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Nick Saban reiterates his stance on SEC scheduling, favors NFL model
By Keith Farner
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Nick Saban has long been a proponent of a 9-game SEC schedule, and on Monday at the SEC Meetings in Destin, Florida, he offered an explanation.
“My deal is always play more SEC games because we couldn’t get other people to schedule,” he said. “Now more people are in tune to scheduling. Having a balance is probably the important thing.”
Saban favors an NFL model in order to make it equal across the board, and noted that the NFL does it to create parity.
“If they have every team at 8-8 going into final week of the season, the NFL would love it,” Saban said. ” … Things go into this like TV contracts. I’m sure a lot of those things will factor into it. I’ve always been in favor of playing all games against Power 5 opponents.”
Alabama’s Nick Saban, like a lot of other SEC coaches, favors an NFL model for college football: “Unionize it, make it like the NFL. Make it the same for everyone. Everything they do for NFL is to create parity. If they have every team at 8-8 going into final week of the season,…
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A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
