Bama Is For Real

#27
#27
This may be the best team saban has had yet… they are way too physical and that culture is player ran with nfl coaches on the roster… it was literally impossible for Miami to practice at the level they would have needed to compete with this bama team week 1… they are so physical on both sides of the ball and they execute so well… Bryce young has mastered the Qb spot… he is very cool calm and collected and the game is very easy to him and he is tough to sack… he has that feel for the game that a lot of greats have… vol fan me hates bama football fan me loves the way they play the game..
 
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The Original Fade said:
Bama finally decided in the mid 2000’s that ties to the school or Bear Bryant lineage doesn’t mean jack sh!t anymore, opened up the checkbook, and hired a proven winner. The rest is history
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I hate to say this and I will probably get excoriated for it... but we need to let Peyton go as well.
 
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The Original Fade said:
Bama finally decided in the mid 2000’s that ties to the school or Bear Bryant lineage doesn’t mean jack sh!t anymore, opened up the checkbook, and hired a proven winner. The rest is history
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You’re partially correct.

However, Rich Rod was their first choice until he backed out last minute. That’s when they turned to Nick Saban.

It worked out in their favor.
 
#34
#34
Yes, the drama and excitement with college football has been killed week one. It’s Bama then everyone else. Until the rules get enforced or somebody decides parity matters this is what it is. It’s Bama then everyone else, it is what it is.
 
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The Original Fade said:
Bama finally decided in the mid 2000’s that ties to the school or Bear Bryant lineage doesn’t mean jack sh!t anymore, opened up the checkbook, and hired a proven winner. The rest is history
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I think the Bryant lineage is a little overblown. In the 26 years between Bryant and Saban, they hired Bill Curry, Dennis Franchione, and Mike Price, none of whom had any ties to Bryant or Alabama. The checkbook is the important part. Mal Moore came to the conclusion that the only way that they were going to get back on top was paying whatever it took to land Saban. Rich Rod stalling on the offer also helped Moore.
 
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Voltopia said:
Alabama is the perfect lightning stroke of college football. Ten years of irrelevance kept their boosters from meddling in Saban's business, giving the control freak Saban time to build his program as he desired. Note that I do not say "control freak" in a negative sense. Saban owns his program from top to bottom - and he wants that ownership. Alabama, the state and the people, show absolute loyalty to the football program, making the entire state an engine to further support the school's football program. Add the growing power of the SEC as a conference, amplified by the increased TV money and ESPN's investment in the SEC, and you get a defacto 24/7/365 advertisement for Alabama through national media owned by Disney. Then add the SEC Network, which further cements Alabama's position as the college program and here we are. It will never happen again. It was the perfect storm.
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You forgot to add in his AFLAC commercials...arrghh
 
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#44
So where are all the fans that were saying HT wouldn't play at Alabama? Just shows many of you have no idea what the hell you're talking about.
 
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#45
Does anybody think the NCAA might entertain the idea of installing a salary cap just so the other teams can maybe keep up with the Gumps?
 
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#48
GoodlettsvilleVol said:
That is a complete and talented team Bama is fielding. Strengths everywhere.

I do think that RB fumbled after seeing all those replays.

This, overall, makes me sick.
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Dude it’s like playing a pick up basketball game and saying you can pick 5 players and I’ll play you with the leftovers . Been like that forever Fulmer caught them years ago then they went down for a while then they perfected paying players under the table. Not sure if the NIL will change the cheating culture. Almost all do to some extent but Bama does it best.
 
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MyVolsDropped said:
At this point can we implement a salary cap or something for college? This shizz was old after the first 2 years. It's always the same teams year after year. Football is getting boring because of it.
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It's always been this way, in every era. Someone smarter than me would probably say it's an outworking of Pareto distribution.

College football almost always has four or five dominant programs led by dominant coaches. Sometimes their success is built around a new offensive system, but not always. Success breeds success--and people with money love a winner.

Pick any decade of college football, compare which teams are in the preseason Top 10 over those 10 years, and you'll see it.

The only moments of "relative parity" among the top 15 teams usually come in one of those brief periods after a Bear Bryant or Woody Hayes or John McKay or Bud Wilkinson or Barry Switzer retires, leaving a vacuum where some perennially good program who puts it all together--with a little good fortune (like Tennessee in '98)--ascends to the top for a year.


That's why I hate the national championship playoff. Fan focus narrows to being that one team at the end, and everybody else is just another loser. The joy of college football used to be following how your own team is progressing year-to-year: your team's first appearance in the Top-20... first bowl game invite... going to a better bowl later in December... breaking into the Top-10... making a January bowl appearance... Fan excitement grew out of becoming a winner, not from just being the final winner.

Psychologists agree that our brains experience more pleasure, more reward, from the pursuit of our goals than from attaining our goals. The journey up is far better than trying to remain at the top. Bama fans get no real enjoyment from game days. All they can experience from a win is "Whew! We didn't lose."

That's why they're so obnoxious--the only enjoyment available to them is sticking it in everyone else's faces the other 6 days of the week. But if Bama doesn't win that final college game of the season, even if otherwise undefeated, their fans will have had a miserable year, and they won't get a chance to stop feeling like losers until the following January.
 
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#50
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VolFreakJosh said:
You’re partially correct.

However, Rich Rod was their first choice until he backed out last minute. That’s when they turned to Nick Saban.

It worked out in their favor.
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That’s a little off. Rich Rod was not the first choice. Spurrier thought hard about it but said he told them they needed a younger man that would at job for several more years and that wasn’t him.

They knew Saban may be interested after talking to his agent, but Saban would not officially talk to them until after the NFL season was over.

The AD wanted to wait to talk to Saban but the BOT was antsy and said they couldn’t wait for the end of the season for Saban and needed someone hired now to salvage the recruiting year, and instructed the AD to immediately offer Rich Rod. He turned them down, and they waited on Saban.
 
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