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Thursday, June 18, 2009

GEORGIA STATE TO PLAY ALABAMA IN 2010


You will accept these payments for your blood.

You got to hand it to my Alma Mater Georgia State. They don't even have a football program but in 2010 they will start one and have an agreement with the Alabama Crimson Tide to play Nov. 20, 2010, at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa. Holy shit! This is going to be a bloodbath. The Panthers program will get $400,000 and the notoriety of getting their asses humiliated by a SEC powerhouse. Actually it's kind of humiliating on the Bama side that they scheduled a football team that doesn't even exist. And I was giving Notre Dame shit for thinking about scheduling Army! Bama and Nick Saban upped the anti on all-time cupcake games with this agreement.

As a Georgia State grad I'm actually excited to see how the Panthers football program develops. Their head coach Bill Curry coached at Georgia Tech and Kentucky and was known to be an effective recruiter so I'm sure he can sell the programs benefits which are...uhhh...let me think...immediate playing time and a chance to play in the Georgia Dome. All of Georgia State's home games will be played in the Dome so that could be an effective recruiting tool. They also might be able to get in the kids who couldn't qualify for UGA or Tech. Before you know it they will be joining the Big East.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

One of the biggest reasons BAMA scheduled this game, if you would have actually researched, is the Bill Curry was Alabama's head coach from 1987-89 with a SEC championship. This my friend is somewhat of a homecoming.

Matt Fairchild (matt@sportscrack.com) said...

Cool but it's still a game scheduled against a program in their first year of existence. This is the all-time cupcake game.