Click here for linkLarry Templeton kicked up his feet inside a Regions Park suite this week. The SEC baseball tournament played out below him and his mind was racing while he analyzed the confusing bracket.
"I would love single elimination to promote baseball with all 14 teams here," said Templeton, a former Mississippi State AD. "The coaches will never go for it."
Templeton lives and breathes scheduling. He heads the SEC transition committee for Texas A&M and Missouri, meaning he's charged with fitting square pegs in round holes to schedule every sport.
Future football and men's basketball schedules will be set next week at the SEC spring meetings in Destin, Fla. Templeton feels fairly confident in saying this: There won't be nine SEC football games, and the next SEC men's basketball tournament will have two play-in games.
Jon Solomon is a columnist for The Birmingham News. Join him for live web chats on college sports on Wednesdays at 2 p.m.
OK, "play-in games" are my words, not Templeton's. Another duty of scheduling gurus is framing terms favorably to lessen the stigma of, well, play-in-games. "They will not be play-in games," Templeton said. "They will be seeded games." ...
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