

You might also not remember, we played UK for the Barrel trophy

And you know why Neyland was hired right? What his main goal/objective was?
 
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#30
Rumor I have heard is that GA Tech and Alabama dropped their schedule 2013 and 2014 games because of a possible realignment.
 
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bigtime said:
Our biggest current rivals, but moves us into a division with our all time biggest rival and an old rival in Auburn. I would much rather play Auburn in September than Florida.
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I would too as on any given year it is probably an easier game. But if something strange were to happen and UT move to the West, I believe UF would be high on the options for East rival, like we do with Bama now.
 
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head1 said:
The biggest thing with all of this is getting the SEC into different markets.

Miami / Florida St dont really do that. Virginia, Virginia Tech, WVU are all in markets that would be new. Maybe not a huge area which is why Texas and A&M are the more sought after of all. Texas will jump in a heartbeat if the Big 12 gets raided by the Big 10.

But it doesnt really matter who they would bring in. Tennessee will never, ever be in the Western half of any merger.
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I dunno. I dont think Texas budges that easily. Assuming the Big 10 does take Mizzou or Iowa St to get to 12, (aside from the fact that taking 1 team is hardly raiding the conference) the Big 12 seems likely to pretty much pick up someone like TCU or at worst someone more north CSU, and in the case of the latter they might just move OU or OSU to the North division
 
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TrueOrange said:
they're irrelevant only from the streaks from the 80s on. History wise, there's a great deal of bad blood there till Tennessee ran away with it all the more recently (recently being in terms of looking at the length of the rivalry, not saying last few years).

You might also not remember, we played UK for the Barrel trophy

And you know why Neyland was hired right? What his main goal/objective was?
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I don't care about the 50's. UK and Vandy aren't football programs, and they really aren't aspiring to be, either. They're horrific programs and we're not losing anything with them by switching divisions.
 
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tvolsfan said:
I don't care about the 50's. UK and Vandy aren't football programs, and they really aren't aspiring to be, either. They're horrific programs and we're not losing anything with them by switching divisions.
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they're rivals w/ history and that's why they were set up to keep going. That's something much more than you'd gain switching them off for Miss St and whoever else.

(P.S. Neyland was hired in 1926 with the sole purpose being to "beat Vanderbilt." That led to the career of the greatest coach in the school's history)

(P.S. 2 We played UK for the big Oak Beer Barrel year in and out, it was the only trophy rivalry UT took part in. It's still recent; it lasted up until 1999 when the schools retired it following a drunk driving incident that killed several UK football players the week before (the trophy was 74 years old). Below is a picture, but yes there has been a significant rivalry between the two for a long time and with reason)

someone else here I think has an avatar of manning holding up the trophy
 

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Original article was written by some bozo with an end-of-cycle food processing orifice and an opinion. We all have 'em.


VolDad said:
Rumor I have heard is that GA Tech and Alabama dropped their schedule 2013 and 2014 games because of a possible realignment.
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Correct re the game being postponed; future dates TBD. Nothing to do with realignment that I know of. GaTech asked for the change; Bama agreed. From Bama's perspective it works out well. Bama has had some informal discussions re participating in one of the upcoming season-openers in Atlanta or Dallas. Miami or Southern Cal have been mentioned as possible opponents.
 
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bigtime said:
Our biggest current rivals, but moves us into a division with our all time biggest rival and an old rival in Auburn. I would much rather play Auburn in September than Florida.
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Agreed, and furthermore it would be a refreshing change from the grind of opening conference play with Florida.

The old rivalry with Auburn would be great...it used to be the conference opener.
 
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TrueOrange said:
they're rivals w/ history and that's why they were set up to keep going. That's something much more than you'd gain switching them off for Miss St and whoever else.

(P.S. Neyland was hired in 1926 with the sole purpose being to "beat Vanderbilt." That led to the career of the greatest coach in the school's history)

(P.S. 2 We played UK for the big Oak Beer Barrel year in and out, it was the only trophy rivalry UT took part in. It's still recent; it lasted up until 1999 when the schools retired it following a drunk driving incident that killed several UK football players the week before (the trophy was 74 years old). Below is a picture, but yes there has been a significant rivalry between the two for a long time and with reason)

someone else here I think has an avatar of manning holding up the trophy
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I consider Auburn to be a bigger rival than both those teams. Vandy and Kentucky are little more than occasionally entertaining wins.
 
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tvolsfan said:
I consider Auburn to be a bigger rival than both those teams. Vandy and Kentucky are little more than occasionally entertaining wins.
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you're the kind of guy who during Fulmer's run from 92-04 of all wins against Bama would have said that Bama was now less of a rival than both Florida and UGA, aren't you?
 
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with all of this spectualtion and hype, you'd might think they ARE actually expanding? I like it as it is...
 
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TrueOrange said:
you're the kind of guy who during Fulmer's run from 92-04 of all wins against Bama would have said that Bama was now less of a rival than both Florida and UGA, aren't you?
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No. Maybe if we pulled off 25 and Bama was a baksetball school who had never won a national title...
 
#42
#42
I cant see us playing in the west if we do the Florida game will be less meaningful
 
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volsof09 said:
I cant see us playing in the west if we do the Florida game will be less meaningful
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You mean like FL was before the divisional split? Who cares if FL becomes less meaningful. Bama and AU were rivals before the split and would be big time rival games as they were before the divisional split. LSU (or TX if they were added) would probably fill the role of what FL has become since the divisional split. We hardly played FL before the divisional split.
 
#44
#44
This would be interesting:
-Move Notre Dame to Big Ten (which already has 11 teams) to create a 2 sided-conference of the Big North
-In fact, make all major Bowl conferences (Pac-10, Big 10, Big East) all have 12 teams and make them split to have two divisions and a championship game.

As far for an SEC expansion:
West:
Alabama
Arkansas
Auburn
LSU
Ole Miss
Mississippi State
Texas A&M
East:
Florida
Tennessee
South Carolina
Georgia
Vandy
Kentucky
Florida State
 
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jkhaskins said:
This would be interesting:
-Move Notre Dame to Big Ten (which already has 11 teams) to create a 2 sided-conference of the Big North
-In fact, make all major Bowl conferences (Pac-10, Big 10, Big East) all have 12 teams and make them split to have two divisions and a championship game.

As far for an SEC expansion:
West:
Alabama
Arkansas
Auburn
LSU
Ole Miss
Mississippi State
Texas A&M
East:
Florida
Tennessee
South Carolina
Georgia
Vandy
Kentucky
Florida State
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welcome to VN
 
#50
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And if you meant 1950, UT split it with OU.

Kentucky was voted first by some computer rating that came out many years later. That's crap. If that counts, we have about 14 titles.
 
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