re: Alabama should leave sec

Leaving the SEC would be suicide

This is ridiculous, Bama built the SEC and will never leave.

...or just win the games in front of us... no one wants to be perceived as Notre Dame...

If you really consider the past 30+yrs you wouldn’t be as quick to judge. Its not just football that has been shafted, its the ath dept as a whole. Only when nick had established his dominant leadership did the conference not overtly push against ua athletics.

The rest of the SEC hates us because we dominate them in the only sport that really, truly matters, and we've also started beating them all more times than not in the only other sport that moves the needle in any meaningful way, too. I wasn't mad at Sankey for not standing up for us in the Bediako situation. He isn't the Alabama AD, he's the SEC Commissioner, and 15 of the 16 members of the conference wanted to see Bediako declared ineligible for their own selfish reasons. That isn't surprising, it's simply business.

At the end of the day we ARE the SEC. We aren't stuck in this conference with all of them, they're stuck in here with us.

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Leaving the SEC would be suicide

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Yes it would be, but if we’re leaving the SEC, I would pull Ole Miss, State, Arkansas, Vandy, Kentucky, Auburn, and South Carolina with us. I would extend an offer to Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, and LSU. I think the first 8 would probably come with us if we decided to start a new conference. Any of the other 4 would be welcome to join but would be a harder pull. Fill in the gaps with Ga Tech, Tulane, FSU, maybe Clemson, maybe UNC.
Texas and Oklahoma have already upset the balance of power in the SEC and there are people that aren’t happy about it and are saying “I told you so.” Those first 8 schools would be happy to come with us IMO to have a better shot at competing for a title without our newest members muddying the waters. As long as you could get 8-10 schools including Alabama, I think you could eviscerate this newfangled SEC, form your own league and I don’t think it would be that difficult. Go back to the original SEC footprint of Deep South schools and let the 4 newest members take Sankey and go to hell for all we care.

We’d better put some serious thought into leaving the SEC and finding or starting a new league because the long term outlook for remaining a football powerhouse in the expanded league is not real good considering the current state of affairs in the league and in the sport.

Wake up and smell the coffee! If drastic changes aren’t made to the current NCAA sports model, Alabama’s realistic goal every year will be to make the postseason in every major sport. And when I say make the postseason, I mean as just one of those teams that make it in, no real chance of winning it all. We cannot compete under the current circumstances on a consistent basis. We can’t buy a complete, high level team and other schools can and will do that in every sport. Duke is already doing it in basketball and the deep pockets are starting down that road in football. I hate it but I’m not stupid enough to turn a blind eye to the transformation of college athletics into a money machine where you have to put big bucks in to get big results out.