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re: Dumbest article Scarbinsky's ever written?
Posted on 11/26/13 at 10:09 pm to ehole
Posted on 11/26/13 at 10:09 pm to ehole
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"We've been running it all year and the O-line has been blocking great. Those guys up front are playing as one, doing their job identifying who they have to identify, and I just have to continue doing my job."
Supposedly the whole quote from Mason (at least according to the Uber knowledgeable AL.com commenters)
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Posted on 11/26/13 at 10:10 pm to Swoopin
That article is stupid. All TM said was that they would run the ball. He didn't say one thing that was disrespectful.
This post was edited on 11/26/13 at 10:11 pm
Posted on 11/26/13 at 10:12 pm to Alahunter
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Yep. He's unoriginal and tries to use Finebaum's formula, except he's not smart enough to write coherently or knowledgeable enough about football to do so.
Scarbo is a UAB Blazer, wrote for the uab student paper the kaleidoscope.
Hack? Sounds about right.
Posted on 11/26/13 at 10:15 pm to MagicCityBlazer
Damn! I was afraid Tre would get the big head. It just amazes me how so many of these people in the media have a job.
Posted on 11/26/13 at 10:19 pm to MrAUTigers
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Damn! I was afraid Tre would get the big head. It just amazes me how so many of these people in the media have a job.
Scarbo always struck me as the Forrest Gump of sports writers.
He isn't eloquent, witty, or original. He just is persistent he ends up with a job.
His work at the kaleidoscope was C+.
Posted on 11/26/13 at 10:23 pm to Alahunter
Not to mention that his type of jounalism helped turn the Birmingham paper into a three day a week paper.
Posted on 11/26/13 at 10:25 pm to Swoopin
The guy needs to learn how to trash talk better. And Scarbinsky sounds like the whitest white guy ever to hear trash talk for the first time in his life.
The "I'm gonna put on a show for him" (regarding his dad) was slightly more of a challenge to Alabama's defense, but still not exactly bulletin board material.
The "I'm gonna put on a show for him" (regarding his dad) was slightly more of a challenge to Alabama's defense, but still not exactly bulletin board material.
Posted on 11/26/13 at 10:26 pm to Silverback
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Not to mention that his type of jounalism helped turn the Birmingham paper into a three day a week paper.
Bhm had the old Birmingham News and the Post-Herald. What the heck happened?
Scarbo would be unemployed imo if it was just 20-30 years ago when journalism was taken more seriously.
Posted on 11/27/13 at 11:28 am to MagicCityBlazer
I found one even worse . . . today's article.
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Could this be the last Iron Bowl for Nick Saban or Gus Malzahn?
The Iron Bowl is the place where Alabama and Auburn meet on a football field so their fans won't turn Birmingham into Gettysburg.
It's also where coaching careers go to die.
Since 1975, 14 head coaches have left the rivalry, six at Auburn and eight at Alabama, usually not by choice. OK, make it 13. Mike Price never made it to game day at Alabama.
How many of those coaches won their final Iron Bowl?
One.
It was Alabama's Gene Stallings. He got out ahead in 1996 by one point.
You could argue that Terry Bowden won the last Iron Bowl he actually attended as the Auburn coach in 1997, but he has to take responsibility for the 1998 team he walked away from at midseason. That team lost to Alabama.
It's the story of the rivalry. The coaches they named the stadiums after, Bear Bryant and Shug Jordan, lost their final Iron Bowls. The coach with his name on Auburn's field, Pat Dye, lost his last Iron Bowl.
Four of the six Auburn coaches before Gus Malzahn - Jordan, Dye, Tommy Tuberville and Gene Chizik - were shut out in their final games against Alabama.
Two of the Alabama coaches between Bryant and Nick Saban - Bill Curry and Mike Shula - were shut out in their careers against Auburn.
Get shut out here, and don't be surprised when you get ushered out.
That's not going to happen to Saban or Malzahn, but in a strange twist, it's more likely that the winner of this chess match could exit stage left.
If Alabama wins and goes on to capture a third straight national title, a fourth in five years and Saban's fifth overall, what would be left for him to accomplish? Was Terry Saban's recent comment to the Wall Street Journal - "people get spoiled by success and there gets to be a lack of appreciation" - a sign of unrest in the first family of Alabama football?
Could Saban decide to leave, not just Tuscaloosa but college football, on a high note?
If Auburn wins Saturday, Malzahn will be the hottest commodity on the coaching market, if he's not there already. He's shown he can win big, do it quickly and make it happen in an entertaining way.
Auburn didn't have to break the bank to get him. Will it take that to keep him? Will Auburn, still smarting from the massive buyout flowing in $200,000-plus monthly installments into Gene Chizik's bank account, be reluctant to do a long-term deal after one season?
Could another school with unlimited resources, like Texas, make Malzahn an offer he couldn't refuse?
Right now, it seems most likely that this Iron Bowl will be the first of many Saban-Malzahn matchups to come. Saban has too much restless intensity to stop coaching and too little desire to start over somewhere else, and besides, he's so close to matching Bryant's record of six national titles. Malzahn has moved so much in his young coaching career it's time to put down some roots, and he should have an even better team at Auburn next season.
But this is the kind of thing that worries ADs, presidents and trustees even while their programs are enjoying incredible success. They say it's harder to stay on top than to get there. From a different perspective, it may be just as difficult to keep the right coach as it is to find him.
LINK
Could this be the last Iron Bowl for Nick Saban or Gus Malzahn?
The Iron Bowl is the place where Alabama and Auburn meet on a football field so their fans won't turn Birmingham into Gettysburg.
It's also where coaching careers go to die.
Since 1975, 14 head coaches have left the rivalry, six at Auburn and eight at Alabama, usually not by choice. OK, make it 13. Mike Price never made it to game day at Alabama.
How many of those coaches won their final Iron Bowl?
One.
It was Alabama's Gene Stallings. He got out ahead in 1996 by one point.
You could argue that Terry Bowden won the last Iron Bowl he actually attended as the Auburn coach in 1997, but he has to take responsibility for the 1998 team he walked away from at midseason. That team lost to Alabama.
It's the story of the rivalry. The coaches they named the stadiums after, Bear Bryant and Shug Jordan, lost their final Iron Bowls. The coach with his name on Auburn's field, Pat Dye, lost his last Iron Bowl.
Four of the six Auburn coaches before Gus Malzahn - Jordan, Dye, Tommy Tuberville and Gene Chizik - were shut out in their final games against Alabama.
Two of the Alabama coaches between Bryant and Nick Saban - Bill Curry and Mike Shula - were shut out in their careers against Auburn.
Get shut out here, and don't be surprised when you get ushered out.
That's not going to happen to Saban or Malzahn, but in a strange twist, it's more likely that the winner of this chess match could exit stage left.
If Alabama wins and goes on to capture a third straight national title, a fourth in five years and Saban's fifth overall, what would be left for him to accomplish? Was Terry Saban's recent comment to the Wall Street Journal - "people get spoiled by success and there gets to be a lack of appreciation" - a sign of unrest in the first family of Alabama football?
Could Saban decide to leave, not just Tuscaloosa but college football, on a high note?
If Auburn wins Saturday, Malzahn will be the hottest commodity on the coaching market, if he's not there already. He's shown he can win big, do it quickly and make it happen in an entertaining way.
Auburn didn't have to break the bank to get him. Will it take that to keep him? Will Auburn, still smarting from the massive buyout flowing in $200,000-plus monthly installments into Gene Chizik's bank account, be reluctant to do a long-term deal after one season?
Could another school with unlimited resources, like Texas, make Malzahn an offer he couldn't refuse?
Right now, it seems most likely that this Iron Bowl will be the first of many Saban-Malzahn matchups to come. Saban has too much restless intensity to stop coaching and too little desire to start over somewhere else, and besides, he's so close to matching Bryant's record of six national titles. Malzahn has moved so much in his young coaching career it's time to put down some roots, and he should have an even better team at Auburn next season.
But this is the kind of thing that worries ADs, presidents and trustees even while their programs are enjoying incredible success. They say it's harder to stay on top than to get there. From a different perspective, it may be just as difficult to keep the right coach as it is to find him.
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