re: Fox Sports - Alabama actively plans an "atrocious schedule" and gets away with it

At the end of the day Saban knows he can out-talent anyone. But he has a fairly inexperienced team in every season opener because he loses so many juniors to the draft. So he figures why should he send his inexperienced team to a tough road opener every other year if the committee isn't going to penalize him for it. I don't blame Saban one bit. The neutral games make money, help recruiting, and improve the SOS. But they absolutely suck for Bama fans who are asked to spend thousands for a lousy home ticket package and never get to see other campuses outside the SEC.