How do you define rude awakening? Like 10-3, a top #10 finish and a birth in Cotton Bowl? That's certainly a possibility. There's simply too much talent the roster to have a legitimately bad season. Luckily for Alabama fans we've reached the point where anything but a national championship is considered disappointing. It's exactly where you want your program to be.

Opposing fans love to shite talk and it really is sad what the last 6 years have reduced opposing fan bases to. Teams all around the league are having losing seasons, losing games to scrub teams, coaching turmoil, etc. and the best you can do to try to insult Alabama is point to an 11-2 season with a top #10 finish season?

Seriously, taunts at Alabama these days have been reduced to "HAHA you guys didn't win the national championship this year!"

Have you noticed the only teams to beat Alabama over the last 6 years have pretty much all been top 5 teams?

Alabama is not expecting to win the national championship next year, in case you haven't noticed, none of the national pundits are picking them to, however with a key break or two they'll be right in the mix.

We get it, everyone is sick of Alabama and desperately wanting the nightmare to be over. The sad reality for ya'll is that as long as Saban is at Alabama we're going to be a permanent fixture in the top 10 and more often than not a contender for the national title.

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Posted by MenloDawg

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Posted on 5/27/14 at 3:54 am to IAmReality

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How do you define rude awakening?

I would say 3-4 losses would be a rude awakening for a very large portion of the fan base, yes.

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Like 10-3, a top #10 finish and a birth in Cotton Bowl? That's certainly a possibility.

Is this implying that finishing outside the top 10 isn't a possibility?

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Opposing fans love to shite talk and it really is sad what the last 6 years have reduced opposing fan bases to. Teams all around the league are having losing seasons, losing games to scrub teams, coaching turmoil, etc. and the best you can do to try to insult Alabama is point to an 11-2 season with a top #10 finish season?

I think if you read my initial post, then you saw exactly who I was speaking to when I criticized the 11-2 team's offense. Also, your schedule was gift wrapped. We both know this. The SEC doesn't get any easier than your set up last year.

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Have you noticed the only teams to beat Alabama over the last 6 years have pretty much all been top 5 teams?

The last 6 years have little bearing on how this season will play out. Impressive? Yes. Relevant? Ehh.

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Alabama is not expecting to win the national championship next year, in case you haven't noticed, none of the national pundits are picking them to

This thread wouldn't have been started if I hadn't seen this happen multiple times so far. I literally saw it two nights ago on ESPN.

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We get it, everyone is sick of Alabama and desperately wanting the nightmare to be over.

In a land where people only care about college football (the state of Alabama, I suppose?) this is probably true. I think it's impressive what Saban has accomplished and I respect the program. But that doesn't change how I feel about your team's outlook in 2014.

The topic is simply my opinion on Bama in 2014 and a search for further discussion. I feel like I was pretty spot on for 2013. There are some sensible Bama posters, but everybody saw how a large portion of the fan base reacted to the meltdown in the last two games last year. People were calling Saban an idiot. Calling for different coaches heads. Attacking Cade Foster. It was a laughingstock. Those type of embarrassing reactions and unrealistic expectations make a thread like this quite appropriate IMO.

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