Thread: SEC Responds to Kevin Stalling's Scheduling Complaint

The good folks at the SEC offices responded to Vanderbilt Head Coach Kevin Stalling's complaints about the scheduling of conference games and what he viewed as apparent favoritism. Here is the statement.

“The SEC’s athletics directors have established a set of parameters to follow when building the men’s basketball schedule. These parameters are in place to ensure that the schedule is as equitable as possible and enables the SEC to fulfill its contractual obligations with television. We make our best effort to balance out the Thursday-Saturday tandem among all of the teams. Last year we began moving some Thursday games to Tuesday to alleviate some of the issues with the quick turnaround. Now we are playing two games Tuesday night with an ESPNU game that leads inot the ESPN Super Tuesday matchup.

We try to get every team at least one game and no more than four games on Thursday night. The key issues is avoiding teams playing on the road for both parts of a Thursday-Saturday tandem.”


Capiche, Mr Stallings? Capiche.

(Hat-tip to mrsec.com for the transcript of the statement)

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The good folks at the SEC offices responded to Vanderbilt Head Coach Kevin Stalling's complaints about the scheduling of conference games and what he viewed as apparent favoritism. Here is the statement.

“The SEC’s athletics directors have established a set of parameters to follow when building the men’s basketball schedule. These parameters are in place to ensure that the schedule is as equitable as possible and enables the SEC to fulfill its contractual obligations with television. We make our best effort to balance out the Thursday-Saturday tandem among all of the teams. Last year we began moving some Thursday games to Tuesday to alleviate some of the issues with the quick turnaround. Now we are playing two games Tuesday night with an ESPNU game that leads inot the ESPN Super Tuesday matchup.

We try to get every team at least one game and no more than four games on Thursday night. The key issues is avoiding teams playing on the road for both parts of a Thursday-Saturday tandem.”

Of course the SEC office COULD have said "STFU" but it chose to be more diplomatic...

Once Stallings gets Vanderbilt to be sufficiently desirable to ESPN for Super Tuesday appearances, this problem will go away...