When will SEC office correct our schedule?

#26
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Vfl2407 said:
Florida plays UGA in week 10 on 10/31
Florida plays FSU in week 14 on 11/28

Why couldn't they play UT week 12?

This year, we played Florida, Arkansas, Georgia, and Bama ...back to back to back to back.
So, it's ok for UT to play that schedule but UGA and UF have to separate all of their toughest games by several weeks?
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Glad you said it! Because i was about to.
 
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onevol74 said:
As a conference member that is not our problem. In fact it shows favoritism that the conference would consider that.
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Right. Not that there would be any favoritism in this request.

Dear SEC

We are tired of losing to Florida in September. There is no reason whatsoever for moving this game other than the fact we can't beat them. So, could you do us a favor and please move the game to some other portion of the schedule?

Thanks and Go Vols.
 
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onevol74 said:
As a conference member that is not our problem. In fact it shows favoritism that the conference would consider that.
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What difference does it matter when we play Florida and when Florida plays Florida State? Who cares? Still gotta beat em whether it's in Sept or Nov. I heard Fulmer discuss is saying he wanted to play it later in the year and he said Florida said no because of the FSU game. Guess it takes two to tango.
 
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Does anyone know when the 2016 SEC schedule comes out? I'm making vacation plans and need to know when the GA and AL games are next year. TIA
 
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Vfl2407 said:
Florida plays Vandy first week of November and Carolina the second week then an out of conference cupcake in week three before finishing with FSU in week four.
Why couldn't we be swapped with euther Vandy or USC?
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How is this fair. Fla get to start every season with three cupcakes....:eek:lol:
 
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KBVol said:
What difference does it matter when we play Florida and when Florida plays Florida State? Who cares? Still gotta beat em whether it's in Sept or Nov. I heard Fulmer discuss is saying he wanted to play it later in the year and he said Florida said no because of the FSU game. Guess it takes two to tango.
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Because our Novembers are boring.
Once again, by week seven, we have played our three biggest rivals.
Name another school that does that.
 
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KBVol said:
What difference does it matter when we play Florida and when Florida plays Florida State? Who cares? Still gotta beat em whether it's in Sept or Nov. I heard Fulmer discuss is saying he wanted to play it later in the year and he said Florida said no because of the FSU game. Guess it takes two to tango.
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If the networks wanted it changed it would be changed. They dance to their own drummer and with their checks they own the SEC.
 
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Tell you what: Bama will take getting to play some of the worst teams in the conference over the final 5 weeks, and UT can get 3 or 4 teams coming off bye weeks every single year. Sound good?
 
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bamawriter said:
Tell you what: Bama will take getting to play some of the worst teams in the conference over the final 5 weeks, and UT can get 3 or 4 teams coming off bye weeks every single year. Sound good?
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Deal as long as the officials enforce offensive holding with the same consistency as they do with bama.
 
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LoudOrange said:
Deal as long as the officials enforce offensive holding with the same consistency as they do with bama.
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Bama's SEC opponents have yet to be called for holding this year. Bama has been called for holding in every SEC game.

So yeah... consistency...
 
#40
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Unfortunately, I believe our SEC scheduling is already set in stone. So, our best approach would be to positively deal with it as it is. Nobody is going to feel sorry for us....not even the SEC office!
 
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Front loaded has some advantages though. Its much easier to take a loss in Sept vs Nov if you are in the playoff hunt. A loss late in the season will cause you to drop and there is little time to make it up. Do you think Ohio State would have made it in last year if that VTech game was in Nov? I would like to see some exciting games after week 7 for us but I dont wan't to try and switch it up to much.
 
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Our schedule is nice and balanced.

UT in late September, LSU early October, UGA late October (sometimes early November) and FSU to finish up around Thanksgiving.

No need to screw with the schedule to accommodate a division rival.
 
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GwinnettVol21 said:
Front loaded has some advantages though. Its much easier to take a loss in Sept vs Nov if you are in the playoff hunt. A loss late in the season will cause you to drop and there is little time to make it up. Do you think Ohio State would have made it in last year if that VTech game was in Nov? I would like to see some exciting games after week 7 for us but I dont wan't to try and switch it up to much.
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Strategically, I like the front-loaded schedule for the reasoning stated above. In addition, presumably you will have a larger portion of your healthy play-makers available earlier on in the season, too, which is good if you don't have a lot of depth.

Finally, getting thru October with one or less losses, and sitting in the standings at around 4-8, we can just sit back and bide our time while the schedule ahead knocks out the ppl above us (like TCU vs Baylor, or LSU vs Alabama, or Okla-OklaSt, or Michigan-Ohio State some years, etc.).
 
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bamawriter said:
Tell you what: Bama will take getting to play some of the worst teams in the conference over the final 5 weeks, and UT can get 3 or 4 teams coming off bye weeks every single year. Sound good?
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We/ve been there dude, on the bye week thing. Its called "being the top dawg" in the league. One of Fulmer's teams played something like 4 teams with byes the week before.
 
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Vfl2407 said:
Because our Novembers are boring.
Once again, by week seven, we have played our three biggest rivals.
Name another school that does that.
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Who cares. We've been the beneficiary of playing a "boring schedule" in November for decades. If not for another boring November this year, we would have zero chance to even get bowl eligible. The schedule lays out the way it lays out. Let's just play it and deal with it and not rely on Florida's AD or the " SEC office" to help us desperately grasp at straws so that maybe we can stop losing to Florida....neither are obliged to help us make that happen. Let's just focus our energies on getting to be a better team and program and beat Florida the conventional way which is on the field, in September.
 
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Phill always said it should be in late November like the year it was moved back due to Sept 11 attacks.....FWIW
 
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IMO the SEC is hurt by having the Tennessee-Florida game so early. The SEC shouldn't want a rivalry game like Tennessee-Florida to end up one-sided because of some weird combination of a home field advantage (caused by heat and humidity) and the unpredictability of playing so early that there isn't much video to study. For TV ratings, the conference should want the game later because it forces more parity into the game. Going forward, Tennessee and Florida will be 2 of the top 3 teams in the East basically every year. Why would the SEC want a decisive game played so early in the season? The only positive that I can imagine, in the eyes of the SEC, is that both teams would ideally be as close to 100%, health-wise, as possible.
 
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