re: Vote to keep 8 game schedule was 13-1

of course it's not. We had built a 9-game schedule with Arky, SMU, and a directional or FCS school for several years out before coming to the SEC. No one is suggesting the SEC is alone in scheduling patsies. And no one is even getting on Saban for his actual scheduling practices.

RE: our schedule. Upon getting our 2012 schedule, we already needed to fill 1 extra OOC game with only 8 conference games and then we also needed to replace Arky. The only way to do that was to buyout McNeese to get a weekend an opponent would play. Then we had to buy two more home games since La Tech refused to play us at Kyle first on short notice.