re: *ClusterF*** of the Day* Moment of silence please. 33 years ago.

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I mean, if you think that the situation at Alabama (or any SEC school) is in anyway similar to the situations at USC, Ohio State, Michigan, Nebraska and Notre Dame......then I don't really know what to tell you.

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I don't, I get that Bama and the entire south had a stigma back then. Hell so did Texas, as fans of the University of Texas loved to brag how it won the last "all white" national title.

With that said, I refuse to believe that Bear recruited players because of his own opinions on race or because he was trying to be some sort of role model for other SEC programs despite whatever mythos he has at Bama. As you say:

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they did do it to stay competitive...They started doing it relatively at the same time other schools in the Deep South started doing it.

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Which equals no fricking props from me. His whole song and dance of how he "tried really hard for a long time but no one at Bama let him" is what we call revisionist history. He started coming out with that crap late in his career to preserve his legacy once he figured out the cultural winds were blowing hard in the other direction.

Maybe I went too far outright calling him racist, but the mythology that he was some sort of trendsetter on race is bullshite too.