re: Can anyone think of a time when the Alabama hate...

As you know many people were talking about the "Decline". It tears them up that it is not real and the thought of Alabama winning yet another national title has them losing sleep and grinding their teeth

Relish it

I would think Alabama was hated more during the march from Selma to Montgomery, but maybe not.

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And another thing, why is every come back by LSU fan homoerotic? They talk about TAMU but wanting another man to STTD?

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Tigers don’t care, they got a BJ

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Alabama did not make this decision. They are just benefiting. People are insufferable. Be angry at the committee.

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Exactly. If Georgia had won, Texas would’ve been the 4 seed over FSU. If Oregon had beaten Washington, Oregon would have gotten in over FSU. FSU wasn’t getting in.

The reason people are pissed is because:

a. They are actually FSU fans and justified in their anger or

b. They hate Alabama and/or the SEC and hoped that the committee would put an obviously inferior team in the playoff to guarantee that Alabama and/or the SEC would not win the title.

The biggest mistake the committee made was in not dropping Florida State to #8 immediately after the Travis injury.

I can list a few from Auburns standpoint. Most on here do not know the past.
Don Fuell

The statements and documents purported to show:

1.) That then Alabama head Coach J.B. (Ears) Whitworth asked SEC Commissioner Bernie Moore to investigate Auburn ’s recruiting of Fuell in December, 1956.

2.) That Moore in a letter to the NCAA gave Auburn a clean bill and accused a former Alabama assistant and an alumnus of Oklahoma A&M – where Whitworth was former coach – of making unsubstantiated charges against Auburn with “ulterior” motives.

3.) That the two men named by Moore, plus a third alleged “informant” – Fuell’s father-in-law, advised the NCAA just before this week’s disciplinarian meeting in New Orleans that they were misquoted and misconstrued and wanted no part in the case.

4.) That Fuell, a widely sought prospect from Guntersville , Ala , was interviewed by a mysterious private detective who asked him how much “under the table” money it would take to induce him to switch to another school.

5.) That the same detective, masquerading as a salesman, gained entrance to Fuell’s apartment to investigate his standard of living.

6.) That the NCAA accused Auburn of giving Fuell a contract that called for providing him with an air conditioner for his home, a $1,700 motorboat and a new car or $2,200 cash his sophomore year.

7.) That Fuell has an air conditioner and did have a motorboat but that the financing was arranged by his father. The motorboat was sold at a loss because Fuell was unable to keep up the payments out of his savings from a summer job and an allowance from his father. An operation made necessary on his son by a malformation at birth was a financial factor, the documents showed.

“We are deeply hurt and deeply concerned by the action fo the National Collegiate Athletic Association,” said President Draughon. It is inconceivable that the NCAA convicted us on the evidence we presented. If there is any other evidence neither Beard nor I know about it.”

Fuell money. We were accused of putting him a nice apartment with a new car and a new baot. This came about as the result of two bama assistant coaches coming to his apartment posing as encyclopedia salesmen. bama was incensed that Fuell came to Auburn rather than with them. They desperately needed a QB as their program was in the toilet under Ears Whitworth.

2. The bottomline in all this is real simple. Fuell came from what appeared to be a very average Guntersville family who could in no way afford what the kid had at Auburn. BUT, Daddy Fuell was a bootlegger making lots of money selling illegal booze. In the end, Auburn had two choices, take it in the shorts or see the kid's Dad put in jail. Auburn did the "honorable" thing and kept quiet. All this was fairly common knowlege at the time but certainly not something we could offficially use in court or with the NCAA.

I'll tell you one thing... if I were an LSU fan, I would never come to this website for the same reasons I don't go to BOL.

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