Exactly. Their last three national championship runs have followed 5, 5, and 9 loss seasons.Auburn will be back, they hired a terrible coach after Malzan but have the fanbase and $$$ to recover
This is not that same world.Exactly. Their last three national championship runs have followed 5, 5, and 9 loss seasons.
Uh... didn't say they were "irrelevant". But they've been heading in that direction.You realize Auburn has a National Title this century, and finished runner up twice? They aren’t irrelevant. Their problems are systematic in that their influential donors have too much control.
If you're Vandy, Kentucky, South Carolina, Miss State, or Arkansas you'd be insane to agree to that type of split. Revenue sharing is the main reason to be in a conference - so that one or two down years doesn't have a snowball effect on the program's finances. Something we learned the hard way in the 70s. Getting a program competitive again after a failed coach is hard enough. A lopsided revenue split from the conference that is 2/3 of your schedule just compounds the problem.I heard the SEC is going to 20 teams and then going to a relegation model. Two 10 team round robins. Top half of the league draws 75% of the money. Four teams rise and fall each year. SEC champion from the top half only.
THIS...While I think the little "article" is in jest, it definitely brings up a valid point. Being at the bottom of a mega conference like the SEC is a hard place to get out of.
Georgia Tech has more SEC championships in football than Kentucky, MSST, Arkansas, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas A&M, and Vanderbilt COMBINED and we left the conference in 1964. Tech has 5 SEC titles which is only 3 fewer than Auburn. How many more do you think Auburn is going to get after you add Texas and Oklahoma? Not many.
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None of 'em seem to realize itTHIS...
SOMEONES (SEVERAL SOMEONES) have got to do the losing...
ABSOLUTELY.So Dodd was ahead of the game?
Lol wut?I know it's California dreaming but adding Auburn, Florida and locking in Notre Dame would make for a helluva conference. Would also have the nice side effect of cementing the SEC as a hick conference.
All bets are off if they go belly up. ND, Auburn, _______(fill in the blank) have a better chance at the CFP with the ACC than anywhere else. Even with it expanding.The "come to Jesus" moment isn't far off. TV networks, especially ESPN/Disney, are behind the lunacy of conference "realignments" and that situation is a slow moving train wreck happening before our very eyes. IMHO, just a matter of time.
DIS (Disney)
Clemson has a lake. That's how you tell them apart.Antoher question. Would y'all trade Clemson for Auburn?
Auburn 5-4
Clemson 5-4
Auburn blue and orange
Clemson purple and orange
Auburn tiger mascot AND eagle mascot
Clemson tiger mascot
Same as AuburnBecause everytime you go to a game in Tallahassee, it is a two night stay, minimum, at a stupid high rate.
Easier just to drive to Auburn and back. Tallahassee not so much. Plus, if you don't drive all the way back, you hit metro Atlanta hotels and motels pretty quick.Same as Auburn