To ALL of them, NBC-Sports, Mr. SEC, and the rest, I say ""Screw them all!!!" I'm for anything that is good for US, the Gators, and us only, ultimately--and the SEC only as far as our interests coincide with the rest of its members. As far as I'm concerned, Mr. SEC and the "let's show them we're not afraid"-crowd are "the cowards", so damn worried about what everyone else is saying about who we play, the choices we make, instead of concentrating fully and clearly on what we need on the road to victories and Championships. The SEC is expected to guard its members' interests, in this case keeping the number of openings for BCS- and/or any National Championship-game or series of games at its maximum as far as SEC-access is concerned.
Let's face it: at this level, everything else is , well, if not "beside the point", does tend to be in service to that greater goal. We are after Championships here at University of Florida, and the majority of the prime football programs of other member institutions, and their students, fans and boosters, feel exactly the same way. First, there's the SEC-Championship, then (whether we win that or not--though winning it DOES insure a clear path onward) the National Championship.
Another SEC-game means another chance-to-lose for everyone, a guaranteed loss for 1/2--and losses limit access to the BCS games now, and to any playoff format later. Like the "Conference Champions-only"-rule, it is another way to limit our access--only THIS one would be VOLUNTARY, a further unnecessary and self-imposed risk of missing out.
