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MikeDeTiger

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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #518 on: May 21, 2025, 12:53:03 PM »
I do.  I was listening to the radio-cast on an internet audio feed because a TV was unavailable. 
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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #519 on: May 25, 2025, 12:30:50 PM »
Texas suffers blow as 16 SEC schools ranked academically in new report | Irish Star

A rather odd headline as Texas tied for second place behind a football school that has had their number.
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« Reply #520 on: May 25, 2025, 09:18:10 PM »
I think about this a lot, how hard it is for a mid-tier SEC school like A&M or even somebody like Arkansas to finish in the top 25. And what I really mean is finish NOT in the top ten but from maybe 15-25, where you’re on that 7/8 win bubble.  

A&M last season is a good example. Started very strong, bumped into the top 10. Had a late season swoon vs Auburn and a talented SCar.  Lost to a very good Texas team who went into the 2nd round of the CFP. In the SEC I think you either win it all or 9/10 games or you finish unranked. There’s just not much room for slippage. 
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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #521 on: May 26, 2025, 12:45:36 PM »
To finish ranked, an SEC team almost needs to go 4-0 OOC as a base.  Probably only one of those four is contested.  Then you might catch a scheduling break with some weaker teams that year, and catch strong teams at home with a better shot at an upset.

If you "hold serve" against 4 lesser SEC teams and get one upset of a better team, 9-3 gets you ranked, even 8-4 gets you on the cusp, and then a bowl game win ...
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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #522 on: May 27, 2025, 09:42:16 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on May 25, 2025, 12:30:50 PM
Texas suffers blow as 16 SEC schools ranked academically in new report | Irish Star

A rather odd headline as Texas tied for second place behind a football school that has had their number.

These places are academic institutions?
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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #523 on: May 31, 2025, 12:29:08 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on May 26, 2025, 12:45:36 PM
To finish ranked, an SEC team almost needs to go 4-0 OOC as a base.  Probably only one of those four is contested.  Then you might catch a scheduling break with some weaker teams that year, and catch strong teams at home with a better shot at an upset.

If you "hold serve" against 4 lesser SEC teams and get one upset of a better team, 9-3 gets you ranked, even 8-4 gets you on the cusp, and then a bowl game win ...
When might we expect the SEC to get conference scheduling right, with repeatable, consistent, known-in-advance, not-subject-to-tweaking, and made up of 9 conference games, like every other major conference?
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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #524 on: June 02, 2025, 09:28:28 AM »
Unless I dreamed this, the SEC recently completed renegotiation with ESPiN to account for a 9th conference game.  Hopefully this frees the conference up to quickly begin one of the the 3-perma-rival models we've seen.  Whenever that new contract kicks in, that should be when the league goes to 9 conf games, however the schedule shakes out.  
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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #525 on: June 02, 2025, 09:53:04 AM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on June 02, 2025, 09:28:28 AM
Unless I dreamed this, the SEC recently completed renegotiation with ESPiN to account for a 9th conference game.  Hopefully this frees the conference up to quickly begin one of the the 3-perma-rival models we've seen.  Whenever that new contract kicks in, that should be when the league goes to 9 conf games, however the schedule shakes out. 
I'm not sure this is true.  Last I heard, ESPN had said it was willing to enter into negotiations on the contract if the SEC went to 9 games, but I have definitely not heard that it has happened and been concluded.
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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #526 on: June 02, 2025, 10:01:48 AM »
I'm probably mistaken, then.  Maybe just wishful thinking. 
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« Reply #527 on: June 02, 2025, 10:03:47 AM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on June 02, 2025, 10:01:48 AM
I'm probably mistaken, then.  Maybe just wishful thinking.
Well it's still possible that it has happened and been concluded, but I haven't heard that to be the case.  But I could certainly have missed it.
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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #528 on: June 02, 2025, 10:07:37 AM »
I don't even know where I thought I heard/saw that.  I don't keep up with much sports news.  Of the two of us, I'd trust your knowledge of the current situation way more than mine.  
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« Reply #529 on: June 02, 2025, 10:22:55 AM »
I do hope it happens.  9 conference games lends itself better to supporting at least two perma-rivals, which many legacy SEC teams have, and so does Texas.  
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« Reply #530 on: June 02, 2025, 10:25:19 AM »
I'm with Utee. I have not heard that the SEC has agreed to a 9-game conference schedule.

I'll be happy if/when I hear that it has.

A 9-game schedule can give you:

- 3 permanent "rivalry" games.

- Playing everybody else twice every 4 years.

- An end to tinkering with the schedule to favor this team and disfavor that one, which seems to have been the norm for the last 100 years.
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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #531 on: June 02, 2025, 11:11:18 AM »
Quote from: CWSooner on June 02, 2025, 10:25:19 AM
I'm with Utee. I have not heard that the SEC has agreed to a 9-game conference schedule.

I'll be happy if/when I hear that it has.

A 9-game schedule can give you:

- 3 permanent "rivalry" games.

- Playing everybody else twice every 4 years.

- An end to tinkering with the schedule to favor this team and disfavor that one, which seems to have been the norm for the last 100 years.

Amen, brutha!

How great would it be to get to have teams like Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, LSU, at your house, and then at theirs, for two games out of every four years?  And then also to get to play your rival(s) every year?
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