SEC presidents and athletic directors are on the clock with the additions of Texas and Oklahoma to the league effective July 1, 2024.
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Just let us keep stomping the lizzards! I despise them! Go Dawgs!
The geographic center of the continental US is in Lebanon, KS. Every SEC school is, and with this addition will still be, to the south and east of that point.
If you are looking at the "Old South", using the confederacy as a map, every state in the SEC was at least half foot (Kentucky and Missouri) in with the exception of Oklahoma who was still Indian Territory. Indian Territory, while not a part of the Confederacy fought along side it.
No matter what definition or map you use, Texas and Oklahoma are simply the most Southwestern parts of the Southeastern US, historically and culturally.
No, it is not staying there unless Brooks can't get past $$$.
Kirby's complaint is about a lost recruiting weekend and simply adding another home/away SEC game to the schedule doesn't change that calculus. It would still be a lost recruiting weekend against what we would consider a premier opponent. Kirby doesn't care from a game perspective where he plays. What he cares about are recruits in the stands and he doesn't get that without moving the game.
reassigned rivalries
You can't assign a rivalry they exists between colleges due to some historical precedent and tradition. That's why I'm a gator hater and why there is an Iron Bowl tradition in Alabama.
I would think that after his second Championship, Kirby will get his Florida home and home .
I would say this, let Florida schedule another sec team for Jacksonville in a 3 or 5 year rotation. Like LSU, depending on if their annual game stays alive. And in that year, let us either go to Gainesville or let them come to Athens. So that way the whole "helps Jacksonville's economy" story will go away. But I see it as staying there. Simply because it's tradition and they just can't seem to pass up on the money paid to each school. Yeah Kirby wants that recruiting weekend, but money talks this day and age. It's why we're in the big 10 and SEC expansion age.
