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Message: [QUOTE="SCGamecock, post: 4861412, member: 6132"] The best teams playing one another multiple times would definitely be more interesting. Never said it wouldn’t. I even said something similar when I mentioned my “perfect world” scenario. But in our imperfect world, the reason it's fair is because outside of your permanent rival, your schedule is predetermined based on a cycle rotation. Your schedule for next year isn't being made more difficult or less difficult based on who's at the top of the league this year and who's at the bottom of the league. The way it is currently, if you have an incredibly difficult or easy conference schedule then that's the luck of the draw. You can't criticize anybody for making your schedule more difficult based on a previous year's result. Nobody in the SEC wants LSU or South Carolina on their schedule twice right now, but if you happen to have them on the schedule twice there's nobody to complain to because it's just your time in the rotation to play them twice. A few years ago you probably didn't want Mississippi State on your schedule twice. Tennessee before that. So the cycle rotation works because not only does it remove room for criticism, but you're not creating a future schedule on an irrelevant previous result or personal opinion of who's good now and who isn't and who's EXPECTED to be good going forward. The College Football Playoff is the mess that it is now because of the human element. Whenever you add things like emotions or the "eye test" to a decision it immediately becomes biased. No matter the sport, the SEC protects its winners, so this is the LAST thing you'll see happen. The league will never intentionally make the road more difficult for the teams in the league. If anything, there could be an argument to get rid of permanent rivals in WBB too. [/QUOTE]

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