re: Alabama should play their yearly lower tier FCS opponents at the new Birmingham stadium.

That stadium has zero chance of ever hosting a Bama game. The infrastructure isn't there and even when Bama doesn't put an arse in a seat there are still 90K there. Not just seating capacity but the amount of traffic would jam I-65, I59 and I20 for 8 hours and Protective and the surrounding area isn't set up for a Bama game.

As for Birmingham, I have said for years Bama didn't treat that place fairly (nor did we treat Mobile right either). Bama was scheduled to have one game there thru 2008 I want to say but a clause in the contract stated that if it was deemed inadequate the contract was null. Bama had the inspection done and the upper deck was deemed unsafe and removed so the USF game in 03 was the last one. Problem was, we never said goodbye to a dear friend that hosted many huge games over a century. Bama needs to play at Legion once more and say goodbye appropriately and college football fans over the country could see it once more. I'm surprised it hasn't happened and the Bama brass just said frick off. In that respect I think Bama is wrong. If it does happen it would be impossible at Protective though.