Should the SEC go to a 9-game conference schedule? - Sports Source Segment 8 (2.18.24)

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season title 11% of you say that's what matters this season win the regular season 3% of of you I'm just we are on different planets you would rather have the SEC tournament title than the regular season title or a deep NCA run but 86% of you say deep NCAA run we thank you for playing as always all right nine games on the horizon here's a quote from Chris Delante Texas athletic director we have eight game schedule right now we're working on going to a nine game schedule but we have a ways to go

with that I would say this year we have an eight game schedule the following year we have another eight game schedule then we'll look at going into a nine game conference schedule okay that has been taken to mean they're going to nine because he says we're we'll be going into I took it to mean it's still up for debate so and I I know that the SEC wants more cash ESPN just signed an extension for the first six years of the expanded playoff $7.8 billion so that's 7.8 billion they have fewer dollar

s to give to the SEC for more SEC versus SEC games is Chris Del Conte gon to learn that the cowards rule in this conference and we're staying at eight because we'd rather back into a bowl schedule our way into a bowl than play each other on the field what happens yeah I don't think they go to nine because I don't think ESPN's going to give them more money I just think that they lose eight total games of uh inventory that they would be able to have advertising for to get better games I think ther

e's also this concern it's not the Chattanooga and the Charleston Southern game going away if you go to nine conference game it's Alabama versus Florida State LSU versus Florida Wisconsin those are the games I think that people are concerned will go away and they'll still play so it'll be like Michigan last year nine conference games three cupcakes and done that's what I don't want to see Michigan was the exception and typically Michigan plays somebody good they do so the I would like to see the

SEC schedule like the big 10 and people can sit there and say to me well the Big 10 isn't as good as the SEC was last year yeah I don't like the big 10 but at least they schedule one another yeah uh I wish the SEC would just man up and do that but I don't think they will do you think they'll go to a nine game schedule I don't think they will because I think they when they were talking about it why are we adding a game without getting compensated for it what that it really didn't make any sense

and why are you taking a chance on going on the road to play a night game at Auburn don't matter who you are that can be a tough place to play when it's just one more chance to lose a game when you can schedule around that that's just the way that they look at it to me yeah they'd rather play Charleston Southern yeah at home then go on the road to Old Miss I think that there was really movement to go to nine Dave and then I think they started talking we're not getting paid for it why do it I thi

nk there are a couple reasons to do it one I think we would all agree SEC football versus SEC football is better on a Saturday than Coastal Carolina or far better I mean just the product is is so much better and I I I think when you get into this 12 team playoff you're going to see that if you're from one of the major conferences and you go nine and three or 10- two you got a pretty good chance to make the college football playoff you're in the hunt and that's what people want to hear so I don't

have a problem as much as I typically don't like py games I don't have a problem with three py games if they went to nine because then everybody's held to the same standard of they have to play nine conference games so if you get to that 10 win you're in that's the way I would like for it to play out whether or not it will play out that way is a totally different I'd like to see everybody play 10 good games a year yeah oh yeah down down way I'd like to see I I don't really care how you get ther

e as long as you're playing 10 good games a year the other thing to watch out for for these ads every other year you lose a home game yeah if you do that and that's between $2 and $4 million a year that you might be losing by losing that home game yeah and I just think it's funny that these other leagues did it yeah and they were fine and they more money and definitely not to interrupt but talking to Jacob horn as SC and Cooper ma as I do regularly those Psy games are almost as much of an off we

ek as a bye because you know going into it you're going to handle Southwest Missouri Alabama State whatever the case may be and you get a half off of that game on game day too they make a big difference so you're asking a lot more if we start to get into more difficult games the only thing all of our vfl that do our show in the fall the only thing they say is a benefit is the guys who don't normally play get a shot to play but anybody who is playing doesn't look forward to those games they don't

like those games they're meaningless I can go out and blow my knee against can I ask one question no but go ahead okay how many automatic bids are there with the expanded playoffs there will be five the conference so is that six or seven at large seven seven so you got seven at large I don't think a three lost team can automatically feel like they're going to get in not not not automatically not remotely I just hope look if I prefer the SEC to the Big 10 but if the Big 10 is scheduling better a

nd the SEC is doing the eight game thing and and it comes down to two teams that have the exact same record and one of them played nine conference games one of them played eight I hope the Big 10 team gets in I hope the SEC has to sit there and go oh but wait we're tougher we played eight yeah I don't care you played you played GG your Tech I'm not going to give you credit for it uh you know you could sit there and say well they just played Northwestern beats Charleston Southern you know I to me

I don't like the Cowardly way out and part of it is these ads also saying you know at Kentucky or wherever maybe Tennessee we need to schedule this way to get into a bowl which I really hate uh but anyway that's I don't think the the NCA is listening to me I would love for somebody to explain to me how the Pack 12 is just automatically going to have a bid and last time I checked it will well that's just it it's going away will I think have as many Pack 12 teams as they do now I'm trying to figu

re out going to be yeah it's going to go all you got to do is flip a coin heads on it's going from why get somebody hurt you made it all right when we come back over under the the G Ling Services have set the over under win totals for SEC teams we'll show you Tennessee we'll show you all the teams that are seven and a half or more we'll make our picks against those come on back on the sports course