re: If Alabama leaves the SEC, what would that do to the conference?

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I honestly think we could go independent like Notre Dame. We have just as much power play and tradition. The tv contract would be ridiculous.

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That is all true.

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We also could make our own schedule and still keep Tenn and Auburn on the schedule.

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That is false. If Bama left the SEC Tenn and Auburn would rightfully refuse to play you as punishment. By law Auburn would still have to, but the Tenn rivalry would be dead.

Hence why Bama never went that direction, never made a Bama Network. It values traditional rivalries more than say a Texas does.