All is not well in the land of the Southeastern Conference as the league continues to sort out how it will handle playing its football schedule amidst the novel coronavirus pandemic.
National college football reporter Pete Thamel for Yahoo! Sports tweeted the following on Friday afternoon.
“Sources: The SEC coaches call on Thursday became contentious. At least five SEC coaches expressed frustration over the lack of transparency regarding the inability to produce a “formula” for how the two additional league opponents were chosen.”
Sources: The SEC coaches call on Thursday became contentious. At least five SEC coaches expressed frustration over the lack of transparency regarding the inability to produce a "formula" for how the two additional league opponents were chosen.
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) August 14, 2020
The beef, it seems, stems from the selection process for the two non-divisional teams assigned to each school to fill out the 10-game schedule. Apparently, based on what Thamel reported on Twitter, the protocol — or lack thereof — led to a situation where the picks were made arbitrarily, rather than using a “formula” that would evenly distribute the teams.
So far, it appears that the SEC is on track to conduct its conference-only season but nothing has been set in stone just yet. The news of in-fighting within the conference certainly puts an added wrinkle to the uncertainty surrounding Florida’s, the SEC’s and the nation’s college football season this fall.
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