Dear Mike Slive

[615dawg]

The SEC needs CONCRETE rules for the bowl selection so this crap simply cannot happen. Screw this crap. Big 10 doesn't care that all of their teams end up in Florida, Texas or New York

May I suggest:

1. The winner of the SEC Championship Game receives the automatic bid to the BCS. <span style="font-weight: bold;">(Auburn)</span>
2. If an SEC member qualifies for an at-large bid, then they receive that bid. <span style="font-weight: bold;">(Arkansas 6-2)</span> If not, see No. 3.
3. The second best SEC record, period, goes to the Capital One Bowl. If multiple teams are tied, then use the SEC tiebreaker scenario. <span style="font-weight: bold;">(LSU 6-2)</span>
4. The next best SEC records go to the Cotton and Outback. <span style="font-weight: bold;">(Alabama, South Carolina 5-3)</span> South Carolina beat Alabama, so they get to pick.
5. The next best SEC record goes to the Peach. (<span style="font-weight: bold;">MSU</span> 4-4 beat Florida)
6. Next to the Gator (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Florida 4-4</span>)
7. Next best SEC records go to the Music City and Liberty (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Georgia, Tennessee 3-5</span>) Georgia beat Tennessee so they get to pick.
8. Next best SEC record goes to Compass (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Kentucky 2-6</span>)

Mike, its good enough to determine who goes to your championship game, your seeds in the basketball and baseball tournaments, it should be good enough to determine bowl order. The above is completely fair. Tennessee started 2-6, they should be elated to go play UCF in Memphis.

 

[Todd4State]

This is how it's SUPPOSED to be.

And you know what, in pretty much all of those bowls, they would be good draws for those bowls.

 

[Baron Von Raschke]

other SEC teams jockey for position on which bowl they want to go to, and we are left with waht's left.

Ta da. Done and done.

It's a lot like recruiting, hence why de fuhrer( slive) hates us over the Cam deal. The big boys are supposed to jockey for the top players, and we are supposed to shut up and take what's left, like the bowls.

See, come on. Wake up people.

 

[KurtRambis4]

exactly why there ISN"T a concrete set of rules. So mikey can make **** up as he goes.

 

[snoopdog]

All Sports: Alabama, LSU, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee
Basketball: Kentucky
Whatever team has a chance at National Championship in that sport in that year: i.e. Auburn 2010

A gnat in his eye: Vandy, Ole Miss, MSU, South Carolina (sometimes), Arkansas (sometimes)</p>

 

[Reb95]

This is exactly on the money. I believe part of how the SEC got all of the bowl tie-ins is that the bowls have an open choice of any bowl qualified SEC team. Filling their stadium and drawing a large TV audience is what the bowls are interested in. And until Ole Miss and State triple their fanbase and fill up a 100,000 seat stadium both will be sucking hind tit to the bigger schools. The way most of the league sees it, both Mississippi schools are lucky as hell to be in the SEC.</p>

 

[HippyDawg]

The bowls are not some meritocracy. They are about making money selling entertainment. The entertainment happens to be football. Our worth as a fanbase, and thus the team, is low since Mississippi is so small and poor. No tradition so not many casual fans outside of the state, etc. The same factors, demographics really, are what has sunk USM and may ultimately do the same to MSU and Ole Miss.

 

[Topgundawg]

on these bowls a little. I'm all for great match ups, making money, etc., but just letting these larger schools run over our *** because were one of the smaller ones in the SEC can't continue. Hopefully all this BS will work out and all this crap on the boards is just that. After the *** kicking SC took last night I'm not sure a bowl would want to jump on their band wagon. I wonder how many folks were watching that **** in the 4th quarter..... The hogs trashed them a few weeks back at their stadium. If it was not for their upset they wouldn't even be in the hunt....

 

[bulliegolfer]

This is exactly on the money. I believe part of how the SEC got all of the bowl tie-ins is that the bowls have an open choice of any bowl qualified SEC team. Filling their stadium and drawing a large TV audience is what the bowls are interested in. And until Ole Miss and State triple their fanbase and fill up a 100,000 seat stadium both will be sucking hind tit to the bigger schools. The way most of the league sees it, both Mississippi schools are lucky as hell to be in the SEC.</p>

And the fact schools like MSU rarely contribute much to the bowl season so the SEC office will cut schools like GA, TN and FL some slack on their down years. Those schools consistently bring in a lot of revenue to the league so they get cut better deals in years like this one. Not only do we need the 100k seat stadium and fan base, we have to win on a consistent basis. We will always be paddling upstream.