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Posted on 12/23/10 at 9:44 pm to crimsonsaint
Posted on 12/23/10 at 9:44 pm to crimsonsaint
quote:Thanks guys for proving my point on this.
What I believe or think is irrelevant, there's no proof provided to me that he did or didn't. Everyone should apply this logic to the Cam Newton situation.
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Posted on 12/23/10 at 9:47 pm to bamaboy87
Bad arse knew the rules, though. He got on some governoring committee, talked them into trying out the tear away jerseys. Next game, Tide came out with them, the other team cluelessly spent the night with torn jerseys in their hands. Now that was some funny shite.
Posted on 12/23/10 at 10:02 pm to LarryDavid
I wish I could've seen the first game they wore the tear away jerseys. I would probably be laughing my arse off 
Posted on 12/23/10 at 10:05 pm to ReauxlTide222
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i thought it was pretty cool that during all the talk of cheating and paying players in pony excess that they didnt say a word about bryant cheating or paying james.
He tried to get the GF to transfer to UA though.
Posted on 12/23/10 at 10:08 pm to highcotton2
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Thanks guys for proving my point on this.
If you're going to quote me, you should at least quote a post of mine.
Posted on 12/23/10 at 10:43 pm to crimsonsaint
Ask the people on ITAT the same question and they'll provide you with more facts than you can handle, proving Bear/Stallings/Saban/Wade/Thomas are/were all cheaters.
Posted on 12/24/10 at 4:43 am to GambitAUfan
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Do you believe Bear Bryant (or associated Bama boosters) cheated during his great run in the 60s and 70s?
No. He pushed the limits, but that is what he was supposed to do. Operating within the rules to maximum effect is part of the job.
Posted on 12/24/10 at 5:42 am to Megadon357
To the OP- Did you get what you wanted?
Posted on 12/24/10 at 10:48 am to GambitAUfan
No he did not!
Now did he use every method at his disposal to gain an advantage yes all legal under the then existing rules!
Now did he use every method at his disposal to gain an advantage yes all legal under the then existing rules!
Posted on 12/24/10 at 11:53 am to BamaNixon
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Second of all, do you know who else is dead? Shug Jordan. The difference is that nobody gave a shite about that dude while he was alive, and nobody cares about him now that he's dead. He's a nobody. Your greatest coach ever is a complete nobody.
You should read up on the man. And realize that there is more to life than coaching sports.
But you're too fricking ignorant to look beyond the color of jersey's a team wears.
GTFO you piece of shite.
Posted on 12/24/10 at 12:03 pm to joeyb147
I do not approve of him speaking about SJ the way he did, but there are a lot more auburn fans that say the same kinds of things about Coach Bryant. I'm sure that Shug, just like Coach Bryant, was a good man. And anyone that is going to talk shite about men that have been gone for several years and can not defend themselves is just sad
Posted on 12/24/10 at 12:22 pm to BamaNixon
:::this:::
well said
well said
Posted on 12/24/10 at 1:39 pm to bamaboy87
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I think he bent several rules to the breaking point. I also think he knew his way around the rules.
also The rulebook was no where near as in depth as it is today,
Posted on 12/25/10 at 8:50 am to Alahunter
quote:good work
Alahunter
Posted on 12/25/10 at 9:04 am to Robot Santa
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One of my grandfather's good friends played at Alabama in the late 50s/early 60s for Bear Bryant, and he has told me on numerous occasions that no one was ever paid or treated any differently than anyone else. He does say that if anyone on the team, and even former players, got in any kind of trouble, whether it be legal, personal, or whatever, that you just needed to call Coach Bryant and he would take care of it for you.
I would say that he wasn't a cheater so much as a man who took advantage of his significant influence.
Ray Perkins asked for a suit when he signed, and was told straight away that type of thing didn't happen at Bama. Back in those days, I don't think Bama had any trouble signing who they wanted.
Posted on 12/25/10 at 9:09 am to GambitAUfan
No. But I do believe rules were put into place for how he did things in the day.
Posted on 12/25/10 at 9:09 am to LarryDavid
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Bad arse knew the rules, though. He got on some governoring committee, talked them into trying out the tear away jerseys. Next game, Tide came out with them, the other team cluelessly spent the night with torn jerseys in their hands. Now that was some funny shite.
I worked at Russell Mills putting numbers on jerseys back when those were still legal. Every starting back had around 100 jerseys in both colors and was an whole order by themselves alone.
Posted on 12/25/10 at 12:17 pm to GambitAUfan
I believe that Coach Bryant was clean the last half of his career - he no longer needed to push the rules because people wanted to play for him. During his early career his Texas AM team was put on probation (don't remember the infractions). But as someone has said, the rules were also different as to number of scholarships allowed, etc.
Posted on 12/25/10 at 5:04 pm to sctide
Shug Jordan was the Les Miles back in his day and won a lot of games with calls that looked entrely stupid, but won none the less. Google up Don Fuell [Auburn commit] who played football at Guntersville High School. Cheating was not just recently invented.
Posted on 12/25/10 at 5:42 pm to GambitAUfan
I think coach knew of 100 dollar handshakes and may have looked the other way but he was never involved with boosters raising money to pay players to come to Alabama.
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