Baseball scheduling in expanded SEC

[Duke Humphrey]

There has been a good bit of speculation about how football scheduling will look once OU and Texas join the SEC, but very little talk about baseball schedule. I would assume divisions will be eliminated, but will you go to 4 permanent opponents and rotate the other 6 series. Interested in how they do this as equity will be much harder (though less people care) than football.

 

[NukeDogg]

I'd be ok with 4 permanents, as long as they are natural rivalries due to proximity or history. We keep OM, LSU, Ark, and maybe get Bama or Auburn as the permanent 4. Or add the other alabama school and go 5/5...I'd be ok with that. As much as I'd love to take a break from LSU or Arkansas I feel like if they go with any sort of permanent + rotational split, we'll end up keeping them as permanents.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

Five permanent opponents & five opponents that rotate yearly so schools will face every other SEC school over the course of two years.

Never mind. That's problematic when it comes to scheduling.

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Shouldn’t be an issue. Just replace Northern KY and Princeton with OU and Texas.**

 

[QuaoarsKing]

Go to 36 conference games over 12 weekends, and also play the other 3 in single game midweeks on Tuesdays in May to develop a 4th starter for the Regionals. That makes a total of 39 games.

 

[InTheIttaBenaHotSun]

36 SEC games over 12 weekends.....That would be THE Gauntlet.

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Everything will work out to four 16 team conferences in 5-10 years in all sports. We just need to make sure we are one of the 64 programs. That’s why we have to keep investing in football.

 

[patdog]

Maybe. Or it may work out to one 32-team super conference in football with the wild wild west world of transfer rules & NIL money.

 

[Duke Humphrey]

If that’s the route it goes, I expect some type of collective bargaining

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Maybe. Or it may work out to one 32-team super conference in football with the wild wild west world of transfer rules & NIL money.

If it were to go to 32. I don’t see both Ole Miss and MSU making the cut.

 

[engie]

Go to 36 conference games over 12 weekends, and also play the other 3 in single game midweeks on Tuesdays in May to develop a 4th starter for the Regionals. That makes a total of 39 games.

This is close to my ideal scenario. Or keep it 10 series with midweek home and home with the other 5 for a total of 40. Yea it’s a pain in the *** for team travel and fans, but the sec network gets an additional treasure trove of midweek conference baseball

 

[Smoked Toag]

Everything will work out to four 16 team conferences in 5-10 years in all sports. We just need to make sure we are one of the 64 programs. That’s why we have to keep investing in football.

That’s not happening anytime soon. And even if it does, we are already one of the 16 as we are currently in the SEC. Much more likely that one big football ‘league’ takes shape, with all the ‘haves’, rather than what you say.

But MOST likely is an expanded playoff, and everything stays nearly the same, with a little shuffling here and there.