{"id":342476,"date":"2017-06-05T10:21:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T16:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=342476"},"modified":"2017-06-05T10:22:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T16:22:13","slug":"alabama-taking-harder-stance-against-playing-in-state-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/alabama-taking-harder-stance-against-playing-in-state-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama taking harder stance against playing in-state teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/NutsandBolts-6-5-17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-342492\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/NutsandBolts-6-5-17-1024x384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How long has it been since Alabama played a non-conference football game against a team from the state of Alabama? So long that the school no longer goes by the same name.<\/p>\n<p>The team was Howard. And the year was 1944.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s 73 years. And based on the recent comments of new Alabama Athletics Director Greg Byrne, it may be 73 more years before it happens again.<\/p>\n<p>Byrne was asked about the topic last week at the SEC Spring Meetings in Destin, Florida. He responded: &#8220;I think we have a very good model that&#8217;s worked well for us and I don&#8217;t see that changing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always been an advocate of Alabama scheduling South Alabama instead of Georgia Southern; Samford instead of Western Carolina. But I always maintained that Alabama had a right to schedule whatever teams it wanted and that eventually that would include Troy or South Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>But Byrne&#8217;s comments take the topic to a new level. His remarks seem to indicate that it&#8217;s actually a thought-out strategy for Alabama to shun in-state schools.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no law against that &#8212; and I certainly wouldn&#8217;t want lawmakers sticking their noses in this argument &#8212; but it does make me wonder what harm Alabama officials believe would come from scheduling some of these games.<\/p>\n<p>For Threaded Fasteners, I&#8217;m Randy Kennedy with Nuts and Bolts of the Game.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-342476-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/NutsBolts060517.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/NutsBolts060517.mp3\">http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/NutsBolts060517.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>How long has it been since Alabama played a non-conference football game against a team from the state of Alabama? So long that the school <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/alabama-taking-harder-stance-against-playing-in-state-teams\/\" title=\"Alabama taking harder stance against playing in-state teams\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,106,176],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-342476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nuts-and-bolts","7":"category-on-the-air","8":"category-top"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342511,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342476\/revisions\/342511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}