Poseur Picks a Fight With Yet Another Fanbase

I’ll make Bama a trade: we’ll play six teams coming off bye weeks and in exchange they can play the Gators every year.

pull the trigger on that one….. wait what’s that?? bama, didn’t want any part of it? weird.

The comments thread on CocknFire’s post before Year2’s one…I got caught up for a good 45 minutes before I stopped myself.

Essentially, Year2 finds almost no advantage for a team coming off a bye week.

Key word: “almost”. But this is a pretty trivial argument to dismiss: if there’s actually no advantage, then the opposing teams should have no problems granting the changes. There are only two options here: you believe the byes are an advantage or you don’t. If you don’t, the only reasonable response is “Um, okay, we’ll move the schedule around. Makes no difference to us?” If you

Alabama complaining that the SEC is conspiring against them

That’s not the point. I’m not going to say that NOBODY is saying this, because I know there are a few idiot commenters at RBR who believe the whole world is conspiring against Alabama, but nobody with more than six brain cells to rub together is saying this. In fact, most of the problem is created by the SEC having too much space in the schedule to allow teams to schedule their own bye weeks, and they seem to have overwhelmingly favored taking those breaks before Alabama over the past decade or so. That’s not the SEC’s fault, but it is a trend they can fix by compressing the schedule a little bit. It’s pretty weak to take the arguments of the least stable/intelligent fans and attribute it to the entire fan base or the university itself.

if it was Mississippi State playing so many teams coming off of a bye week, do you think the SEC would consider, for even one second, changing the schedule just months before the season to make sure the Bulldogs didn’t have to suffer under such a disadvantage

If you said yes, you are either delusional or lying.

If you said no, you’re an idiot or highly ignorant of the facts surrounding the situation (I don’t really mean that, of course, but if we’re going to start tossing around insults, might as well play along). This issue was raised by Coach Moore at an SEC meeting and voted on by the other schools. They voted unanimously to both try to fix the inequity in the 2010 schedule and add a scheduling parameter to limit the number of byes in the future — it would likely be just as popular for a team that is probably going to lose no matter how rested the opponent is or is not and, in fact, Alabama’s “whining” is going to benefit everybody.

I’ll make Bama a trade: we’ll play six teams coming off bye weeks and in exchange they can play the Gators every year.

Bring it. Sounds like a nice SOS boost.

The last thing any college football fan wants to hear is an LSU fan complaining about an Alabama fan complaining that things aren’t fair.

FTFY

Alabama is unquestionably the whiniest fan base in college football, with the biggest persecution complex. (To be fair, LSU fans are in the top five – especially those folks in the bizarre “ESPN hates LSU” camp).

They whined about Means, they whined about the textbooks, they whine about the schedule. The real irony here is the screwed up SEC schedule is a result of whining by Alabama fans who complained that a split into the East and West would mean that the Third Saturday in October would be played only 2 out of every 3 years. Remember that, Bama fans? When you forced every single other SEC school to work their schedule around you? So don’t come looking for sympathy from me.

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To his credit, he knew the benefits of having two weeks to prepare for an opponent and he liked to have an open week prior to playing Alabama. I also blame Alabama for having a “Get used it, we’re Alabama, this is what we have to deal with” attitude. Even though this has been happening for many years, no one ever said anything about it before.

A bye week is a great advantage to any coaching staff and team. The fact that so many teams schedule an open week prior to the Alabama game is a testament to the value Alabama’s opponents put upon beating the Tide. I saw it as a player and I still see it now as a fan. It comes with the territory. If we want to wear the crown we’ll have to deal with it, just as the coaches used to say when LSU fans would throw beer cans at our bus and Auburn fans would chuck empty bottles of Jack Daniels upon us. They didn’t bitch; they said, “That’s how it is. Deal with it.”

It sucks that we’ve had to play so many teams coming off an idle week, but it is what it is. Hopefully it can be regulated in the future because it’s not fair. I wouldn’t expect anyone to change their schedules so close to the season because what’s done is done, but again, I do think it should be looked at in the future so certain teams can’t put all their eggs into beating Alabama while giving only a normal effort against other opponents. The 2010 schedule is in the books. If we’re going to be champions we’ll have to prove it the hard way.

It’s been slow around here lately. I think this is just what we needed.