Should conferences get rid of divisions?

[crosscreekcooter]

That was a high caliper post.

Caliper is a basketball coach.

 

[lagator]

Tradition? Lol, the conference changes regularly. The tradition is UGA, UT, and LSU. Seeing Mizzou in the SECCG the last two years didn't exactly conjure up images of tradition. Heck, the SEC has been one of the biggest innovators and tradition buckers in the NCAA. Double Heck the very invention of the conference title game is proof of that.

There is nothing particularly traditional about playing LSU. They were artificially made our permanent rival when our real rival, Auburn was taken off the schedule as I recall. With 9 games and a full rotation you would get every team from the west about every other year. If you think you need to play a team from the west more than every other year, meet them in the championship game. Beside it being more fair (no one gets to play Vandy every year and call it their big Rival from the east) it makes it a real single conference where everybody plays everybody else.

It would in no way decrease the intensity of the current rivalries anymore than a playoff would ruin college football's regular season. It just another dumb concept that gets legs if enough people repeat it.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Exactly. LSU isn't traditional.

 

[NVGator]

That was a high caliper post.

I see what you did there.

 

[URGatorBait]

BTW URG is my favorite mod.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Yeah, Mizzo is not needed or a good fit IMO.

He said 10 not 12. So he's saying USC and the Gravybacks shouldn't be in either (both of whom have made the SECCG).

 

[Gatorphan]

Keep the divisions but go to 9 conf games and kill the cross-divisional rival. It's stupid that you can have classes coming in year after year who will never play a team that is supposedly in their own conference. Playing a team every 6 years simply doesn't jive with considering you both in the same conference.

This!

 

[Jbossgator8]

Heck no! I love the divisions and rivalries it promotes.

 

[ufgator812]

Why have them? Seems like all too often the best two teams in a conference are in the same division. Why not designate a few rivals that you play every year and rotate all the other teams in the conference? Top 2 teams go to the big game.

Discuss.

 

[ufgator812]

What's a thtead?

In all fairness, he was close. He's missed by a wider margin before.