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So, you want the AD to complain because the schedule is front loaded when presumably we're the healthiest we should be all year?
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
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
Then Florida needs to join the ACC.
Florida also needs to go to Athens every other year.
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.
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.