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Wrong - Bama signed a contract well in advance to get paid a shitpot of money to show at Mercedes Benz stadium to play an ACC team. No one is quite sure who that team would be. You do realize there are other teams in the ACC besides Clemson? The Chick-Fil-A people in a sense "broker" the game in that they are responsible for finding the opponent. Bama will be there ready to play, so ACC schools who wants a big pay day to play Bama?

The answer we got back was: Duke.

And it had nothing to do with bama fear. It had everything with Bama agreeing to play a team from the acc with no idea how the scheduling would work out

Plenty of informed fans shite on your old AD for getting into that contract in the first place not knowing the opponenet

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Posted by 14&Counting

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Posted on 1/2/19 at 3:09 pm to lsupride87

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Plenty of informed fans shite on your old AD for getting into that contract in the first place not knowing the opponenet

Dude - no one is excited about a neutral site with Duke I assure you. Also as I have pointed out that is one clunker in 19 years and bama has done far better at scheduling OOC games than anyone else in the SEC

B/T/W - The process was identical for the games at AT&T in Dallas only with the PAC12. Bama did the exact same thing under identical terms. Now Byrne was a little smarter about it: there were two Pac12 teams that had an open date for 2021 and one was Southern Cal. We just did AT&T with those guys so it was pretty much a lock that USC would take the game and rematch. We were more careful that we didn't get stuck with a Duke type game again.

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