I love these toads. Oh, I'll readily admit that my school isn't in the same league financially. These guys all seem to mix up the concept of sport with the concept of the corporate business model.
I'll readily admit that we don't play the same type of schedule. We can't. These cowards are too busy lining up the UT Chattanooga Choo Choos and the Florida International House of Pancakes.
Frankly, Alabama, and probably Florida are the worst offenders in this. But lots more do it. The concept of fair competition on a level playing field has probably never occurred to them. They decide who to play (and not to play) based on profit instead. It's a hell of a lot easier to make fun of a team doing everything it can to move up in the football world than, gasp, actually offer up a home & home. Yeah, yeah, I can hear it "why should we give pee wees like you the time of day?"
I'll tell you why, they just might come in and kick your ass. It's a total lose-lose for them. If they won, hey, they were supposed to. But gasp, if they lost, the self declared equivalence to the Almighty might be questioned. Nah, better to hire hookers to come in and lay down on the field, than schedule a team that would come in with every intention of getting a big fat elephant hide to tack up on the wall.
Yes, just because you spew crap like this, doesn't make it true either.
I pulled up the Alabama schedules, they've been doing this since 2004.
Look, everyone will acknowledge that an SEC conference schedule is going to have tough games, every year. But one has to go back a long ways to see Alabama taking on the best in the country in true home and home contests outside of the South. The last one was 2002-3 against Oklahoma, the Tide lost both games.
NOW WE SEE WHY! When an SEC team does such a thing, they might LOSE!
Since then, Alabama has lined up mostly punching bags to play at home in the only games they control, those 4 non conference games. Oh, they'll play perhaps one decent team, but carefully arranged to be a very winnable one, like Penn St. or WVU teams that were a shadow of their former greatness. Or if they do play a good team, get in in a neutral game scenario in which your fans will greatly outnumber the foes, like in Atlanta or Jerry's World.
But every year, every stinking year, they play an FCS school, and an entire parade of weak FBS programs, a virtual bum of the month line up, all carefully placed between tough in conference games. Almost always, the week before the Iron Bowl is a hapless blood donor, for example.
But we get it, those 4 or maybe 5 tough conference games justify the cowardice in the OOC, right?
Yes, just because you spew crap like this, doesn't make it true either.
I pulled up the Alabama schedules, they've been doing this since 2004.
Look, everyone will acknowledge that an SEC conference schedule is going to have tough games, every year. But one has to go back a long ways to see Alabama taking on the best in the country in true home and home contests outside of the South. The last one was 2002-3 against Oklahoma, the Tide lost both games.
NOW WE SEE WHY! When an SEC team does such a thing, they might LOSE!
Since then, Alabama has lined up mostly punching bags to play at home in the only games they control, those 4 non conference games. Oh, they'll play perhaps one decent team, but carefully arranged to be a very winnable one, like Penn St. or WVU teams that were a shadow of their former greatness. Or if they do play a good team, get in in a neutral game scenario in which your fans will greatly outnumber the foes, like in Atlanta or Jerry's World.
But every year, every stinking year, they play an FCS school, and an entire parade of weak FBS programs, a virtual bum of the month line up, all carefully placed between tough in conference games. Almost always, the week before the Iron Bowl is a hapless blood donor, for example.
But we get it, those 4 or maybe 5 tough conference games justify the cowardice in the OOC, right?
