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SEC (It just means more.. even its losses are wins)

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BigWoof31 said:
Things are not all rosy in God's football conference :no::no:
https://www.si.com/college/2020/07/15/sec-2020-football-schedule-plans


  • “Barring a full, 12-game schedule, three models emerged as strong possibilities with league power brokers: an eight-game conference-only schedule and a nine or 10-game plan that would preserve at least one scheduled matchup with a Power 5 conference program.”
  • “The SEC has already lost two Power 5 games with the Pac-12’s decision to hold a conference-only season: Alabama-USC and Texas A&M-Colorado. The league is attempting to preserve its remaining 13 Power 5 conference games, including the aforementioned four Sept. 12 games and most notably the four traditional rivalries with the ACC: Georgia-Georgia Tech, Florida-Florida State, South Carolina-Clemson and Kentucky-Louisville. The other five games are Arkansas-Notre Dame, Georgia-Virginia, Ole Miss-Baylor, Missouri-BYU and Vanderbilt-Kansas State.”
  • “Despite rising case numbers nationwide, with many hotspots in the SEC’s 11-state footprint, the consensus among administrators is that their communities and athletes are strongly in favor of playing football this fall.”
  • “In a 10-game all-SEC slate, teams would keep their scheduled eight conference games while adding two more teams from the opposite division. In this scenario, an SEC team would play all but three of its conference members. One athletic director described this plan as laughable. Even a nine-game conference-only schedule is getting pushback from league administrators, the AD says.”
  • “Some SEC decision-makers question the logic of a conference-only schedule. A few conference games call for long, expensive trips – such as South Carolina-Texas A&M and Florida-Missouri – while several non-conference, non-Power 5 affairs are regionalized. Auburn has a game with Southern Miss, and Mississippi State hosts Alabama A&M. South Carolina has both East Carolina and Coastal Carolina on its schedule, and Texas A&M plays North Texas.”
  • “Meanwhile, many SEC leaders are vehemently against a spring season, describing it as a “last resort” and a “fallback measure” that poses a range of issues…

There is much to figure out before the season starts
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Gotta get those games against FCS schools just before the BIG game back on the schedule.
 
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While expected, the SEC has confirmed that it will not punish a student-athlete who opts out of fall sports due to CIOVID-19 safety concerns. The only caveat? They must remaining in good standing with their respective teams.

Below is the Southeastern Conference’s press release on the development:

Southeastern Conference student-athletes who elect to not participate in intercollegiate athletics during the fall 2020 academic semester because of health and/or safety concerns related to COVID-19 will continue to have their scholarships honored by their university and will remain in good standing with their team, the Conference announced Friday.

The action is the result of a unanimous vote of the SEC’s Presidents and Chancellors following a recommendation of the Conference’s Athletics Directors.

“SEC universities are committed to full support of its student-athletes, whether or not a student-athlete decides to participate in sports during these uncertain times,” said SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey. “SEC student-athletes have frequently expressed their desire to compete, but it is important for student-athletes and their families to know the financial support committed to them by their institutions will not be at risk because of health concerns presented by the current pandemic.”

The SEC will continue to monitor developments related to COVID-19 to determine at a later date if the policy should be extended to the Spring semester of 2021 or beyond.

The SEC is expected to make a decision on fall sports, including football, at the end of July.
 
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so the two additional conf opponents were announced today.

not too surprisingly, the top tier was handed bottom feeders.

LSU - gets Mizzou and @Vandy
Bama - gets Kentucky and @Mizzou

bottom feeders get slammed
Arky - Florida and UGA
Mizzou - Bama and LSU


Monday the full schedule will be released
 
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Nutriaitch said:
so the two additional conf opponents were announced today.

not too surprisingly, the top tier was handed bottom feeders.

LSU - gets Mizzou and @Vandy
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Nutriaitch said:
:slappy:

Poor Little piggies get to play;
LSU, Bama, Auburn, UGA, and Florida.

plus they’re fucking Arkansas, so the two Mississippi schools are gonna be a problem too. :rofl:
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The SEC has six teams in the top 13 of the coaches poll that was released this week. Arkansas is scheduled to play all six after the addition of Georgia and Florida to this year's football schedule.
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I'm just sorry Fat Bert isn't still their coach, a schedule like that couldn't happen to a nicer guy......:lol:
 
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Sources: SEC football coaches irked by added opponents

A conference call with SEC football coaches on Thursday became heated when the issue came up of how each team's two additional opponents were decided for this season, multiple sources confirmed to ESPN.

The SEC pivoted to a 10-game, conference-only schedule in July. The additional two cross-divisional opponents were announced last week without a thorough explanation from the league for how they were selected. Half of the league coaches expressed, either on the call or to ESPN privately, their frustration and/or anger over how the two additional games were chosen, with multiple coaches telling ESPN that the SEC was leaving itself open to the criticism of the whole process appearing "corrupt."

The conference call with coaches and SEC officials turned contentious after one coach asked for specifics on how the league selected the opponents, sources told ESPN. Unsatisfied with the response, sources said as many as four other coaches chimed in with their own concerns.

At one point, a coach claimed, "Favoritism was played." Another coach asked if the league would be willing to release the formula to the press, "because we're getting pounded with all these questions from the press about it and don't have any answers, and we were told, 'No, because there was no formula.'

"That's why so many coaches are pissed."

Said another coach: "There just wasn't a lot of clarity and transparency on how they arrived where they did on the two extra games, and that rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. ... The call got pretty wild. It would have been a good piece of reality TV."

Several coaches told ESPN that they were led to believe, at least initially, that they would simply play the rotating cross-divisional foes on their 2021 and 2022 schedules, but that the league decided against that option because some teams would potentially be playing against each other in back-to-back seasons.

"They told us they were trying to balance the totality of the schedule, but what was already on our schedules shouldn't have mattered. That was a given. That's got nothing to do with anything," a coach told ESPN. "Again, they weren't giving us a lot of answers, so this is what they get."

Yahoo Sports was the first to report Friday that the meeting turned contentious.

Defending national champion LSU, which faces Florida as its annual cross-divisional foe, added a home game against Missouri and a road game at Vanderbilt. Meanwhile, Alabama, which was already scheduled to play Georgia, picked up a home game against Kentucky and a road game at Missouri. Georgia, which already was playing Alabama and Auburn from the SEC West, will play Mississippi State at home and Arkansas on the road.

Entire article: https://www.espn.com/college-footba...es-sec-football-coaches-irked-added-opponents

Corrupt process, favoritism played, no formula, first year coaches hit the hardest, contentious meeting, irregularities, bottom feeder school's coaches pissed.....:lol:

SEC...SEC...SEC...SEC...SEC!!!
 
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Curious minds want to know how the ACC, SEC, and/or BIG XII plan to prevent a scenario like this: Suppose Trevor Lawrence sprains his right shoulder in the BC game and wouldn't be 100% the next week vs ND. What's to keep Dabo from turning in some fake player positive COVID-19 test results a couple days before the ND game, claim his whole team was exposed to those players, and ask to reschedule ND to a later date (i.e. like Dec 12) when Lawrence will be 100%?

Since Dabo is a honest and totally reputable coach I'm sure he would never even consider doing anything like that......:lol:
 
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ScriptOhio said:
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Curious minds want to know how the ACC, SEC, and/or BIG XII plan to prevent a scenario like this: Suppose Trevor Lawrence sprains his right shoulder in the BC game and wouldn't be 100% the next week vs ND. What's to keep Dabo from turning in some fake player positive COVID-19 test results a couple days before the ND game, claim his whole team was exposed to those players, and ask to reschedule ND to a later date (i.e. like Dec 12) when Lawrence will be 100%?

Since Dabo is a honest and totally reputable coach I'm sure he would never even consider doing anything like that......:lol:
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If god tells him it's ok, who are we to judge?
 
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