🏈 Moore persuades SEC ADs on schedule issue

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University of Alabama Director of Athletics Mal Moore has persuaded his Southeastern Conference peers to ask the league office to make adjustments to the SEC's 2010 football schedule, as well as it's upcoming 10-year release of future schedules.

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[252BAMA]

This has been my #1 pet peeve for many years. There is no excuse for it being as out of line as it is now.

 

[CuzDoctor]

long overdue!! :swear:

 

[CtrlAltDel]

This has been my #1 pet peeve for many years. There is no excuse for it being as out of line as it is now.

Mine also, 252. I have mentioned it many times on other boards, mainly when speaking with rivals. Naturally they all blew it off as normal.

You know who we have to thank for this don't you? Coach Bryant and his teams. He browbeat so many teams for so long, the other teams were simply trying to win a game.

Back then, it didn't matter that much because 'Bama won anyway. All the fans and admin. basically didn't care because the results hardly ever changed. 'BAma just kept on winning anyway.

Around 25 years since Coach Bryant's death and it is finally being changed.

Thanks Coach Moore.

BTW, it wasn't just SEC teams that took an off week before 'BAma. Many of the marquee names, the big boys of other conferences, did also.

 

[Crimson&WhiteGecko]

Definitely needed. We'll see if anything gets done for 2010, doubt it though.

 

[CtrlAltDel]

Definitely needed. We'll see if anything gets done for 2010, doubt it though.

At least some hard data has been compiled on it, instead of just fans complaining. The facts, as they say, are out there now. I was always too lazy to go back and data scourge various places to come up with the numbers.

 

[lilstat]

I hope they change it for next year. Otherwise, we may be handed a loss or two just because of this reason. You seen how Auburn and TN played us this year. Both coming off idle weeks. Give a decent coach an extra week to prepare for a team they have a real good chance at getting a win.

 

[LBS]

With threads on this very forum asking if this is Bama's best team ever, I held little confidence that we would repeat next year solely because of our 6 rested opponents.

The SEC would get a bit of a blackeye with regards to this, as this would be aired on TV as a factor of a game each of those 6 games. Some games are no doubt going to be nationally televised. As should Bama lose a game that we were suppose to win, it will be brought up every time we play.

Poor management aired out nationally every week is not where ther SEC wants to be.

 

[252BAMA]

When you have a goose laying golden eggs, you don't kick the **** out of it every week.

 

[252BAMA]

I hope they change it for next year. Otherwise, we may be handed a loss or two just because of this reason. You seen how Auburn and TN played us this year. Both coming off idle weeks. Give a decent coach an extra week to prepare for a team they have a real good chance at getting a win.

NOTHING will change next year. They can't make them reschedule an OOC game into a date they had scheduled off before their game with Bama. And they sure as hell aren't going to reschedule the entire conference schedule just to accomodate Bama.

 

[ExiledTidefan]

Agreed. 2010 will likely not be changed, as that schedule is largely already set and planning has begun in earnest. I'd doubt 2011 will see wholesale changes either, because of the home/away needs of a 12 team conference.

Most of you probably recall how many times Tennessee got the week off before us back in the 90's and early 00's. This past season as well. The SEC office just hasn't been in our corner, imo, for a long time. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.

 

[252BAMA]

A lot of people say it's no big deal. Well, it was a big deal to Coach Bryant, so that's good enough for me. We also know what a big deal the ut game was for him. Big enough that for years he had tried to arrange the schedule so that he had an off week before the ut game. He finally managed to do so for a four year period. Then he and Paterno got together on the 10 year series, and he had to use those four dates to slot in PSU. Take a look at the link and see if you can guess which 4 years Bama played PSU the week before ut.

http://football.stassen.com/cgi-bin...t=1971&end=1994&team1=Alabama&team2=Tennessee

 

[alagator]

NOTHING will change next year. They can't make them reschedule an OOC game into a date they had scheduled off before their game with Bama. And they sure as hell aren't going to reschedule the entire conference schedule just to accomodate Bama.

Well, one year in the early-to-mid 1990s Arkansas mistakenly scheduled an OOC game the same Saturday the Conference had scheduled the Arkansas-Alabama game. For some reason, this issue was not discovered until late Spring or early Summer.

The logical and rationale thing to do would have been to tell Arkansas they had a problem and they needed to cancel the contract for the OOC game and find another opponent.

But, what did Roy Kramer and the SEC office do?

They told ALABAMA we had a problem and that we had to move two scheduled games (I believe this was the number) to accommodate the Piggies who could not write names on a calendar and see that one Saturday was a little overbooked.

One of those games we had to move was Ole Miss - which meant Ole Miss also had to move two games to not upset the Piggies plans.

To this day I have yet to hear a credible explanation for why WE had to suffer for Arkansas' stupidity.

So. The SEC office COULD force a change in 2010. I bet they DO NOT though. The earlier argument that the SEC Office might not want this unfairness pointed out REPEATEDLY on national television, not to mention the unstated but implied question of if the unfairness is the result of incompetence or bias in the SEC office, might result in some deserved relief coming our way.

Good for Moore making a stink now. Bad for Moore for waiting until it is probably too late for anything tangible to be done to correct this wrong. Again, a more PROACTIVE Athletic Director and department would have caught this before it is probably too late.

 

[252BAMA]

Agreed. 2010 will likely not be changed, as that schedule is largely already set and planning has begun in earnest. I'd doubt 2011 will see wholesale changes either, because of the home/away needs of a 12 team conference.

Most of you probably recall how many times Tennessee got the week off before us back in the 90's and early 00's. This past season as well. The SEC office just hasn't been in our corner, imo, for a long time. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.

ut has had the week off before Bama every year the SEC has had control (1992 forward) of making out the conference schedule with the exception of 2007 and 2008. What did the SEC do in those years? Made ut play MSU (ha, ha, ha) and gave ALL SEVEN of the others an open date in which to take off if they so chose.

http://www.jhowell.net/cf/scores/Tennessee.htm

 

[LBS]

What are your wishes reqarding how the fix the problem?

I'd like to see the UT game back on the third Saturday in October. What's the point of having a "traditional rival" on the schedule if the traditional rivalry is not also observed. I'd like like to see neither Bama nor Auburn have the week off before the Iron Bowl and the game played on the Thursday again (short week, but equal) so that we would have a couple of extra days off before the SEC Title game. I want off weeks before Tennessee and LSU.

 

[Swamptick]

I will believe the changes when I see them. That said, I am glad Coach Moore is trying to do something about it.

 

[SnakeFan]

I hope they change it for next year. Otherwise, we may be handed a loss or two just because of this reason. You seen how Auburn and TN played us this year. Both coming off idle weeks. Give a decent coach an extra week to prepare for a team they have a real good chance at getting a win.

Did you just give credit to Lame Kitten and that guy at Aweburn? I thought Lame's dad was the only decent coach in their family.:smile:

 

[alagator]

What are your wishes reqarding how the fix the problem?

I'd like to see the UT game back on the third Saturday in October. What's the point of having a "traditional rival" on the schedule if the traditional rivalry is not also observed. I'd like like to see neither Bama nor Auburn have the week off before the Iron Bowl and the game played on the Thursday again (short week, but equal) so that we would have a couple of extra days off before the SEC Title game. I want off weeks before Tennessee and LSU.

Along that line, I would like Alabama to think a little outside the box for next season - if it is not too late.

For the game the week prior to Auburn we will most likely play some school that makes a directional school look like a power program. I would bet we play a D1AA (or that stupid FCS tag) - and not even a good one at that. And I will bet Auburn is not told by the SEC office to schedule a game that same Saturday. Thus The Barn will have an open date and we will again work on a short week.

So, we should move the game against our sacrificial lamb to Thursday night and shoot for an ESPN2 or even ESPNU telecast.

Yes, we would be working on a short-short week for the D1AA team, but most likely they will play a game the prior Saturday also. So everything is evened up there. And, would it really matter if they do not?

We would then get two extra days to recover and prepare for the Auburn game the following Friday. The end result is we would actually have one extra day from a normal week - thus mostly negating the two weeks they would have to prepare.

I know this is in opposition to our long-standing desire to avoid the Thursday night warm-up game (especially when playing at home). And it would cause some problems with classes and parking, but if other SEC teams can pull it off (South Carolina and Auburn have experience handling similar size crowds on school and work days), I have confidence our people can work things out.

And we would get a national audience on one of the ESPN platforms for a game we in which we would surely look dominant.

 

[252BAMA]

What are your wishes reqarding how the fix the problem?

I'd like to see the UT game back on the third Saturday in October. What's the point of having a "traditional rival" on the schedule if the traditional rivalry is not also observed. I'd like like to see neither Bama nor Auburn have the week off before the Iron Bowl and the game played on the Thursday again (short week, but equal) so that we would have a couple of extra days off before the SEC Title game. I want off weeks before Tennessee and LSU.

Your last wish is possible only in years in which there are 14 weeks in which to play the 12 games.

 

[lilstat]

Did you just give credit to Lame Kitten and that guy at Aweburn? I thought Lame's dad was the only decent coach in their family.:smile:

I give credit where credit is due I guess. Don't get me wrong, I hate them with a passion but I will tell it like I see it too. Both coaches being in their first year did a decent job. Chizik more so then Lame. One year is just that though,one year. You have to stay on it year in and year out around here or your out the door. (See Tommy Tubs)