Rabalais: 5 reasons LSU should leave SEC

Youre real late to the party. TurdTimes showed his true unwin colors last Nov. ToiletP blew his wad relentlessly defending a headhunting thug in the SECCG. They use words like myopic and incredulous without understanding it destabilizes their own arguments because they are such ass-clowns.

 

Yeah twenty years ago the conference needed those rivalries as well as the new ones that were force fed on us (LSU/Florida, LSU/Arkansas). Now these games are only about tradition at the cost of parity in cross-division scheduling. I'm not complaining about having to face Florida every year while Bama is lapping up on Tennessee's current stay in the doldrums. We have all been there, I get the whole luck of the draw thing. However, it sure seems to be more than luck how the cross-divisional rotation was ceased due to expansion followed by a bridge season where the rotation is broken again, where Bama draws weak sisters as their nonpermanent game.

When the conference first went to the divisional format it was certain that if a player signed on to play at any school in the conference, they would have the opportunity to play against every other school at least once. It was also short enough of a time that non yearly rivalries didn't cool down too much, for both the fans and the teams. As it is now, with a home and away against a nonpermanent will happen only once a decade or so. I would be in favor of doing away with the permanent opponents all together, it just makes the time span between cross division matchups too long. Screw tradition all together, it isn't the selling point it once was and over 28% of the conference wasn't here when it did. If Bama, Tennessee, UGA and the Barn want to hang on to tradition put them all in the same division. Hell Auburn should have been an eastern team to begin with. You do know that Auburn has played LSU and Ole Miss more since the first expansion than all the years prior going back to before conference play? They even still have more games played against old Southern Conference foe Clemson, than every team in the west other than Bama and Mississippi State. Move Mizzou and Vandy west while sending Bama and Auburn over to play with their traditional foes, have two or three non permanent cross divisional games every year and all will be right with the world. Oh, I do realize that the balance of power would definitely lean to the east, but that is only a cycle that is certain to change in time or at least that's the way Gump logic sees it.

 

"You do know that Auburn has played LSU and Ole Miss more since the first expansion than all the years prior going back to before conference play?"

True in the case of Ole Miss, not LSU.

Like mentioned earlier, with the growth of the conference and collegiate football as a whole losing the permanent opponent component of the scheduling seems inevitable. I have no problems with that. I briefly mentioned even if UT wasn't schedule as a permanent opponent there's no reason they couldn't be scheduled every year. We'd have to step back a few decades, but there are seasons in the past where Alabama played UT and UT wasn't a part of the conference schedule that year. I see no reason why it couldn't happen again.

Traditional games: I'd guess the closest thing to compare with LSU would be Ole Miss if we try to draw an analogy between the Bama vs UT game. I say that based on the number of games played. If I recall correctly, LSU has played Ole Miss three or four times more than Bama has faced UT.

I suspect if there was as much at stake playing Ole Miss as there has been against UT over the years you'd view traditional rivalries differently.

Make no mistake about this. I would MUCH rather have had UGA on our schedule this year than Mizzou. Any given chance to beat UGA ranks very high in my desire for games scheduled!

On a bit of a separate note, but related...

It's my understanding they worked on preliminary options for adding two more teams when the group worked on the 2012/2013 schedules. Hopefully it'll run smoother for all concerned next time around. But, logic dictates, some will still be upset about how it falls together.

 

Hah! Flashback.

I was using the University's ISP in '92 for surfing around—as limited as it was then. I had one of the IT guys as a next door neighbor who gave me a floppy disk with programming to allow me to surf from home after dialing into the University's system. Damn...was that on a 286?

BUT, I did have an account with America Online at that point as well if I'm not mistaken. That was back when it was billed per hour used. In fact, I still use the same email address I picked up with American Online back then.

Geez...memories of this in its infancy.

 

Good article but no thanks, makes winning the SEC that much more sweet knowing you won when the chips are obviously stacked against you.

 

It wouldn't lean to the east, it would BE the east. What, Mizzou doesn't scare you? Bama's success right now, is making many a prisoner of the moment. A lot of things can happen in this world, but the Flagship university in the SEC, going east, ain't one of them.

 

Realize this: LSU does not need the SEC. Why? We are earning more in petroleum product than the state of Texas at this time. Alabama's fiscal output is a unit of wee-wee in comparison. Get rid of the morons. Happy New Year

 

Bama, huh, without football...what is it good for, absolutely nothing say it again!!!

 

You dont use Bama math do you?