Rabalais: 5 reasons LSU should leave SEC

1992, The 2 divisions are created to play an extra meaningless game in the first SECCG. Undefeated Alabama vs 8-3 Florida. Same year, due to new scheduling, Alabama has to make back to back trips to Baton Rouge. No moaning, no groaning, no quacking like a duck. Got to put those big boy pants on and kick some tail feathers.

 

This is the point I've been trying to make, that temp schedule wasn't made years in advance, it was made THIS YEAR. do our bama posters really think that the schedule makers (headed by a Bama grad) didn't know that they were laying a golden path for bama?

Did they not know that we've been to Ga. more recently that bama? Did they not know that our regular opp from the east is going to be better next year than a horrible tenn team with a new coach?

Just a fluke? Please, stop pissing on my feet and telling me it's a rainstorm.

 

"Your gump group yelled and screamed..."

The wording is a little over the top, but I get your point despite your view being myopic. We did want to keep those rivalries as did the conference as a whole? Why? Because it gives the conference a lot of leverage with television contracts for one.

However, let's not just set aside Georgia, Auburn, and Tennessee wanting to keep those games alive as well. They all did and adamantly so.

If we step back before the expansion in '92 we can look at Vince Dooley and Georgia role in the move the CFA made in the early '80's. They made the move because they understood the money the networks were making off of football and the attractions those Saturday afternoon games were becoming.

Dooley, just using one guy here, understood the value of rivalries like Auburn and Georgia when it came to selling the TV rights to the networks. Kramer, closely tied to Tennessee, understood the value of the Alabama vs Tennessee game. The "Third Saturday in October" was a nationally televised game long before the conference split and brought a lot of money into the conference coffers.

Maintaining those rivalries wasn't a one school move/desire. It wasn't limited to the four schools I mentioned. All 12 wanted those games continued. It made the value of the TV rights grow to where they are today.

Now, the LSU vs Florida game is a staple of the college football year. Eliminating that game because it's a tough game each and every year devalues the conference as a whole.

Value of the conference. There's something you'll find first and foremost in the school administrators eyes when it comes to decisions regarding where the conference moves.

 

..."headed by a Bama grad" assisted by administrators from all the SEC schools. Let me repeat that but be more precise.

There was a representative from LSU involved in the scheduling for 2012 as there was from each and every school.

Did they not know you've played UGA more recently? Of course they did. It's the luck of the draw. Did they not know Mizzou had played at A&M this past year? Yes, but as it ends up Mizzou is traveling to Kyle Field three times in a row. Are we supposed to assume there's a conspiracy for A&M as well? Mississippi State is traveling to Kentucky for the second straight time. Is Kentucky football now favored as well?

 

Terry you and Tusk defend every little point to death and can never agree that Alabama ever is anything but perfect. That destroys any credibility you might have earned from many good posts and points made on other subjects. You see on Tiger Fan we good Tiger fans criticize justabout everything about LSU at one time or another. We recognize faults in the institution and the people in itand debate them.

If you could admit without being browbeaten some of the points brought are valid, you would gain more respect. No one expects you to become Tiger fans or negabamas. Just take off the crimson colored glasses. I am sure sometimes you feel like King Canute trying to hold back the tide but being oberdefensive isn't the way to respect.

 

Well he needs to be fired then.

So the open date fiasco that bama raised such a fuss over, a "luck of the draw" and "value of the conference" thing?

 

It's too late for that. Alabama's like a criminal whose remorse is contingent upon getting caught. Additional remorse involves having too pay a monetary price for it. The Crimson Tide interest in retaining LSU in the SEC is, probability indicates, based on the clear fact that Louisiana's Alumnus base is gullible. Ruining good LSU seasons provides a way in for Alabama to ascend in years in which ALA might only be above average. (EXAMPLE:2011)

IMO - "I assure you had LSU been #1 last season and Alabama #2 and LSU lost!!?? No rematch no matter how loud LSU screamed." No matter who or what LSU did including defeat the Green Bay Packers no rematch with the Crimson Tide. The Alabama Crimson Tide are rotten to the core & leaving their conference is the best way to deliver the "coup de graux" ....Fiscal pain $$$ not physical pain wins this fight.

(in the first meeting in Tuscaloosa LSU defeated #1 Alabama in OT 9-6 FINAL)

 

2 dead in fight over Ala.-LSU football game
Updated 11/10/2008 11:30 AM | Comment | Recommend Share on emailE-mail | Share EVERGREEN, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say an argument over Saturday's Alabama-LSU football game led to the shooting deaths of a couple at a home in southern Alabama.
Prosecutors identified the victims as Dennis and Donna Smith of Brewton. The shooting happened about 7 p.m. Saturday at the home of Michael Williams in the rural community of Owassa.
Williams was arrested and charged with two counts of murder.

Investigators told the Press-Register newspaper in Mobile that Dennis Smith, an LSU fan, called Williams, an Alabama fan, after Alabama's 27-21 overtime win and an argument ensued.
The Smiths went to Williams home. Investigators said Smith had a pistol and Williams had a shotgun and fired. Donna Smith was a relative of Williams' girlfriend.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-11-10-football-shooting_N.htm

 

I had actually just stated how well-informed and logical and coherent your football based opinions were a day or two ago. That is clearly not the case when discussing anything other than a sheer, unwavering worship of Bama. It's obvious that neither you nor I can have an honest, un-bias discussion in the Bama-LSU scheduling-equality debate. I will, therefore, no longer continue this pointless charade. Unless you Tiger fans just like to argue, I would do the same.

 

And then?