Missouri officially accepted as 14th member of Southeastern Conference
Missouri has officially been accepted as a member of the Southeastern Conference. Along with new member Texas A&M, that means the SEC will compete as a 14-team conference starting next season.
Following is the official announcement sent out by the SEC Sunday morning:
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (November 6, 2011) – The Southeastern Conference Presidents and Chancellors, acting unanimously, announced today that the University of Missouri will join the Southeastern Conference effective July 1, 2012, with competition to begin in all sports for the 2012-13 academic year.
The addition of Missouri will increase SEC membership to 14 institutions. The additions of Texas A&M, announced on September 25, 2011, and Missouri, are the first expansions for the SEC since September of 1991 when the University of South Carolina joined the league. The University of Arkansas joined the SEC in August of 1991. With the addition of Arkansas and South Carolina, the SEC was the first conference to split into divisions and add a conference championship game in 1992.
“The Presidents and Chancellors of the Southeastern Conference are pleased to welcome the University of Missouri to the SEC,” said Dr. Bernie Machen, President of the SEC Presidents and Chancellors and president of the University of Florida. “The University of Missouri is a prestigious academic institution with a strong athletic tradition and a culture similar to our current institutions.”
“The Southeastern Conference is a highly successful, stable, premier athletic conference that offers exciting opportunities for the University of Missouri,” said Chancellor Brady J. Deaton. “In joining the SEC, MU partners with universities distinguished for their academic programs and their emphasis on student success. The SEC will provide our student-athletes with top flight competition and unparalleled visibility. We came to this decision after careful consideration of the long term best interests of our university. We believe the Southeastern Conference is an outstanding home for the Mizzou Tigers, and we take great pride in our association with this distinguished league.”
Missouri, located in Columbia, will also be the fourth institution in the Southeastern Conference to hold membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities, joining University of Florida, Texas A&M University and Vanderbilt University. Missouri has an enrollment of 33,800 students, which would be the fourth largest institution in the SEC, with Florida, Georgia and Texas A&M having a larger student body. There are more than 260,000 “Mizzou” alumni around the world. The State of Missouri borders three SEC states: Tennessee, Kentucky and Arkansas, and they bring an existing rivalry with former conference foe Texas A&M.
Missouri athletic teams have excelled recently. Its men’s basketball team has made it to the NCAA Tournament three straight seasons and 24 times overall. The Tiger football team has been to post-season bowl games for six straight years and 28 times overall. The softball team has participated in the College World Series each of the last three seasons. The Tigers have won Big 12 Championships in men’s basketball, soccer and softball.
“I am pleased to officially welcome the University of Missouri to the SEC family on behalf of our presidents, chancellors, athletics directors, students and fans,” said SEC Commissioner Mike Slive. “Missouri is an outstanding academic institution with a strong athletic program. We look forward to having the Tigers compete in our league starting in 2012.”
The Tigers sponsor 20 varsity sports. Men’s sports include baseball, basketball, football, golf, swimming and diving, wrestling, indoor and outdoor track and field and cross country. Women’s sports include basketball, golf, gymnastics, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and field and cross country and volleyball. Missouri participates in every sport sponsored by the SEC except men’s tennis and the SEC sponsors every sport the Tigers participate in except wrestling.
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Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
2:08 pm
yes
John, Ducktown
November 6th, 2011
2:09 pm
First. Yippee!
Bryan G.
November 6th, 2011
2:11 pm
Yay…we fixed something that wasn’t broken by adding two sort of okay football schools
UGA Alumnus
November 6th, 2011
2:13 pm
I didn’t know Missouri was in the South East… interesting.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
2:14 pm
The University of Missouri Chancellor Brady J. Deaton said “In joining the SEC, MU partners with universities distinguished for their academic programs and their emphasis on student success.
SEC? the Seldom Educated Conference has academics?
We all suspect that big-time student athletes sometimes aren’t the best and the brightest academically.
Some highlights:
Football players average 220 points lower on the SAT than their classmates. Men’s basketball was 227 points lower.
University of Florida won the prize for biggest gap between football players and the student body, with players scoring 346 points lower than their peers.
Georgia Tech had the nation’s best average SAT score for football players, 1028 of a possible 1600, and best average high school GPA, 3.39 of a possible 4.0. But because its student body is apparently very smart, Tech’s football players still scored 315 SAT points lower than their classmates.
dawggirl
November 6th, 2011
2:15 pm
More Tigers?
Mirna from smyrna
November 6th, 2011
2:15 pm
What time slot do you think the Auburn game will be?
3:30’s my pick…
David
November 6th, 2011
2:15 pm
The SEC added two big TV markets in Texas and Missouri. They also improved their basketball standing. Now if Notre Dame would just join a conference then all the major conference will have 16 teams.
Glock 45
November 6th, 2011
2:15 pm
John, Ducktown
November 6th, 2011
2:09 pm
First. Yippee!
Grow up D-BAG. How pathetic.
David
November 6th, 2011
2:16 pm
@dawggirl Good point, the SEC has two tigers and two bulldogs now.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
2:17 pm
So is Auburn moving to the EAST? Will that mean UGA will have to play Bama more often?
UGA better get that SEC Championship soon. The DROUGHT between SEC Championships will be longer than the Drought between UGA MNC’s. LOL I said between MNC’s and that would imply more than 1 MNC. My mistake.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
2:21 pm
3 TIGERS Mizzu, Auburn, and LSU
Notre Dame is really looking at the ACC in all sports. The Big East has lost all appeal in football for ND. If ND wanted the Big 10 they would have done that already.
David
November 6th, 2011
2:22 pm
Texas A&M is in the west, and Missouri is in the east. Alabama would not allow Missouri in the conference if Auburn went to the east.
dawgfan
November 6th, 2011
2:26 pm
Missouri will move to the East to keep the cross-divisional rivalries intact. That way we will still have Bama/Tennessee, UGA/Auburn, LSU/Florida as great constant cross division games. I guess they figure Missouri isn’t “southeast” anyways, so moving them to the Eastern Division wouldn’t hurt
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
2:28 pm
WHY? bama would still have them every year and the VOLS to. Bama afraid they would have to maybe face Auburn 2 weeks later in the Dome for the SEC CG?
The Travel makes no sense for Mizzou to be in the East.
dawgfan
November 6th, 2011
2:31 pm
Still@theKool-aidBAR you’re clearly a tech fan because you don’t get it. If Auburn became Alabama’s cross divisional opponent (each team has one permanent) then Bama/Tennessee would not happen every year. They don’t want that to happen. Plus when that happens, who would become Tennessee’s permanent rival? What about UGA? Logistically (for scheduling purposes) it makes since for Missouri to go to the East and have Texas A&M be their permanent cross-division rival.
weaseal
November 6th, 2011
2:35 pm
We now will have the TV market in Teaxs, & Kansas City still not sure why no N. Carolina but we rule the South -Go SEC !!!!
Jerry
November 6th, 2011
2:36 pm
No analysis already written? I mean, we knew this was coming weeks ago…
ATLER (Ramblin Wreck)
November 6th, 2011
2:41 pm
ugag doesn’t want to play LSU or Bama, so their fine the way the schedule is now. ugag’s happy to have weak a$$ Mizzo in the East.
GTBob
November 6th, 2011
2:42 pm
Missouri probably wants the SEC east. They would have won that division easily this year.
dawgfan
November 6th, 2011
2:46 pm
Is there anything more painfully dumb in all of the world than a Georgia Tech fan? They constantly boast about how brilliant they are but can’t even understand how SEC scheduling works. We had absolutely no control over who we played from the SEC West this year you braindead morons. Good grief you people are thick.
Unreal.
dawgfan
November 6th, 2011
2:46 pm
I love these Tech fans talkin trash. You lost to Virginia and Miami (both horrible teams) and only beaten UGA once in the last decade. Good job maggots
Alan Allen
November 6th, 2011
2:46 pm
Missouri borders 3 SEC states: Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee. That’s good enough for me for geographical consistency. Better than Colorado in the Pac 12, West Virginia in the Big 12 and Louisiana Tech in the WAC
David Granger
November 6th, 2011
2:46 pm
Would’ve like to have had a school that’s a little more “southeastern”…maybe UNC or Maryland. But Missouri’s a fine school. Gives us another good basketball team in the conference, and along with Georgia, the SEC now has two of the finest journalism schools in the country.
Travel’s going to be real expensive, especially in the non-revenue sports.
ARdawg
November 6th, 2011
2:46 pm
Mirna
It is official 3:30 PM on CBS
Alan Allen
November 6th, 2011
2:46 pm
SEC still should have added East Carolina to give us the Raleigh and Charlotte, NC TV markets
dawgfan
November 6th, 2011
2:47 pm
I don’t know GTBob. UGA hasn’t won the East since 2005 but they are 4-1 vs. the Joke By Coke since then. The SEC East can’t be that bad can it?
LOL @ Tech fans.
Ap
November 6th, 2011
2:48 pm
Will Mizzou replace Alabama on UGA’s schedule next year? UGA could be one of Mizzou’s first SEC home games. With 14 teams, they have to go to a 6-1-1 rotation until they decide to play 9 conference games a year. UGA still has to finish its rotation with Ole Miss in Athens before another west team comes on the schedule, that will be Alabama. Will be interesting to see how all SEC team’s schedules change for the fall of 2012. Anyone have any insight to which way the SEC is leaning on scheduling?
ARdawg
November 6th, 2011
2:48 pm
GTBob
LOL, gee guy you can’t stand UGA’s success can you. It eats you and WE OWN YOU! Georgia should pay rent inside your head
flo-ri-duh
November 6th, 2011
2:48 pm
Anything for a buck. I have no interest in Texas A&M or Missouri as they are in the southwest and mid-west respectively. It would make since to bring in Georgia Tech and Florida State or Miami but I don’t think they want to be the doormat of the SEC.
7576DAWG
November 6th, 2011
2:48 pm
Everybody play’s a 12 team schedule now and I sure wish that the SEC would mandate that no fewer than 9 game has to be against SEC opponents now that we have a 14 team conference.
Joe Bob Thibodaux
November 6th, 2011
2:50 pm
I disagree with the decision to include Missouri in the SEC.
JBT
7576DAWG
November 6th, 2011
2:52 pm
I also wish the NCAA would change bowl eligibility requiring you to have 7 wins in a season.
Ap
November 6th, 2011
2:52 pm
I like it and by 2015 Clemson and FSU will join too, then you move Mizzou to the west and your done.
dannydawg
November 6th, 2011
2:53 pm
Still@theKool-aidBAR, good job making up your own statistics. “Georgia Tech had the nation’s best average SAT score for football players, 1028 of a possible 1600″
You forgot to mention that since 2005, the SAT has 2400 possible points. Moron. Enjoy your high school offense, you maggot lover.
SEC member
November 6th, 2011
2:54 pm
MIZZU heading to SEC East, The draft schedule 2012 indicates they will play UGA in in Athens October before Florida game,
7576DAWG
November 6th, 2011
2:54 pm
Joe Bob
The decision was 100% because of MONEY. New market means a lot more TV money going to the SEC.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
2:56 pm
With a New team in EACH division WHY couldn’t you have 2 cross divisional rivals? Just drop on of the Sisters of the Poor & Blind FCS teams as an OOC game. Don’t Vandy and Ole Miss qualify as one of those games already?
FL with LSU
UA with UT & AU
UGA would have to replace Auburn and Add one
It is not that hard. The SEC just doesn’t want to Try to make a true EAST & WEST.
ARdawg
November 6th, 2011
2:57 pm
Ap
It appears Mizzou will be added to the East. Scheduling will get complicated to protect the 2 alternating cross division games plus the rivalry. It’ll be interesting. I can only assume everyone loses a cupcake
Gordon
November 6th, 2011
2:57 pm
When Mike Slive said the SEC could get to 16 teams in 15 minutes, I doubt Missouri was on anybody’s mind. The ACC’s preemptive strike of going to 14 and raising the exit fee certainly complicated things for the SEC. I think the SEC was just fine with 12 teams. They are the premier football conference and didn’t need to go to 14 or 16 teams unless they could add someone like Texas or Oklahoma and get equal revenue sharing. All this does is slow the rotation of traditional SEC rivalies in opposite divisions, especially if they stay with 8 conference games. UGA will see teams like Alabama and LSU in Athens once every 12 years with this new setup unless they go to 9 conference games. And if they do that, they will never play teams like Oregon or Boise State again because their out of conference schedule will consist of Tech and two cupcakes. Bad move by the SEC. They fixed something that was far from broken.
GTBob
November 6th, 2011
2:59 pm
The SEC East can’t be that bad can it?
If Florida is having a down year then the SEC east is usually terrible. This year is worse then usual though.
FBGUY
November 6th, 2011
3:00 pm
Has there been an official announcement as to whether Mizzou will be in the east or west division? I haven’t seen one just rumors.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
3:00 pm
Dandydawg…………………you are the F..ing moron. here is the whole article.
Now the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has gone ahead and quantified that by comparing average SAT scores and grade-point averagesGPAs of athletes with the rest of the college’s student body. Not surprisingly, football and men’s basketball players came out on the bottom, and some averaged hundreds of points lower on SATs than their classmates.
The Journal-Constitution studied 54 public universities, “including the members of the six major Bowl Championship Series conferences and other schools whose teams finished the 2007-08 season ranked among the football or men’s basketball top 25.”
We all suspect that big-time student athletes sometimes aren’t the best and the brightest academically.
Some highlights:
Football players average 220 points lower on the SAT than their classmates. Men’s basketball was 227 points lower.
University of Florida won the prize for biggest gap between football players and the student body, with players scoring 346 points lower than their peers.
Georgia Tech had the nation’s best average SAT score for football players, 1028 of a possible 1600, and best average high school GPA, 3.39 of a possible 4.0. But because its student body is apparently very smart, Tech’s football players still scored 315 SAT points lower than their classmates.
UCLA, which has won more NCAA championships in all sports than any other school, had the biggest gap between the average SAT scores of athletes in all sports and its overall student body, at 247 points.
Some “universal truths,” according to the Journal-Constitution:
All 53 schools for which football SAT scores were available had at least an 88-point gap between team members’ average score and the average for the student body.
Schools with the highest admissions standards, such as Georgia Tech, the University of Virginia, the University of California-Berkeley, UCLA, and the University of North Carolina, had the biggest gaps between the SAT averages for athletes and the overall student body.
Football players performed 115 points worse on the SAT than male athletes in other sports.
The differences between athletes’ and non-athletes’ SAT scores were less than half as big for women (73 points) as for men (170).
Many schools routinely used a special admissions process to admit athletes who did not meet the normal entrance requirements. More than half of scholarship athletes at the University of Georgia, the University of Wisconsin, Clemson University, UCLA, Rutgers University, Texas A&M University and Louisiana State University were special admits. . . At Georgia, for instance, 73.5 percent of athletes were special admits compared with 6.6 percent of the student body as a whole.
At a glance, here are the top 10 highest and lowest schools based on the average SAT scores of football players (out of a maximum 1600 score):
FOOTBALL SAT SCORES:
THE TOP 10
School, Average
Georgia Tech, 1028
Oregon State, 997
Michigan, 997
Virginia, 993
Purdue, 974
Indiana, 973
Hawaii, 968
California, 967
Colorado, 966
Iowa, 964
THE BOTTOM 10
School, Average
Oklahoma State, 878
Louisville, 878
Memphis, 890
Florida, 890
Texas Tech, 901
Arkansas, 910
Texas A&M, 911
Mississippi State, 911
Washington State, 916
Michigan State, 917
Warnell Dawg
November 6th, 2011
3:01 pm
Are Tech fans really talking about UGA’s schedule? It sure would be nice to have a schedule that includes W. Carolina, Mid Tenn St., Kansas, NC, NC St., Maryland, Virginia and Duke! Also, ATLER, that’s a pretty strong accusation about UGA not wanting to play LSU and Bama for 2 reasons: one, we DO have to rotate them onto our schedule for 2 consecutive years every 4 years due to SEC interdivisional scheduling and two, this is coming from a fan of a school who LEFT the SEC? And as for you GTBob, if Missouri joined the ACC (either division) they would have a good shot at winning the division EVERY year, not just when the division is having a down year…please GT, do us and your big-mouth fans a favor and man up and request to join the SEC….
7576DAWG
November 6th, 2011
3:02 pm
Ap
My top choices were Florida State and Clemson but that will probably never happen. Same market means no additional money from the media that the SEC isn’t already getting . The SEC also doesn’t want to destroy two of the main teams in the ACC.
DougsMugsCoffeeDOTcom
November 6th, 2011
3:05 pm
ugggh,
oh, well, at least they have really pretty cheerleaders.
http://www.americasbestonline.com/2006missouri.jpg
Dawg48
November 6th, 2011
3:07 pm
Excuse me tech fans………….. Hello and welcome to a S.E.C. ( Georgia blog) on here we talk about real football! Could you please exit the blog! We will call on you if their is a Internet or power failure.
Thanks and have a great day!
Still playing Warcraft@the bar
November 6th, 2011
3:08 pm
GT football program grad rate: a paltry 55%
UGA football program grad rate: 65%
What’s up with your nerds, nerd?
http://m.ajc.com/sports/georgia-tech/looking-at-georgia-tech-1210059.html
GTBob
November 6th, 2011
3:09 pm
It sure would be nice to have a schedule that includes W. Carolina, Mid Tenn St., Kansas, NC, NC St., Maryland, Virginia and Duke!
Your schedule includes Coastal Carolina, New Mexico St, Vandy, the Mississippi sisters, Tennessee, Kentucky, and probably the worst Florida team in recent memory. I would gladly take your schedule.
Ben
November 6th, 2011
3:09 pm
Could not be more meh about this news.
More annoyed than anything.
7576DAWG
November 6th, 2011
3:13 pm
Texas A&M and Missouri are going to find out playing up to 6 OR 7 top 25 teams every year is no fun when they are use to playing 2 or 3.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
3:14 pm
Still Playing WOW…………….SEE the article I posted? that explains WHY TECH is difficult and UGA is easy. Thech has Smarter kids and they are Forced to take difficult classes. At Liberal Art colleges my 10th grade niece could pass the college classes football players take for the first 2 years.
that was not the point. The Point was the Mizzou President saying they were going to a Good Academic conference. The new SEC now has the 4 of the 10 lowest SAT scoring football teams.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
November 6th, 2011
3:15 pm
GTBob
You will get the team that played that schedule in a few weeks and you will watch the Joke by the coke, choke
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
3:16 pm
7576DAWG when is UGA going to play those 6 or 7 top 25 teams?
jay
November 6th, 2011
3:18 pm
The two worst possible teams were added to the SEC for reason. Not that either programs
are bad but to the SEC, why?
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
3:19 pm
7576Dawg UGA has played 2 ranked teams and lost. You Might get to play 2 more. Auburn and Tech should both be ranked for the games.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
November 6th, 2011
3:21 pm
Still@theKool-aidBAR
The SEC is one of the best sports conferences especially in football and baseball and really thats all I care about
There are plenty of academic schools in the southeast for those who worry about academics such as:
GT
Duke
Mercer
Virginia
Vanderbilt
Furman
Emory
Kids who love to play in the academic bowl can go to those schools
Kids who want to play in sports will want to go to the SEC
GTBob
November 6th, 2011
3:22 pm
Texas A&M and Missouri are going to find out playing up to 6 OR 7 top 25 teams every year is no fun when they are use to playing 2 or 3.
Was this a serious post? A&M has played 3 top 10 teams this year and play a top 20 team next week. Missouri has played 4 top 20 teams. You really think they are scared of the SEC?
7576DAWG
November 6th, 2011
3:22 pm
Still@theKool-aidBAR
Many times a 6 lost team in the SEC would have been only a 3 lost team in let’s say the ACC. That’s why the SEC get so many team’s in bowl games every year. Just because an SEC team is not ranked in the top 25 doesn’t mean they can’t beat half the teams there from less competitive Conferences.
Still playing Warcraft@the bar
November 6th, 2011
3:24 pm
I just love needling a needler. The better question is: Why are you getting your panties all bunched up over a statement from a school, that has nothing to do with you?
Get back in your hole, pipe down, and I will let you know when you’re allowed out.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
3:24 pm
7576Dawg………..Tech has played 2 ranked teams and beat them. Tech Might get to play 2 more. VT and UGA should both be ranked for the games.
Warnell Dawg
November 6th, 2011
3:25 pm
“I would gladly take your schedule”
Yeah, but would you take it on a year-to-year basis? I’ll admit that we don’t have the strongest schedule this year, but the difference between us and the nerds is that while our schedule actually gets harder over time with teams like LSU, Bama, Arkansas and when FL and TN return to usual form included with our occasional tough OOC games like BSU, OK State, Clemson, etc…the nerds schedule is perennially weak with teams from their pathetic excuse of a conference and especially their division which includes Virginia, Miami, NC and Duke…man, how do you ever win such a TOUGH division?!
BurytheBone
November 6th, 2011
3:27 pm
This still doesn’t get us any closer to playoff system. If the NCAA and the conferrence’s want to do something that makes a real change come up with a way for the all undefeated teams to have a equal shot at a title. Whats the sense in playing the games and going 12-0 if you aren’t getting a chance to play for the hardware. Also kudo’s to LSU AND UA for a hard fought battle. Just how it was billed, both teams can be proud of how they played. Hopefully the Dawgs will take care of the next 3 and we will at least have a chance to compete for the championship
7576DAWG
November 6th, 2011
3:30 pm
I welcome Missouri and Texas A&M to the SEC. I’m just saying you are lucky in the SEC when you play a conference game that is a gimme It doesn’t matter who you play in the SEC if you don’t take every game serious you will get beat. To survive in the SEC you need depth or you will end up at the bottom of the conference at the end of the year.
LHarding Dawg
November 6th, 2011
3:35 pm
Great choice, good school that plays lots of sports. State school with lots of alumi. Really good television market. Put them in the east with their permanent west opponent being Texas A&M. If we have to expand, and apparately we do, Texas A&M and Missouri were good teams to invite.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
3:37 pm
Most of the UGA players don’t even make the minimum requirements to get into UGA. 73% of UGA players are special admits. Those boys can’t read much past an 8th grade level.
LHarding Dawg
November 6th, 2011
3:37 pm
By comparison – Your right about Tech alumni having professional careers, but not the football players. They only play football and them go away.
MerryMary
November 6th, 2011
3:37 pm
Can we call on Tech for spelling????…like we can when there (note:there, not their) is an Internet or power failure?
7576DAWG
November 6th, 2011
3:37 pm
For you TECH fans, my brother graduated from Tech . As a die hard Georgia Alum and fan I do not look forward to playing Tech . We always have trouble with the triple option and we know exactly what’s coming. This year will be a knock down drag out , I’m certainly not over looking you all.
DougsMugsCoffeeDOTcom
November 6th, 2011
3:38 pm
@LHarding Dawg,
Put them in the West and move Auburn or Alabama into our conference. It would balance out the disparity that we have been experiencing the last few years, and it would make geographic sense.
Putting them in the East makes the SEC looks stupid as h377. You can make the Alabama/Auburn a fixed annual match-up.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
November 6th, 2011
3:40 pm
By comparison
Actually more GT players will be working menial jobs since they wont be good enough to make it to pro ball and most of them wont graduate anyway
Take your academic garbage and stuff it; to be such a smart school your not smart enough to turn your sorry athletic program around
BurytheBone
November 6th, 2011
3:42 pm
@ By comparison. I don’t think it was a dawg fan that started all this dibble. I think it was a tech fan who took offense to a statement that was made in the paper. It really shouldn’t matter anyway. We are all well aware that tech is a academically tough school. Even if your football team is avg., we as dawg fans could care less that you have smarter players who really don’t play that well. Just remember as long as you think your a great school thats all that counts. See you on the flats Nov. 26th
richmondDawg
November 6th, 2011
3:45 pm
I have heard that the start of the GA/AL home and home next year will be delayed to make room for the new teams…heard also that GA will travel to College station next year to play the Aggies…not sure what to make of the schedule next season…Does anyone have any word on how this will break down next season?
Dawg Tired
November 6th, 2011
3:45 pm
Talk about an exercise in futility: UGA and Tech fans arguing about who’s schedule is easier this year. While I think Tech”s is easier by a nose, the obvious truth is that neither team has beaten anybody who is any good except Clemson. One could clearly argue with some force, that TECH’s beating Clemson indicates they are better than we are. Of course, that issue will be decided when we play each other. Until then – pleeezzze stop trying to argue that either team has really played a really tough schedule. BSU will not make the NC game even if they go undefeated. Why? Because they don’t deserve to be in the game. We are actually the best team they’ve played and we have yet to beat even a fairly decent team. UF is now 5 and 4 after crushing Vandy by 5 at home. They are the only team we have beaten who has a winning record!
Still playing Warcraft@the bar
November 6th, 2011
3:48 pm
By Comparison:
Soooo, you’re making excuses for having a sorry football team, that has only beat UGA once in the last ten years? “Hey guys, we can’t beat Georgia but at least my RB will make a great Network Engineer later in life.”
Stop making dumb posts. If you are going to come on a Georgia blog make posts about football. Make them matter.
ZinoDawg
November 6th, 2011
3:48 pm
Hey Tech trolls – instead of invading the Dawg blog you should get out your slide rules and try to figure out why you can’t sell out that dinky a$$ stadium you play in. Pathetic.
Prepare to get your butts whipped – as usual – when the mean machine in red and Black rolls down North Avenue. At least that game will be a sellout thanks to the Dawg fans.
7576DAWG
November 6th, 2011
3:49 pm
Tech fan’s always use academics as your excuse but this is not an academic blog. Nobody argues how hard Tech is or how smart the students are. Tech started their business school so they could have something easier than Math or Engineering . I don’t doubt even that school is hard but it doesn’t have anything to do with football. A lot of your football players wouldn’t even have gotten an invitation to come to orientation at Tech if it had anything to do with academic.
BurytheBone
November 6th, 2011
3:50 pm
@Dawg Tired why doesn’t BSU deserve a chance at the nc? Providing they stay undefeated.
Oh, look!
November 6th, 2011
3:55 pm
If dawgs want to boast of their athletic superiority over Georgia Tech, that’s fine, but keep in mind that almost none of the UGA athletes meet the academic admissions requirements at Tech, and most of the UGA players will work at menial jobs all their lives while most Tech alumni have real professional careers.
GTBob
November 6th, 2011
3:56 pm
Getting back to the topic at hand, it is pretty funny that the best team the SEC could get was a Missouri team that wanted to be in the Big 10. All of the talk of adding Virginia Tech, or Florida State, or Oklahoma, or any team from North Carolina was just a dream as expected. So much for that talk of the SEC picking whoever they wanted. This expansion process was similar to UGA’s search for a defensive coordinator.
7576DAWG
November 6th, 2011
4:04 pm
If I was an ACC power basketball team I wouldn’t want to leave the ACC. Football may rule at the SEC teams but that’s not necessarily the case with other conferences.
Ward
November 6th, 2011
4:05 pm
The addition of Missouri does not move the needle for me at all, but I will say that I understand why the league is making this move. I guess I get to travel to Missouri every other year now to watch the Dawgs beat up on them. I see them being a team UGA should beat 8 out of every 10 years… However, I hope this addition is phase one of the league moving to 16 teams… I know everyone wants Clemson and FSU, but I really would like to see us go after NC State and Oklahoma State… It would finally allow both of them to not feel like little brothers anymore, plus it would add a couple of good markets to our TV kingdom… Support me on this one…both would be great SEC schools!
Ward
November 6th, 2011
4:09 pm
Oh yeah someone asked about the UGA schedule next year… Here it is:
Home: Vandy, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Florida in Jacksonville
Road: South Carolina, Missouri, Auburn, Kentucky
We lose the Alabama game off the schedule for the road game at Missouri.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
4:09 pm
Ward…………..you are missing the Politics if you think NCSU or OSU are leaving without their Brother. The North Carolina teams NONE of them are leaving the ACC.
BobDawg
November 6th, 2011
4:10 pm
Interesting how they are now the 3rd and 4th largest schools in classroom attendance. Didn’t know they were that big and bringing loads of money….
As far as the Dawgs schedule – We play in the SEC which is still the toughest conference year in and year out so ’nuff said….. Playing Tech and their HS offense is a nice breather at the end of the year….
Ward
November 6th, 2011
4:12 pm
I am not missing anything with the politics of the situation… If you read it, I express that it is my wish. I never said it would happen, but suggested that in a perfect world (in my perfect world) it would happen.
BobDawg
November 6th, 2011
4:13 pm
@ Ward, interesting schedule next year… Is that written in stone??? I wonder how late in the year we will play Missouri… Imagine a snow game in the SEC???!!!
Atlanta Gator
November 6th, 2011
4:14 pm
From the standpoint of quality academic institutions, solid athletic programs, and new television markets, Missouri and Texas A&M are both excellent additions to the Southeastern Conference. In one swoop, the SEC has added the Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Kansas City, San Antonio, and St. Louis markets to the SEC television footprint. The SEC has also added two AAU research universities and two of the 20 largest land-grant colleges in the country with two of the largest alumni bases in the country.
Smart. Very smart. Mike Slive has done very well, indeed.
To Bryan (Third)
November 6th, 2011
4:16 pm
Two sort of ok schools eh? Sort of ok like Georgia, Vandy, Kentucky, Mississippi? Tennessee, Florida and Mississippi State? Or sort of ok like New Mexico State, Coastal Carolina, or maybe sorta like Florida State ( who refused the SEC) and Miami (Who also refused the SEC). Texas A & M and Missouri are fine schools – Be happy you didn’t get Duke, North Carolina State or maybe Georgia Tech!!!!
BobDawg
November 6th, 2011
4:17 pm
@ Atlanta Gator, you have done your homework well, my friend or you cut and paste well??!!!
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
4:18 pm
WARD……………ok…………..I thought you were wnat them to be next without realizing the Politics.
Ward
November 6th, 2011
4:18 pm
Why do so many Tech fans come to the SEC/UGA blog and post? Are they that paranoid about what we all say? No one cares about all you Tech people… I don’t hate Tech; I don’t like them either…they are kind of like people on the train in that they are there, but they are of no real importance to me… I am comfortable with the fact that you will beat us twice every ten years and that you have a little higher standards than us academically… I also know that you cheat, bend the system to try and be better as noted by your recent NCAA scandal, and that you all have envy on what we are packing at UGA… Just stop! If you all did not spend so much time crying and trying to rub it in when you do one good thing us UGA fans would just leave you all alone…which is where you should be in your dark little rooms playing with your laptops and robots.
George Stein
November 6th, 2011
4:19 pm
I don’t know why the SEC added any schools in the first place. It was a fine conference already.
Knock it off with all the nerd nonsense. You marginalize yourselves (the idiot Tech fans who do the same are foolish, too) and make what might be intelligent posts turn into a complete waste of space.
Ward
November 6th, 2011
4:21 pm
Yes, that schedule is in stone to my knowledge…I read it on the bleacher report earlier today; they are generally very accurate in what they report.
yankeedawg
November 6th, 2011
4:21 pm
Auburn game 3:30 cbs
George Stein
November 6th, 2011
4:22 pm
Will the SEC have a nine game conference schedule?
Loran, Whatayagot
November 6th, 2011
4:22 pm
The line that defines the southeast is at the border of Kentucky and Tennessee. Anything past that is in the west. Arkansas (drop the Ar from the front) and Missouri are not southeastern schools. Having said that, I guess those schools, are okay, but I don’t see any advantages they bring to the SEC. So, welcome anyway (yawn). Texas A & M, same observations.
Ward
November 6th, 2011
4:24 pm
George everything I have read says that the 9 game schedule will not go into affect for at least 5 years.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
4:25 pm
Stein………..Will the ACC go to a 9 game with the addition of the 2 new teams?
I would hope we can drop the 1 FBS game and pick up the other conference game.
George Stein
November 6th, 2011
4:26 pm
Thanks, Ward.
St. Simon's Daddy
November 6th, 2011
4:27 pm
What difference does it make who the SEC brings in to a Tech Fan? You Tech posters are full of envy or absolutely have no life or you would not be on here.
George Stein
November 6th, 2011
4:28 pm
I hope all conferences go to nine game schedules, Still. As a Tech fan, I’d be fine with nine conference games, the UGA game, a good but rarely scheduled non-conference game (like Auburn or Tennessee or something) and one gimme.
The problem with the nine game conference schedule is that teams won’t have the same number of home and road games, and that’ll cause problems down the line.
Steve
November 6th, 2011
4:29 pm
Roy Kramer had vision when the conference expanded to 12 and a championship game was created. Since then, others have imitated but never duplicated its success. He also stated the strength of a conference is built on the relationships with a limited number of institutions.
Todays SEC college sports administrators would put heroin dealers to shame for all the ethics they have shown in the conference realignment dog’n'pony. Say hello to the CFB version of championship wrestlin’.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
4:33 pm
St. Simon’s………you must not be from the south. they say football is year round down here. There is no new TECH news because the players are at home for the weekend. There were Dawgs running their mouths on the Tech blog (during the BYE) about the Clemson game. Southerns like to talk about football. I am watching the Falcons version of the UGA v NMSU game. I hate Bradley and don’t go on his blog.
St. Simon's Daddy
November 6th, 2011
4:34 pm
Good point George. All schools need at least 6 home games to support the overall athletic budget. Title IX changed everything.
George Stein
November 6th, 2011
4:34 pm
What a boneheaded comment, St. Simon’s.
George Stein
November 6th, 2011
4:36 pm
Agreed on your 4:34 post, St. Simon’s. Cool it with the Tech hating stuff. You’re better than that.
St. Simon's Daddy
November 6th, 2011
4:43 pm
George, I am not the one hating Tech. Read all the posts from GTBob and Kool Aid. I am not including you but UGA Blogs have Tech fans on here constantly berating anything and everything UGA does. I was simply making a comment.
J-tag
November 6th, 2011
4:44 pm
With all the yammer about Georgia Tech, I wonder, does the ACC even play football??
George Stein
November 6th, 2011
4:44 pm
Dude, I fully get that GTBob and GTJoe (assuming they’re different) are complete idiots. Don’t stoop to their level.
BobDawg
November 6th, 2011
4:45 pm
Auburn is at 3:30?? Have we had a night game yet this year?? beside Boise???
Gordon
November 6th, 2011
4:46 pm
Is it just me, or is anyone else troubled that with a 14 team conference with permanent opponents and an 8 game conference schedule, you will only see teams like Alabama, LSU, and Texas A&M once every 12 years in Athens? Right now it is once every 5 years.
St. Simon's Daddy
November 6th, 2011
4:49 pm
I am not “stooping” to their level or anyone else. Not only them, read the blog on a regular basis. Half of the comments are negative and trying to provoke an argument. I will tell you this. Tech belongs in the SEC and not the SEC. I understand why they left but I would prefer the SEC to have the original teams and be a regional conference. Unfortunately television controls everything now. Eventually there will be 4 super conferences.
BobDawg
November 6th, 2011
4:49 pm
Gordon, from the previous blogs, looks like we will go to a 9 game conf. schedule in a few years… Wait till we expand to 16 teams…. That will be interesting
Bucs coming back on the Saints now….24 – 16
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
4:51 pm
bobDawg Vandy and Tennessee were both 7 pm kicks. Did you have a few too many to remember? LOL
ARdawg
November 6th, 2011
4:51 pm
Gordon, don’t you think the talent level of the LSUs and Bamas are inclinded to change, ebb and flow every 5 years?
George Stein
November 6th, 2011
4:52 pm
Fair enough, St. Simon’s. It’s easy for fans of any team to be a big shot behind their keyboards. That goes for the UGA clowns on the Tech blogs and the Tech fans posting nonsense here.
BobDawg
November 6th, 2011
4:54 pm
@ Still, yeah, Long day in Athens yesterday and the “Wedge” front chilled me to the bone……
BurytheBone
November 6th, 2011
4:55 pm
@Ward your post @ 4:18 was well spoken. I feel the same way. What happens at Tech doesn’t affect myself or any other Dawg fans. Like people on a train. I would much rather discuss football than read post that have no bearing on the season or its outcome. I’ve always enjoyed following high school football and its players. I like to follow the recruiting process and watch kids develop. For better or worse.
George Stein
November 6th, 2011
4:55 pm
If you were that cold, maybe you should have had a few more!
BobDawg
November 6th, 2011
4:56 pm
… and I’m thinking no night games in Athens this year yet…..Seems like we are playing well during the day so maybe 3:30 is fine except for the shadows…..
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
4:56 pm
It was that Chilly with the wind? I figured the sun would have been fine in the stadium.
BobDawg
November 6th, 2011
4:57 pm
…. George, I ran out of Makers waaaay tooo early in the day!!!!
BobDawg
November 6th, 2011
4:58 pm
… the shade was not my friend yesterday!!!
George Stein
November 6th, 2011
4:58 pm
Ha! Bring two flasks next time!!!
Atlanta Gator
November 6th, 2011
4:59 pm
“Atlanta Gator, you have done your homework well, my friend[,] or you cut and paste well??!!!”
BobDawg, I have followed this like a hawk for a year and a half. While my personal preference was to have A&M and FSU invited to join the SEC, I could have predicted this outcome 18 months ago based on what Mike Slive and several SEC presidents were saying about TV markets. It’s what makes the most sense from a financial standpoint. An extra three or four million a year in additional television revenue may not be a big deal for Alabama, Florida or Georgia, but it will really help Vanderbilt and the Mississippi schools, and it can’t hurt all of the other mid-tier SEC sports programs.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
4:59 pm
Thursday night at Bobby Dodd could be pretty Chilly for sure.
BobDawg
November 6th, 2011
5:00 pm
I Did! Everyone else was begging for it… Geez, I felt like the local alchohol pimp in the stands….
St. Simon's Daddy
November 6th, 2011
5:00 pm
Bob,
Either way traffic is going to be a nighmare leaving. The Athens Clarke County police have no earthly idea on how to direct traffic. The SC game was a night game if you remember.
George Stein
November 6th, 2011
5:01 pm
You gotta be tough, Bob! Tell ‘em to bring their own!
George Stein
November 6th, 2011
5:02 pm
Long as it isn’t raining, it’ll be fine, Kool-aid.
BobDawg
November 6th, 2011
5:02 pm
@ Gator, I heard you folks would not allow FSU anywhere near the SEC Kitchen Table. Been listening to Barnhardt/Durham alot and all this conference politics is amazing… Like Va. Tech would have to ask UVA’s permission to do anything as they begged to get into the ACC…..
BobDawg
November 6th, 2011
5:04 pm
George, I made the mistake of telling them I had Makers… Next time, I’m bringing Ancient Age in the flask I have to “give away”…
richmondDawg
November 6th, 2011
5:05 pm
thanks ward….
George Stein
November 6th, 2011
5:05 pm
I just hope it’s close to being finished, Bob. I enjoy listening to B&D, too, but I could go another 10 lifetimes without having to listen to more of this nonsense.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
5:06 pm
St. Simon’s………..USC was a 4:30 kick. Not really a Night game. It ended when it was darker but not a NIGHT game with a Full Day of Drinking and leaving at 11:30 or Midnight.
richmondDawg
November 6th, 2011
5:06 pm
With that home schedule, season tickets aren’t looking very attractive right now, but hey, what can you do?
George Stein
November 6th, 2011
5:06 pm
Excellent plan, Bob.
BobDawg
November 6th, 2011
5:07 pm
traffic will be bad, Simons as we will be leaving “in the night”! Plus, my Frat is gone from Lumpkin which is a major pain as we would just resume “activities” there after the game…
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
5:08 pm
BOB………….get some Old Crow bottles and put your Makers mark in them. Nobody will ask for the CROW will they? LMAO
Inconvenient Truth
November 6th, 2011
5:08 pm
GT would have done anything and in fact, would have purchased knee pads, just to get BACK in the elite SEC. Anyone over the age of 50, recalls how GT tried and tried and tried ( without those knee pads) to get in the back door of the SEC in the mid 70s and was REJECTED.
For supposed strategic thinkers …………… the GT FATHERS were big fools leaving THE CLUB when they did and that departure has cost GT over the last 43 years, more money than their once every blue moon 2 Urange bowl trips afford them. They did the 1967 and 2009 Urange Bowls and as for a major bowl appearance …………………….these two were it.
No, GT would do anything to beg back in the SEC ……………….. 100% of ALL GT elders over the age of 50 would love to get back. AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN NERDS !!
BobDawg
November 6th, 2011
5:11 pm
Hmmmmm…. @ Still…. I’m taking notes and this is a good Idea! Crow bottles… that is wise my friend…..Now this is the kind of info we need on these blogs, gents…..
George Stein
November 6th, 2011
5:12 pm
It doesn’t matter if we never went to an Orange Bowl, Inconvenient Truth. The bowl money is shared equally with the other members of the conference.
Atlanta Gator
November 6th, 2011
5:14 pm
“Gator, I heard you folks would not allow FSU anywhere near the SEC Kitchen Table.”
BobDawg, I don’t think that’s true, just for Florida’s own selfish reasons. Having FSU in the SEC would simplify Florida’s scheduling in football and virtually every other sport, and allow the Gators to play another non-conference opponent in football (Miami anyone?). Florida was FSU chief advocate during the 1991-92 SEC expansion cycle, but Bobby Bowden talked the FSU administration out of it because he thought it would be easier for FSU to win a national championship in the ACC. You know what? Bowden was right, but he sacrificed one of the long cherished goals of FSU administrators and alumni to do it.
Georgia, and South Carolina in particular, have real reasons for keeping their in-state ACC rivals out of the SEC. Moreover, neither Tech nor Clemson wold really add anything to the SEC as it exists in 2011. Unlike Georgia and South Carolina, however, Florida already shares its top-tier home state recruiting with FSU, and FSU does have a national fanbase. Having FSU in the SEC would not have expanded the television footprint, but it would still have added a lot of eyeballs and huge alumni base.
If the SEC ever expands to 16 teams as part of some consolidation trend to “super conferences,” FSU still has to be on the SEC’s short list even if Tech and Clemson aren’t.
George Stein
November 6th, 2011
5:14 pm
I go to disposableflasks.com to get mine, Bob. They work well because they are plastic and fit will in my belt (or sock).
Paddy
November 6th, 2011
5:20 pm
UGA Alumnus……Mo & Texas A&M are not in the Southeast, you are right. But neither is Kentucky. Last thing we need is another Yankee school like Kentucky in our conference.
garrymoore
November 6th, 2011
5:21 pm
hi to all dawgs.comers this is my frst post and thought i would say a big hello to yous –
thank yous speak soon
garry moore
Delbert D.
November 6th, 2011
5:22 pm
I never doubted that Mizzou would be the 14th school. None of the ACC schools were going to leave, and West Virginia, Louisville or Memphis (who actually publicly tried the case as the obvious choice) are not quality institutions like the top of the SEC has in Vandy, Florida and Georgia. These 2 new schools will be competitive in sports as well. The eyes of the Midwest are now on the SEC.
BobDawg
November 6th, 2011
5:25 pm
@ Gator, I feel Like FSU and the Dawgs are rivals even thought we don’t play them but they recruit South Ga. hard…. That would give us another rival to get our Alums riled up even more… great….
George Stein
November 6th, 2011
5:26 pm
The ladies at Mizzou had better be shopping for sundresses if they have any intention of fitting into the cultural norms of the SEC, Delbert.
BobDawg
November 6th, 2011
5:26 pm
since I’m “first at the top of the page… do i get a prize??? a flask, maybe???
BobDawg
November 6th, 2011
5:27 pm
I had a question earlier…Think we will see some “snow” games now at Mizzou????? Would that be cool or what???
Red & Black
November 6th, 2011
5:27 pm
They only join for next season if WVU can leave the Big East which looks very doubtful right now unless WVU is willing to cough up 20 million to leave early. The counter suit by the Big East is much more likely to win than the lawsuit filed by WVU.
SuperB
November 6th, 2011
5:44 pm
Mizzou needs to get a tennis team!
catlady
November 6th, 2011
5:45 pm
Reminds me of how my dad used to try to convince me that Illinois was a border state during The War.
Sorry, if you have lived in Missouri or Texas you know neither one is “Southern” unless you mean South of Chicago. They are midwestern schools, and don’t belong in a SOUTHEASTERN Conference.
If you can’t get sweet tea there, it is NOT a part of the South.
Contractor
November 6th, 2011
5:48 pm
Not sure what the SEC was trying to accomplish by adding either one of these new teams. Missouri or Texas A&M aren’t even in the Southeast, aren’t even decent football programs, lack in basketball, baseball, and every other sport. What a mistake and way to take away from what was working. The SEC just went from the most elite to the same kind of crap the Big 10 and Pac-12 offers.
Delbert D.
November 6th, 2011
5:51 pm
I wonder if the Big East as a football conference is going to collapse in a bunch of lawsuits. I think Boise and Air Force are better off staying in the Mountain West, and UCF in C-USA, since those 2 conferences are in effect merging into a superconference with the winner of the championship game between the 2 almost certain to get an automatic BCS bid. I think Navy stays independent.
SUMTER SC is the arm pit of the world!
November 6th, 2011
5:52 pm
GT BOB-A-NOB…..Go back to the bug site and envy over someone else, we are tired of your act.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
5:54 pm
Just waiting on the Golden Domers of Notre Dame to join the ACC.
catlady
November 6th, 2011
5:55 pm
Maybe we should just call it the “What the Hell Conference.”
BobDawg
November 6th, 2011
5:56 pm
While catlady is correct about Sweet tea, I have been to an Aggie game and it was really cool. 12th man and the atmosphere is fun
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
5:56 pm
Tebow with a TD pass.
SUMTER SC is the arm pit of the world!
November 6th, 2011
5:56 pm
Hey Mizzo……It’s not the Big 10 but it is whats left. Great start to insult your new home. Buckle your chin strap!
BobDawg
November 6th, 2011
6:00 pm
I also believe A & M produces more generals than West Point. See, gator, I’m full of facts also!
Delbert D.
November 6th, 2011
6:01 pm
It’s not 1961 anymore, Tulane and Georgia Tech are no longer members, and S.C. and Arkansas have been added several years ago. TV crosses old boundaries better than fans traveling across state boundaries in terms of dollars. This is all headed toward a playoff and away from the BCS, which will the natural thing to happen in in Div 1 football. The BCS is corrupt, moreso than the NCAA.
Florida and Georgia along with Texas and California have the deepest pool of high school talent in the nation, and the SEC now has a footprint in 3 of those states.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
6:03 pm
I thought Virginia Tech had the largest corp of cadets at any college.
Delbert D.
November 6th, 2011
6:09 pm
Things are changing. When I was in college (the first attempt, anyway), there were only VMI, VPI, Texas A&M, North Georgia and Penn Military that were classified “Essentially Military Colleges” by the Army. Now TA&M admits females and non-cadets, and Penn Military is Widener University. NGC has a large school of nursing, and in my experience, had female students since at least the mid-60s. I attended 2 of the 6 schools I listed.
Delbert D.
November 6th, 2011
6:13 pm
I left out The Citadel and one other school that I can’t recall off hand. There were 8 back in the ’60s in that US Army classification.
Bye Bye to the dawgs
November 6th, 2011
6:13 pm
Bend over, dawgs. Auburn’s coming to town.
The silly Kool-Aid dreams come crashing down.
Alabama Jack
November 6th, 2011
6:16 pm
Bad move!! SEC doesn’t need these losers!!!!!!!!!!!
dawg nation
November 6th, 2011
6:19 pm
Would have liked to have seen a team from the South East join but oh well! Go Dawgs!!
catlady
November 6th, 2011
6:21 pm
Why was the announcement made by the SEC THIS MORNING? Don’t those boys know their mamas expect them to be in church, not sending out announcements on football on the Lord’s Day? Another indication that the SEC is going to hell.
doug
November 6th, 2011
6:23 pm
i like that mizzou is joining but who moving to east ? auburn?
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
6:25 pm
doug MIZZOU……..go back and read from the beginning. All that has been covered.
Paddy
November 6th, 2011
6:32 pm
Contractor……you are right Mo & A&M are not in the Southeast. So how do you explain those damn Yankees from Kentucky. I am ok with the two new schools. Just no more Yankees like Kentucky!
Proud of this?
November 6th, 2011
6:37 pm
The athletic history of UGA is full of so many sordid, sleazy incidents – dating back to Vince Dooley and continuing through Mark Richt – that it’s impossible to overlook. The school has come to stand for drunkenness and lawlessness, coddling of illiterate low-class athletes who should never have been admitted to college, and rampant cheating by coaches.
UGA and Mark Richt are an affront and an embarrassment to all decent people in this state.
richmondDawg
November 6th, 2011
6:37 pm
Delbert, I’ve been up in Virginia about 30 years now, and VPI (Va Tech) is a more research oriented school now than a military one. Mostly engineering, the hard sciences, vet school, etc. They also have about every liberal arts program under the sun these days…My sister is actually an alumnus
Bob
November 6th, 2011
6:43 pm
The AAU is the cartel that decides where the HS phenom basketball players are going and which “advisor/guardian” gets the finders’ fee.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
6:47 pm
Bob the AAU in this story is the American Association of Universities. It has nothing to do with the AAU Sports clubs pimping high school kids.
Bob
November 6th, 2011
6:49 pm
Thanks Still, and order us a couple more Dickels…on my tab!
Uh Oh
November 6th, 2011
6:50 pm
It looked Mangy Mutt Russ may have had a bit of diarrhea yesterday.
Wait, I think it was one of the players I saw.
Delbert D.
November 6th, 2011
6:56 pm
Sagarin Strength-of-schdule ranking through Nov. 5
Top Ten S.O.S.
1- Missouri
2- Texas A&M
3- Kansas
4- Oklahoma St.
5- Arizona
6- Baylor
7- Oklahoma
8- LSU
9- Tennessee
10- Iowa St.
Paddy
November 6th, 2011
6:59 pm
Bob Dawg….I too have been to 1 A&M game. It was electric. SE Conf. fans that decied to travel to College Station will be in for a nice day of college football atmosphere. Don’t know of anything special going on at Columbis, Mo. on game day.
tell me again
November 6th, 2011
7:00 pm
Why are Tech fans on our blog talking about schedule strength? The ACC as a whole is weak year in and year out as proven when UGA and South Carolina trounced the two teams playing for the ACC championship! You guys need to DROP that argument – you don’t have a leg to stand on Bruhahahahaha!
Captain
November 6th, 2011
7:00 pm
GTBob – would gladly take our schedule? Really? Why? You play in the weakest BCS conference, you honestly believe you could “compete” in the Big Boy league? Which of your OOC opponents equals Boise? I believe NM State would compete with Kansas, for that matter which of our opponents wouldn’t beat Kansas, UNC, Maryland, NC State? Ole Miss is the weakest team in the SEC and even they would win in the ACC. If Georgia played your schedule we would be unbeaten, that’s a fact. Go back to your tickle piles.
Still@cool aid bar. You cite the AJC as your reference? That’s a laugher, the same AJC that named the late Richard Jewell as the Olympic Park bomber! That’s rich. Those SAT scores you noted, are Public schools and don’t include the likes of Duke Stanford Vanderbilt Notre Dame among several so don’t took that trombone too hard when you attempt to elevate GTs dismal APR and Grad rates. GT offered virtually every member od the freshman class of football players at Georgia. GT also served probation for playing academically ineligible football players. Included in the current GT freshman football class is a young man who was denied entry into Auburn in the 2009 class, but fish Fry signed him up.
You two boys better worry about Virginia Tech this Thursday, buy a ticket, show up, and good luck.
GT Fan
November 6th, 2011
7:01 pm
SEC East sucks!!!!
Best offense in the SEC East is ranked 60th….that’s awful.
At least GT can beat top 25 ranked opponents. UGA has yet to beat a ranked opponent this year. UGA is an illusion!!!!
chilidawg
November 6th, 2011
7:03 pm
Just add OU & Okie St. and move Bama & Auburn to the SEC east. Tenn/Bama and UGA/Auburn rivalries preserved, travel simplified.
JDawg1785
November 6th, 2011
7:04 pm
OK…
Jan Kemp
November 6th, 2011
7:07 pm
Tech posters should remember that I was a Bulldog as well.
Joe Paterno
November 6th, 2011
7:08 pm
I don’t think Southern schools are up to our standards.
GTBob
November 6th, 2011
7:20 pm
You play in the weakest BCS conference, you honestly believe you could “compete” in the Big Boy league?
Do you honestly consider the garbage that UGA has played to be “big boy” football? The SEC west is better then the ACC. The SEC east is pretty far below. And no, the 2-7 Ole Miss Rebels who couldnt beat BYU or Kentucky would not win the ACC. I will be surprised if they beat Louisiana Tech this weekend.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
7:21 pm
Captain………..the kids were not cheating. The compliance director decided to stop doing his job. He stopped attending the meetings to learn new rules. He was telling the other officers they players were progressing towards graduation as they should. He was wrong and tech paid for it. The players and coaches didn’t knowingly try to Cheat or get around the rules. Look at it how you wish, but that is an accurate of what took place. Just because tech offered the same players UGA did doesn’t mean they all would have passed the NCAA clearing house.
GTBob
November 6th, 2011
7:23 pm
I stay on these blogs for several hours at a time and hate on wonderful UGA because I do not have any intimate or sexual relationships. Dawgone, those UGA folks look like they are enjoying life.
GTBob
November 6th, 2011
7:25 pm
I wish I were a coach at Penn State.
GTBob
November 6th, 2011
7:27 pm
m4m, Northside Pkwy, Tuesdays anytime after noon
Ronaldus Hyattus
November 6th, 2011
7:31 pm
weaseal –Do you own or work for the SEC? If not, what is this WE thing? Moron.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
7:33 pm
FAKE………GTBob
November 6th, 2011
7:27 pm
m4m, Northside Pkwy, Tuesdays anytime after noon
What the hell language are you trying to speak in this post? Your UGA degree must be showing. That doesn’t even make a lick of sense.
jackyldo
November 6th, 2011
7:42 pm
Mizzou is closer to Kentucky Vandy Tenn. and Athens than they are to Waco/Austin/ Lubbock or College Station.
Brainiac(Dawg for life/Richt fan for life)
November 6th, 2011
7:43 pm
Still@Koolaid: Stick a sock in it. Just a few days ago Ga. Tech was identified as L A S T in graduating their football players. Guess y’all must be “dumbing down” those 1200, 1300, 1400,etc. SAT athletes Know whut I’m sayin?????????????????????????????????????
bad moon
November 6th, 2011
7:51 pm
Missouri? YYYYYAAAAWWWWNNNNNNNN !!!!!
The only thing that could be more boring would be having GT in your conference.
lil_bit1
November 6th, 2011
8:06 pm
Mizzou will be in the East for now, untill we add two more schools. It has been proven over and over again, that great SAT scores mean absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things. On the field of competition, it’s only about atheltic ability. No one cares that some athletes are well read in the great philosophers of our time. Also ask Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and most other billionaires, all you need is a unique and innovative idea and the guts to see it through.
RiffRaff
November 6th, 2011
8:15 pm
Missouri?? This is not an SEC team. Why did they not consider Va., Va. Tech, North Carolina, Clemson, even Ga. Tech???????? Wow, a midwest team in the SEC. What’s next, Ohio?????
david
November 6th, 2011
8:30 pm
does anyknow where the southeast is located
RiffRaff
November 6th, 2011
8:42 pm
david – I guess not.
Lakedawg
November 6th, 2011
9:15 pm
Why not drop Tech from schedule when Missouri joins East. That would eliminate one of our creampuffs and add a decent team and allow us to play the west teams more often than less?
LHarding Dawg
November 6th, 2011
9:26 pm
Great fit, good academics, state school with lots of alumni. Welcome to the SEC. I can’t wait to play you out in Missouri. I have been to St. Louis a couple of time and have really enjoyed the St. Louis blues scene.
louisiana bulldawg
November 6th, 2011
11:33 pm
any idea what division they will be playing in and what teams wil swap divisions?
DawgVoiceofReason
November 6th, 2011
11:40 pm
I don’t see any good coming of this. Arkansas was already just about too far away (from Georgia and east or south) to drive to for a regular season game. Now we add Texas A&M & Missouri? How in the Heck is Missouri even being considered for the SOUTH EASTERN conference?!!! Of course, it’s not as bad as Boise in the Big EAST. If this wasn’t really happening it would be a bad joke. The Presidents who approved this, with the exception of Dr. Adams and any others who have spoken in favor of a playoff, need to be tarred and feathered for hypocrisy.
War Dang Dawg (with heavy sarcasm)
November 7th, 2011
1:09 am
It took 104 years, but…FINALLY! Nothing says Dixie like Mizzou. Welcome home, ya’ll!
HeyDawg
November 7th, 2011
8:40 am
I just want to personally welcome Mizzou to the SEC East! My goodness! UM has an awesome stadium, great academics and a solid fan base. I think it’s great and could not be happier with the selection! Welcome Mizzou!
HeyDawg
November 7th, 2011
9:03 am
Also, seems like there’s a lot of GT fans here. I just gotta say welcome back boys. That triple option is fun to watch and you guys were just gashing Clemson. It’s good to see the UGA/GT rivalry is back in business!
Time for yet another lesson
November 7th, 2011
9:50 am
Georgia Tech was conceived, initiated, founded, funded, and chartered by UGA graduates. UGA is literally and figuratively GT’s “daddy”.
Georgia Tech has a losing record to Georgia in virtually every sport the two compete in save men’s basketball. Most sports by a wide margin.
Tech is a limited curriculum trade school that doesn’t bear the burder of providing a liberal arts education. Which means they can accumulate one dimensional international students who score high on standardized tests, but contribute little other than processing virtuals in Bangaladash after college.
And being that this is a sports blog……….targeted primarily towards football I would suggest that GT supporters learn two things…….by the standard for which Tech claims 4 MNC’s, Georgia claims 5. However, being that UGA only claims consensus MNC’s they have two….. GT has never held a voting consensus as MNC. Further, GT has a record of 39-61-5 verses UGA, and Tech’s favorite distractor, Florida has a 40-48-2 record against Georgia. In the words of famed former Hurricane great Benny Blades………..Shut the **** up till you catch the **** up.
ole yeller
November 7th, 2011
12:51 pm
It’s not true that you can driive by the VARSITY in ATLANTA and they will throw a Graduation Degree in your car/truck/jeep what ever,no no no you must stop.
ole yeller
November 7th, 2011
12:54 pm
You can’t just drive by the Varsity in Atlanta and they will throw a Grad. Degree in your veichel no no no you must come to a complete STOP.
ole yeller
November 7th, 2011
12:56 pm
signing off
WDE
November 7th, 2011
1:04 pm
Welcome Mizzou!
ole yeller
November 7th, 2011
1:17 pm
I Think this is a good thing for all concern. This give the SEC a bigger ‘ TV’ market, Recuting area.
and fan base. In years to come this will be considered a SUPER Conferance.
Tech's Tudor
November 7th, 2011
1:22 pm
Is anyone noticing that these “brilliant” Techies don’t even know when to use “too” instead of “to”, or “than” instead of “then”? Right……it’s easy to get true east west divisions, just do away with the south’s oldest rivalry game by getting rid of the annual Auburn/UGA game (100+ years of history)………idiots. Wait, sorry, “brilliant” idiots. Abraham Lincoln must of been thinking of Tech fans when he said, “It’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
ole yeller
November 7th, 2011
1:33 pm
I don’t want to dig up old bones but check your history. Missouri was considered a southern state during the civil war. just Justifing the process in history. You make the call…..
GT SUCKS
November 7th, 2011
1:33 pm
DIDNT GT HAVE THE LOWEST GRADUATION RATE IN THE ACC???
Obvious
November 7th, 2011
1:34 pm
Isn’t an ACC Team’s fan making fun of the way the 14 team SEC aligns itself into divisions kind of like the pot calling the kettle black? Geez……..
Old Dawg
November 7th, 2011
3:49 pm
Texas A&M and Missouri add absolutely nothing to the SEC. Just like Arkansas and South Carolina, they are fringe schools athletically and their fans have a history of not traveling well.
Yes, Missouri brings good TV markets in KC and St. Louis. A&M brings Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston. Nothing to look down your nose at, in regard to ratings and ad count. But this a warped scheme all together. Missouri is more of a Big-10 school is relation to geographic location and what is A&M without the hate week with Texas.
Academically they are fine schools, and I respect that – a lot. Still, this isn’t the way to approach expansion. We have a great conference now, why expand when the only people who win are the new schools and their ability to cut into the TV/money pie the traditional members of the conference have created through the years?
Hater
November 9th, 2011
5:47 pm
Mizzou sucks. Why on earth did we let them join? TV Markets? What on earth?
tardawg
November 10th, 2011
1:19 pm
Texas A&M south but not east Mizzo well you tell me the SEC should’ve went and tried to get Wake Forrest that would’ve been a good fit.