Auburn 2017

1. Sept 2, 2017 Georgia Southern
2. Sept 9, 2017 @ Clemson
3. Sept 16, 2017 Mercer
4. Set 23, 2017 @ Missouri
5. Sept 30, 2017 Mississippi State
6. Oct 7, 2016 Ole Miss
7. Oct 14, 2017 @ LSU
8. Oct 21, 2017 @ Arkansas
9. Nov 4, 2017 @ Texas A&M
10. Nov 11, 2017 Georgia
11. Nov 18, 2017 Louisiana Monroe
12. Nov 25, 2017 Alabama

OCT 14-Nov 4 is gonna be a hell of a stretch.

For the love of Gen. Neyland what does it take for the Vols to get a game with Auburn again?

(09-14-2016 04:44 PM)vandiver49 Wrote:  For the love of Gen. Neyland what does it take for the Vols to get a game with Auburn again?

Expanding by 4 and moving to divisions of 6.

(09-14-2016 04:44 PM)vandiver49 Wrote:  For the love of Gen. Neyland what does it take for the Vols to get a game with Auburn again?

Under the current set up, South Carolina is going 18 years (!) between home games against LSU

(09-14-2016 08:39 PM)Gamecock Wrote:  

(09-14-2016 04:44 PM)vandiver49 Wrote:  For the love of Gen. Neyland what does it take for the Vols to get a game with Auburn again?

Under the current set up, South Carolina is going 18 years (!) between home games against LSU

That is one thing I love about the 10 team round robin set up that we have in the Big 12.

(09-14-2016 09:36 PM)tcufrog86 Wrote:  

(09-14-2016 08:39 PM)Gamecock Wrote:  

(09-14-2016 04:44 PM)vandiver49 Wrote:  For the love of Gen. Neyland what does it take for the Vols to get a game with Auburn again?

Under the current set up, South Carolina is going 18 years (!) between home games against LSU

That is one thing I love about the 10 team round robin set up that we have in the Big 12.

The ability to go division less would have helped solve a lot of these type of scheduling issues but it was voted down.

(09-14-2016 08:39 PM)Gamecock Wrote:  

(09-14-2016 04:44 PM)vandiver49 Wrote:  For the love of Gen. Neyland what does it take for the Vols to get a game with Auburn again?

Under the current set up, South Carolina is going 18 years (!) between home games against LSU

And it's just ridiculous. At minimum, we need to add a 9th conference game to alleviate some of these problems.

With that said, I truly believe that the setup we have currently was meant to be a stop-gap. I think the intention was to expand by 4 in 2011 and devise a more permanent and reasonable rotation with 9 games. Things fell through and we ended up with the odd alignment.

This is one of the reasons I'll be glad when expansion is finally decided and over. Our current structure is not meant to work over the long haul.

(09-14-2016 11:25 PM)AllTideUp Wrote:  

(09-14-2016 08:39 PM)Gamecock Wrote:  

(09-14-2016 04:44 PM)vandiver49 Wrote:  For the love of Gen. Neyland what does it take for the Vols to get a game with Auburn again?

Under the current set up, South Carolina is going 18 years (!) between home games against LSU

And it's just ridiculous. At minimum, we need to add a 9th conference game to alleviate some of these problems.

With that said, I truly believe that the setup we have currently was meant to be a stop-gap. I think the intention was to expand by 4 in 2011 and devise a more permanent and reasonable rotation with 9 games. Things fell through and we ended up with the odd alignment.

This is one of the reasons I'll be glad when expansion is finally decided and over. Our current structure is not meant to work over the long haul.

4 in 2011-2 was in the plans and actively being sold. 6 in '91-92 was the first dream. It was pursued but then we settled for 2 and split divisions with a championship game. What we are in is definitely a make shift arrangement. At 16 you rotate half divisions, play 9 conference games, keep 1 permanent rival and play everyone every three years. You just forgo playing everyone home and away over two years. Instead you play everyone home and away every six years.

(09-14-2016 09:36 PM)tcufrog86 Wrote:  

(09-14-2016 08:39 PM)Gamecock Wrote:  

(09-14-2016 04:44 PM)vandiver49 Wrote:  For the love of Gen. Neyland what does it take for the Vols to get a game with Auburn again?

Under the current set up, South Carolina is going 18 years (!) between home games against LSU

That is one thing I love about the 10 team round robin set up that we have in the Big 12.

I'm all for more conference games and no permanent opponents. Those would be two easy fixes

(09-14-2016 04:49 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-14-2016 04:44 PM)vandiver49 Wrote:  For the love of Gen. Neyland what does it take for the Vols to get a game with Auburn again?

Expanding by 4 and moving to divisions of 6.

I know we like to talk about staying at 14, but the only way I think that works long term is to go divisionless. Expand to 15 or18, but the mean interval between out of division opponents is way too long right now. I can deal with the single add of an ECU or OKST if it resolves this problem.

(09-14-2016 09:36 PM)tcufrog86 Wrote:  

(09-14-2016 08:39 PM)Gamecock Wrote:  

(09-14-2016 04:44 PM)vandiver49 Wrote:  For the love of Gen. Neyland what does it take for the Vols to get a game with Auburn again?

Under the current set up, South Carolina is going 18 years (!) between home games against LSU

That is one thing I love about the 10 team round robin set up that we have in the Big 12.

Many of the schools in your conference don't like all the programs that populate theB12 slate. The SEC as the opposite issue.