Bama Is For Real

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#51
Not a bammer
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BruisedOrange said:
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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Dang, man!
 
#54
#54
All bama nut huggers, proceed to the NCAA forum. That is all…….
 
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#55
Let's take a look at the ap top 25.

1. Bama beats a top 25 team like a red headed step child.

2. Oklahoma barely bests Tulane.

3. Clemson and 5. Georgia don't score an offensive touchdown in the first half.

4. Ohio State beats an unranked Minnesota team by two tds.

They may as well go ahead and give Nicky his trophy. They don't need to play another game. College football sucks.
 
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I am surprised some delusion Auburn, LSU, or Tennessee fan hasn't tried to assassinate Saban yet. That would end the dynasty.
 
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Saban is really the first coach we’ve ever seen kinda get to the top and then have no desire to prove his hand elsewhere. Most successful coaches are highly competitive individuals and if/when they get to a place like saban is (the place Saban has been at for years) where you’ll have such superior talent that you should win every game by 50…those guys tend to get bored and look for the next challenge. But not Saban. He tried his hand in the nfl where you can’t create a massive talent advantage (by selling your soul to the devil and have no semblance of a life outside of football)….and he was an epic failure. So he went back to college.

He lives for that moment every year that he hoist the trophy. That one moment. He prefers that over hoisting one of his grand child. Or a great day fishing, hunting, or golfing, etc. Or slipping off to bed with the old lady. No. There’s nothing he has that brings enjoyment to his life outside of his job. It’s sad really. But it’s our worst nightmare. Amd I honestly believe he’ll do it for another 10 years.
 
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Boston Vol said:
You were wishing injury on a 20-year-old? Some people take sports way too seriously.
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People ****ing ruled countries at 20-years old. They are not kids at that age.

The guy ****ed our school over with the way he acted all of last season being a head case and then transferring out. **** HIM. I want his career over. He treated us like ****. I have no sympathy for that ****ing turd.
 
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volbound1700 said:
People ****ing ruled countries at 20-years old. They are not kids at that age.

The guy ****ed our school over with the way he acted all of last season being a head case and then transferring out. **** HIM. I want his career over. He treated us like ****. I have no sympathy for that ****ing turd.
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Again some people take sports way too seriously.
 
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