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<blockquote data-quote="Twangers" data-source="post: 1475487" data-attributes="member: 746185"><p>Besides being fraught with over the top dramatics, there’s a lot here that simply doesn’t make sense. </p><p></p><p>For starters, have you seen their schedule and/or factored who they’ll play for the SEC title? If you think there are only 3-4 games that pose issues for them (Or “matter”, in your words”), I don’t know what to say to you. That’s lunacy on a real level. Two, this is a typical OOC scheduling cycle for most any Power 5 school. It’s usually a 2-3 year block of a couple Group of Fives, FCS gimmes and than a big blow out “Oh my god this matchup is insane y’all” game (Florida State in Atlanta in 2017). Every school does this, even our beloved Big Ten members. Ohio State scheduled Oklahoma (A team with an incredibly weak overall schedule in 2019, including three crappy OOC games) in 2017, TCU last year (They turned out to be duds but that’s hindsight and irrelevant) and this year they’ve got three games they scheduled back in time as three gimmes (Cincinnati present day has some underrated talent and is a solid up and coming program, much like Duke). If it’s a slap in the face for one University to approach things this way, then we need to be just as quick to get our hands out and smack every other perennially favored Power Five program because as stated, this is a routine approach. Last and most importantly, the administration in Tuscaloosa simply does a fine job of understanding that because they annually play a murderers row of SEC teams, they don’t have to schedule games to prop up their SOS. I applaud programs like Clemson for scheduling teams like Texas A&M out of conference but Dabo Swinney and Dan Radakovich aren’t doing that for the sanctity of the game, they’re doing it out of necessity. They need to bridge the gap that their mediocre in-conference schedule creates. Alabama doesn’t have that problem. The A&M game (In Clemson) is easily the biggest game Clemson will play pre-playoff. For Alabama, it’s probably the third or fourth most difficult game they’ll play (And it is in College Station) in 2019. There’s no comparison. </p><p></p><p>This seems to be little more than an unnecessary “Let’s pile on Bama because it’s fun” type commentary. That’s hard for me to rail against as I loathe Nick Saban but that’s essentially all this is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Twangers, post: 1475487, member: 746185"] Besides being fraught with over the top dramatics, there’s a lot here that simply doesn’t make sense. For starters, have you seen their schedule and/or factored who they’ll play for the SEC title? If you think there are only 3-4 games that pose issues for them (Or “matter”, in your words”), I don’t know what to say to you. That’s lunacy on a real level. Two, this is a typical OOC scheduling cycle for most any Power 5 school. It’s usually a 2-3 year block of a couple Group of Fives, FCS gimmes and than a big blow out “Oh my god this matchup is insane y’all” game (Florida State in Atlanta in 2017). Every school does this, even our beloved Big Ten members. Ohio State scheduled Oklahoma (A team with an incredibly weak overall schedule in 2019, including three crappy OOC games) in 2017, TCU last year (They turned out to be duds but that’s hindsight and irrelevant) and this year they’ve got three games they scheduled back in time as three gimmes (Cincinnati present day has some underrated talent and is a solid up and coming program, much like Duke). If it’s a slap in the face for one University to approach things this way, then we need to be just as quick to get our hands out and smack every other perennially favored Power Five program because as stated, this is a routine approach. Last and most importantly, the administration in Tuscaloosa simply does a fine job of understanding that because they annually play a murderers row of SEC teams, they don’t have to schedule games to prop up their SOS. I applaud programs like Clemson for scheduling teams like Texas A&M out of conference but Dabo Swinney and Dan Radakovich aren’t doing that for the sanctity of the game, they’re doing it out of necessity. They need to bridge the gap that their mediocre in-conference schedule creates. Alabama doesn’t have that problem. The A&M game (In Clemson) is easily the biggest game Clemson will play pre-playoff. For Alabama, it’s probably the third or fourth most difficult game they’ll play (And it is in College Station) in 2019. There’s no comparison. This seems to be little more than an unnecessary “Let’s pile on Bama because it’s fun” type commentary. That’s hard for me to rail against as I loathe Nick Saban but that’s essentially all this is. [/QUOTE]
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