If Nick Saban has 99 problems, Bob Stoops is certainly not one of them. As college football coaches prepare for the upcoming season, meeting with fans and media, a few pre-season jabs are being taken. Oaklahoma head coach Stoops is throwing the first punch. It can be assumed that other football conferences are sick of the dominance displayed by the Southeastern Conference and many are trying to find ways to explain and compete against it. Stoops sums the SEC up to propaganda.
"Listen, they've had the best team in college football, meaning they've won a national championship. That doesn't mean everything else is always the best. So you're listening to a lot of propaganda that gets fed out to you. You're more than smart enough to figure it out," Stoops said.
Harsh words from someone that coaches in the Big 12. Oklahoma played one SEC last season, losing to Texas A&M 41-13. It was less than pretty.
While making an appearance at the Crimson Caravan, Saban simply laughed off Stoops comments.
"I didn't even know he said it, so you're going to have to tell me what he said. I've got more important things to do than sit around and read what Bob Stoops has to say about anything. But I like Bob Stoops, and I respect him as a coach, but I'm really trying to manage our business," Saban said.
Yes, Saban is busy trying to continue this propaganda that Stoops is speaking of. For those keeping track at home, the SEC has won seven consecutive BCS championships. Alabama has won three in four years. Saban admits that he does not know much about the Big 12, but believes that people that do not play in the SEC do not really understand the "quality of our league from top to bottom."
The dominance of each conference could be debated for hours and a layer of that discussion will eventually become the power conferences splitting off into a separate division, something Saban himself endorses.
"I'm for five conferences-everybody playing everybody in those five conferences. That's what I'm for, so it might be 70 teams, and everybody's got to play 'em," Saban told AL.com.
This concept has become the main topic of conversation when discussing the BCS. The bigger conferences want their own league to shut out the smaller conferences from the BCS money grab. As the college football playoff systems continues to develop itself and pick up steam, this idea could be put into action sooner rather than later.
