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Nick Saban lobbying for an 8-game conference schedule
Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:01 pm
Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:01 pm
Nick Saban Not Happy With SEC's Proposed Alabama Schedule
Nick Saban speaks to his support of future SEC scheduling model
Little Nicky is scared of playing LSU & Tennessee every year.
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SEC officials are currently looking to decide whether to move to a nine-game conference football schedule or stay at eight games once Texas and Oklahoma join the league, and in theory Nick Saban is in favor of making it nine.
That new schedule would be different from the divisional slate, where teams play six or seven set teams each season. Instead, each school would be assigned three permanent annual rivals.
But the Alabama head football coach isn't happy with the three teams he's hearing he'll have to play every year: all rumors indicate those rivals will be Tennessee, Auburn, and LSU.
Nick Saban speaks to his support of future SEC scheduling model
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Saban added that the new scheduling format is another positive now that Oklahoma and Texas are involved.
“The way we’re going to do our 7-team rotation, 1-team fixed. You’re going to play everybody every 4 years,” Saban said. “So almost every guy at your school is going to get to play every team in the conference, which I think is great as well.”
Little Nicky is scared of playing LSU & Tennessee every year.
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Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:03 pm to 4th and 1
Alabama fans have been in denial about this for almost 2 years. They swore up and down it was other schools who were scared, not them.
Meanwhile LSU has been for a 9 game since the possibility arose.
Meanwhile LSU has been for a 9 game since the possibility arose.
Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:06 pm to 4th and 1
I wish we just played an all-SEC schedule. It's horrible that so many years pass before two SEC teams play each other.
Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:09 pm to 4th and 1
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Little Nicky is scared of playing LSU & Tennessee every year.
He just whipped your azz so you're dickriding LSU & UT ... strange melt.
Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:10 pm to 4th and 1
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Little Nicky is scared
Nick Saban is a lot of things. Scared of other SEC teams is not one of them.
Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:12 pm to 4th and 1
It’s an article from March, the same one posted on here, 7 months ago. I’m sure, Saban is upset that he can’t get the automatic W from playing A&M , every year.
Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:15 pm to 4th and 1
I hope our permanent is UT and drop the Barn.
Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:32 pm to LittleJerrySeinfield
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hope our permanent is UT and drop the Barn.
Everyone of us do, so that, of course, means it won't happen
Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:37 pm to 4th and 1
Didn't we discuss this before on here & how he was pushing for MORE conf. games?
Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:38 pm to TheBestYouKnow
There are 4 Eastern Division schools who wouldn't go for that plan.
Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:41 pm to southernboisb
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There are 4 Eastern Division schools who wouldn't go for that plan.
Who? Why?
Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:45 pm to 4th and 1
This article is from march and there were multiple threads about it then. Sankey got around this by agreeing to 8 in '24, and then revisiting the issue next year when OU and Texas have a vote, both of them are for a 9 game conference schedule.
Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:50 pm to 4th and 1
The first article you linked is from:
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MAR 3, 2023 10:01 AM EST
Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:54 pm to Hback
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He just whipped your azz so you're dickriding LSU & UT ... strange melt.
This is what I was thinking as well. Not even 7 days have lapsed since the beating at the gaydome. I just don't get it.
Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:55 pm to TheBestYouKnow
UGA - Ga. Tech
Florida - FSU***
SC - Clemson
Kentucky - Louisville
In-state ACC rivals played annually.
***Sometimes Florida has Miami on their schedule as well...but def. FSU.
Florida - FSU***
SC - Clemson
Kentucky - Louisville
In-state ACC rivals played annually.
***Sometimes Florida has Miami on their schedule as well...but def. FSU.
This post was edited on 10/13/23 at 3:57 pm
Posted on 10/13/23 at 4:07 pm to 4th and 1
We already play those teams every year, and have winning records against all of them. You didn't think this through, did you? 
Posted on 10/13/23 at 5:09 pm to southernboisb
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Didn't we discuss this before on here & how he was pushing for MORE conf. games?
For years he did advocate for a 9 game sec schedule. Why he changed I don’t know BUT I can assume that adding Texas and Oklahoma changed that. No one wants a schedule with Auburn, LSU, Texas or Oklahoma, Gerogia, Tennessee every other year. Name of the game is to get to the playoffs. I don’t know that it would matter as much now that we are going to a 12 game playoff.
Posted on 10/13/23 at 5:16 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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Meanwhile LSU has been for a 9 game since the possibility arose.
I have said and believed it for years. Nick supported a nine game conference schedule when everyone else was against it because there was no way it could become reality. Once the landscape changed and others wanted a nine game conference schedule, Nick suddenly didn’t want it. He never truly wanted it.
Posted on 10/13/23 at 5:21 pm to I-59 Tiger
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Nick Saban is a lot of things. Scared of other SEC teams is not one of them.
You’re right he is calculating and always doing what is 100% best for him and the school he is coaching. For the one coach who for over a decade could only have a successful season by winning a national championship, it never made sense to add another conference game which could be Georgia or Florida. But when every other coach was against going to nine games, it had ZERO chance of becoming reality. Therefore, Nick could be for it with no chance of having to deal with it. Now that it might happen, he is no longer for it. Nick is many things as you said, and dumb isn’t one of them.
Posted on 10/13/23 at 5:25 pm to 4th and 1
I upvoted because I like Nick’s take. Tired of the conference beating each other and watching Washington or TCU waltz into the playoff.
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