Sounds like a good reason to retire to me

[57stratdawg]

 

[Grove Sh.tter]

Poor old nick

 

[mdm3045]

He was really hoping for MS State to be one of the 3 permanent's

 

[The Cooterpoot]

He was really hoping for MS State to be one of the 3 permanent's

And he'll probably get it. Going to be other coaches complain too.
This scheduling can be a small field leveling thing for teams without the money of the blue bloods.

 

[WilCoDawg]

17 him. You want to be the best, you gotta play the best, Nick.

 

[Lucifer Morningstar]

To quote the late and great Robin Williams "How sad for you"!!!!!

 

[Drebin]

This is a pretty bad take for Nick. All three of those teams are permanent opponents today. TSIO and the Iron Bowl are traditions going back decades. LSU-Bama has been one of the biggest games in the SEC since the BCS era.

 

[greenbean.sixpack]

Im hoping Saban's complaints are the beginning of the end of the three perm opponents schedule.

 

[Seinfeld]

He’s managed to win 6 titles playing those three year after year. I think you’ll be alright, Nick

 

[jethreauxdawg]

Loses to UT once and can’t handle it. Sign of low character

 

[SchrodingersDawg]

17 him. And I mean that with all the lack of respect I can muster. 17 him and his university.

 

[theoriginalSALTYdog]

What we used to call, "Po mouthing"..........Poor, pitiful Nicky...........

 

[drexeldog23]

He’s managed to win 6 titles playing those three year after year. I think you’ll be alright, Nick

no sh t...

 

[Ranchdawg]

He’s managed to win 6 titles playing those three year after year. I think you’ll be alright, Nick

But, NIL has evened the playing field for the Big Money teams. He was great as long as he was the only one with the stacked deck. It will be much tougher for him to match those results going forward and he knows it. I feel real sorry for him and the Bummer faithful. ****

 

[thatsbaseball]

Next thing will be Bama saying if you're gonna make us play a tougher schedule we want a bigger slice of the pie. Just watch.

 

[Crazy Cotton]

Pretty crazy that State's winning percentage as a west division team is better than UT's in the east over the last decade.

 

[NukeDogg]

No pleasing Saban. He advocates for >8 conference games, says he doesn't want to schedule cupcakes (while still scheduling them every year), now he's unhappy with the draw bc Tennessee might not be the auto-win they've been in the past.
Sankey should ask him if he'd rather drop TN for UGA and see if that changes his tune.

 

[patdog]

No pleasing Saban. He advocates for >8 conference games, says he doesn't want to schedule cupcakes (while still scheduling them every year), now he's unhappy with the draw bc Tennessee might not be the auto-win they've been in the past.
Sankey should ask him if he'd rather drop TN for UGA and see if that changes his tune.

Another if his top 8 permanent opponents is.also the 2nd weakest top 8 team (barely ahead of A&M). If he right that Tennessee will move back into the top 8, the school that like drops down is Auburn.

 

[Puppers]

I think all of the uproar on the 3 permanent opponents is a bit overblown. It can be balanced out with the 6 other games and most of us are playing the three teams every year anyways

 

[The Usual Suspect]

We have played Bama probably more than any other team not named Auburn. I don’t care what anyone says we have paid our dues on this one.

 

[msstatelp1]

We have played Bama probably more than any other team not named Auburn. I don’t care what anyone says we have paid our dues on this one.

We've played them more than anyone else in the SEC. Tennessee is a close second. Auburn is 3d or 4th cause they didn't play from 1908 until 1948.

 

[onewoof]

He's obviously scared and intimidated. Lost his edge as he's aged. Just like the bear did

 

[ForDale3]

Nick saying I don’t know where we got those three teams like the crowd doesn’t yell their names every game in Dixieland delight

 

[BingleCocktail]

BOO HOO HOO

PS: 17 BAMMER

AND NICK? YOU CAN

 

[Bulldog from Birth]

What’s hilarious to me is that Bama and Saban are ticked off Tennessee is their “weak” team……when Alabama would also be throwing a fit if they took to Tennessee off of their list of 3 permanent rivalries. It’s their own fault they are getting Tennessee as a permanent because they’ve dictated to the SEC office they must keep that rivalry!!! They just want to be given favoritism and get two “weak” permanents even though they’re a top half of the conference program.