The SEC adjusted its 2020 schedule to include two other parties in conflict between divisions amid the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to several I-FBS Division meetings postponing their fall seasons and other leagues modifying their rosters to provide games that would be entirely (or almost exclusively) conference enemies.
In that note, some SEC football coaches were irritated by the way the other two parties to the conflict were selected and expressed their displeasure in a recent call from the coaches, through ESPN’s Chris Low and Alex Scarborough:
“The other two parties to conflict between divisions were announced last week without a detailed explanation of the league on how they were selected. Half of the league’s coaches expressed the call or to ESPN privately their frustration and/or anger at how the other two matches were chosen, and several coaches told ESPN that the SEC was letting himself go to complain that the whole procedure seemed “corrupt.”
The ESPN duo also reported that a coach had asked how the SEC had decided on the opponent and that no fewer than four other coaches had expressed their own considerations when the league’s reaction proved unsatisfactory for some members of the group.
Pete Thamel of Yahoo Sports, who first reported the controversy at the meeting, reported that at least five coaches expressed fear that the league simply does not produce a “formula” about how opponents’ choices were decided.
“There just wasn’t much clarity and transparency about how they were given where they were in the two additional games, and that upset a lot of other people,” one coach told ESPN.
“… The call was pretty wild. It would have been a clever piece of tv of truth.”
Another coach also went so far as to say that “favoritism was played,” according to ESPN.
THE SEC’s decisions about other group games surprised some when they were announced. It should be noted that the two additional Missouri games come with clashes opposed to protecting national champion LSU and Alabama, who has won five national championships under the direction of head coach Nick Saban since 2009.
On the other hand, some SEC powers have added games for which they will obviously be favorites. It should be noted that Georgia now has the state of Mississippi and Arkansas, which combined to pass 3-13 at the convention last year.
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