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50 minutes ago, BB65 said:

Good. Negotiations should start with all SEC teams except tigger and aggy 

It may trigger aggy but it's also possible content for their championship wall.

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I highly doubt this happens given Bama's love of neutral site, not really neutral site, games against decent opponents in the OOC. But if two teams might have the cache to make it happen, it's Texas and Notre Dame. In for the away game.

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1 minute ago, Surly Bevo said:

Even if we did this we are probably looking 5-8 years down the road no???

Based on our futures schedules, I'd guess we're looking at 10 years down the road.

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Current future schedules (and let's see how formatting, etc. work on this new site):

2019

2020

  • 09/05 - USF
  • 09/12 - at LSU

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

  • TBA
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1 hour ago, Dark Horse said:

Bama play an away game OOC?  Never happen.

It is not about fear of playing an away game, it is about money. They make a fuckload of extra money playing all those neutral site games. Also is about recruiting. That is something Texas has over even ND, the chance to play in front of Texas HS recruits.

 

As a fan and season ticket holder, I do not like all the neutral site games but I know why they do it.  Let's go ahead and get that 2025 and 2026 slots locked down. I want to go to Austin before I die. I will go ahead and put in my order for Franklin's now.

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Well let's be honest. Part of it is money and part of it is controlling just how neutral the game is. It's not like Bama is playing outside of the south and Texas. Saban's not scheduling California as a neutral site. It's a brilliant strategy.

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49 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Well let's be honest. Part of it is money and part of it is controlling just how neutral the game is. It's not like Bama is playing outside of the south and Texas. Saban's not scheduling California as a neutral site. It's a brilliant strategy.

True but also, I don't think any Cali location has offered up any neutral site games. So far that has just been GA, FL and TX. He might accept one in LA, if the Rose Bowl offered one up, just for the CA recruiting bump. The other site to offer up a neutral opener(to LSU) was Lambeau. Not sure he would have accepted that, as WI is not a fertile as a recruiting ground.

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1 hour ago, bamachine said:

 I want to go to Austin before I die.

Dude, it's really easy to go to Austin. You don't need a game. I-59 over to I-20, there are various cut-throughs depending on whether you want speed or back roads. Hell, we could do it together, take turns driving. One long day on the road and we're there.

I could walk you around and show you where the cool stuff used to be.

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23 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

Dude, it's really easy to go to Austin. You don't need a game. I-59 over to I-20, there are various cut-throughs depending on whether you want speed or back roads. Hell, we could do it together, take turns driving. One long day on the road and we're there.

I could walk you around and show you where the cool stuff used to be.

Yeah, done the drive thrice to DFW and once to Houston. Figure it is about halfway between those two trips. Houston was like 3 hours longer. Figure Austin would be about 90-120 minutes longer than DFW.

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90 minutes from Dallas puts you in Waco, then there's 100 more miles to Austin.

 

Some theoretical motherfucker will tell you it should take less time than that. He's the one who's late, stuck in traffic.

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1 hour ago, Xian said:

Awesome. Needs to happy. 

 

Also should keep a west coast team on the schedule.  Really enjoy those trips 

This. UCLA, Cal, Stanford? I would LOVE to have those away games on upcoming schedules!

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7 hours ago, Basil said:

I am very much in favor of this.  Train Herman will be running on lubed rails by the time they get around to playing.

Speaking of which, has an NSAA forum been created yet?

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21 minutes ago, George Clooney said:

I’ve never been to a game at Bryant-Denny. Looking forward to seeing how it is there.

It would be a lot cooler if it was Brian Dennehy Stadium. 

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1 minute ago, Dbeasy said:

Herman must feel confident about getting this program back to elite. 

A lot can also change between now and whenever the series actually occurs. Imagine if this home-and-home had been discussed in 2008 for 10 years in advance. The confidence from the respective fanbases would have been very different.

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Bump, since people still don't know how to use the search bar or even scroll down.

I would be very surprised if Saban went for a true home-and-home. He probably wants a Birmingham-Dallas series or some shit like that.

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With Alabama's OOC schedule for the next several years and including the mighty SECSECSEC west, it's difficult to see them losing more than a game (maybe 2) in a year.  Must be nice, yet it's a very boring out of conference slate.  But with UT on the rise (I think) we'll give them a challenge, right?

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