Seems the students aren't too interested in watching their team beat up on some of the 30++ point underdogs which seem to be appearing much more often on their home schedule....Saban seems to be getting a bit testy about criticism of their scheduling
Can you post anything about ND football? You have developed a bad case of BDS.
I’m paraphrasing, but that’s essentially what he said in an interview last week.
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Of the country
Do tell?
You think Alabama is afraid to play Wisconsin your school?
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I would have asked him to name three schools who won't play them. Hell, just name one!
Of course, maybe Saban is conveniently leaving out some details like, "We have only offered to play in Tuscaloosa, with no reciprocal visit to their school." Or perhaps that they refuse to play north of the Mason-Dixon line.
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Bama tends to avoid scheduling games north of Mason-Dixon. It is a fact. It isn’t just Bama. Lots of warm climate teams do that. Are they “afraid?” I wouldn’t say that. Like Knute wrote, it is more about maximizing advantages. And, contrary to protestations, I do think weather is a part of it. At least in scheduling anything after September. If you have a team of athletes mostly from warm climates, I think you don’t like the prospect of playing north when it might be very cold. And up north you’ll even get below freezing temps in October occasionally. Make what you want of it . . . I don’t personally think it is that big of a deal. I do reject the idea that it happens because northern schools won’t schedule Alabama. What I find most bizarre about the thread is the almost hysterical reactions.
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My point exactly. And it’s plenty warm through October. So what are we talking about here? 3-4 games in November where 1/2 will be at home anyway.
This is a typical Whining discussion on UHND.
It was below freezing in South Bend multiple days in October just last year. You guys are going off the rails here. You are taking a reasonable point and and pushing it way too far. You are acting like the homers that you ridicule, . . just the other side of the coin. And you know darned well that if ND loses next week and any poster suggests the heat and humidity in Athens was a factor, you will shout it down as excuse making. But for petty purposes today, you are happy to push the angle about northern teams struggling with southern weather. You are undercutting your larger point by forcing this argument.
The comments that triggered this thread seemed pretty mundane to me.
Believe they are afraid to play up north?
Seriously?
Nor was it implied.
That kind of constant whining gets very, very old
get to that level. I would not mind seeing them play Army or Navy though, instead of some of the teams they come up with.
Or commentary? And is someone stating the fact they rarely come north much different from your comment about them not playing Army or Navy “instead of some of the teams they come up with?”
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Nothing good will come from it.
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They have the leverage to do it...and they do.
Pretending they don't, however, is pure bullshit.
Best response to this whole thread.
Have you ever considered why warm weather teams - let us say, for example, USC - will never, ever, under any circumstances play a late season game in South Bend? And SEC teams, you must think, have more integrity or something than SC? Wake up. Of course they will not make room for a late season northern road game. Quit being so naive.
To me it is tougher going from cool to hot and humid versus hot and humid to cool, or slightly cold.
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more often. And perplexing why we never see USC in South Bend in November. And it makes the case that southern teams enjoy a real advantage by staying south, where northern opponents have to face the greater weather challenge. Of course, you might have framed the issue in a way to misrepresent it: “from cool to hot and humid/hot and humid to cool.” That leaves out “pleasant to cold/cold to pleasant,” which frequently describes the situation in November . . . and even October sometimes.
You think everyone is from warm weather climate?
Let alone that they are afraid to play anyone?
Largely in the south. But also California. The link is from season before last.
Link: https://herosports.com/college-football/alabama-football-roster-24-states-94-cities-ahah
And has no such games scheduled for a number of years. You don’t seriously think nobody in the north will play them, do you? I don’t think Bama is “afraid” — when they have played in the north it has been against credible opponents— but I don’t think it is out of line to say Bama (like a number of other southern schools) doesn’t want to deal with the hassle and potential challenges (weather) of playing northern games.
Link: https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/alabama-football/congrats-alabama-finally-decided-midwest-scary-2019/
The rest are close minded homers. Hell, it doesn’t even get cold for these games until November at the earliest...
This site never ceases to amaze with its Pollyanna homerism.
And like I’ve mentioned before, I get where you are coming from and broadly agree with your perspective.
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I guarantee the students will stay, if you quit the walkovers over NM ST, WEstern Carolina, Southern Miss, etc,etc THis fraud is getting like Ped St.....