some analysists are pointingout that SEC needs to break up their scheme of giving the 1st and 2nd place teams in the East and West a by in the 1st round of the conference tourney, and combine the standings and give the bye to the top 4 teams overall. Actually, when you think about it I guess that the way it should be really. But so much for our lock as pretty much having a bye every year now. I'm sure the SEC will cave and change it up.</p>
Looks like ESPN is on to us...
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while 6-2 Arkansas sat at home. This is really a non-issue. It's not like it's going to affect the #3 team from the East at all if a team from the West gets a bye with a worse record. Hell, it might even help them to get an extra easy win in the SEC tournament.
in basketball...just the last 4 years alone are something like 44-17 they said tonight...and basketball is different than football
and they are right- The SEC is the only BCS conference and only one of the top 8 or 9 conferences that divides itself...its time to stop it
and they are right- The SEC is the only BCS conference and only one of the top 8 or 9 conferences that divides itself...its time to stop it
It's not like the East #3 has a better record than the West #2 all that often either. And it's not like it really affects the East #3 at all anyway. Conference tournaments for the major conferences are pretty much irrevelant anyway unless a Georgia sneaks up and wins it. If the East #3 has a better record than the West #2 does, they've already got a bid, and they're not going to change their seeding much if at all no matter what they do in the conference tournament. It's a much bigger deal for Arkansas to be left out of the SEC football championship game. They could have won their first SEC title, and that's something no #3 basketball seed could ever do.</p>
We may be one and done anyway.
And should all the other teams come down with the flu, and by some miracle we win...
And get an automatic bid to the dance, we don't "Tango" very well.
q.e.d.
And should all the other teams come down with the flu, and by some miracle we win...
And get an automatic bid to the dance, we don't "Tango" very well.
q.e.d.
patdog said:
The division split and way you determine a champion makes more sense in football.
If you were going to dissolve football divisions, you would have to go with almost no permanent opponents other than maybe one or two traditional rivals and rotate the other 6 or 7 conference games every year. Then choose the top 2.
It really didn't matter this past year in football though. Auburn was winning the SEC whether they played Arkansas, LSU, Alabama, or South Carolina in the title game.
You didn't hear the West complaining back when the East used to be Kentucky and 5 no names. Most of the good teams used to be from the West up until the last few years. You had the Shaq and then Big Baby LSU teams. The Nolan Richardson Arkansas teams. The Wimp Sanderson/early Mark Gottfred Bama teams. The Provine Posse Ole Miss teams. Hell even Cliff Ellis had a couple of good AU teams. It isn't like Georgia and South Carolina have lit it up over the last 20 years.
To me if you have division play in one sport then you should have it in all sports.
To me if you have division play in one sport then you should have it in all sports.
To me if you have division play in one sport then you should have it in all sports.
The most egregious omission of divisional play is in baseball. Up unitl expansion in 1992 there were baseball divisions in the SEC which alloweed a home and home every year. As Cohen said last week and Bertman proved at LSU, you build your team around your park. Baseball should have divisions for a home and home series each year for all divisional opponents.
The most egregious omission of divisional play is in baseball. Up unitl expansion in 1992 there were baseball divisions in the SEC which alloweed a home and home every year. As Cohen said last week and Bertman proved at LSU, you build your team around your park. Baseball should have divisions for a home and home series each year for all divisional opponents.
