They have the two best programs in college football as perm opponents. Yikes!
After officially released, I'm sure there will be big story on the "back room" discussions and that will be very interesting.
I made a brief comment on this in the other thread, but if Auburn is upset about anything it is getting stuck with Vandy.
I don't hate Ole Miss, several of may closest friends are Rebelbearsharks and one is fairly high up in administration there. They are all good guys and don't go overboard (the same way I am about State). But I feel too many our fans identity is hating Ole Miss or beating Ole Miss, I'd rather turn our fan energy to beating LSU or Bama.
The only reason you’d want to root for this is if you wanted to be left out of the playoffs with 1 loss because of a weak schedule.
Strength of schedule won't matter as much with the 12-team playoff. Plus with our rotating 6 SEC teams, our schedule would still be one of the 20 or so toughest schedules in the nation anyway.
Exactly. I'm not going to say it doesn't matter at all who your permanent opponents are, but it's not anywhere near as important as it has been. We're going to play 4 (plus or minus 1) of the top 8 teams every year no matter who the permanents are.
I appreciate your comments. I think it all depends on your personal experience with their fan base. I am an older fan. We went through 18 straight games with them when I was a kid where we lost or on a couple of occasions managed a tie. Their fans were a$$ hole$. I went to school with a guy whose brother was Archie Mannings roommate. Life in football season was almost unbearable. We finally won won in approximately 1963 and then I don’t we won another one unfortunately 7-8 more years. It was not a fun time. Did I mention that their fans that we knew back then were a$$ hole$? So I think it just depends on your personal experience with them. I am glad that your experience has been pretty reasonable. I wish I could say the same. My solution has been to just stay away from them. I don’t attend games with them in any sport. I also do my best to avoid any local businesses run by large rebel supporters. The thought that one penny of my money could ever get forwarded to their program is unacceptable. As I mentioned in my original post, I realize that I probably stand alone on this and that’s ok. People are molded by their life’s experiences and my experiences with them over the last almost 70 years can be described as poor at best.
No problem man! I was kind of cringed when one the posters on this board suggested we "take over" the pavilion for our game up there, why should a large portion of fans put money in their pockets?
Yes! There's no easy want to get to College Station and there's not much to it when you're there. Would have rather had Ark, but we made out great on this deal (if it comes to be as proposed).
