Recruiting Forum Football Talk XXXIV

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nicksjuzunk said:
It was a LONG finish for me.

Perspective 😁

Every single play, a gratifying march towards the inevitable
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That OL pushed the DL backwards 5-6 yards off the LOS each play. It was amazing. Complete domination and they would not be denied. Henry looked like a bowling ball rolling downhill. There was zero doubt we were going to score.

Jr was like 2-3 weeks old. My wife was so pissed at how loud I was during that drive.

Me screaming, dog barking, baby crying, wife yelling.. GLORIOUS
 
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volatil said:
That OL pushed the DL backwards 5-6 yards off the LOS each play. It was amazing. Complete domination and they would not be denied. Henry looked like a bowling ball rolling downhill. There was zero doubt we were going to score.

Jr was like 2-3 weeks old. My wife was so pissed at how loud I was during that drive.

Me screaming, dog barking, baby crying, wife yelling.. GLORIOUS
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#truefanstory
 
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Darth_Shiveman said:
If EVERY coach, as you said, used their opportunities speaking at local establishments to sound off on their media coverage, we'd be hearing a lot more about it.

Knoxville media isn't the only place where reporters like to strike their own ego or where they take offense to assertions of unfairness.
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When king saban dresses down his local media everyone thinks it's great and a sign of how powerful and in control he is. You don't think he controls EVERYTHING about the media down there??

But Butch is whining I guess.
 
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InVOLuntary said:
Chills.

One of those rare moments in life that you know where you were and who you were with when it happened.
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Absolutely! Had 3 of my GA friends at my house. I had been pretty quiet all game as we were down the entire time, until the sack, fumble, and TD, then I started to ramp up a little. My jaw was on the floor when they connected with 19 seconds left. They were ragging me and celebrating already. When I saw JJ catch that pass, I could no longer contain myself. I ran out of the room yelling, up the stairs, back down the stairs in the room where they were, ran a circle, knocked a chair over, cut my thumb a little, ran back upstairs, back downstairs still yelling, and then finally stopped to make sure there wasn't a weird flag on the play or review taking place.
 
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LaagerVol said:
When king saban dresses down his local media everyone thinks it's great and a sign of how powerful and in control he is. You don't think he controls EVERYTHING about the media down there??

But Butch is whining I guess.
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1. Saban is the best coach in CFB, so he can get away with more.

2. He has straight up scolded media members before. He doesn't try to use slogans and catchphrases with them.

3. He keeps a short leash, that's for sure. But no, I don't think he controls "EVERYTHING about the media down there." If he did, we wouldn't have heard about Da'Shawn Hand's DUI.
 
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volatil said:
That OL pushed the DL backwards 5-6 yards off the LOS each play. It was amazing. Complete domination and they would not be denied. Henry looked like a bowling ball rolling downhill. There was zero doubt we were going to score.

Jr was like 2-3 weeks old. My wife was so pissed at how loud I was during that drive.

Me screaming, dog barking, baby crying, wife yelling.. GLORIOUS
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I laughed! Loved Cheese's running style.
 
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Darth_Shiveman said:
I don't think grace has anything to do with it, really. I just don't think CBJ is a very good public speaker or good at responding to being put on the spot in an interview format. That's probably a big part of why he defaults to slogans and catch phrases in interviews.
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Yeah, saban handles criticism well too. Like I said, I'm sure you would be fine if everything you said was dissected and spun as negatively as possible right?
 
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Darth_Shiveman said:
1. Saban is the best coach in CFB, so he can get away with more.

2. He has straight up scolded media members before. He doesn't try to use slogans and catchphrases with them.

3. He keeps a short leash, that's for sure. But no, I don't think he controls "EVERYTHING about the media down there." If he did, we wouldn't have heard about Da'Shawn Hand's DUI.
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Now who is moving the goal post? Where is the chart that shows what a coach can and cannot say, proportional to how good of a coach they are perceived to be?

If Butch acted the way saban does you know he would get crushed even worse than he does.
 
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Darth_Shiveman said:
I was talking purely towards his reputation as being thin skinned (which I believe is not unwarranted). You can shift the goalposts of that conversation all you want, but can't say that Butch has only ever made one comment that came off as thin skinned.
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Thinned skinned is Saban when he blows up about a reporter asking about a QB competition. Not Butch talking about childish, purposefully, out of context banter from Knoxville media and the fan base.
 
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LaagerVol said:
Now who is moving the goal post? Where is the chart that shows what a coach can and cannot say, proportional to how good of a coach they are perceived to be?

If Butch acted the way saban does you know he would get crushed even worse than he does.
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exactly. it's called perspective which some in Knoxville severely lack.
 
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It's amazing the leeway given to a coach when he wins a few national championships.

It's really simple folks. Winning is everything. If Butch were to put up a string of 10 win seasons and a couple championships, nobody would talk about his whining, champions of life, etc... Saban gets that kind of fear/respect/whatever because he's earned it.

I'm sure Butch understand this.
 
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Darth_Shiveman said:
If EVERY coach, as you said, used their opportunities speaking at local establishments to sound off on their media coverage, we'd be hearing a lot more about it.

Knoxville media isn't the only place where reporters like to strike their own ego or where they take offense to assertions of unfairness.
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Not the only place but has always been one of the worst at protecting their university and most sensitive for a long long time back to Fulmer days. Knox media has always targeting the hometown team for negative stories for some reason. Meanwhile media in places like AL, GA, FL etc protect their own unless they just have to report something. Knox media reports silly stuff that really should just stay quiet a lot of times
 
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VolGee4 said:
The sad thing is what he said is the truth.
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I think that's what infuriates me the most.

Lately, "The Remark In Question" is almost always something in the context of players fighting back from injury, graduating, being decent guys, etc (his typical positives list), yet he gets blasted with a firehose of snark every time because apparently he isn't some dead-eyed assassin who is only fueled by his hatred of losing.

As we've said, the guy isn't above criticism but its asinine what he gets hit with in his own town.
 
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LaagerVol said:
Now who is moving the goal post? Where is the chart that shows what a coach can and cannot say, proportional to how good of a coach they are perceived to be?

If Butch acted the way saban does you know he would get crushed even worse than he does.
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Moving the goalposts? lol it's just the truth. Coaches who win big get more slack for their shortcomings. That's just how society works.

Butch would get crushed if he showed the outright disdain for the media that Saban does because he hasn't won anything better than the Outback Bowl yet.
 
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utvols88 said:
Thinned skinned is Saban when he blows up about a reporter asking about a QB competition. Not Butch talking about childish, purposefully, out of context banter from Knoxville media and the fan base.
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I never said Saban wasn't thin skinned.

But that doesn't make some of the things Butch has said (pocket list) any less indicative of thin skin.
 
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