2001 Alabama Football Team

[TexasTideFan]

Watched the 2001 IB last night since I needed a flashback to see what it was like to beat Auburn in this decade. I think I will go out on a limb and say that has to be one of the most talented Bama teams that I have ever seen knowing what I know now. It maybe my most favorite. Too bad the HC sux....

O: That OL by itself had 5 NFL players (Britt, Smiley, Mathis, Ephriam, and Jones, Jr.). They owned Auburn in that game and it felt unusual watching a Bama OL actually control the LOS and create monster holes. The WR's weren't to shabby either (Milons, JM, and AC). You could tell that Milons and Zow were completly in sync with each other and I almost forgot just how much a freak AC was. Then there was Zow, who was on fire in that game. There is no telling how many records he would have at Bama if Tyler hadn't beaten him out of the starting job. Finally, the 1-2 punch of SB and AG. Both Ronnie Brown and to a lesser extent, the Caddy, played in the game and were completly overshadowed by these 2.

D: The DL also owned Auburn the same way the OL did. I guess when you got some future NFL horsepwoer like Johnston, King, Moorehead, and NM-L you might be pretty good. LB's were solid with future NFL talent in Wortham and Rasheed, who was one of the stongest dudes on the field with a 495 bench. I also forgot how much I really liked Coach Torbush. I think he could give Coach Kines a run for looking like someone just slapped your mom look anyday. I will say that the Secondary played decent but I will never forget how they let Rohan Davey torch them for 500+ in the LSU game earlier that year.

BTW, thanks Simon for helping with my offseason Bama football fix...

 

[Vinny]

That 2001 season was an up and down season, finishing with beating Auburn in their own stadium, the make up game vs Southern Miss and the Independence Bowl win vs Iowa State.

 

[TIDEFAN17]

Had Alabama's program been on solid ground from 1999-2003, more than likely one National title would have come from it. Too much talent was tinkered/wasted. But you don't need me to go on about this.

 

[Really Big Bama Fan]

That 2001 season was an up and down season, finishing with beating Auburn in their own stadium, the make up game vs Southern Miss and the Independence Bowl win vs Iowa State.

The 2002 season hurt me more. Fraud-phony was simply out coached in the three losses to Oklahoma, Georgia, and Auburn. All three losses that season could easily have been wins for The Tide.

 

[i_live_4_bama]

The 2002 season hurt me more. Fraud-phony was simply out coached in the three losses to Oklahoma, Georgia, and Auburn. All three losses that season could easily have been wins for The Tide.

Georgia and Auburn, YES! Oklahoma, NO! Alabama tried everything it could possibly try in that game and still came up short. If TW holds doesn't fumble the ball when he goes to throw it Bama wins the game. He had a wide open receiver he was throwing to in the endzone.

 

[Crimson-Blitz]

Oklahoma was just flat-out awesome that year. I think we played one of our best games that day.

A young Brodie Croyle particularly impressed me that day. He took a beating and kept getting up and performing.

 

[TexasTideFan]

Fraud-phony was simply out coached in the three losses to Oklahoma, Georgia, and Auburn. All three losses that season could easily have been wins for The Tide.

I was at the OU-Bama game in Norman and it was back and forth all the way. Stoops definately didn't have an upper hand on fRan that day.

As for Georgia, I think we got beat by a better team. Georgia was firing at 100% in that game.

Auburn, well, I think that fRan had already dropped the rope and gave it to them, so yeah, Tubs outcoached him there.

 

[BamaJeff]

Oklahoma was just flat-out awesome that year. I think we played one of our best games that day.

A young Brodie Croyle particularly impressed me that day. He took a beating and kept getting up and performing.

That was Tyler Watts in 2002.

 

[Really Big Bama Fan]

Georgia and Auburn, YES! Oklahoma, NO! Alabama tried everything it could possibly try in that game and still came up short. If TW holds doesn't fumble the ball when he goes to throw it Bama wins the game. He had a wide open receiver he was throwing to in the endzone.

Fraud was out coached during the first-half of the Oklahoma game. When he went back to smash-mouth football in the second-half then Bama outplayed Oklahoma.

 

[LCN]

The 2002 season hurt me more. Fraud-phony was simply out coached in the three losses to Oklahoma, Georgia, and Auburn. All three losses that season could easily have been wins for The Tide.

Even a blind man could see that the Tide was , man for man , better than OK on that Saturday . The O-line destroyed Ok's defense . Unfortunately , our HC was the only one who couldn't see it and kept resorting to the kind of crap ears used to pull to throw games . Bama could've plowed those guys under by running straight at and over them .