Alabama getting special treatment?
by RocketDawg on Mar 11, 2010 5:42 PM EST
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I just read a story where the SEC is going back and moving some games around to accomodate Nick Satan and Bammy. Evidently they were supposed to have 6 of 8 SEC games where their opponent is coming off a bye week so the league office is "addressing this now so we don't have to do it again down the road...". Really? So the entire month away from Athens for the Dawgs every other year is just tough sh*t, but poor little Nicky can go whine to the league office about how unfair it is for his team to play 6 of its 8 league opponents off a bye and they completely rework the 2010 schedule to appease him?
What a freaking load of crap!
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Spurrier's similar whining in the early '90s . . .
. . . produced a similar schedule change, sparing the Gators their usual back-to-back clashes with Auburn and Georgia. While that was by no means the only (or even the most important) factor in turning the tide of the Cocktail Party series, it certainly helped the Sunshine State Saurians in their successful quest to become the dominant team in the SEC.
Go 'Dawgs!
just to be clear on this...
what would be your reaction if georgia found itself facing six of it’s eight conference foes coming off a bye?
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My reaction would be to gripe about it but deal with it
It isn’t as though Georgia fans haven’t had to deal with similar circumstances before, including a recurring scenario under which Steve Spurrier’s complaining shifted the schedule prior to the Cocktail Party.
It falls that way for teams periodically; it just happens to be Alabama’s turn. Seeing as how the Crimson Tide are coming off of a national championship, a tougher slate for ‘Bama is perfectly in line with how the NFL would do it, and it’s just how the chips fell.
How would you feel if this happened to Auburn and Gene Chizik groused his way into getting the whole conference schedule changed just to benefit his team?
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the fact that alabama regularly has to deal with this situation...
is just the way it is. the difference this year is the extreme disparity of the problem. over the past three seasons the most any team other than alabama has had to face an sec rival coming off a bye was five. we just got handed more than that in one single season.
yes, i’d be upset if chizik were able to get something done “just to benefit his team” but that’s a loaded way to put the question. no, i’m not keen on the fact auburn always puts their bye before the iron bowl but that’s just part of the way things go.
but the fact is everyone is doing it this year and that’s grossly unfair, we want that to be addressed and at least moved back into “loaded against us.” the point here isn’t that we don’t like people having their bye weeks before they play against us, rather what we have a problem with is that three fourths of our conference rivals have bye weeks in advance of playing us. that’s an important distinction.
alabama fans have been aware of this problem for some time, months actually. to use the fact the conference has said it is taking action as an opportunity to label us “whiners” is disingenuous at best. it would seem taking steps to ensure at least a modicum of fairness in the scheduling would be something to the benefit of everyone in the conference.
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When the schedule goes against you in a particular year...
… you hunker down and deal with it. You don’t whine like a stuck yellow jacket pig until somebody changes the schedule for you. And in spite of your claims, whining is precisely what Alabama fans are doing. Making excuses about how the schedule is “unfair” and harping on it over and over constitutes whining in my book.
Football ain’t fair. Scheduling ain’t fair. You want fair… go to Perry in October.
by vineyarddawg on Mar 15, 2010 8:49 AM EDT up reply actions
Not sure this qualifies as a true source link
but it does provide quotes and a source so I suppose it will do.
Spurrier was certainly hell-bent on beating the Dawgs…it was leftover from his bitter days in the 60s when we couldn’t beat yall.
It was just that one game in '66 that deprived Florida of the SEC title
The ‘60s actually were a period of Gator hegemony in the series. Vince Dooley didn’t start getting the better of the Gators regularly until 1971.
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by T Kyle King on Mar 11, 2010 11:39 PM EST up reply actions
Retro-Gloat
It’s the next best thing thing to Oxycontin, Morphine, Lidocaine…..Preparation H.
I remember……bite me
I was born in '54
I do remember a lot of things that I don’t necessarily want to. When you read my comments from time to time try not to judge me too harshly. I remember the feeling of having hopes crushed by some heathens that assemble in Athens. We all get our day in the barrel sooner or later. As T. Kyle has told me three or four million times, “All Glory is Fleeting”. In the future we can just use AGF…AGF… I’ll know what you mean. I don’t come around to dabble in other people’s misery. I honestly empathize and I know that the misery will be mine again. I guess I visit your site because it’s the best one I’ve found. Sad ain’t it?
Oh, I've read your comments
… and I generally enjoy reading what you have to say. College football is supposed to be entertaining. And the entertainment goes beyond watching the execution of plays on the field: it includes the knowledge and understanding of rivalries and history and that strange combination of hatred and fondness that the rivalries and history bring (don’t read too much into that “fondness” bit: you’re a gator, so I hate you).
And I you
All it will take is another UGA win and I’ll be the poster boy for indignant, pouty nastiness. It’s amazing when we admit to ourselves that we have that capacity. I cannot stand not hearing anything about how the teams are shaping up.All things will start to materialize in August but I will be a miserable SOB until then. Best of luck until the cocktail party.
Isnt Retro Gloat some new band out of some old college town?
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
thats a bad article NCT
I mean, it calls Dooley a defensive genius.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
another thought:
maybe UGA would be better off if we lost that game – I mean, it put Steve Spurrier on one pissed off streak against us 30 years later. That is one hell of a grudge – like, seriously. Or at least not pounded him into the ground with Dooley’s “defensive genius”.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
There are lots of games like that
Georgia Tech would have been better off not beating Georgia in 1927, for instance. Losing that game in Atlanta (and, consequently, losing a shot at the Rose Bowl) left Steadman Sanford so angry that he immediately began cobbling together the funding for a first-class stadium in Athens. Sanford Stadium opened in 1929, the year of the stock market crash. Had Sanford not been so motivated in 1927, the project wouldn’t have moved forward so swiftly, and the Depression and World War II likely would have delayed the opening of Sanford Stadium by a decade and a half.
Go 'Dawgs!
Tennessee
had this happen to them either last year or the year before. Every East team had their bye before playing them
Yes, that is my son. Yes, that is a bottle of Crown.
And that worked out really well for the Vols, didn't it...
need to go shower now, after defending UT.
"Hush now, let it go now. I know it's time to go. Time to let this fall from my hands" VNV Nation, "From My Hands"
by Stuck in the Plains on Mar 14, 2010 3:21 PM EDT up reply actions
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