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re: Fox Sports - Alabama actively plans an "atrocious schedule" and gets away with it
Posted on 11/2/17 at 9:29 pm to Monticello
Posted on 11/2/17 at 9:29 pm to Monticello
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The Alabama fan base hasn't had a chance to experience traveling to a P5 non-SEC campus since 2011. That's fricking ridiculous. Awesome road games to college campuses is what college football is all about. If I want to see Jerry World, I will go to a Cowboys game. And Jesus Christ I feel like we play more games in Atlanta than in Tuscaloosa. Atlanta is like our new Legion Field. We play all our big games there and have a shite home schedule in Tuscaloosa.
Saban is 100% to blame for this. The Penn State series was scheduled back in 2005. They had home and homes set up with Michigan State and Georgia Tech but ended up cancelling both of those series and there's been zero whispers about a home and home ever since. Saban was the one who started this neutral site nonsense and then he has the gall to bitch about Bama fans not being enthusiastic about their home schedule. It's ridiculous.
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Posted on 11/2/17 at 9:31 pm to Bench McElroy
Y'all bitch about everything. If it isn't the home schedule it's Jalen.
Posted on 11/2/17 at 9:35 pm to Bench McElroy
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Saban is 100% to blame for this. The Penn State series was scheduled back in 2005. They had home and homes set up with Michigan State and Georgia Tech but ended up cancelling both of those series and there's been zero whispers about a home and home ever since. Saban was the one who started this neutral site nonsense and then he has the gall to bitch about Bama fans not being enthusiastic about their home schedule. It's ridiculous.
I totally agree. Like I said in my above post, the neutral games make complete sense for Alabama and Saban if the committee won't call him out on it. But Saban and UA could care less about the fans. That's the problem you get when you have a 30,000 person waiting list for season tickets. I too get tired of hearing Saban gripe about empty seats and fans leaving early. We play a boring schedule. What does he expect? It should be a wake up call that people who pay thousands for season tickets aren't even coming to the games and can hardly give away their tickets.
This post was edited on 11/2/17 at 9:37 pm
Posted on 11/2/17 at 9:44 pm to Bench McElroy
quote:We played FSU in Jacksonville his 1st year. Pretty sure that was scheduled before he was hired.
Saban was the one who started this neutral site nonsense
Posted on 11/2/17 at 9:59 pm to Bench McElroy
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aban is 100% to blame for this. The Penn State series was scheduled back in 2005. They had home and homes set up with Michigan State and Georgia Tech but ended up cancelling both of those series and there's been zero whispers about a home and home ever since. Saban was the one who started this neutral site nonsense and then he has the gall to bitch about Bama fans not being enthusiastic about their home schedule. It's ridiculous.
GT, not Bama, asked out of that series. Dantonio and Saban are good friends. Bama has beaten Michigan State 87 -7 in the last two games. They were not going to remain good friends at that pace. Enough was enough.
Posted on 11/2/17 at 10:31 pm to Bench McElroy
Would it help if you knew the 100% Neutral Site policy occurred because of an attempt to match USC and Bama in the 2013 or 2014 Chick-Fil-A Kickoff classic? It did!
The cancellation of the 2013-2014 GT series, at GT's request, led to Bama's 100% Neutral Site policy. At the time Bama had a 3-year H/H/NS policy in effect. After GT in '13-'14, they had '15 open for a NS, had MSU scheduled for '16-'17 and had '18 open for a NS.
When the GT series was cancelled, it just so happened that Gary Stokan of the Atlanta Sports Council had a tentative agreement with USC (read Pete Carroll) to play in the Atlanta game in either 2013 or 2014, USC's (read Pete Carroll's) choice. USC's (read Pete Carroll's) prefered opponent was Bama. The GT series cancellation opened the door for Stokan to make that happen.
When Carroll left USC so did the tentative agreement. Stokan, of course, was in negotiation with Bama for both years and wound up contracting Bama for both years. At some point during or after those two years, Saban decided he preferred the NS games. It was then that the MSU series was cancelled and Bama went with a 100% NS policy.
The cancellation of the 2013-2014 GT series, at GT's request, led to Bama's 100% Neutral Site policy. At the time Bama had a 3-year H/H/NS policy in effect. After GT in '13-'14, they had '15 open for a NS, had MSU scheduled for '16-'17 and had '18 open for a NS.
When the GT series was cancelled, it just so happened that Gary Stokan of the Atlanta Sports Council had a tentative agreement with USC (read Pete Carroll) to play in the Atlanta game in either 2013 or 2014, USC's (read Pete Carroll's) choice. USC's (read Pete Carroll's) prefered opponent was Bama. The GT series cancellation opened the door for Stokan to make that happen.
When Carroll left USC so did the tentative agreement. Stokan, of course, was in negotiation with Bama for both years and wound up contracting Bama for both years. At some point during or after those two years, Saban decided he preferred the NS games. It was then that the MSU series was cancelled and Bama went with a 100% NS policy.
This post was edited on 11/2/17 at 11:09 pm
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