(10-13-2019 03:25 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(10-13-2019 02:34 PM)EvilVodka Wrote:  

(10-13-2019 02:08 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(10-13-2019 01:51 PM)EvilVodka Wrote:  

(10-03-2019 11:16 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Even so, Malzahn (or whomever is the coach in the future) would be against playing all three every year while LSU (for example) has a far easier set of annual opponents.

The proposal in the Banner Society article addresses that by prioritizing schedule equity in the selection of each team's annual opponents.

So keep LSU-Florida, and let Auburn play Miss St

Why don't you neophytes let the SEC solve it's own problems. All Tide UP put forth the only plan that need be carried out. We just need a divisionless format that permits 4 annual games and rotates the rest.

A&M is the oldest non SEC rival for L.S.U. and the game makes a ton of sense because both recruit Houston heavily. L.S.U. / Florida is creation of 1992 was seldom played before then. It has grown into a rivalry but I'm not sure one that either school would love to keep.

There's much more going on with these decisions than just scheduling a good game. There's a history prior to 1992, there are recruiting reasons for the choices, there are major donor reasons behind the choices, and there is fit between fan bases behind the choices and I've yet to see anyone outside of the region, under age 45, who understands any of this.

Newsflash: no one cares who Auburn used to play 100 years ago

LSU-Florida is a premier SEC match-up as evidenced by last night

If Gus Malzahn wants to play Florida more, schedule it OOC like Wake Forest and North Carolina did

News Flash I live in Auburn, have family directly tied to the school who were in on decision making, held season tickets for well over 4 decades and you know nothing, but you enjoy trolling and it won't end well if you keep it up. Do a Google search of the history, do the background work on LSU's recruiting grounds and on A&M's and then look at Florida's recruiting grounds. Auburn recruits the Southern half of Alabama better than Alabama particularly down to the Wire Grass in Dothan on the East side and as well as Alabama in Mobile. When Auburn played Florida it gave us more recruits from the Panhandle over to Jacksonville and gave them more recruits in Southern Alabama. It worked for both of us. L.S.U. recruits over to Mobile but not much further East than West Alabama and they recruit Houston heavily. The oldest rivalry jokes in the Bayou were about A&M. They both like that rivalry, including some very big donors. But you wouldn't know that or care when all you want to do is sow crap.

The games that matter most on the East side for Auburn are these: Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Tennessee. To the West they are Alabama and Miss State with Miss State a distant one, just played for a long time.

Florida cares about Georgia, Tennessee (which has only developed since '92) Auburn, and Florida State.
Tennessee cares about Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky and Auburn, not so much about Vandy and a little more now about Florida now.
Georgia cares about Tennessee, Florida, Auburn, and Georgia Tech. South Carolina would be surpassed by Clemson if Clemson was in the SEC but there is potential there for South Carolina.
Alabama cares about Tennessee, Auburn, L.S.U., and Mississippi State. Ole Miss is played more often now than it once was and has grown on them.

All of those are rivalries that are geographical in nature and are dictated by recruiting grounds and donor interest. You can't take a spread sheet and simply work out a formula. It's why 4 core games works best for everyone. It solves more problems than it creates. But when it happens it will be handled in house by AD's with the input of donors. Nobody, and I mean nobody, gives a damn what the coach thinks about scheduling. If they did then Nick Saban would have more sway than he does.

So switch Auburn and Mizzou in the divisions

It seems like LSU loses out in all of these divisionless plans