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re: Fox Sports - Alabama actively plans an "atrocious schedule" and gets away with it
Posted on 11/2/17 at 9:13 pm to TrueTigerTale
Posted on 11/2/17 at 9:13 pm to TrueTigerTale
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Posted on 11/2/17 at 9:13 pm to TrueTigerTale
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Joel Klatt breaksdown Alabama's "atrocious" schedule. Of all top ten teams, Bama plays the fewest games of any team on the road on an opp's home field.
Alabama "actively schedules the weakest teams" in the country and gets away with it. Ouch!
I don't disagree. Bama hasn't played a Power 5 OOC team on the road since 2011. To put that in perspective, the team they played was Penn State. That game ended up being the final loss of Joe Paterno's career. That's how long ago it was. The OOC schedule is a complete joke. Schedule some home and homes with Texas or Notre Dame or OU or some other good Power 5 teams. I despise these neutral site OOC games.
Posted on 11/2/17 at 9:13 pm to TrueTigerTale
Posted on 11/2/17 at 9:13 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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FWIW, the vast majority of Bama fans are absolutely sick of these neutral site games.
LSU fans are too, but we did schedule Wisconsin in Green Bay, who has Alabama scheduled away that was that strong in the last decade?
Crickets?
This post was edited on 11/2/17 at 9:18 pm
Posted on 11/2/17 at 9:14 pm to Milk
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Name the top ten teams that schedule home and aways regularly with big teams.
Ohio State, Oklahoma, Auburn, Clemson, Georgia, Oregon, Notre Dame, Texas, USC, Florida, FSU.
Pretty much everyone except Alabama. Most teams still do home and aways with the occasional neutral game. Alabama could care less about its fans and schedules neutral games to boring places every single year.
Posted on 11/2/17 at 9:15 pm to Bench McElroy
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Alabama "actively schedules the weakest teams" in the country
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I don't disagree
Then you are pretty dumb Bench, because that's utterly ridiculous.
Posted on 11/2/17 at 9:15 pm to TheTideMustRoll
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Uh, we scheduled what on paper was the most difficult opening game in history for a preseason #1. Can't help that FSU didn't hold up their end of the bargain.
Go TO Washington, NY, Arizona, Wisconsin etc and come back and talk to me.
Posted on 11/2/17 at 9:16 pm to TrueTigerTale
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LSU fans are too, but we did schedule Wisconsin in Green Bay, who has Alabama scheduled away that was that strong in the last decade?
Ok, cool. Are you arguing with us saying we want to play more home and homes? The hell does LSU playing Wisconsin have to do with that?
Posted on 11/2/17 at 9:17 pm to SamuelClemens
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Go TO Washington, NY, Arizona, Wisconsin etc and come back and talk to me.
I'd love to, but please don't act like playing at Arizona or Syracuse is tougher than playing Southern Cal or Florida State at a neutral site.
That's laughable.
Posted on 11/2/17 at 9:18 pm to AUFANATL
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Bama has a knack for scheduling games that look good during the preseason but wither and die as the season progresses.
Most big name schools are initially scheduled 4-8 years in advance. The cup cakes get filled in a year or 2.
For example LSU plays Oklahoma in 2027 and 2028. Maybe we both suck, maybe we are both good, but what I do know is that several kids that are currently 8 years old will play in it.
Posted on 11/2/17 at 9:18 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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Then you are pretty dumb Bench, because that's utterly ridiculous.
I didn't really pay attention to the second part of the statement. The first part of the post was "Of all top ten teams, Bama plays the fewest games of any team on the road on an opp's home field." That is completely and utterly true. Bama hasn't played an OOC road game against a Power 5 team since 2011. Name another elite program who have gone as long without playing a Power 5 non-conference opponent on the road.
Posted on 11/2/17 at 9:18 pm to Monticello
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Most teams still do home and aways with the occasional neutral game. Alabama could care less about its fans and schedules neutral games to boring places every single year.
Alabama schedules the neutral site games for one reason and one reason alone. Recruiting.
I'd say it's worked out pretty damn good for us over the last decade.
Posted on 11/2/17 at 9:19 pm to Bench McElroy
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The first part of the post was "Of all top ten teams, Bama plays the fewest games of any team on the road on an opp's home field."
Nobody is arguing with that.
On the flip side, how many teams scheduled Southern Cal and Florida State in back to back seasons? Klatt's overall point was nonsense.
This post was edited on 11/2/17 at 9:21 pm
Posted on 11/2/17 at 9:20 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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.
Posted on 11/2/17 at 9:21 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.
Amen
Posted on 11/2/17 at 9:23 pm to TideSaint
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Alabama schedules the neutral site games for one reason and one reason alone. Recruiting.
I'd say it's worked out pretty damn good for us over the last decade.
We can recruit Florida, Georgia, and Texas just fine without having to play games in Dallas, Orlando, and Atlanta.
Posted on 11/2/17 at 9:24 pm to TideSaint
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Alabama schedules the neutral site games for one reason and one reason alone. Recruiting.
This. Everything revolves around recruiting and playoff/championship preparation.
Posted on 11/2/17 at 9:27 pm to TideSaint
quote:There is nothing fairer than playing a team on a neutral site field with equal ticket allocations...it can't get fairer than that!
Alabama schedules the neutral site games for one reason and one reason alone. Recruiting.
I'd say it's worked out pretty damn good for us over the last decade.
Posted on 11/2/17 at 9:28 pm to Mobtro
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.
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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