All week we’ve been revealing plans to make various SEC schools great again.

Interesting as the individual schools are, and as many chances as they give to channel our inner Donald or Hillary, the big question for SEC fans might be how to fix not just one team, but a division.

In the first 15 years of the more-or-less modern SEC (with South Carolina and Arkansas, and the two divisions, or 1992-2006, if you like numbers), the East team won the SEC title game 10 times.

Since then? The East is 1-8 in the past nine title games and winless in the past seven. During that first 15 years, the East also boasted a 3-1 edge in national champions. Since then? It’s 5-1 for the West. So how do you fix a division?

Here are five ways to make the SEC East great again.

1. Feed the Big Dogs Again

The reason for the West’s dominance in recent years is generally the incredibly success of the biggest programs. Nick Saban turned Alabama into Alabama again. LSU has popped up in the title picture a couple of times, and even Auburn put together a big run.

Meanwhile, in those past nine years, Tennessee reached 10 wins just once (in a 10-4 2007 season), and failed to reach bowl eligibility four times. Florida won the 2008 national title in one last gasp of East dominance, but since then, has topped 10 wins twice, but also suffered through one four-win season and two seven-win campaigns.

Georgia has been the most consistent team in the East during this down cycle, but even the Bulldogs had one six-win year and two eight-win years sandwiched among their innumerable 10-3 campaigns that ended up just short of glory. The East won’t get healthy until the top teams are back.

2. Don’t let the Little Dogs starve, either

But the corollary to this is that the West is also tougher now because the bottom of the division has greatly improved. Over the past decade, the two weakest teams in the West have been Ole Miss and Mississippi State. In 2014, the Bulldogs rose to No. 1 in the country, the Rebels No. 3. In 2015, Ole Miss won 10 games, Mississippi State nine.

Meanwhile, during the past nine years, Vandy has had six losing seasons, including two with 10 losses, and Kentucky has had six losing years in a row, including their own pair of 2-10 campaigns. With South Carolina tumbling from three consecutive 11-win seasons to 7-6 and 3-9 in the past two years, this troubling pattern continues to hurt the East in a big way.

3. Win the coaching brain drain

In 2006, the East teams were coached by Fulmer, Meyer, Richt, Spurrier, Bobby Johnson and Rich Brooks. Not half bad. Of course, since then the schools have endured coaches like Derek Dooley, Will Muschamp, Joker Phillips and Robbie Caldwell.

With the end of the Richt and Spurrier eras, none of the East teams has the same head coach as it did even four years ago. Butch Jones and Mark Stoops are the longest tenured SEC East coaches. Both started in 2013. Meanwhile, the West has Saban, Les Miles, Dan Mullen, etc.

Jimmys and Joes matter more than Xs and Os, but the East has to start winning more games on the sidelines.

4. Win the recruiting battles

Year in and year out, the biggest recruiting stages include Florida and Georgia. While states like Alabama and Mississippi produce tons of talent on a per capita basis, there are several hundred percent fewer 5-star recruits who are in the state of Alabama than are in Florida or Georgia . So why can’t the Bulldogs beat Alabama when the Tide have to split the state with Auburn? Well, the first three factors matter, but whether it’s chicken and egg or egg and chicken, the East’s chicken is laying too many three-star eggs and not enough title-winning star recruits. Maybe Georgia’s five-star quarterback Jacob Eason can help turn the tide.

5. Bring back the excitement

Not only was the East more successful in the 1992-2006 glory days, it was often more exciting. Whether it was Spurrier’s Fun ‘N’ Gun at Florida, the aerial exploits of Peyton Manning at Tennessee, or even Hal Mumme’s Air Raid at Kentucky, the East made football fun.

Nowadays? Not so much. Alabama is exciting because it is just soul-crushingly good. Ole Miss and Texas A&M are the most stylistically entertaining teams in the conference. The East needs something a little more exciting than 3 yards and a cloud of dust.