🏈 This won't sit well with LSU fans; truth though—LSU gripes to SEC are flawed

[TerryP]

I'm sure they'll blame the messenger. Guibeau points to one, of the many, flaws in their argument. He doesn't touch on the what I think is the true cause of their complaints—falls down to a date in January of 2012. He does beat around the point in a fairly accurate way.

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Alleva and Miles have also both missed the big picture argument concerning SEC scheduling because they can't get off Alabama.
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Alleva and Miles for years have thrown out the statistic that LSU of the SEC West has played Florida and Georgia of the SEC East twice as much as Alabama of the SEC West has since 2000. This is true, but it is a ridiculously flawed argument as it is comparing apples to oranges.

Florida is LSU's permanent opponent from the East. Neither Florida nor Georgia is Alabama's permanent opponent from the East, so naturally LSU is going to have more games against those two than Alabama by simple math. Alabama's permanent opponent is Tennessee so Alabama has played Tennessee and Georgia as much as LSU has played Florida and Georgia. Yet Miles pointed out last week that only LSU and Auburn in the West play Florida and Georgia the same amount of times. Well yeah, because Georgia is Auburn's permanent opponent.

Do these guys not understand how the league schedule works? Criticize it sure, but at least get it. Alleva has Bama on the Brain so much he has apparently lost the ability to argue the scheduling topic logically.
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Guilbeau: LSU gripes to SEC are flawed

 

[crimsonpirate]

Listen up, LSU. That's Guilbeau talking. He's not an Alabama fan. I've read his stuff for 35 years as he covered LSU sports in Baton Rouge and the surrounding area. He could easily be considered a Tiger homer.

 

[jdpas29]

seaux whiney

 

[riz]

The SEC could stand to play nine or 10 league games a year as its own league has the usual breathers because of the natural order of things. Auburn, Kentucky, Arkansas, Missouri and Tennessee were a combined 5-35 in the SEC in 2012 with Kentucky and Auburn going 0-for-16. Last year, Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee went a combined 2-22 in the SEC with Arkansas and Kentucky going 0-for-16. With built-in bottom feeders like that often enough, you can't play nine or 10 league games?

This is where he gets it dead right. But noooo, give us Western Kentucky. Shout out to @TerryP.

 

[TerryP]

This is where he gets it dead right. But noooo, give us Western Kentucky. Shout out to @TerryP.

I've stated on more than one occasion I wanted to go to a nine game schedule. I'm in favor of the 6-2-1 format.

I'm also a realist in the point we need a few games like Western Kentucky—for a number of reasons. Dropping one of the three cupcakes for another conference game? Hell, yes! Do we need at least a couple of games like a WKU for rest, recuperation, playing time for 3's and 4's? H.E. double L, yes!

 

[riz]

Knew I'd drag you out with that one.

 

[TerryP]

Knew I'd drag you out with that one.

You tagged me, asswipe! :bird:

 

[riz]

You tagged me, asswipe! :bird:

I couldn't take any chances.