I agree, but the permanent opponent concept came out of Alabama's insistence that it keep its regular rivalry with Tennessee, and if they won't give it up, the conference won't make them.
Nobody. The SEC is already the envy of college football and plenty competitive. Let our competitors load up with top teams and beat themselves up against each other like the SEC has done for decades. The Big 10 was the Big 2/Little 8 most of that time. Let USC get Texas and Nebraska on its schedule every year. Let Ohio State play Michigan, Penn State, Notre Dame and Oklahoma every year. Let those conferences have to put their record on the line in a Conference Championship game and knock the other conference contenders out of the title race like the SEC does. The SEC is already highly competitive in a two-division, championship game conference. Adding teams will only split the profits into smaller shares and won't make our single champion a better BCS title contender. Adding Texas, Miami, Oklahoma, and Florida State to the already crowded SEC upper tier would only make championships come less often to the traditional SEC teams. The crybaby negatigers are already depressed because LSU isn't a national champion each and every year. They would be absolutely suicidal if LSU had to add Texas and TexasA&M or even Oklahoma to the SEC West lineup which is already a tough slate. We'd have to give up the Florida game to have any chance at being consistently competitive.
I never thought of it like that, very true, let them have a super conference and beat the hell out of each other like the SEC does every season. That would ensure no cakewalk undefeated Pac 10 team to the MNC.
I think its selfish for them to even think of allowing such a thing. It will affect far more than football. College sports as we know it will change. Either way, LSU will keep rolling!!! :LSU231:
Reminds me of our present Bye week situation. Besides if Texas, Tex aTm, and Okie arrive in the west, Bama is going to get pushed in the east with their favorite nemesis. Unfortunately, it's LSU that won't see Bama in BR every other year. Can you live with that?
With the advent of Nick Saban settling down in T-Town and Les reinventing the wheel, this is now the hottest rivalry in the conference. This thing is starting to feel like the old days. You know, The Bear, Cholly Mac? "Once a year in Atlanta?" You did hear Texas and Okie were coming?
I don't see how adding second tier teams like Houston, TCU, Louisville, Georgia Tech, etc.. can possibly benefit the SEC. The SEC already has it's Football non contributors like Vanderbilt, Kentucky and Mississippi State. That leaves nine and of those nine Ark., Tenn, Ole Miss, S. Carolina. make some noise every now and then, but usually don't. That leaves four. Georgia was pretty good a while back but have never really won anything. LSU has been down the last 2 years and without some creative officiating in the LSU game and a Marcel Darius helmet shot to Colt McCoy's throwing shoulder in the BCSNCG, Alabama might be muttering to themselves about things that might have been. The SEC is at high tide( I hesitate to use that word) right now but all it would take is for LSU to lose to North Carolina or Ole Miss to lose to Boise St. in the 2011 opener for the tide to start ebbing. If the SEC can't add teams like Texas (and it's tagalong) on the left and Fl. State or maybe North Carolina and Virginia Tech on the right then it should probably stand pat. My opinion
