No more Alabama!

[CHSvol]

Hello folks. I have been reading volnation for a long time but finally decided to post something. I read an article that said Saban commented on his radio show that the SEC was going to a 1-7 scheduling model in 2025 and that their permanent opponent would be Auburn and that they would loose the Tennessee game. I just wondered if anybody else had heard anything on this.

 

[EaglesVols91]

Dear lord. Something tells me our permanent opponent would be bum **** UK or Vandy. Yawn

 

[VOLINVONORE]

No, but it is what ir is. I guess ours would be either Vanderbilt or Kentucky.

 

[bigorangecrush89]

The problem Tennessee has is that it is nobody else’s main rival. Possibly excepting Kentucky. Vanderbilt does not count, nobody cares. So it’s hard to know who they will pick as permanent rival(s) for UT whereas it’s more obvious for other schools. Kentucky would almost have to be one. They have no other historical/traditional conference rivals besides UT.

 

[Orange.]

I do know Saban has been lobbying to get out of playing his historic rivals. What a coward.

On the radio show, if the account I read is accurate, he spoke completely non-hypothetically as if relaying what he personally has already decided about the matter: "The way we're going to do our 7 team, 1 team fixed schedule..."

This fits what most sensible people long believed: that Saban would simply order Sankey (in Saban's Birmingham satellite office) to do whatever Saban wanted. No matter what the other teams wanted. Saban already told Sankey to nix the finished 3-rival format that was ready to be announced, and Sankey immediately put the whole thing on pause his boss. "For further study." This is Birmingham code for Saban doesn't want to play his historic rivals.

If there is only 1 rival game, I feel strongly that AL should have to play Tennessee or LSU. Those are the two teams he is afraid of. Those are the games everyone in the country wants to watch. Nobody outside of god-foresaken Alabama cares a flip about his Auburn. They have to play it on a day with no other games to get viewership. I don't even watch that game.

Alternatively, if Georgia and Alabama want to play every year, that would be okay. The schedule is always set for them to dodge each other. Let them play for a while.

The whole thing reeks of crookedness. It reminds of how Saban initiated and got implemented his new clock rule. He thinks that will rig things in his favor in his game with us.

Saban has never accomplished a single thing at AL without massive cheating. There is no evidence that he can win on a level playing field. He has NIL but he tried to con people that he wanted NIL regulated: the simple reason is that it levels the playing field. If he can get rules implemented he can cheat with impunity and he knows it.

 

[Sudden Impact]

Stated that SEC after next year will dump the 6-3 schedule for the 7-1 format.
He is either feeding the rumor mill to get his way or moving to SEC Commissioner's seat.
I thought this was locked in at the 6-3 schedule but evidently Satan did not like it.
This means the 3rd Saturday In October will be gone. That Chicken Sh**!
Satan is grooming himself for the Commish job evidently.

If this is an old article reposted then delete the Thread, but it appears to be new.

https://atozsports.com/nashville/nick-saban-tennessee-vols-news-alabama-football-schedule/

 

[CHSvol]

I figure Vandy for us, then Alabama/Auburn, Georgia/Florida, South Carolina/Kentucky, Missouri/Arkansas, Texas/Oklahoma, Ole Miss/ Miss State, and LSU/Texas A & M.

 

[vols 30]

Good! I hope he's right. We will still play them most years and I'm sure we will get Texas or Oklahoma the other years.

I'll take the auto win with Vandy. With the new SEC, an easy win will be hard to come by

 

[Raebo]

I doubt this is set in stone. Probably just Saban speculating. If it was set in stone, then the ADs would know who their permanent opponent are and the media would quickly know.

 

[allvols4life]

That's chickensh1t. The 3rd Saturday in October is sacred. Keep them so when lil nicky retires we can go back to beating their a$$es on the regular!!

 

[TAF]

OP

 

[SayUWantAreVOLution]

I doubt this is set in stone. Probably just Saban speculating. If it was set in stone, then the ADs would know who their permanent opponent are and the media would quickly know.

For years we've been saying Saban has the SEC office in his backyard, if not his pocket.

His info is likely good and listening to that little bit of his show, he appears to say "this is how it's going to be...." rather than it being one possible outcome.

He might be just trying to pressure Sankey but if so, he was really smooth in his delivery if you listen.

Edit: here's the video. At about 58:30 is the time to start listening.

 

[Orange.]

I figure Vandy for us, then Alabama/Auburn, Georgia/Florida, South Carolina/Kentucky, Missouri/Arkansas, Texas/Oklahoma, Ole Miss/ Miss State, and LSU/Texas A & M.

Vandy, Kentucky, and Bama are our three traditional rivals. Always have been. We beat Saban's ass and the next year he wants to end the series! LSU beat him too. Suck it, Saban. You coward.

 

[Orange.]

Saban says about his duck-and-cover 7-1 plan: "you're going to play everybody every four years, so almost every guy at your school is going to get to play every team in your conference."

Well that is intentionally misleading. In the 3 rival plan, every team plays every other team home and away every 4 years already.

 

[CHSvol]

I also heard Hugh Freeze said the same thing in one of his press conferences.

 

[bigorangecrush89]

The 4 years (Frosh-Senior) thing is meaningless now. Very few players even stay at a school for 4 years.

 

[Orange.]

The original post expansion scheme that we are playing under now, where the conference was cut into two divisions, was designed for the purpose of protecting Alabama from having to play Spurrier's Florida.

 

[Orange.]

I also heard Hugh Freeze said the same thing in one of his press conferences.

Alabama and Auburn agreed, and Sankey got his marching orders. Aubie is dodging Georgia.

 

[DenVol]

If they are going to one permanent opponent I totally understand why the iron bowl is a bigger rivalry. We will be stuck with Vandy or UK, because we are both of those school’s biggest rival. I’m kinda curious who would be matched with Texas. Would it be aTm or OU? Would the other automatically be matched with Arkansas? Or would it be LSU? I’m curious how a lot of those teams in the current SEC west plus the two new schools would shake out.

 

[Orange.]

If they are going to one permanent opponent I totally understand why the iron bowl is a bigger rivalry. We will be stuck with Vandy or UK, because we are both of those school’s biggest rival. I’m kinda curious who would be matched with Texas. Would it be aTm or OU? Would the other automatically be matched with Arkansas? Or would it be LSU? I’m curious how a lot of those teams in the current SEC west plus the two new schools would shake out.

The "Ironing Bored Bowl" is bullsh-t. They have to schedule it on a special day without any competition to get viewership. Tennessee-Alabama and LSU-Alabama are huge national games.

 

[Orange.]

If they are going to one permanent opponent I totally understand why the iron bowl is a bigger rivalry. We will be stuck with Vandy or UK, because we are both of those school’s biggest rival.

And who in the world besides us would be KY and Vandy's rivals? They'll be forced to invent two "historic" games.

I’m kinda curious who would be matched with Texas. Would it be aTm or OU? Would the other automatically be matched with Arkansas? Or would it be LSU? I’m curious how a lot of those teams in the current SEC west plus the two new schools would shake out.

That's it. Texas - Oklahoma -- a giant national traditional game will be scrapped because Saban wants to duck us. They'll take away LSU's traditional games with Bama and Ole Miss, and say they are TAMU's rival. But there's no history there. They'll scrap Auburn-Georgia. Etc.

 

[Orange.]

Saban is butt hurt. Sankey rushes in with the first-aid schedule change.


Birmingham in a nutshell.

 

[Orange931]

I do know Saban has been lobbying to get out of playing his historic rivals. What a coward.

On the radio show, if the account I read is accurate, he spoke completely non-hypothetically as if relaying what he personally has already decided about the matter: "The way we're going to do our 7 team, 1 team fixed schedule..."

This fits what most sensible people long believed: that Saban would simply order Sankey (in Saban's Birmingham satellite office) to do whatever Saban wanted. No matter what the other teams wanted. Saban already told Sankey to nix the finished 3-rival format that was ready to be announced, and Sankey immediately put the whole thing on pause his boss. "For further study." This is Birmingham code for Saban doesn't want to play his historic rivals.

If there is only 1 rival game, I feel strongly that AL should have to play Tennessee or LSU. Those are the two teams he is afraid of. Those are the games everyone in the country wants to watch. Nobody outside of god-foresaken Alabama cares a flip about his Auburn. They have to play it on a day with no other games to get viewership. I don't even watch that game.

Alternatively, if Georgia and Alabama want to play every year, that would be okay. The schedule is always set for them to dodge each other. Let them play for a while.

The whole thing reeks of crookedness. It reminds of how Saban initiated and got implemented his new clock rule. He thinks that will rig things in his favor in his game with us.

Saban has never accomplished a single thing at AL without massive cheating. There is no evidence that he can win on a level playing field. He has NIL but he tried to con people that he wanted NIL regulated: the simple reason is that it levels the playing field. If he can get rules implemented he can cheat with impunity and he knows it.

Spot on. It’s the only reason he hates NIL. We’re starting to see the results why.

 

[volfan102455]

Good grief - someone doesn't want to play certain teams every year.

How about have all 12 games be against conference members. Each team has 9 that they play every year, with 3 rotating. Brutal - yes but no one is getting out of not playing the teams they don't want to play that way. And everyone gets to play Vandy twice in a 4 year time frame.

 

[GUNTERSVOL]

Hello folks. I have been reading volnation for a long time but finally decided to post something. I read an article that said Saban commented on his radio show that the SEC was going to a 1-7 scheduling model in 2025 and that their permanent opponent would be Auburn and that they would loose the Tennessee game. I just wondered if anybody else had heard anything on this.

I want a 0 & 9 model. No permanent. Fully rotational is the only way to possibly level the playing field. Got ONE game you can’t live without then allow games to be played outside conference calculations with 1 of the 3 slots available. Not rocket science.