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Re: I can't wait A slightly terser alternative: BRING IT!!!

Sorry, if this has been posted elsewhere, but this weekend's Parade Magazine has our recruit on its fourth team. First team: Player of the Year Kevin Love (UCLA) O.J. Mayo (USC) Kyle Singler (Duke) Eric Gordon (Indiana) Derrick Rose (Memphis) Austin Freeman (Georgetown) Donte Greene...

We should be quicker -- in some ways next year's team lines up like C.M's squad in 1977 when Robert Scott and Kent Looney joined a lineup with no true center but buckets of experience, heart and ability (Murray, T.R., Mule and Ricky Brown). That team had an extraordinary year because it was...

With all due respect CRIMTIDE, to which "superstars" are you referring? Sorry guys, I don't buy the notion that CMG has done less with more. I'm not saying he's earned his keep this year. But for heaven's sake, twice we've watch Auburn pound us. They did it because their so-called substandard...

Good post, Tidetwin. CMG has had his successes and he's had his failures, none bigger than his inability to put his mark, as you will, on his teams. If you're lucky, watch some footage from C.M. Newton's era -- with Anthony Murray or Raymond Odoms or T.R. Dunn locking down on opponents. Watch...

Sorry y'all, but put me in the camp that finds this story quite fair. It says this: Recruiting is not for kiddies and verbal commitments, which we already know, are largely meaningless until the ink dries on the contract. Slamming Saban? The first quote in the story is from a recruiting...

Not as Old School as Rich, and a little more understated . . . Gary Rutledge. Fearless as a wishbone quarterback; as good a thrower as his little brother. If he plays the entire second half of the '73 Sugar Bowl -- the longer the game went on, the more his option reads picked Notre Dame apart...

Er, uh, ahem, cough . . . Make that two. Do I agree with everything Bill Curry says? No. But if you read the full anthology of his comments on Alabama over the years, he has been overwhelmingly flattering. He was good for Alabama, and we were good for him. IMHO.

CT, somebody with a better memory might correct me, but as I recall, DuBose started recruiting Carnell and Brodie very, very early in their high school careers. As I also recall, our former coach made a lot of promises to prize recruits -- he told Albert Means, for example, that he would start...

How soon we forget . . . Cadillac was considered close to an Alabama lock throughout his high school career until the Big Bad Wolf of NCAA probation blew down our house. Brodie almost went elsewhere. Cadillac did. DuBose, as I recall, also put all his eggs in Croyle's basket. He stopped...

Roll Tide backatcha, TP. By the way, great toga.

Sensual? Sensuous? I'd rather have a coach who dances with other people's dates.

As others have already pointed out, the talent gap, particularly on the lines and LBs, remains profound. So when the less-talented are also undisciplined, it brings to mind the salient words of that great evaluator, Dean Wormer: "Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son." Poorly...

Read that one again . . . Nobody is blasting us in that article. The columnist's target is coaches like Saban and Brown who have always acted like they're bigger than any job they've ever held.

"A lot of time, the media makes you compromise your integrity." Hmmm, as if coach speech, known in virtually every other corner of the universe as lying, is a God-given right. With all due respect, BR, the reporter in Miami was doing his job. Many people in power, sometimes by necessity...