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re: December 9, 2006 - Rich Rodriguez tells The University of Alabama "No"
Posted on 12/10/21 at 8:32 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 12/10/21 at 8:32 am to RollTide1987
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15 years ago today.
I remember that day so well! We were at a football game for my nephew who was playing in state championship when a friend texted me that Rich Rod had turned down the job.
I was shocked and so disappointed. I couldn't believe that any coach would turn down a chance to coach at Alabama, especially when he choice was WV!! Yes, we had some bad years prior to that, but we were still BAMA!!
We lived in a neighborhood of FL and Auburn fans and that had a lot of run teasing us about it, and then a few mornings later at the bus stop when I mentioned we were going after Saban, they all laughed. They quit laughing real quick!!
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Posted on 12/10/21 at 9:04 am to RollTide1987
Yes that was about the lowest point I ever remember. I still remember that whole week and where I was and listening to PAWWWLL
Posted on 12/10/21 at 9:46 am to StopRobot
Whats crazy if Rich Rod takes the job you dont have Dabo winning NC's at Clemson.
Dabo had agreed to come to UA with Rich Rod as the WR's coach
Dabo had agreed to come to UA with Rich Rod as the WR's coach
Posted on 12/10/21 at 10:11 am to RollTide1987
Man, this was a day that could have been SO much different for Bama.
Too bad he turned it down
Too bad he turned it down
Posted on 12/10/21 at 11:38 am to RollTide1987
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I was there, guy. I was living it. Unless you are old enough to remember "Ears" Whitworth and his three years of suckage I don't think you have me beat in the dark times department.
You're a liar. 1987 was obviously the year you were born. You have it in your username, and that would put you at 20 years old in 2007, which lines up with your comment.
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The message I was sending was clearly received by the team. Sometimes you have to go to great lengths to get people motivated to play up to their potential. Wallace Wade did something similar at the halftime of the '26 Rose Bowl when the Tide was down 12-0 to Washington. He didn't give a speech. The only thing he said was: "They told me southern boys would fight."
Cutting deep is sometimes the best medicine.
STFU you delusional bitch.
You said you were done with the team. You are a bitch and will always be a bitch in my eyes. You had 0 effect on the team, you just melted like a bitch because you've never seen bad times at Alabama and have no idea how to deal.
This post was edited on 12/10/21 at 11:40 am
Posted on 12/10/21 at 11:41 am to 3down10
I had this on my computer
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My Tennessee fan boss gave me hell - if only he had known what was coming
My Tennessee fan boss gave me hell - if only he had known what was coming
This post was edited on 12/10/21 at 11:46 am
Posted on 12/10/21 at 11:53 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 12/10/21 at 12:15 pm to RollTide1987
Also it was a good thing that the Miami Dolphins Medical Staff passed on signing Drew Brees in 2005 (because he was coming off an injury) who Saban wanted to come to be his franchise QB. Had that happened, then Saban stays in MIA and the rest is history.
Brees signed with the Saints and look at the difference in those two franchises over the last 15-16 years.
So yep a lot of domino’s fell correctly for Bama to end up with Saban and it has paid off handsomely for the University and him as well.
Brees signed with the Saints and look at the difference in those two franchises over the last 15-16 years.
So yep a lot of domino’s fell correctly for Bama to end up with Saban and it has paid off handsomely for the University and him as well.
Posted on 12/10/21 at 12:21 pm to Robot Santa
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Thankfully Paul Finebaum and Neal Vickers mercilessly lambasted Rita. Inappropriate? Maybe. But they did us a service on that one. Probably the only time the Finebaum show actually did anything good for Alabama even if it was inadvertent.
I remember this and at the time Bama fans were kinda shocked when RR backed out. It was all but a done deal.
Thanks Pawwwl. (Vickers and Fbaum were magic)
Posted on 12/10/21 at 12:39 pm to RollTide1987
Unbelievable how lucky Alabama was. It is the greatest luck in the history of college football.
Posted on 12/10/21 at 1:07 pm to 3down10
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You're a liar. 1987 was obviously the year you were born. You have it in your username, and that would put you at 20 years old in 2007, which lines up with your comment.
I'm sorry, I'm confused, but are you trying to say that someone born in 1987 wouldn't remember the years 2000-2007? My first Alabama game was 2000 Vanderbilt at Legion Field. I was 13 and I remember it quite vividly.
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STFU you delusional bitch.
You are so mad and passionate right now and it is freaking awesome.
This post was edited on 12/10/21 at 1:21 pm
Posted on 12/10/21 at 1:46 pm to RollTide1987
Mine was on Jan 9, 2012 about mid-way through the 3rd quarter of the BCS NCG watching your, a'hem, stellar coach Saban wipe his azz with our, a'hem, less than stellar coach.
Your RichRod temporary pain helped make mine permanent.
Your RichRod temporary pain helped make mine permanent.
Posted on 12/10/21 at 1:48 pm to FleshEatingSalsa
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Had Rich Rod said yes, Saban likely would have stayed with Miami another year, then signed as HC of Michigan in 08. And college football would look radically different
Unless one believes in predestination,
I have to reach back further for another unsung
hero and the role he played in having Saban come to Alabama. If Mike Price had not been such a
total dumb arse and got himself fired before coaching
a game, he might have lingered on for several
years, it would have broken the chain of
events as they would play out. So, thank
you Mike and "Destiny" for helping make it all happen.
Posted on 12/10/21 at 1:54 pm to RollTide1987
Frick Rich Rod
Posted on 12/10/21 at 1:54 pm to Robot Santa
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Neal Vickers
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His first assignment in his 20 year Air Force career was Madrid, Spain working in both radio and television, followed by stints in Cold War era Berlin and Kaiserslautern, Germany, Greenland, Texas, Arkansas and Washington, D.C. He was also assigned at one point to the Office of Secretary of Defense working with designers of the military construction budget.
Neal’s experience was also used as a military combat photographer. He traveled to Somalia in the summer of 1992 in civilian clothes to document the famine and fighting before US combat troops invaded in December. He routinely traveled with air crews and relief workers into war-torn Sarajevo in the early 1990s as the city was under siege. He flew with special operations units and rode with tank crews along the Iraqi border. Neal helped document American air, land, and sea military maneuvers during the contra revolt in Nicaragua in the 1980s. He was with the 82nd Airborne as they loaded onto to planes to invade Haiti in 1994, later helping rewrite the Air Combat Command war plans for the deployment of Air Force combat photographers during hostilities.
Posted on 12/10/21 at 2:31 pm to 3down10
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You're a liar. 1987 was obviously the year you were born. You have it in your username, and that would put you at 20 years old in 2007, which lines up with your comment.
So you're saying 13 is somehow too young to watch sports? I can vividly remember watching UF football and the Braves when I was 8.
Posted on 12/10/21 at 2:34 pm to RollTide1987
If you think about it, that's the best day in Bama football history.
Posted on 12/10/21 at 2:37 pm to crimson_one
Nothing to do with Rich or Rita
Just an excuse to drop in a piece of freek's
work on stud Pawwwwwl and a borrowed tat :
Just an excuse to drop in a piece of freek's
work on stud Pawwwwwl and a borrowed tat :
This post was edited on 12/10/21 at 2:38 pm
Posted on 12/10/21 at 2:58 pm to RollTide1987
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I'm sorry, I'm confused, but are you trying to say that someone born in 1987 wouldn't remember the years 2000-2007? My first Alabama game was 2000 Vanderbilt at Legion Field. I was 13 and I remember it quite vividly.
If you've only been watching since 2000, then you had no concept of what Alabama was before. Not to mention at 13 years old, I doubt you gave a frick.
Which is the only reason you could have thought 2007 was the lowest point in your fandom.
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You are so mad and passionate right now and it is freaking awesome.
You're Winning!
Fact of the matter is you went so far as to create a thread claiming you were done with this team and everything about it. You shite all over them and said you were done.
That's being a bitch. When people like Saban talk about shitty fans, they are talking about you.
Posted on 12/10/21 at 3:08 pm to MetroAtlantaGatorFan
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So you're saying 13 is somehow too young to watch sports? I can vividly remember watching UF football and the Braves when I was 8.
I can remember watching football before I understood the game as well.
But no, a 13 year old isn't really going to process going 3-8 after being #3 to start the season. He would have had no concept of what any of that really meant.
And I don't know how anyone can think being turned down by a coach somehow compares to having your team go 3-8 after you coach is caught fricking his secretary. Then we have another coach come in, only to bolt for another school. All the NCAA sanctions we went through. Mike Price being fired before coaching a game. Then we hired Mike Shula after the spring game because of that, when nobody else would really take the job.
Getting turned down by Rich Rod is quite minor to all that.
At any rate, I'm mostly just calling him out because he straight up made threads trashing Alabama, saying he was done with the team and all that kind of stuff. I don't really care how long someone has been a fan.
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