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re: Tennessee and LSU at home with us controlling our own destiny for the SEC
Posted on 10/19/23 at 4:51 pm to elposter
Posted on 10/19/23 at 4:51 pm to elposter
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when is the last time Bama lost on the road and the fans DIDN'T rush the field?
This is a great random superlative — how did you determine if they rushed the field or not?
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2010
Unfortunately we lost three games that year. I'm not going to mention the other team — you know who it is.
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Posted on 10/19/23 at 5:43 pm to CrimsonBoz
Hell Yeah.
Posted on 10/19/23 at 6:26 pm to Diego Ricardo
I have always thought Alabama did not have any special home field advantage like some other schools, but is the best road team ever. Basically they don't care where they play and this attitude has created success. As a reference the first game I attended in Tuscaloosa was around 1950. My family was in the barber shop downtown (they were pretty elaborate in those days) in the morning before the game and Johnny Mack Brown was getting his boots shined. There was no big fan fare but my Mother spotted him and all the children with us got his autograph. Times have sure changed since those days.
Posted on 10/19/23 at 7:25 pm to stewieie
Post more Mr. stewieie. Tell us stories just like that, we’d all love to hear them.
Posted on 10/19/23 at 9:41 pm to paperwasp
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This is a great random superlative — how did you determine if they rushed the field or not?
Remembered most of them. Looked up videos on youtube to confirm field rushing for others.
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Unfortunately we lost three games that year. I'm not going to mention the other team — you know who it is.
Yeah but the Camback against Auburn was at home so not within scope of the topic.
This post was edited on 10/19/23 at 9:42 pm
Posted on 10/20/23 at 12:58 am to elposter
bama has lost the biggest consequence games at home
Posted on 10/20/23 at 2:23 am to EGO3x
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Auburn on the road doesn’t look as daunting
Posted on 10/20/23 at 8:33 am to elposter
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the Camback against Auburn was at home
Oh yeah, just had to point it out. I will not, however, be discussing the next one in 2013.
How that team (sandwiched between titles in 2009, 2011, and 2012) lost three games is still maybe the biggest mystery of the Saban era to me. Coincidentally, despite a tremendous amount of talent, I think their achilles heel was the offensive line.
You're right about South Carolina being surprising though — despite getting close in 2008 and winning it all the previous year, I guess maybe we hadn't quite reached the level of warranting field rushing yet.
Posted on 10/20/23 at 10:20 am to paperwasp
I was at that game in Columbia in 2010. I sat behind the Bama bench which at Williams Bryce is basically backed up to the stands. Walking into the stadium was raucous. Don’t know what happened that game. Guess it was one of spurriers better teams. Don’t know if that team included probably their best roster with lattimore, clowney, Alshon Jeffery, and of course Garcia playing lights out. But it was pretty much a miserable day/night. They lost the following week to Kentucky too haha.
Posted on 10/20/23 at 10:56 am to paperwasp
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How that team (sandwiched between titles in 2009, 2011, and 2012) lost three games is still maybe the biggest mystery of the Saban era to me. Coincidentally, despite a tremendous amount of talent, I think their achilles heel was the offensive line.
It was a few things:
Oline was inconsistent
Green secondary
Linebackers weren't great, Hightower was coming off the ACL, then you had Nico Johnson, and Jerrell Harris. Mosley stood out as a true frehsman, but was still a freshman. Depth was Tana Patrick, Chavis Williams, and Chris Jordan. Upshaw was still figuring things out at jack.
Ingram was dealing with a knee the entire year it seemed like.
Complacency after winning it all the year before
Probably some other things, but those I remember.
Posted on 10/20/23 at 11:01 am to LaneB
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bama has lost the biggest consequence games at home
no coincidence that most of the teams that we've lost to at home were either eventual national champions or national championship contenders.
This post was edited on 10/20/23 at 11:04 am
Posted on 10/20/23 at 7:11 pm to captainFid
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but our noise never seems to upset other teams. Maybe I'm wrong but I don't remember watching other teams with pre-snap penalties because of the environment
Well, it looks like coach had something to say about this...
LINK ]Nick Saban Makes Rare Request of Alabama Fans: ‘One Time I’m Asking You to Do That [si.com]’
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"you create the momentum"
Maybe he's on to something...
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