You are not kidding...be humble when winning and appreciate Saban and your team. Enjoy the ride, but be humble. RTR.Good article LBSWriter!
If Bama keeps winning, I hope our fan base will be graceful winners and not shove it in opposing fans' faces. Too often we've seen that what goes around, comes around. Tennessee being a good case in point. During the latter 1990s and first half of the 2000s Tennessee fans earned every bit of bad karma that's come their way these past few years. I don't want that to be us in the 2020s.
Given the amount of new faces on defense in '10, I fully expected us to drop at least one possibly to LSU. I didn't think we'd lose to Garcia and USCe and I sure as heck didn't think we'd lose to the Barn. So, I guess you're right about us underachieving. I did see that an old tendency for either the coaches to take their foot off the gas or the players letting up after getting a sizable lead really nailed us in the Auburn game. How many times does Coach Saban have to say the word "UTAH" before players start getting it. We did not take Utah seriously and we spent the entire game trying to find the unit or units that got us there. We did the same thing in the second half of the Barn game. I believe that both the coaches and players were at fault in that one. This season I saw the coaches have a lot less tendency to take their foot off the gas. As a result there was only one close game, and we lost that one. I know some folks may argue with me but I've felt for a while that AJ is a much more natural QB than GMac. His accuracy and his ability to see the field is much better than Greg's. I'm really looking forward to seeing a more mature AJ light 'em up in '12. I think he has an ability to win games when our young DBs have a so-so game here and there. An ability that I only saw a few times with Greg in '09 and that was in the SECCG and the previous week against the Barn.
Totally agree...win with class.Good article LBSWriter!
If Bama keeps winning, I hope our fan base will be graceful winners and not shove it in opposing fans' faces. Too often we've seen that what goes around, comes around. Tennessee being a good case in point. During the latter 1990s and first half of the 2000s Tennessee fans earned every bit of bad karma that's come their way these past few years. I don't want that to be us in the 2020s.
This should be foremost in everyone's mind considering what we went through, going from the top to very near the bottom. Even though I feel like I want to shout to everyone about our return and give back some of the "stuff" I had to take from other fans, it's enough to just sit and watch them squirm over the success of Coach Saban, staff and teams. You can't read an article about Bama now without seeing good things said about us, not too long ago I didn't want to see what they said about us.You are not kidding...be humble when winning and appreciate Saban and your team. Enjoy the ride, but be humble. RTR.
Nope. The day he lands a class of 21 5* recruits, then I'll consider his domination being too much. But only consider it.Is Saban's dominance just too much?
Darn, I'd love to meet your wife with those standards... (G):biggrin:Nope. The day he lands a class of 21 5* recruits, then I'll consider his domination being too much. But only consider it.
Until then, I guess I'll have to settle for #1 ranked classes each year and a national title each year or two.
My barn fan fishing buddy asked me a few months ago if I really thought Bama had a chance to win the 2010 IB. He was dead serious and I looked serious back to him and said that there was no doubt in my mind that Bama had an excellent chance to win that game. Bama had about a 27 point lead at half time but for some reason they took their hand off the throttle. He just rolled his eyes as if he couldn't believe I was that stupid. I asked him if he had heard the new motto posted in the locker room "never again"? he said he hadn't so I told him it was there and it mean't that Bama would not let up ever again until the game was firmly in hand and final seconds were ticking off the clock, and it was posted especially for Aubarn. I still don't believe he got it, until this past IB anyway. I honestly cannot ever remember Bama playing a game that they didn't have a chance to win.Bama should never have lost that game to Auburn in 2010. That still has me scratching my head.
I honestly think at the end of the season, Bama may have been the best team in the country. Just look at how they blew away a very good Michigan State University! That game actually could have been much worse than 49 to 7. The Defense was totally awesome and the Offense was clicking. That game was against a pretty good QB, Cousins. I think he'll, Cousins, do good in the NFL.
I don't think the team came totally together until after the Barn loss.
I would have loved to see that defense in the BCS NC game against Oregon, instead of the Barn.
Okay! We got 2 BCS NC's in the first five years! How many are we gonna get in the NEXT five years.
The most storied football team in College football history. That is NOT arrogance! It's just a FACT that others must live with like ND, USC, Michigan, The Ohio State U., Texas, Oklahoma, et al!!!!!!!
Someone needs to come out with an UPDATED book about the Storied History of The Alabama Crimson Tide to UPDATE Winston Grooms book. That storied history has improved so much in the last THREE (3) years. I would buy it. I'm sure there's someone on TideFans who can do that and make a few coins in the process.:BigA: