SoldierGriz said:
Bisonation said:
Nick Saban says "See Ya FCS" and advises all Power 5 schools to only play Power 5 schools.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2017/07/27/nick-sabans-far-out-scheduling-plan-would-be-great-for-alabama-less-so-for-everyone-else/?utm_term=.7d958d27272d
Seriously, why would they want to play an FCS School? There is no upside. If they beat them, they were supposed to. If they lose....
We are more-and-more an event based society. Big time games against big time programs in big time arenas....If I am Alabama, I NEVER play an FCS opponent. Ever.
But let's not overlook the following excerpt from the article:
... here are some teams Alabama has played under Saban: Chattanooga (three times!), Western Carolina (three times!), Charleston Southern and Georgia Southern [addendum: when Ga-So was still FCS]. This year’s dead meat — penciled in for the SEC’s annual late-November FCS siesta weekend — is Mercer, which returned to competitive college football just four years ago. If he truly felt like it, Saban could snap his fingers and take those games off the Tide’s schedule, but doesn’t.
So Saban can talk big all he wants, but "actions speak louder than words." The coach (and AD) isn't about to give up an almost guaranteed win, so his opposition to the "six-win rule" rings pretty hollow. And there's no reason (except possibly history) for them to pick on the FCS Southern Conference. There are any number of nearby Sun Belt and Conf-USA teams that would jump at the chance for a big money game at Alabama, and most of them wouldn't give a s**t about a reciprocal home game.