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FUAT, FUABOT, and anyone who thinks we have to play them to have validation. I would be afraid that some of the ingrained corruption might be contagious. IMHO Coach Clark has done an exceptional job of returning our athletic department to the principles Coach Bartow built it on.

It doesn't bother me that he keeps writing about this. It reminds people that the "changing landscape of college athletes / these trying economic times" narrative that the BOT and company were spinning for cutting football flies in the face of cutting a few $1.5 million checks each season to any other football program in the country but ours.

But I say straight up home-and-home in new BJCC stadium or no dice.

I am pleased with the schedule and recruiting ratings UAB has so far. All this expressed vitriol over Bama playing UAB is just par for this state's attitude in sports. In almost EVERY OTHER SEC (and ACC) state, the SEC/ACC schools from time to time play their instate midmajor counterparts with no particular notice being taken. Only in Alabama is such a huge fuss made over such a game within the state. Perhaps when nearly every other national ranking shows Alabama in the bottom 10, it is considered an imperative to protect the one thing where it is ranked #1.

It is in my opinion, no more deserving of notice than is given when the two schools meet in baseball, softball or golf. The game would be played, the results noted, the usual banter over who won and by what margin and then the next game on the schedule would become important. That is the way other states seem to be able to handle it.

Let's not play them in anything. Screw em. Stop the baseball, softball, and tennis. Screw em.

(01-31-2016 11:37 AM)rook360 Wrote:  But your statement makes it seem like "Oh, UAB finalized their schedule already so UA never had a chance to ask." correct me if I'm wrong.

That's not what I'm saying. I'm sure we are all aware that UA is never going to ask UAB to schedule a football game in Tuscaloosa. It would be on UAB to make that happen.

Personally, I don't think this would happen because UAB wouldn't be able to get the same type payout (because both schools are in the same system) or football exposure (because UAB football isn't an unknown in this state) as they will from playing an out-of-state school. I think people acting like there's some grand conspiracy with respect to scheduling, like Scarbinsky seems to be doing, are blowing this way out of proportion. No one outside of this state would view UA playing UAB any differently than they will view UA playing Mercer. To act like UA gains or loses anything from playing either team is ludicrous.

I don't really know what UAB would gain from such a game either. UAB doesn't need any more recognition in the state of Alabama. Why would playing UA be more beneficial to UAB than playing the Florida game scheduled for the same week as UA's Mercer game? I guess I just don't understand why people see this as a problem.

Why are so many so hung up on bama paying out of state schools? Every time we go somewhere else, the same could be said about the school paying us. I honestly couldn't care less about the money, that is meaningless. As much as many on here hate Saban, he at least tried to help Clark out. I have always had respect for Saban as a coach, and have more respect for him as a person after at least trying to make a call on our behalf.

This isn't about Saban or the football players at Alabama. It's not about a buy game they aren't giving us. It's about a system of representation that favors one group over the other two.

This article was crap by the way. I wish Scarbinsky would stop writing crap like this, because it doesn't help our cause.

(02-01-2016 12:09 PM)blazers9911 Wrote:  Why are so many so hung up on bama paying out of state schools? Every time we go somewhere else, the same could be said about the school paying us. I honestly couldn't care less about the money, that is meaningless. As much as many on here hate Saban, he at least tried to help Clark out. I have always had respect for Saban as a coach, and have more respect for him as a person after at least trying to make a call on our behalf.

This isn't about Saban or the football players at Alabama. It's not about a buy game they aren't giving us. It's about a system of representation that favors one group over the other two.

This article was crap by the way. I wish Scarbinsky would stop writing crap like this, because it doesn't help our cause.

Scarbo's ultimate goal is not to help our cause. His goal is to stir up readers and get page clicks. Pissing off Bama fans accomplishes that goal. Sometimes it also helps our cause and makes him look pro UAB. But all he is doing is trying to get page clicks.

He could just post, "Bear Bryant sucks," and the comment section would take care of itself.

Something I would never advocate, but

IF WE DID PLAY THEM...

I could see Finis & Ursa Minor calling UaB and telling them how we had to spend the check.

I think Alabama fans should be pissed that they have to pay so much for season tickets and get a cupcake like Mercer on the schedule. I mean there are plenty of decent FBS programs out there to play. That is also a subtext to the article that I think Scarbo missed out on. I think a fair argument would be that the fans spend alot of money for tickets, seat donations to get a decent seat, etc and they deserve to see a interesting game, not against a cupcake that they likely will blowout. He would have gotten some UA fans aleast thanking him for that.

I did find it interesting that except for Auburn, which it has to play (and supposedly it took an act of the state government to start that series back up), they hadn't played another instate team since sometime in the 1940's.

I am in the camp, that think we don't need them.