{"id":393273,"date":"2017-09-22T10:30:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T16:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=393273"},"modified":"2017-09-22T10:31:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T16:31:36","slug":"it-may-be-time-for-a-new-approach-for-football-scheduling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/it-may-be-time-for-a-new-approach-for-football-scheduling\/","title":{"rendered":"It may be time for a new approach for football scheduling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NutsBolts-9-22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-393313\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NutsBolts-9-22-1024x384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nick Saban has certainly been one of the catalysts for popularizing neutral-site season-opening games between major conference powers in college football.<br \/>\nNext season alone, Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, LSU and Ole Miss will open with neutral-site matchups.<br \/>\nThe change in thinking has been good for Saban and Alabama. The Tide is 8-0 in such games, with wins over Michigan, USC and Florida State to name three.<br \/>\nBut now Saban is rethinking the scheduling approach.<br \/>\nDuring his Thursday night coaches show, Saban said that he and Athletics Director Greg Byrne have discussed the idea of scheduling some home-and-home series with major opponents. Alabama hasn\u2019t taken part in such a game since winning at Penn State in 2011.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s hard to pass up the $5 million Alabama received for playing Florida State in Atlanta, or the $4.5 million the school is set to receive for playing Duke to open the 2019 season in Atlanta.<br \/>\nBut fans are growing tired of paying big bucks for season tickets that don\u2019t include a single non-conference game of interest.<br \/>\nWhat do you think? Which team would you want your school to schedule for a home-and-home?<br \/>\nFor Threaded Fasteners, I\u2019m 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-393273-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NutsBolts092217.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NutsBolts092217.mp3\">http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NutsBolts092217.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Nick Saban has certainly been one of the catalysts for popularizing neutral-site season-opening games between major conference powers in college football. Next season alone, Alabama, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/it-may-be-time-for-a-new-approach-for-football-scheduling\/\" title=\"It may be time for a new approach for football scheduling\">[&#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-393273","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\/393273","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=393273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393317,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393273\/revisions\/393317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}