LSU has played Florida and Georgia 17 times since 2000. Alabama 8, less than any other SEC school. http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-fo...-winners-losers-lsu-alabama-florida-les-miles
Someone pointed this out in another thread, but it bears repeating. In 1992, when the SEC decided Florida was our "traditional cross-division rival," we had just played Kentucky for the 40th consecutive time. We had played Florida 21 consecutive times. If "tradition" meant anything, Kentucky should have been our traditional rival.
From 1992 through 2002 Kentucky and Florida were both permanent cross-division opponents, not rivals of LSU. In 2003 the conference drop one permanent opponent from everyone's schedule and replace it with a second rotating opponent. Bama/Tennessee and Auburn/Georgia were paired together in the name of tradition, Arkansas/Carolina were paired as the two newbies and the rest of the conference was matched together according to parity. The second rotating opponent allowed for each team face every other team on a regular basis. Fair or unfair that is how it happened and it was good for the conference overall.
So what you're saying is, different criteria were used to determine scheduling for different conference members. In what universe is this equitable? Say fans of Alabama and nobody else.
Whether it was the plan or not, that is the way it happened. How am I supposed to know? Just because I present the truth to you and you feel hurt by it in any way, I am not obligated to justify it for you. I am by absolutely no stretch of the imagination a fan of Alabama and I said it.
He is really saying: "If LSU were to leave the SEC Alabama could care less and would openly voice their views of Louisiana - LSU were this to occur. (divorce is NASTY)
The same criteria was used for LSU and Bama. There were two permanent opponents. One from the group of the "haves" and another from the group of the "have nots." LSU lost the Kentucky game, Bama lost the Vandy game.
