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Tigers, Bears and Aggies Can Agree - The Real Problem With Saban's Bama
Posted on 11/23/16 at 9:47 am
Posted on 11/23/16 at 9:47 am
The real problem with Saban's Bama isn't the fact that your team can't beat them most likely. Everyone focuses on when their team plays Bama, but really what makes being in the same division as Nick's Bama a living hell is what happens all those other games.
The problem is that even IF you find a way to beat his Bama (like LSU in 2011, A&M in 2012, Bears in 2014 and 2015) he will make fricking sure that is the only game his team loses that year. So unless your team can play perfectly before and after the Bama game, actually beating Nick might not matter. Hell 2011 LSU WAS perfect before and after Bama until the very end and Nick still took the title from them.
Auburn has been the only program immune so far- when they have beaten Nick's Bama they either rode a lucky horseshoe or the NFL's most famous closeted gay player to the big game despite Nick. But their advantage might simply be due to the fact that they catch Nick's Bama so late that he doesn't have a chance to recover from a loss.
Everyone else in the SEC who was beaten Nick's Bama has watched as he has made that victory useless, which in a way is way more demoralizing than actually losing to him.
The problem is that even IF you find a way to beat his Bama (like LSU in 2011, A&M in 2012, Bears in 2014 and 2015) he will make fricking sure that is the only game his team loses that year. So unless your team can play perfectly before and after the Bama game, actually beating Nick might not matter. Hell 2011 LSU WAS perfect before and after Bama until the very end and Nick still took the title from them.
Auburn has been the only program immune so far- when they have beaten Nick's Bama they either rode a lucky horseshoe or the NFL's most famous closeted gay player to the big game despite Nick. But their advantage might simply be due to the fact that they catch Nick's Bama so late that he doesn't have a chance to recover from a loss.
Everyone else in the SEC who was beaten Nick's Bama has watched as he has made that victory useless, which in a way is way more demoralizing than actually losing to him.
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Posted on 11/23/16 at 9:49 am to cardboardboxer
What a masterful troll 10/10
Posted on 11/23/16 at 9:51 am to cardboardboxer
He doesn't lose to bad teams. Sans 07 I think every team he has lost to has been a 10 win team.
So really we should be mad at State and Arky for never getting their shite together
So really we should be mad at State and Arky for never getting their shite together
Posted on 11/23/16 at 9:51 am to cardboardboxer
Everyone else needs to quit bitching about Alabama and step up their game.
Posted on 11/23/16 at 9:54 am to craigbiggio
Don't forget Tennessee
Posted on 11/23/16 at 9:54 am to Dawgholio
I like the gay dude licking the black penis looking thing at the end of your gif.
Posted on 11/23/16 at 10:08 am to MontyFranklyn
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What a masterful troll 10/1
Well he's not wrong
Posted on 11/23/16 at 10:12 am to VOLLeyLLama
Exactly.
Posted on 11/23/16 at 10:43 am to cardboardboxer
The problem is most teams focus on ONLY beating Bama. LSU is a great example. They talk, they prepare, they practice, they talk some more about beating Bama. Yes, they play well but they are so tight, then the whole season comes down to one game and they lose to other teams AND they are too tight when they play.
You have to focus on being the best team you can be and not have a barometer to compare to. When's the last time you heard Saban say we have to be more like.....? Bama has to be just another game.
The Process
The Process
People laugh at it, until the process beats them then they blame everything under the sun from the refs, SEC office to the tooth fairy when they lost because they didn't pay attention to the details that Bama did.
2nd. These teams you mentioned chasing Bama have always chased Bama. The millenials don't get it but Bama has always been the SEC team save spells here and there. It's like replacing UK in basketball. yea, you might get them every great now and then but Kentucky is gonna be the big dog in the conference over the long haul no matter what you do.
Folks fired Les Miles when he was no worse than any other coach they ever had. Over history LSU has ALWAYS been....about like they are now. Herman or Fisher, they are good coaches but if you think they will dominate Bama, no matter who's Bama coach is, is living in a fantasy world.
You have to focus on being the best team you can be and not have a barometer to compare to. When's the last time you heard Saban say we have to be more like.....? Bama has to be just another game.
The Process
The Process
People laugh at it, until the process beats them then they blame everything under the sun from the refs, SEC office to the tooth fairy when they lost because they didn't pay attention to the details that Bama did.
2nd. These teams you mentioned chasing Bama have always chased Bama. The millenials don't get it but Bama has always been the SEC team save spells here and there. It's like replacing UK in basketball. yea, you might get them every great now and then but Kentucky is gonna be the big dog in the conference over the long haul no matter what you do.
Folks fired Les Miles when he was no worse than any other coach they ever had. Over history LSU has ALWAYS been....about like they are now. Herman or Fisher, they are good coaches but if you think they will dominate Bama, no matter who's Bama coach is, is living in a fantasy world.
Posted on 11/23/16 at 10:48 am to TouchdownTony
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he problem is most teams focus on ONLY beating Bama.
Sadly I agree with this. I think our coaches and players put so much focus on beating Bama, they don't bring that same passion to beating a team like Arkansas. I can understand us losing to LSU, Auburn, and Florida the past few years when we were good, but losing to Memphis and Arkansas was embarrassing. If the players and coaches had cared half as much about those games as they did Bama, those losses would never have happened.
Posted on 11/23/16 at 10:51 am to cardboardboxer
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Everyone else in the SEC who was beaten Nick's Bama has watched as he has made that victory useless, which in a way is way more demoralizing than actually losing to him.
define useless, because Alabama lost 3 games in 2010. Useless as in it doesn't guarantee a national championship? well no shite, it's one game
Posted on 11/23/16 at 10:59 am to lsufball19
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define useless, because Alabama lost 3 games in 2010.
That was before the machine was fully built and running at top form.
I am talking about what Nick's Bama is today, aka the Bama born in 2011.
Do you expect them to take a step back next year? Or the year after? Or any year until he leaves?
I don't.
This post was edited on 11/23/16 at 11:00 am
Posted on 11/23/16 at 11:04 am to lsufball19
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define useless, because Alabama lost 3 games in 2010. Useless as in it doesn't guarantee a national championship? well no shite, it's one game
a this point in college football, if you are in a power 5 conference, anything less than a national championship, or at least closely competing for it, it a failure. And in some cases, merely competing for it but not winning it is also a failure. I would definitely the latter is true for Alabama, Ohio State, Florida State, and maybe a few others but those are the main 3 that stick out
Posted on 11/23/16 at 11:13 am to ThaKaptin
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a this point in college football, if you are in a power 5 conference, anything less than a national championship, or at least closely competing for it, it a failure.
I wouldn't go that far. There hasn't been a new national title winner in years, so for a lot of the Power 5 that is a real glass ceiling.
But winning a conference or division title every now and then is everyone's goal, and Bama not losing makes that very hard.
Posted on 11/23/16 at 11:42 am to craigbiggio
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He doesn't lose to bad teams. Sans 07 I think every team he has lost to has been a 10 win team.
Bingo.
Posted on 11/23/16 at 11:47 am to cardboardboxer
Posted on 11/23/16 at 11:53 am to cardboardboxer
quote:Duck.
cardboardboxer
Posted on 11/23/16 at 11:59 am to cardboardboxer
Winning a P5 conference title now equates to being in the CFP so it means more than it used to. At this point winning the just the SEC West means as much as an ACC conference championship.
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