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re: Which SEC West program is going to fall to mediocrity by 2020: LSU, Bama, or AU?
Posted on 6/15/14 at 5:37 pm to LarrytheGolfer
Posted on 6/15/14 at 5:37 pm to LarrytheGolfer
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Alabama will always be great in football. We won the SEC with Mike Dubose.
Let's not surgarcoat the Dubose, Franchione, Price, Shula years. Alabama was one of the worst programs in the SEC for close to a decade. A couple good years sprinkled amid bottomfeeder status is not great. Look at our recruiting back then. Our talent level was probably 7th or 8th best in the SEC. Major recruits were not even considering us. Our most prized recruit one year was a 5.7 3 star from Mississippi who we declared the savior of the program because we stole him from the Mississippi schools. Fans were shouting "Jimmy Johns" from the stands demanding Shula play him more. How freaking embarrassing is that? We were awful.
This post was edited on 6/15/14 at 5:40 pm
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Posted on 6/15/14 at 5:41 pm to Monticello
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Let's not surgarcoat the Dubose, Franchione, Price, Shula years. Alabama was one of the worst programs in the SEC for close to a decade. A couple good years sprinkled amid bottomfeeder status is not great. Look at our recruiting back then. Our talent level was probably 7th or 8th best in the SEC. Major recruits were not even considering us. Our most prized recruit one year was a 5.7 3 star from Mississippi who we declared the savior of the program because we stole him from the Mississippi schools. Fans were shouting "Jimmy Johns" from the stands demanding Shula play him more. How freaking embarrassing is that? We were awful.
A lot of that had to do with the violations and penalities.
Posted on 6/15/14 at 5:41 pm to Monticello
It's experiencing the bad years that make the good years so great.
Posted on 6/15/14 at 6:25 pm to Monticello
SEC West football is an arms race to see who can keep up. I get nervous every year when I see tons of juniors leaving early. Has got to affect LSU long term.
Posted on 6/15/14 at 7:31 pm to Monticello
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Let's not surgarcoat the Dubose, Franchione, Price, Shula years. Alabama was one of the worst programs in the SEC for close to a decade. A couple good years sprinkled amid bottomfeeder status is not great. Look at our recruiting back then. Our talent level was probably 7th or 8th best in the SEC. Major recruits were not even considering us. Our most prized recruit one year was a 5.7 3 star from Mississippi who we declared the savior of the program because we stole him from the Mississippi schools. Fans were shouting "Jimmy Johns" from the stands demanding Shula play him more. How freaking embarrassing is that? We were awful.
That's because of crappy and gutless hiring of HCs. We hired Dubose (who had just one year experience as a DC) because of a freaking fax campaign by the fanbase...a freaking fax campaign. His inexperience allowed the rogue boosters to run the recruiting trail, which landed us on probation. Then we were screwed because no decent coach in their right mind wanted to go through the sanctions, so we had to hire a freaking glorified QBs coach to take the job. Throw in a coward and a drunken fool in between.
Hopefully we learned from our past mistakes when it comes to hiring our HC.
This post was edited on 6/15/14 at 7:32 pm
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