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2014 SEC Discussion and Division Races

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What's the punishment for not scheduling a "big" game? They can only oversign by 10? 8?
This is a step in the right direction, though, and I'd like to see all conferences do this. I'd also like to see fewer or no games versus FCS teams, but that's telling the FCS schools that their $500,000 pay days are done. I'd imagine that those schools have come to rely on that money.

Back on topic, I think that teams should be able to schedule these home/away series with OOC big teams to match up with their 5 home, 4 away and 4 home, 5 away conference schedules, so that those 10 games will always make a 5 home, 5 away season. Then they can add 2 puffball teams to make 7 home, 5 away games. Just my 1-1/2 cents.
 
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NoLa Times Piccayune sports columnist shares the flavor of Baton Rouge and how the Tigahs aren't too happy about the recent SEC decision that mandates a 6-1-1 schedule instead of a 6-0-2 schedule.
http://www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/2014/04/the_secs_decision_on_schedulin.html

FWIW - none of the comments/fan base are upset about having to play Florida on an annual basis. They just think it's crap that UT is Alabama's permanent rival.
 
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The SEC released future schedules for the next 10 years and the buzz from fans around the league is that they generally hate it.
Georgia will host Alabama next year and then won't see them again until 2020. Texas A&M has been in the league for three years now and UGA won't have their first game against then until 2019!

Poor Missouri! Beginning in 2016 they have back to back to back cross divisional games with LSU, Auburn and Alabama.
 
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LSU AD promises bad seats for 'Bama fans

On the final stop of a publicity tour, LSU athletic director Joe Alleva talked about how excited he was to see the expansion of Tiger Stadium, which will mean six-digit attendance figures. And he plans to use those new upper-deck seats for when a certain team comes to Baton Rouge. "When Alabama comes, (their fans) will be at the top of the new stadium seats," he said. "They're going to need telescopes to see the game."

Entire article: http://www.theadvertiser.com/story/...expansion-sec-network-lsu-tiger-tour/9363801/

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LSU AD promises bad seats for 'Bama fans

On the final stop of a publicity tour, LSU athletic director Joe Alleva talked about how excited he was to see the expansion of Tiger Stadium, which will mean six-digit attendance figures. And he plans to use those new upper-deck seats for when a certain team comes to Baton Rouge. "When Alabama comes, (their fans) will be at the top of the new stadium seats," he said. "They're going to need telescopes to see the game."

Entire article: http://www.theadvertiser.com/story/...expansion-sec-network-lsu-tiger-tour/9363801/

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He underestimates the number of Bama fans willing to take out a third mortgage on their trailer to get good seats.
 
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RULE CHANGE BITCHES!
It's Spring Meetings weekend for the SEC Conference and the hot topic on the table is the creation of an early signing day. Yesterday the coaches voted 14-0 to make such a day take place the day after Thanksgiving every year. This mirrors the vote that was taken and adopted by the ACC last week.
It should be noted that these rules would go into place ONLY if the NCAA created an early signing day. This is contingency planning if there is a national rule change.

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/...in-sec-on-early-signing-period/?sportscollege
http://espn.go.com/blog/sec/post/_/id/83570/the-sec-has-early-signing-period-plan


Qualifying points:

1. A recruit must have only taken one official visit to a school in order to qualify for early signing.
2. There is one day/year for early commitments - the day after thanks giving.


Those fer it say:
"I think it's a great idea," LSU coach Les Miles told reporters in Destin, Fla. "It's all based on trying to serve the student-athlete. If he's grown up, wants to go to LSU or Missouri or wherever, his father and mother have gone to school there and he's been unofficially on your campus a bunch of times, then let's give him an opportunity to sign early.
"Let's not change the recruiting calendar, and let's not create a bunch of difficulty based on that. We're really only trying to serve those young men who want to come to your school."

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The Conference Commissioners Association is scheduled to meet next month.
"A lot of kids know where they want to go and don't want to go through the process of wasting all those trips," Ole Miss athletic director Ross Bjork told reporters Wednesday. "I like that component of the discussion."

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To Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen, it clearly makes sense for the league.

“It’s one that keeps our calendar pretty consistent. It allows the guys that have been committed to their school to sign with that school,” Mullen said. “It also protects the student-athlete as best as possible.”





Those who hate it:

Among the SEC coaches most adamant against an early signing period are South Carolina's Steve Spurrier and Georgia's Mark Richt.

"I like what we are doing now," Spurrier told reporters. "They don't have an NFL draft before a guy's third year. I think we should let them play through high school, but some schools like the early signing period. Some would sign guys after their sophomore year."

Richt fears that coaches could not work as much with their team throughout the course of a season because of the chaos recruiting could cause.

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SEC commissioner Mike Slive said in a news conference Tuesday that the league on two occasions has opposed an early signing period, adding that the league was vocal in its opposition. Slive said Wednesday that the SEC overall still does not want one but that there would be a plan if the national rule changes.
 
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I don't even have words.

Auburn could claim more national titles before start of 2014 season
DESTIN, Florida -- Auburn could stake claim to several more national titles as early as this fall.

In a debate that has raged since January, the school could decide whether to claim national titles in 1910, 1913, 1914, 1983, 1993 and 2004 in the next several weeks, athletics director Jay Jacobs told AL.com on Thursday.

A committee is scheduled to meet in June to discuss the potential of recognizing more than the two titles it already claims for the undefeated seasons in 1957 and 2010. The committee is headed by chief marketing officer Ward Swift and has already sought feedback from former players, coaches and fans.
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