UT's next Athletic Director must get us a better November.

#27
#27
Totally agree man. I wish we could space out all our major contest. Seems like every year we get killed by bama...and that's basically the season. This year we have a slight chance to get killed by bama a second time. But all other games are terrible
 
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I dont think you will be bored this November , this season. Many more injuries we may be playing 7 on 11. Get ready for more nail biters
 
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GAVol said:
So, you want the AD to complain because the schedule is front loaded when presumably we're the healthiest we should be all year?
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Exactly.

Also, I guess everyone here is overlooking the fact that a loss early in the season hurts your postseason resume much less than a loss late in the season. Should we ever get back to being at the top of our division regularly, we want to have the schedule front-loaded. A two-loss team that has won 6 or 7 straight is much more likely to sneak into a playoff scenario than a team who loses a tough matchup in November.
 
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#37
#37
This schedule got us 4 nationally televised games in a row. Should have won 3, and I'll admit the fourth was hard to watch. That is one draw to the current schedule, but overall I would love to move the FL game later.
 
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#38
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I think our schedule for next year (posted below) is much better, since we do not have to play the 4 toughest teams in a row. The tough ones are spread out next year.
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UT Schedule 2017
Sep. 4 - Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (Labor Day, Atlanta)
Sep. 9 - Indiana State Sycamores
Sep. 16 - at Florida Gators
Sep. 23 - UMass Minutemen
Sep. 30 - Georgia Bulldogs
Oct. 7 - Off
Oct. 14 - South Carolina Gamecocks
Oct. 21 - at Alabama Crimson Tide
Oct. 28 - at Kentucky Wildcats
Nov. 4 - Southern Miss Golden Eagles
Nov. 11 - at Missouri Tigers
Nov. 18 - LSU Tigers
Nov. 25 - Vanderbilt Commodores
 
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chattavol420 said:
Totally agree man. I wish we could space out all our major contest. Seems like every year we get killed by bama...and that's basically the season. This year we have a slight chance to get killed by bama a second time. But all other games are terrible
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You must be on the younger side and missed the 11-3 run vs Bama. They were almost as much of an after thought to us in the mid 90s-early 2000's as we are to them the past 10 years.

Personally I think we just need to break up these murderer row stretches we keep falling into. Granted TAM turned out to be better than anyone thought but we just went on a stretch of the top 2 teams in the east (not including TN) immediately followed by the top 2 teams in the West which just happens to cap off with the clear cut #1 in the country.

Throw in VA Tech who is pretty good and our two buy-a-wins are both scrappy bowl teams too. No wonder we were gassed by TSIO.

If the SEC is going to give us FL and UGA in back to back weeks then we should get a conference open date before taking on another SEC team. If we schedule a OoC game that week then that is on us.
 
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TVOL71 said:
I think our schedule for next year (posted below) is much better, since we do not have to play the 4 toughest teams in a row. The tough ones are spread out next year.
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UT Schedule 2017
Sep. 4 - Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (Labor Day, Atlanta)
Sep. 9 - Indiana State Sycamores
Sep. 16 - at Florida Gators
Sep. 23 - UMass Minutemen
Sep. 30 - Georgia Bulldogs
Oct. 7 - Off
Oct. 14 - South Carolina Gamecocks
Oct. 21 - at Alabama Crimson Tide
Oct. 28 - at Kentucky Wildcats
Nov. 4 - Southern Miss Golden Eagles
Nov. 11 - at Missouri Tigers
Nov. 18 - LSU Tigers
Nov. 25 - Vanderbilt Commodores
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Probably our most balanced schedule. Hope it remains similar.
 
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WesternKyVol said:
You mean the year we played an undefeated top 10 Arkansas in November?
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When that schedule was made, they were a struggling program...4-7 overall and 2-6 in the SEC=struggling...so yeah. :)
 
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#45
#45
I am ready to move to 9 SEC games. The OOC games are pretty meaningless these days. 9 SEC games would allow us our permanent rival and rotate through 2 of the SEC West teams every year. It would still allow us to play a decent OOC (kickoff game) and a couple of SW Texas Community College of the Smokies schools.
 
#46
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
Then Florida needs to join the ACC.

Florida also needs to go to Athens every other year.
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Ok. Here's the deal.

Part of the reason SEC divisions are messed up (and maybe the only reason) is to protect the Alabama-Tennessee game. A whole conference is held hostage by that game. Otherwise, Auburn would be in the East and Missouri would be in the West and everything would make sense. But, the conference has protected that rivalry out of respect.

There are several schools in the league that have an end of the year in state rivalry, not just Florida. The last two weeks for those schools are all the same.....cupcake followed by rivalry. Auburn, Alabama, Florida, SC, and Georgia. The SEC allows that out of respect

To be specific to Florida, we lost the 2nd biggest conference rival we had with all the expansion and changes and that didn't matter to the league

You want the conference to respect your rivalries and things you hold dear.....fine. No problem with that.

However, that works both ways.

The WLOCP belongs in Jacksonville in late October, early November. FSU belongs at the end of the season.

If you don't like that....find a way to deal with it. We've got some things that matter to us too.
 
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"If the SEC is going to give us FL and UGA in back to back weeks then we should get a conference open date before taking on another SEC team. If we schedule a OoC game that week then that is on us."

I think this is the crux of the issue. The overall scheduling isn't going to change because of the other schools' traditional games as well.

But the four game stretch in 4 weeks playing UF, UGA, and Bama, +1 can't continue.
 
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Vfl2407 said:
Whoever becomes our AD, and I personally hope it's Blackburn, really needs to have a sit down chat with the folks in Birmingham that set the SEC football schedules each year.
I'm tired of our November schedule always featuring our weakest opponents.
In fact, after TSIO (Third Saturday in October), you almost feel a little bored with what is left.
This year is a perfect example with possibly the four worst teams in the conference, an open date, and a non conference cupcake in Tenn Tech.

The new AD should insist that we, at least, get to play our western division rotator in November (which I believe we do with LSU next year).
Also, if Bama remains in October and Florida remains in September, why can't we get Georgia moved to November.
I do not like that we have already played our three most important games only 7 weeks into the 13 week (including the open date) season.
If Vandy insists on staying our final game, just move Mizzou or Kentucky up to September or October.

Besides being better for the fans, it would also possibly help us on the injury front not to be so completely front loaded with our biggest games.
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I think I saw that next years SEC schedule will try to eliminate these issues. We all have to see what happens when the 2017 schedule is released.
 
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99gator said:
Ok. Here's the deal.

Part of the reason SEC divisions are messed up (and maybe the only reason) is to protect the Alabama-Tennessee game. A whole conference is held hostage by that game. Otherwise, Auburn would be in the East and Missouri would be in the West and everything would make sense. But, the conference has protected that rivalry out of respect.

There are several schools in the league that have an end of the year in state rivalry, not just Florida. The last two weeks for those schools are all the same.....cupcake followed by rivalry. Auburn, Alabama, Florida, SC, and Georgia. The SEC allows that out of respect

To be specific to Florida, we lost the 2nd biggest conference rival we had with all the expansion and changes and that didn't matter to the league

You want the conference to respect your rivalries and things you hold dear.....fine. No problem with that.

However, that works both ways.

The WLOCP belongs in Jacksonville in late October, early November. FSU belongs at the end of the season.

If you don't like that....find a way to deal with it. We've got some things that matter to us too.
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SC plays Clemson and Florida plays FSU. Kentucky would probably rather not play Louisville. Do any of the other 12 schools cling to a non-conference rival? Tx A&M even ditched Texas. Florida needs to move FSU to the beginning of the season or go join the ACC.

Seeing as to how the SEC was organized in downtown Knoxville and the offices are in Alabama, you're damn right the TN v AL rivalry deserves respect.
 
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