Alabama beat writer triggered that the Tide doesn't schedule in-state OOC games...

Are you really that scared of UAB, Troy, Jacksonville State, and South Alabama?

Skarbonsky hates Alabama and Auburn more than anyone else.

It’s his job for decades.

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Kevin Scarbinsky thinks The University of Alabama owes it to other in-state schools like UAB (lol) and Jacksonville State to schedule them instead of out-of-state programs like UL-Monroe and Western Kentucky

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LSU plays an in-state opponent every season in order to boost the lesser programs financially. It was a deal reached by the legislature and the school.

If you're scared, say you're scared.

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Kevin Scarbinsky

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Been waiting my whole life for this guy to go away & he never does.

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potential competition

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That makes you look small.

But then petty is en vogue these days.

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I have never understood this idea that Alabama owes smaller in-state schools a handout.

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State pride. After all, why does Western Kentucky deserve a handout any more than UAB?

I hate this argument. Kentucky used this argument FOREVER to avoid scheduling our instate schools, including Louisville.

I'd much rather watch UK play WKU or EKU than Troy or Southern Miss.

It has been this way all my life. Alabama and Auburn will schedule in-state FCS schools, but not FBS, and it will likely never change. Auburn played Jax State about 8-10 years ago when they were still FCS, and almost lost to them. It took a last minute score to force OT and Auburn won in OT. Bama had a similar game with Georgia Southern, and we all remember the loss to ULM.

Nothing to gain, everything to lose.

I graduated from Troy, and lots of the staff and students would complain about why the big boys in state would never schedule them in football. We would play LSU, Ole Miss, Georgia, Mississippi State, Florida, Arkansas, and other nearby P5 schools. Auburn and Alabama would schedule other teams who were in the Sun Belt at the time, like MTSU, WKU, North Texas, Arkansas State etc.

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Are you really that scared of UAB, Troy, Jacksonville State, and South Alabama?

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Yes, she really is.

It had nothing to do with fear of the program surpassing Alabama. UAB doesn’t have the support even with a new stadium. The outrage of shutting the football program down is what’s perplexing.

For years the Auburn fans complained that UAB couldn’t have success because they played at Legion Field. Truth is - Alabama State has more fans in Birmingham than UAB.