🏈 NYT is reporting Mizzou to SEC is immenent. It brings the question of alignments up...and why hasn'

[bama29fan]

PS - I am still opposed to adding Missouri to begin with. The whole TV market argument is wayyyyyyy overdone. The SEC is about football brands. TAMU is a good brand. Mizzou is not.

I agree...Mizz just doesnt make sense to most Fans....it's all about TV money which in my mind will take away from the overall quality of the product or the "Brand" as you call it.

 

[Argo]

Just curious, if you're not in favor of the North/South thing, what do you want to see?

What I'm in favor of is not taking Missouri and picking up a team that would fit in the east. Since that's obviously not going to happen, I'd like to move Auburn to the east and change the format to having 2 steady cross division teams and rotate 1 team. Of course, have to move the Iron Bowl up a few weeks, but it would make it that much more exciting to face them in the SEC championship game.

 

[RollTideinGA]

You do realize Mizzou or Texas A&M could be placed in the East. Look at Vanderbilt, it is farther West than Auburn. It isnt unthinkable that a team way out West be added to the East lineup. I think it is gonna suck for Mizzou traveling East and for teams traveling there.

 

[Argo]

You do realize Mizzou or Texas A&M could be placed in the East. Look at Vanderbilt, it is farther West than Auburn. It isnt unthinkable that a team way out West be added to the East lineup. I think it is gonna suck for Mizzou traveling East and for teams traveling there.

It's not going to happen. Yeah, Vanderbilt is farther west than Auburn, but they are centralized. The SEC commisioners are not going to agree to have the eastern teams or Missouri/A&M traveling that far on a regular basis.

University of Missouri to...

Florida -- 1008 miles
South Carolina -- 871 miles
Georgia -- 735 miles
Tennessee -- 609 miles
Kentucky -- 458 miles
Vanderbilt -- 432 miles

Texas A&M to
South Carolina -- 1035 miles
Florida -- 923 miles
Georgia -- 896 miles
Tennessee -- 936 miles
Kentucky -- 983 miles
Vanderbilt --744 miles

Granted, they are both going to travel more than other teams, but no athletic director is going to agree to have teams travel that far on a regular basis. We aren't just talking football. In ALL sports, it's not going to happen.

 

[psychojoe]

The division designations don't matter so much for football, at least as far as the players are concerned, since they fly to virtually all their games. Other sports do raise a concern, especially the non revenue ones. How does USCe transport its softball team to College Station? What about Missouri competing in gymnastics at Florida?

 

[Bo]

What I'm in favor of is not taking Missouri and picking up a team that would fit in the east. Since that's obviously not going to happen, I'd like to move Auburn to the east and change the format to having 2 steady cross division teams and rotate 1 team. Of course, have to move the Iron Bowl up a few weeks, but it would make it that much more exciting to face them in the SEC championship game.

The only problem I have with the Aubs moving to the east (if we can keep both them and UT as permanant rivals) is not playing them the last game of the regular season. Maybe it's just me, but playing that game earlier would devalue it some.

 

[RollTideinGA]

I just thought of this. What if the SEC changes to North/ South Divisions much like other conferences?

 

[planomateo]

If we change it up, I hope we don't change names to something stupid like the Big Ten.

 

[Bo]

If we change it up, I hope we don't change names to something stupid like the Big Ten.

I really don't see that happening.

 

[shipley00]

Ok, I know that a north/south setup makes more sense geographically, but not competition wise. In the last 20 years, 7 teams from what would be the SEC south have won NCs. 1 from the "North" has, and that was a '98 UT team that ended up winning a close game against a 3rd string QB from FSU.