CrimsonCrusade

[quote]Joab Thomas was the real culprit in not hiring Bobby Bowen. He did not understand the football culture at Alabama and did not care[/quote] Thomas thought Alabama needed to win by running the program in a moral way. Sounds good on paper until you realize his ideal model for this was Penn St...

Something that doesn't get talked about enough is how even with Cade Foster putting on the kind of performance only he could, Bama easily would have won that Auburn game if they played Derrick Henry rather than Yeldon. It is extremely clear in retrospect that Henry should have been a day one starter...

[quote]There were a lot of bad snaps today[/quote] There were too many, but what count as bad snaps yesterday would've gone on McLaughlin's highlight reel. Also they will not be playing on completely dead grass like that again this season. That might have had some effect....

Alexander should have had back to back rushing titles those years. He was one yard short in 2004 and Mike Holmgren simply would not give him a carry. Usually in the NFL if a player is close to a record like that, they just give him the ball every single play until he gets it. It was a major controve...

[quote]If the TV market is still what you are after you have to target Duke, UNC and the biggest prize ND. I doubt they would all be interested.[/quote] I think the TV market logic has completely changed in the steaming era....

[quote]In other cases, things just changed. For the better? For the worse? Depends who you ask.[/quote] No it doesn't. Outside of shills in the media who know that keeping this sport popular is their livelihood, no one speaks positively about the state of college football. Every single fan you ta...

[quote]barn rivalry was much better when the Iron Bowl still existed with a 50/50 ticket split at Legion Field. [/quote] This take is so bad but I see it repeated so many times. Neutral site games suck, Legion Field sucked, Birmingham sucks. The only good thing about that arrangement was it kept...

[quote]And the board consensus SEEMS to be that those 3 seasons SUCKED, Saban could no longer compete, and the program is in shambles[/quote] That's not the board consensus at all. There were some people melting in the game threads, but the general consensus is that Bama might have actually overa...

[quote]Everything mentioned sounds like a positive addition to the sport.[/quote] What does the two minute warning add? That's always been a terrible rule in the NFL. Disrupts pace of play at a critical juncture in the game and the only reason for it to exist, as East Coast Band noted, is to add ...

[quote]That’s what Big Al should look like. As long as we’re cleaning house l, we should ditch the current Big Al and make him that. Give him some tusks and let him look like he’s ready to kick some arse. Right now he looks like Micky Mouse’s gay cousin. [/quote] We've talked about this befor...