BCS Championship - Alabama vs. Texas

Riffer X

@dencyguy said:
No, it's a Big Media mirage. Just like the remainder of the half of the BCS championships the conference has won.
Dennis

Still can't believe that Kirk Ferentz won a BCS game. Kirk Freakin' Ferentz.

Bama gets they asses whacked if McCoy plays, simple as that. Hell, they damn near gave it up anyways, and that includes the gift TD at the half. LMAO

In related news, the rest of the country is still trying to remember if there is a team in the state of Tennessee outside of Memphis.

ballpeen

Roll Tide.

I would have preferred my team been in the game, but with Alabama roots, it is never hard to see Alabama on top....not to mention the SEC king of the mountain again.

Riffer X

@ballpeen said:
Roll Tide.
I would have preferred my team been in the game, but with Alabama roots, it is never hard to see Alabama on top....not to mention the SEC king of the mountain again.

Alabama should be forced to have an asterisk by their name after that gift.

Matter of fact, they probably shouldn't be doing a lot of celebrating.

Course Saban, even being the complete and utter toolbox he is understood they didn't deserve that game.

Browns fans should pull out the memory banks a little bit before jumping all over Saban's nuts. Nobody seems to recall when he got hired at MSU under Beliechick he packed it in before the Puker playoff game and refused to make adjustments in game to the same counter trap. Carl Banks wanted to kick his ass on the sideline.

That dude will be gone shortly, there is no way the Bama program is not close to some kind of sanctions. He recruited anybody and everybody the last few years and I'll guarantee some of those guys can't spell cat without a tutor doing the work for them.

Riffer X

I would have loved to have seen the vaunted SEC play USC a couple of those years, that would have been sweet.

ballpeen

SEC all-stars v best of the rest would be sweet.

Alo

Mel Kiper on Mike & Mike: It'll be very difficult for Colt McCoy to get picked in the 2nd Round.

I'm not a big McCoy fan, but I'd take a long look at him if he's there in the 3rd round.

Riffer X

@riffer-x said:
I would have loved to have seen the vaunted SEC play USC a couple of those years, that would have been sweet.

Nah, they prefer to play backups, not all stars.

Pumpkin Eater

suns said:
4 STRAIGHT!!! 4 straight national championships for the SEC!!

great.. I don't know many people who choose to root for an entire conference rather than a particular team.. but whatever. That's like rooting for the Squeelers to win thwe Super Bowl because they also play in the AFC North.. Or rooting for Michigan to win a bowl game.. it's not happening.

Bama barely held on to beat a kid who was throwing to his high school teammates last year.

DawgTracker

McCain looked like he could become a very good 3/4 linebacker

Bob806

@riffer-x said:
Course Saban, even being the complete and utter toolbox he is understood they didn't deserve that game.

Yep, he's a Carpetbagger, like Art Modell. I bet he was drooling at the Urban Meyer news...another job opportunity for him.

I bet Bear Bryant is churning in his grave at Saban.

jrb12711

just for the idiots who felt colt was being a pussy

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news...o&type=lgns

great article.

miktoxic

@jrb12711 said:
just for the idiots who felt colt was being a pussy
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news...o&type=lgns

great article.

keep believing that. what, was there a novelist in the locker room when all this heroics was going on. pleeez. talk about believing everything you read. anyone with any journalistic or writing skills can dramatize a situation over-the-top to skew one's perspective. the kid was soft then and he'll be soft in the nfl. nothing was broke and his shoulder hadn't popped, so what was it? a stinger? man, shoot him up and get him out there again. punk. you think guys in the nfl don't get popped like that all the time? he's a pussy and anyone who thinks he's not is smokin dust.

Solon16

@miktoxic said:
keep believing that. what, was there a novelist in the locker room when all this heroics was going on. pleeez. talk about believing everything you read. anyone with any journalistic or writing skills can dramatize a situation over-the-top to skew one's perspective. the kid was soft then and he'll be soft in the nfl. nothing was broke and his shoulder hadn't popped, so what was it? a stinger? man, shoot him up and get him out there again. punk. you think guys in the nfl don't get popped like that all the time? he's a pussy and anyone who thinks he's not is smokin dust.

Listen dude you are dead wrong...I live here in Austin and you judging his face and mannerisms from what you see on television is the epitomy what smoking dust and believing what you read/see from interviews. DEAD wrong....You have no fking clue dude...zero! You obviously never played football before...clueless!

miktoxic

@solon16 said:
Listen dude you are dead wrong...I live here in Austin and you judging his face and mannerisms from what you see on television is the epitomy what smoking dust and believing what you read/see from interviews. DEAD wrong....You have no fking clue dude...zero! You obviously never played football before...clueless!

i guess that's why he'll drop a round in the draft. the way he 'shows up' in big games. you're lucky that the refs gave him/texas another two seconds in the big 12 championship cuz they should have never been in that game last nite. oh and being from texas i guess your views aren't a little slanted, huh? think about it, how can you be objective? dolt.

Riffer X

@miktoxic said:
i guess that's why he'll drop a round in the draft. the way he 'shows up' in big games. you're lucky that the refs gave him/texas another two seconds in the big 12 championship cuz they should have never been in that game last nite. oh and being from texas i guess your views aren't a little slanted, huh? think about it, how can you be objective? dolt.

Come on dude you don't know what that kid was feeling. Who in the hell in their right mind would voluntarily not want to play in a game of that magnitude? You're the one smoking, leave the kid alone. You can't throw a football when you can't feel your arm, plain and simple.

BTW, Solon is from Solon Ohio, he just lives in Texas.

dencyguy

@riffer-x said:
I would have loved to have seen the vaunted SEC play USC a couple of those years, that would have been sweet.

True, SEC teams did get the benefit of playing Ohio State in a couple of NC games, but that's just the way the computer rankings shook out.

Dennis

Riffer X

@dencyguy said:
True, SEC teams did get the benefit of playing Ohio State in a couple of NC games, but that's just the way the computer rankings shook out.
Dennis

I know what you mean, those PC Rankings seem to shake Tennessee right out of the mix every year.

Seriously, don't they know the Mighty Vols play in the vaunted SEC? WTF?

dencyguy

Tennessee is, at best, a middle-of-the-road team in the SEC, and that's not likely to change for at least another two or three years, assuming Lane Kiffin is the right guy for the job and doesn't implode under the weight of his own ego. And, without correcting for strength of conference schedule, they would have been middle of the road in the Big Ten as well (their 7-6 record was good enough for 7th in the SEC, and would have been 6th in the Big Ten).

And it was a down year for the SEC in bowls; of the ten teams from the conference that went to the postseason, the conference record was only 6-4 (as opposed to 6-2 last year, 7-2 the year before, and 6-3 the year before that).

Dennis

Hopefully next year Tennessee can go 8-4, so I can come on here and crow about how they've defied all the media hate and made a bowl game...oh wait, that's right, in the SEC 8-4 and bowl eligibility isn't something to crow about.

Flugel

@dencyguy said:
No, it's a Big Media mirage. Just like the remainder of the half of the BCS championships the conference has won.
Dennis

Still can't believe that Kirk Ferentz won a BCS game. Kirk Freakin' Ferentz.

But you'll believe Les Miles could win a National Championship with 2 losses on his plate? Not sure I understand where you are going with this Dennis. This is actually a GOOD story in college football. I'm kind of happy for the guy. He's had 2 seasons where he's won 11 games or more in the cornfields of Iowa. They've won some Bowl Games since he's been there believe it or not. Not only that, but he's put some good players like Dallas Clark, Bob Sanders, Eric Steinbach, Matt Roth, Shonne Greene, Chad Greenway, and Robert Gallery in the NFL.

I thought his job coaching up our oline to the playoffs in the early 90s was one of the better oline coaching jobs I've seen. He made us completely forget how bad the ideas of Tommy Vardell and Eric Metcalf were for our running game when we learned we could just handoff to a Big 10 RB like Leroy's Hoards running behind guys like Orlando Brown, Tony Jones, Steve Everitt, etc. Hoard ended up making the Pro Bowl as a Fullback that year even though he was just a tailback that started 8 games and gained over 900 yards. Speaking of winning 11 games, we won 11 games and then beat NE in the wild card game when Ferentz was here coaching our oline.

I think the SEC is a FUN conference; but sometimes people go a little overboard how superior it is. Best example I can think of is when 2 evenly matched teams competed in the SEC Championship last year - one of them got TROUNCED by a Utah team a few weeks later. I recall another recent year where Arkansas was the runnerup in that SEC Championship a few month after USC beat them by about 5-6 TDs. Tennessee doesn't look like they ever get much done vrs UCLA in recent years. The Vandy team I had season tickets to see couldn't even win 1 SEC matchup so I'm not sure it's as strong of a conference top to bottom as many insinuate. I do think their top 2-3 teams are tough to beat but that's also from 2 SEC conferences not 1.

I looked at how competitive that game SEEMED to be last night starting as early as the cheesy call that took a TD off the board from Texas. Where was that invisible 5th guy in the backfield on play from the 1 yard line nonetheless? He was on the hip of the olineman next to him. That could have been called countless times against Bama and wasn't. You hate to see that kind of crap and cheesiness taking the game out of the players' hands. IMO, the score should have been 10-0 early with the backup in there for the TD that got pryed away. I think Herbstreit was right on the money when he was noticing things that weren't beign called vrs Bama's touchy feely and noticing these were flags the other way. Saban seemingly looked ready to call a terrible game with that absurd fake punt thing and his team was 0 for 8 at one time on third downs. Don't kid yourself, Bama needed those yellow flags yesterday.

Just a Nick Saban question: if he is truely the GOD of winning, what happened at Michigan State? Too much academic criteria for his liking? Folks up there seemed like they liked George Perles alot better. I see why Saban NEVER chose Vanderbilt. That said, Urban Meyer showed me he could coach at Utah. After he beat Saban last year with his Florida recruits - his remaining Utah recruits gave those Crimson Tides some Crimson Hydes. Guys like Saban and Miles don't want any part of Big 10 schools stressing academics because they prefer places like LSU where guys like Perilloux can keep dressing for games whether they've seen the inside of a classroom or not. I think it's pretty obvious why Les Miles never wanted any part of Michigan and why Saban couldn't tolerate another year of Michigan State. Come to think of it, Urban Meyer doesn't want to tarnish his coaching reputation on the Notre dame job where 50% of the kids he recruits at Florida wouldn't get accepted at ND. Bigger challenge not accepted right? That USED to be his dream job.

I don't think I'll ever get the visual of Carl Banks wanting to beat the tar out of Nick Saban on the sidelines in our playoff matchup with Pittsburgh when they kept counter-trapping to their weakside and Saban refused to adjust to it. I heard an interview with Carl Banks when he was asked about the sideline incident. His message was that Saban didn't even prepare at all for Pittsburgh and it became crystal clear to him when Saban wouldn't adjust to the game day trends unfolding. In fact, Banks said he got the impression Saban was feeling like the sooner the Browns could exit the playoffs - the sooner Saban could get on with his next gig at the college level. Players aren't stupid and they can sense when someone is screwing them. NEVER liked the guy since. He's boned over countless teams but there's some places where selling the soul is more honorable than others. The only difference between him and Bobby Petrino is a Championship makes everyone forget about when the path wasn't exactly RIGHT. I don't think Ferentz ever had to bone anyone, especially his players, on his way to becoming a very well respected Head Coach.

- Tom F.

BigBrownsFan

@jrb12711 said:
just for the idiots who felt colt was being a pussy
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news...o&type=lgns

great article.

There's only one Retard who thought that - and I am sure he will chime in again with stupidity