Alabama Football: Crimson Tide will play 'anybody' in 2015

The Alabama Crimson Tide football program has a serious problem on their hands. No, it’s not the fact that they’re currently riding a two-game losing streak coming into 2014. No, it’s not that they don’t have anyone set in place at the quarterback position to replace AJ McCarron.

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Actually, the problem the Crimson Tide face is doesn’t even have anything to do with this season at all, rather it’s about the 2015 season.

As of right now, Alabama has one open slot to fill on their out-of-conference schedule, and with the season so close, they can’t seem to find anyone to fill the void and more than likely take the beating that’s coming their way.

At the SEC meetings this week, Jeremy Fowler of CBS caught up with Alabama athletic director Bill Battle where he revealed that the situation is so bad at this point that they’ll take the field with anyone.

“Right now we’d take anybody,” Battle said.

With the SEC staying with their eight-game scheduling, that means there will always be four OOC slots to fill. Right now, in 2015, the Tide have the Wisconsin Badgers, Louisiana-Monroe and an FCS team, it’s just getting that someone to jump into that fourth spot that’s giving Battle the headache.

And, it’s not like he hasn’t been trying rigorously. For strength of schedule purposes, Fowler even asked Battle if he had tried independent power BYU, to which the AD confirmed that he did, and struck out with them too.

“We’ve called everybody we know,” Battle responded.

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Alabama Football: Crimson Tide will play ‘anybody’ in 2015

By Jack Crosby | May 29, 2014