Our line is already in that pond
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This isn't the selling point you think it is. In fact, it's a reason to NOT take our job. Unless there's some sort of pod system in the works, we're going to be picked to finish 15th of 16 every year. About the best we can hope for in a 1-16 structure is to finish 4th or 5th. 1-3 will be Bama, UGA, OU in some order. LSU will be in that 3-4 spot most years. So could Texas. And that doesn't include when we inevitably expand to 20 with FSU, Clemson, North Carolina and one of UVA/VT, because that is definitely happening at some point. Our best hope to be competitive is in some sort of division system, whether that was the traditional East-West format of some sort of pod system. But any 1-16, 18, 20 is the end of our chances to be relevant.
Lol, we barely win 2-4 SEC games now. Explain how we win 6 conference games in an expanded conference and when the schedule inevitably moves to 9, maybe even 10, conference games. And you're dreaming if you think nearly half the playoff field will be from the SEC. Between the media and the committee there's no way 5 teams from the same conference will be in the playoffs.
I repeat: moving away from divisions is the death of relevance for our football program. I know that's not the popular take, but that's the hard truth.
It'll be about the same. In the SEC there's top tier and middle tier and then there's Vandy. How many middle tier conference games can we win after adding Oklahoma and Texas to the mix. I'd say 1-4 per year depending on the schedule. Next year, I'd say one, maybe two wins out of the SEC.
If the stories circulating about the Seal slush fund earmarked specifically for a football head coach are true, then we could fish in whatever pond we wanted to. We just choose to fish in the grown over small ditch behind the house.
I asked a question about that on here last week or a couple of weeks ago. From what I was told back in the day, I'm not sure that fund gets us access to any pond. If recall correctly, it was only for 2 things. 1: To pay the buy-out of the head football coach if we wanted to let him go. 2: To pay the head football coach as much as we wanted for him to stay if he was looking around elsewhere for $$$.