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Nick Saban lobbying for an 8-game conference schedule

Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:01 pm
Posted by 4th and 1
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Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:01 pm
Nick Saban Not Happy With SEC's Proposed Alabama Schedule
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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.
Posted by Draconian Sanctions
Markey's bar
Member since Oct 2008
84887 posts
Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:03 pm to
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.
Posted by TheBestYouKnow
Member since Oct 2023
72 posts
Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:06 pm to
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 by Hback
Member since Aug 2017
9347 posts
Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:09 pm to
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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 by I-59 Tiger
Vestavia Hills, AL
Member since Sep 2003
36703 posts
Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:10 pm to
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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 by bamapoet
North Alabama
Member since Nov 2011
532 posts
Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:12 pm to
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 by LittleJerrySeinfield
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Member since Aug 2013
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Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:15 pm to
I hope our permanent is UT and drop the Barn.
Posted by southernboisb
Member since Dec 2012
7345 posts
Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:37 pm to
Didn't we discuss this before on here & how he was pushing for MORE conf. games?
Posted by Sooner a Reb
Maryland
Member since Jan 2017
1226 posts
Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:45 pm to
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 by Roll Tide Ravens
Birmingham, AL
Member since Nov 2015
42836 posts
Posted on 10/13/23 at 3:50 pm to
The first article you linked is from:
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MAR 3, 2023 10:01 AM EST
Posted by Perfect Circle
S W Alabama
Member since Sep 2017
6856 posts
Posted on 10/13/23 at 4:07 pm to
We already play those teams every year, and have winning records against all of them. You didn't think this through, did you?
Posted by AtlantaLSUfan
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2009
23183 posts
Posted on 10/13/23 at 5:25 pm to
I upvoted because I like Nick’s take. Tired of the conference beating each other and watching Washington or TCU waltz into the playoff.
Posted by Dawgs9
Where ever I am
Member since Sep 2012
1947 posts
Posted on 10/13/23 at 5:39 pm to
Aladamnbama plays those three teams every year now, makes no sense for him to start crying like fat babies arse now
Posted by gatorgrandpa
Georgia
Member since Sep 2017
2 posts
Posted on 10/13/23 at 6:49 pm to
Nobody is more scared of anything more than ugag playing texam
Posted by imjustafatkid
Alabama
Member since Dec 2011
50714 posts
Posted on 10/14/23 at 12:19 am to
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Nick Saban lobbying for an 8-game conference schedule


Subject line is a lie.
Posted by Hot_in_the_box
Rudy Abbott Field at Jim Case Stadi
Member since Jun 2023
1960 posts
Posted on 10/14/23 at 12:51 am to
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Little Nicky is scared of playing LSU & Tennessee every year.


If this happened 5 years ago, Saban wouldn’t say a word about playing Tennessee. But now that Tennessee is good again? He wants no part of them every year. But yet he was ok with UT playing Bama and UGA every year though
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