SEC working on 9 Game schedule
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No guarantee that Alabama would play Auburn and Tennessee, right?
I guess we're talking football since it's the only sport which had ties.
Crazy to put Ga Tech in there. I would only put the other 7 schools in the league at the time we foolishly left.
Whatever rotation they come up with, Alabama will still be playing Auburn and Tennessee every season just like UGA will be playing Auburn every season. Ole Miss and Miss St will play every season. With each team having its own permanent opponents, most likely set at 3 teams, there is no reason they can't continue the long-running historical SEC rivalries.
They used to say ... "If ya don't wanna run with the big dogs, stay on the porch."
There are enough weaker P5 teams that you can find 2 to schedule each year. They're looking to schedule homecoming visitors just like we are. And a lot of 'em are right here in the neighborhood (The entire damn ACC) And what about the Rutgers, Indiana, Illinois. Maryland, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa St, KSU, and every 5 /10 years hit up a couple Best Coast Teams and Rocky Mountain Boys just for publicity sake?
Beating one of them is more impressive than pounding a Furman or Citadel and, if you should lose, a helluva lot less embarrassing.
I saw something from a media outlet that covers ECU, which is trying to firm up their future schedules, even by adding some FCS teams. We have already pushed a future game with them back a few years. The piece notes that our future schedules are currently showing only three confirmed non-conference games, and they are postulating that this is a certain sign that the SEC is going to nine games.
We scheduled one of those ACC teams this past year.
I get the notion of competing vs sitting on the porch. But we'd need to be willing to forego bowls some years.
Not now....but just give the SC Legislature a reason to do it....you and I know they will. Just like they will force us to push for a Clemson bid to the SEC if one is not forthcoming....I have zero doubts about that.
The legislature already controls our BOT. UPC will not be dropped nor will USC impede UPC. You can bet your houses and your bank accounts.
We ought to drop them. It benefits Clemson a lot more if they beat an SEC team whereas being an SEC team USC is expected to beat an ACC team.
It's great having Texas and Ok. A conference would have to be stupid to turn them down. One DA sports writer said that Texas would NEVER join the SEC back when the SEC was looking at adding two more teams-Ark and USC and they always said that Ok and Ok St were a package deal. I liked the conference better when it was 12 teams. Don't particularly like the A&M/Mo adds. Especially don't like the Mo add. Should have added WVa.
I don't think anyone "expects" USC to beat Clemson. If they do, they are completely ignorant of the series record. The same can be said of "expecting" USC to beat any ACC team simply because they are an ACC team. Quite a few Gamecock fans seem to place a lot of stock in the fact we are a member of the SEC and those fans live under the delusion that makes us a better program than our play and record indicates.
Dropping Clemson would benefit USC more than it would benefit Clemson. They would lose a likely win each season and we would lose a likely loss.
Look! I sincerely, don't mean to attack or start the next BS WAR but, what a ***** thing to post. RU FKing disturbed??? Grow some Man Balls.
Are YOU Publicly posting that South Carolina can not compete with Clemson??? ****, or get off the pot!!!
OH!!! That Certainly makes sense, to comment about NORTH Carolina on a SOUTH CAROLINA board...... ADIOS!!!
LOL!!! Already tried to place you on "IGNORE" but the system wouldn't accept that many!!! I think it's working now .... Good bye.
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WOW!!! What balls you have!!! Especially because of your MOM. Does your Mother still moan when YANKEES screw her??? Or does your wife laugh starts at their Pi Kappa Alpha gang bang??? Both do both? I thought so!!!
I think everyone on this board should have you on ignore about now dip s**t.
Enjoy talking to yourself.
I think you and I should meet privately to discuss our differences.
Ever look up French Military Victories, on the internet, Jack??? They had to change it ... obviously.
Well....if it weren't for France, we would have never won the Revolutionary War. History is an interesting thing.
Yes, UNC. One of those "weaker P5" teams you said we should schedule. I pointed out that we did, and lost to them.
You're welcome.
I expected to beat them each of the last 2 years. Why? Bc they’re not good and I thought we’d have enough offense to score more than them. History has nothing to do with current year. If it did we wouldn’t have had 5 straight.
I wish the following schools had gotten together in the late 80s and started an all-sports conference (all sports means that if at least 6 members sponsor the sport at the D-I level then the members sponsoring the sport compete for a championship in it.):
- Penn State.
- Pittsburgh
- West Virginia
- Syracuse
- Boston College
- Connecticut
- Rutgers
- VPI
Your dislike of facts isn't going to change because I meet you privately.
I do find it somewhat odd that someone who has a handle that invokes the image of the team mascot being cut up and cooked and eaten gets so worked up over the reality of our series with Clemson. Of course, your leap to "Mom" comments leads me to believe you may be in middle school.
I thought they were very beatable this year. Last year we were lucky, they blew a lot of chances they really should have made to win. It is maddening to me how it seems that years we are pretty good they manage to be better and years they are down we are also generally down. We never seem to get that matchup where we are pretty good and they are having a down year. The five year run was the only time I can remember them being down for any extended period. Making fun of their "easy" ACC schedule does us no favors when they beat us.
Dabo's refusal to accept the NIL and portal era may be the thing that brings them down. I have to admit I agree with him philosophically but I'm not willing to accept program suicide to stand on principle.
Nope. The 2022 game they were lucky we didn't run away with it in the 1st half. Rattler had about as bad a 1st half as you could:
Pick 6
INT in our own enzone to take at least 3 pts off the board
Took a sack in our endzone for a safety
Then Rush had a no doubter pick 6 hit him in the hands and he dropped it. We could have been up by 3 TDs at the half if it weren't for silly mistakes. The two muffed punts shouldn't have even mattered. To that point, they were lucky to just be in the game.
But the 9 games that SEC teams play are a lot more difficult than the 9 games that other conferences play. Therefore, more likely to have worse schedules.
It has that advantage but I think that a conference has to have 12+ teams to have a championship game
This addressed a hardship situation whereby the Big 12 had been forced to give up their championship game when they were at fewer than 12 teams.
If this happens, makes things significantly (and uniquely) more difficult for South Carolina. A 9-game league schedule with the addition of Texas and OU plus Clemson is just brutal. The teams with an in conference rival will have an advantage.