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At what point does the crying game end....

Posted on 6/19/23 at 10:35 pm
Posted by koreandawg
South Korea
Member since Sep 2015
9132 posts
Posted on 6/19/23 at 10:35 pm
I have a lot of respect for this dude and what he's accomplished. But for all the "he cares about college football" stuff. He could have made this argument long before now, but his team wasn't outside looking in at that time. This is a recent quote, not at the time he got left out.

“So but the problem with the way the whole system is, there’s no accounting for that, right,” Saban said. “So, all we do is take the teams that win the most games at the end of the year, put them in the playoffs. But do you really get the best teams? When they told me that we would be favored against three out of the four teams that got in the playoff, I’m like, why aren’t we in the playoffs?”

“Does that mean they have a better team,” Saban said. “Or does it mean that those people don’t know what they’re talking about? I really don’t know that. But I’m not being critical of anybody. But if you’re going to have parity, you have to have a better way of figuring out who has the best teams, not just because you lose two games on the last play of the game.

“That knocks you out when you may be better than somebody else who didn’t have the same circumstances that they had played.”
This post was edited on 6/19/23 at 10:36 pm
Posted by FireDanMullen
Member since Dec 2020
2888 posts
Posted on 6/19/23 at 10:38 pm to
He’s not really wrong. The SEC schedules announced are pretty fricking brutal. I’m all for it because I think it will make the game like the NFL.

Is it fair that Ohio State is going to automatically get in at 11-1 after playing no one but Michigan and a solid LSU team is 9-3 bc they had to play Georgia, Bama, Tennessee, and maybe a surging Texas or Oklahoma?

Ohio State got in the playoffs with 6 wins in 2020. Saban has a point.
Posted by cajunbama
Metairie
Member since Jan 2007
30949 posts
Posted on 6/19/23 at 11:20 pm to
You can stop crying about Saban anytime you want.
Posted by E.Hubble
Athens
Member since Jul 2013
1720 posts
Posted on 6/19/23 at 11:45 pm to
Alabama lost to the two best teams they played last season and neither of the teams they lost to made the playoffs. And saban really thinks bama deserved a shot?
Posted by Safety Blitz
The Backfield
Member since May 2022
1902 posts
Posted on 6/20/23 at 12:06 am to
This rates as an awful post. Quit worrying about it.

Posted by qman91
Member since Jan 2021
1857 posts
Posted on 6/20/23 at 9:00 pm to
When it goes to a 12 team playoff this will all work itself out
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