re: Why won't Alabama schedule a home-and-home?

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Duke in Atlanta? Is that seriously a neutral site game Bama has scheduled? Good grief who will even be remotely excited about that crap. If you're going to go overboard on cupcakes, at least play someone worth a damn in neutral site games.

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What are you talking about? Alabama's neutral site OOC games stack up to anybody in the country

Neutral site OOC games by year (rankings at time of game):

2017:
Played #3, #1, and #3

2016:
Played #20, #4, and #2

2015:
Played #20, #3, and #1

Who else can compare to this over the last three years?

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Look up at my list. Did any of those teams seem to think Bama had an unfair advantage? Virginia Tech who we have played twice as well? Mama doesn't drive any unfair advantages.

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Your list has frick all to do with the negotiations that you claim went on and failed between Bama and ND. Full stop.

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Bama is making a shitload of money playing these Chick-Fil-A kick off games against decent programs every year.

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Yep, and the venues with these new stadiums love a marque game with Alabama headlining. 'Cause we Bammer's are so hungry for football after the dog days of summer we travel very well.

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Your biggest problem (other than the cross-purposes one) is that the only real point of evidence is the season that just ended. In every other one, Bama won the SEC, just as UGA did this year. Would you be willing t make the same argument against UGA getting in if Notre Dame had gone 1-11?

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At one point I did say "voters/committee" because this goes back into the BCS years. Look, most every time Bama has played in the Championship Game they deserved to be there. But even if they don't deserve it, they always get the benefit of the doubt.

It's how they got the benefit of the doubt this year over Ohio State despite not winning their division.

It's how they were able to get a rematch with LSU in 2011 despite not winning their division.

It's how they were able to get back into position to play for the Title in 2012 despite a home loss in November.... to most teams losing that late would have sealed their fate. But Bama moved back from #1 to #4, staying ahead of 6 other 1-loss teams from major conferences.

Bama is always going to considered the best 1-loss team when they have 1 loss. They'll always be considered the best 2-loss team when they have 2 losses.

That's how it goes. And I'm not necessarily disagreeing with that notion... they've proven they deserve it in most cases. Which is my entire point. The committee/voters are always going to put Bama in the best position possible for them depending on their record. Bama doesn't have to impress with toughs scheduling. They are going to get the nod just because they are bama.

This was never a criticism. Not sure why Bama fans jumped on me like it was. It's just the truth.

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GTFO w/that garbage.

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What I am telling you is that Notre Dame doesn't see any upside to playing Bama no matter the stage or the payday. They don't really need the marquee game or the money for their program. It's not being scared but they know they will get beat.....and probably in an embarrassing fashion because there is huge differential in the talent level right now.

As I said, a lot of bad history between the programs and ND doesn't want to give Saban era Bama a chance to even the score. ND had our number in the 60's and 70's. So why give Bama a layup to even up the narrative as to which team is the GOAT. Scared they are not but why play Bama? What is the upside for them. Better to schedule an UGA or A&M.

...and I shouldn't have called you a homer but anyone that thinks ND plays fair doesn't know shite.

It's a real simple and shameful reason. CNS likes the exposure and the athletic department likes the paycheck from the neutral site games so they aren't even aggressively pursuing home and homes. I hope that changes some now that Byrne is the AD instead of Dollar Bill Battle. But otherwise, no excuse, I got nothing.

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Primo institutions are lined up and begging Bama to give them a neutral site game.

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Like Duke and Louisville?

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They’re about the equivalent of aTm.

Maybe primo was too strong.

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Why should Bama schedule a difficult OOC schedule??? The Committee doesn't care

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The flaw in your argument is that you presume that the committee doesn't give Alabama any credit for attempting to schedule strong teams. There is a bast gulf between scheduling a known cupcake, and a ttaditionally strong team who has a bad year. Heck, we've seen the NCAA tournament committee give ctedit to teams for trying to schedule harder OOC opponents. They didn't punish a team for getting UConn the ONE year they get a slew of key injuries and finish poorly.

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Why play neutral sites when you could schedule home and homes?

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Helps recruiting and makes us more money.

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They are going to get the nod because they are Bama

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Oh how I wish I could find the "Deal with it!" Cat Gif.