Posted on 07/29/2019 4:27:05 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
The Crimson Tide play Duke (at a neutral site) and host New Mexico State, Southern Mississippi and Western Carolina for their four non-conference games this season. That has led to criticism that they are playing too soft a schedule.
During an appearance Friday on “Golic and Wingo,” Saban shared his side. The Crimson Tide coach says he has long advocated for Power 5 teams to only play each other. He also says the reason Alabama struggles to schedule strong non-conference opponents is because teams don’t want to play the Crimson Tide. Furthermore, he says Alabama ends up playing neutral site games because that’s the only way some teams will agree to face the Crimson Tide.
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JUST DAMN.
Usually a team has 2 gimmes on the schedule.
3 at the most.
Well, as has been pointed out repeatedly on FR, the War Between the States wasn't a civil war in the strict sense (except maybe in Lincoln's mind at Gettysburg). I thought maybe you knew what the abbreviation was.
Closer to the topic, I give you (per the origins of professional baseball)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Red_Stockings
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_of_Professional_Base_Ball_Players
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So does FCS Villanova, where I went to grad school. Just sayin'.
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I’m admittedly ignorant of the details here. But as far as gimmes are concerned, don’t they look to strength of schedule in evaluating the teams? I think the NFL does that as part of the playoff tie breaker criteria.
In fact, could a gimme win sometimes be negative? For example if you defeat No Name Stae by 33-26 instead if it being a 66-7 blowout , couldn’t that work against you?, Even though the game still goes in the books as a win?
I didn’t think you were attacking Saban.
Saban didn’t call for a rematch of the championship game vs Clemson. It was a few years ago they tried to schedule a game to open this season.
These games are usually scheduled years in advance and you don’t know how good a team will be 3-5 years down the road.
I wouldn’t want to open vs Bama or a good opponent because it often leaves you beat up for the rest of the season. The FSU game in 2017 is a good example. Both Bama and FSU were beat up after that game. It was a brutal game to watch.
It benefits both teams. The more powerful team gets to tune up for the season without worrying about a loss. The smaller team benefits from the revenue pulled in.
I wish the NFL did something like this. If colleges can get by without annoying, meaningless ‘pre-season’ exhibition games, then surely the pros can too.
maybe the king should get his players in better shape for the opener.
I think it would be cool to have the FCS Champion play the FBS Champion to kickoff the season.
end conferences. Open play. same rules everywhere. It’s 2019, we have jet planes now Gomers.
Keep one or two traditional rivals and mix not up. Someone set rules about scheduling.
Everyone wants to play Arkansas tech and dance for a breather so what. When I SC or Stanford going to play different teams. Someone schedule San diego state and see ion your catch your breath.
Get a computer in her and schedule on algorithms.
Pay the players enough to justify the cars you seek them now.
Let’s update the sport and fire the ADs
Maybe college should give way to miner leagues or city team. M<aybe then UCLA and USC could be LA and win some games. The players could have their choice e of colleges and play for the local team (s)
Most teams have up and down strength out of conference schedules, but the SEC and Bama in particular have glaringly weak non-conf schedules year in and year out. When a team plays a few tough games non-conference it gives the staff an early season view into how a young team will face adversity. When a good team never plays anyone tough they get thru more healthy than those who play harder schedules on average. The team that reaches the postseason healthy usually are the one’s that win championships. Ohio State Univ Buckeyes were the once in a hundred year aberration in that they were on their third string QB and beat two top teams in Bama and the Ducks. Sabin knows ESPN will host 50% more SEC games than B1G (B1G Channel) and he knows ESPN butters their bread with the SEC and hype them. That’s worth an extra victory every year for an SEC contender.
Saban was complaining last year that students weren't coming to the home games.
It does kind of suck when you've been so good for so long, that it essentially becomes a "one game season" and all the other games are just thought of as a prelude.
Naw, I’m thinking of ways to help the “mid-majors” earn respect. If there was to be a super-conference which allowed match-ups based on the Association football rules, the higher level of that mid-major would become almost a power-5 conference.
Imagine the Super-conference result of the American and Mountain West conferences:
11. Central Florida
18. Fresno State
21. Utah State
23. Boise State
24. Cincinnati
Houston
Temple
Nevada
With Navy and Air Force in the same mega-conference, how long would it be before 19. Army wanted in?
I would structure the playoffs so that the champions of the mid-majors would play each other for the right to get into the FBS playoffs, those games could occur during the first couple of weeks of December right in time for New Years.
Tye whole season could be tournament. Every team in each division. Let’s see North Dakota State take on a major team for 8th place.
Trophies for the champion and for the winners in each level by size of school.
Everyone can keep playing at least 11 games like they do in double elimination tourneys where you stay in when you lose..
add san diego state to that conference.
That's essentially what the FA Cup is. There have been teams from the Second Division that have won. There is also a similar tournament here in the US, and many times teams have beaten MLS teams.
“Those same incentives apply to Clemson, Ohio State, Georgia, Oklahoma, ... and yet somehow those top programs schedule tough opponents.”
“Funny how they can’t seem to schedule Bama.”
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Ohio State and Oklahoma squared off pre-conference season twice in the last three years. In the off-year Ohio State scheduled TCU, which at the time was another top team from the Big12. In that same off year, Oklahoma scheduled UCLA and Houston.
Clemson has home and away faceoffs pre-conference with Texas A&M and prior to that had home and away faceoffs with Auburn.
Georgia has Notre Dame home-and-away.
This is all Nick Saban cry baby whiner woe is me I can’t get a break the whole world is out to get me.
another option like English Football leagues are tiered. suck and go down a league. Succeed go up a league
Well he hasn’t lost one yet.
Well, yeah... I was basing the Top Eight strictly on last year... but SDSU would probably frequent the upper division.
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