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February 27, 2009

It must be the off season

It's the down time between Signing Day and Spring Practice that actually frustrates me the most.  Sure, the time between G-Day and Game 1 is longer, but it's full of mini-milestones like:
  • May - Athlons, Lindys, etc come out.  Spring Bulldog Road Show rumors
  • June - Deadest month, but it's closer to kickoff than now.
  • July - Summer Bulldog Road Show rumors. SEC Media Days.
  • August - Freshmen Report. Fall camp.
It's this time of year that creates blog discussions around conference realignment, different playoff scenarios and player swap articles.  I'm not complaining. I'm just saying.  Tis the season.

With that in mind, Track 'em Tigers and DawgSports.com have a genuinely interesting discussion going.  They are basically asking, should Auburn and UT swap SEC Divisions? As a UGA fan, I'd prefer that structure.

When you look at it as laid out by those two sites it makes sense for the fans of every SEC school with the exception of Kentucky.  Big Blue fans value the yearly series with Kentucky....despite the results.

Give it a read.  What do you think?

PWD

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think a swap between UT and Aub would be great...except no more Kiffykins every year..not that he'll be there that long.


BTW, "Big Blue fans value the yearly series with Kentucky.." think you meant UT.

Anonymous said...

If you're looking for topics to write about, how about a perspective piece on the Stafford years at UGA. Maybe even a big-picture piece on the Richt years.

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Anonymous said...

Tennessee has a lot of Eastern Division rivals, and you'd have to choose just one to be its permanent opponent. (Auburn would obviously be matched against Alabama.)

The easiest, as far as not disrupting any of the others, would be Georgia, which would have lost its permanent West opponent. So you'd have Alabama-Auburn and Georgia-Tennessee as annual interdivisional games and the other four would stay the same.

But then you'd lose Tennessee-Florida, Tennessee-Vandy and Tennessee-Kentucky, replacing them, effectively, with Auburn-Florida (good), Auburn-Vandy (not so good) and Auburn-Kentucky (also not so good).

If you pick Tennessee-Florida, then you're left with Georgia-LSU. Not a bad game, but not a long-standing rivalry, either. And if you pick either Vandy or Kentucky, then Georgia's stuck with a Mississippi school as a permanent opponent. Thanks, but no.

So if I'm Vandy or Kentucky, I'm getting screwed in this deal, even if they both get the crap kicked out of them every year. Vandy, in particular, misses out on a guaranteed sellout every other year, even if it does mean that half the stadium is orange.

Anonymous said...

Let me go on record as saying anything that gives us an annual UGA-LSU game is not good. The randomness of this "rivalry" is what makes it work

Hobnail_Boot said...
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Hobnail_Boot said...

All I care about is how it would affect UGA's SEC schedule. 2 scenarios:

1) The 1-Permanent SECW Opponent Model:
Auburn
Florida
Kentucky
South Carolina
Vanderbilt
Ole Miss (permanent)
(2 of) LSU, MSU, UT, Arky, Bama

2) The 2-Permanent SECW Opponents Model:
Auburn
Florida
Kentucky
South Carolina
Vanderbilt
Ole Miss (permanent)
UT/MSU (permanent - UT's would be Vandy and either UGA or UF)
(1 of) LSU, MSU/UT, Arky, Bama
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#1 would be slightly easier than what we have now. You swap Ole Miss for UT every year.

#2 is either/or.. our schedule would be much easier with MSU permanent and much tougher with UT permanent.

Anonymous said...

Georgia being stuck with a permanent Mississippi opponent makes historical sense. We played Ole Miss every year from 1966 to 2002 until the SEC went to only a single permanent West opponent.

I love going to Baton Rouge and LSU is always a fun game, but we obviously don't need them permanently on our schedule. Ole Miss would provide a nice breather in most years.

Anonymous said...

Paul!!!! Why no coverage of the men's 4x400 relay from a few weekends back. I think the article is still on the AJC website, but it linked to a Youtube video of the race. UGA has the fastest 4x400 in THE WORLD right now, and our 18-year old anchor leg ran down Florida's Olympian. Ran him down... then dropped him like a bad habit. Good times.

Anonymous said...

How about just adding another conference game?

 
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