Kalen DeBoer talks Alabama football roster retention for 2025
Here’s what Kalen DeBoer said about the Alabama football roster heading into 2025.
The SEC faces a choice with its future football schedule: Opt for rivalry games like Alabama-Tennessee and Auburn-Georgia, or continue with cupcake games?If SEC finally embraces a ninth conference game, it could come with a financial reward from media partner ESPN.Rivalry games promote strength of SEC’s brand, but can conference’s membership resist the catnip of games against directional schools?
Picture the scene in “Shawshank Redemption” when Morgan Freeman’s character goes in front of the parole board, expecting to be rejected once again. He comments on the mockery of the proceeding and says bluntly, “You go on and stamp your forms, sonny, and stop wasting my time, because, to tell you the truth, I don’t give a (expletive).”
Yeah, that just about sums up my feelings on this upcoming SEC football scheduling debate.
Stay at eight conference games, or go to nine, I don’t much care anymore. Just put the schedule format to a vote in what will be a high-profile discussion item this week at the SEC spring meetings and make a decision.
As it stands, the SEC has approved no schedule format beyond the upcoming 2025 season.
The SEC carried on this scheduling charade for years since the announcement of Texas and Oklahoma joining the league. Some conference members previously pretended like they wanted an additional conference game, only to turtle up come voting time and preserve the eight-game conference schedule that’s supplemented with a feast of non-conference cupcake games.
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Before this came up for vote the last time in 2023, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey…
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