You sit there and watch ESPN break down the 2026 SEC schedule and they talk about our tough stretches and key dates and I just have to laugh at what this league has become. Sixteen teams now. Sixteen. Back in the 1980s when Vince Dooley was roaming the sideline and we were fighting for our lives against the old SEC, we had ten teams and every single one of them knew each other like family. You played Auburn every year, you played Florida in Jacksonville, you played Tennessee and you knew what you were getting. Now we got Texas and Oklahoma in the conference and we are supposed to act like this is the same league I grew up watching. It is not. Conference realignment killed more than just rivalries, it killed the soul of what made Saturday afternoons special. You look at that ESPN breakdown and I see Texas A&M on our schedule and Oklahoma and I just think about the 1992 season when we were still figuring out life in the SEC after Arkansas left and it felt wrong then and it feels wrong now. The league was perfect the way it was. You had your divisions, you had your traditions, you had the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party and the Deep South's Oldest Rivalry and you did not need a computer to figure out who mattered. Now I need a sprreadsheet just to keep track of who is on the schedule. Kirby can talk about young talent all he wants and I am glad we are recruiting at a high level but none of that changes the fact that I am playing Oklahoma in a conference game this fall and that just does not sit right with me. The old SEC had character. This new one just has money and television contracts and I am tired of pretending otherwise.