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re: Great article about Nick Saban crying now that Bama is no longer competitive.
Posted on 5/1/26 at 2:06 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 5/1/26 at 2:06 pm to RollTide1987
quote:paying players, free suits, free cars, parents put up in lake houses, duffle bags full of cash, free rims, pay for play, signing bonuses....
Nothing was stopping other schools from doing what Nick Saban and Alabama did
NCAA rules damn sure didnt stop bama and saban from cheating thanks to Mike Slive and Mark Emmert. bama fans acting like they didnt cheat will always be laughable
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Posted on 5/1/26 at 2:10 pm to BigAL Golesh
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NCAA rules damn sure didnt stop bama and saban from cheating thanks to Mike Slive and Mark Emmert. bama fans acting like they didnt cheat will always be laughable
I never said Alabama didn't cheat. However, luring players to a school (whether due to name recognition or pay for play) is only part of the battle. You still have to instill a culture of excellence, convince them to be part of a team and not just play there for a bag, develop them, coach them, and have them understand mid-game and halftime adjustments when things aren't going so well in-situ.
SMU in the 80s was the KING of paying players to come to play for them in Dallas. Do you know how many national championships that bought them? Zero.
Posted on 5/1/26 at 2:23 pm to TxAgveteran
Gumps are still in denial. Repost this in December.
Posted on 5/1/26 at 2:23 pm to Gen Patton
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Im not anywhere close to a Bama fan but they won the mythical SEC regular season title in 25
This hasn’t been a thing for over thirty years.
Posted on 5/1/26 at 2:24 pm to TxAgveteran
He's such a liberal puss
Posted on 5/1/26 at 2:49 pm to RollTide1987
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SMU in the 80s was the KING of paying players to come to play for them in Dallas. Do you know how many national championships that bought them? Zero.
Screwed out of the 82 title, only unbeaten team that season
Posted on 5/1/26 at 2:50 pm to RollTide1987
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SMU in the 80s was the KING of paying players to come to play for them in Dallas.
Didn't they also play in Texas Stadium a bunch at the time? Damn, you get that, stud players, and money, that's a hard combo to beat
Posted on 5/1/26 at 2:58 pm to Gen Patton
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Didn't they also play in Texas Stadium a bunch at the time? Damn, you get that, stud players, and money, that's a hard combo to beat
Having grown up with it all and watching the aftermath, Texas Governor Bill Clements is still my favorite character.
He comes in to quietly clean it all up and is told the program "has a payroll to meet" so Clements then argues it would be dishonorable to walk back such contractual obligations.
He then stiff arms the University President telling home to focus on running the University business. "Calm down and don't be so self-righteous."
Posted on 5/1/26 at 2:59 pm to Sl0thstronautEsq
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won a CFP game.
Gifted an elimination game appearance against another sec team to get more geographical eyes on the playoffs. You are a fricking dolt if you think for one second you are still competitive. I guarantee LSU and most of the big 6 stomp bama out this year.
Posted on 5/1/26 at 3:04 pm to Gen Patton
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Screwed out of the 82 title, only unbeaten team that season
That is true. However, SMU beat only one team in the regular season (Texas) that finished with a winning record. They tied the only other team with a winning record (Arkansas) they played that season.
Meanwhile, Penn State played and beat Maryland (8-4), Nebraska (12-1), West Virginia (9-3), Boston College (8-3-1), NC State (6-5), Notre Dame (6-4-1), and Pittsburgh (9-3) in the regular season. Yeah, they had an ugly loss to an eventual 8-4 Alabama team, but that game was against Bear Bryant at Legion Field.
Penn State played an exponentially tougher schedule and defeated top-ranked, and undefeated, Georgia in the Sugar Bowl. While they had a blemish on their record, their strength of schedule more than makes up for it when comparing resumes with 1982 SMU.
Posted on 5/1/26 at 3:04 pm to pgaddxn
SMU was just getting started which is why the SEC had the NCAA take them out. If SMU had gotten the Bama treatment they’d have multiple Natties by now. It takes a while to get the system rolling and maintaining it. Even Bama had some down years.
Posted on 5/1/26 at 3:05 pm to Gen Patton
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Screwed out of the 82 title, only unbeaten team that season
If I recall . . Penn State had lost t#4 Bama team but the pollsters thought they played a much tougher schedule and they finished by beating #1 Georgia in the Sugar Bowl.
I can see it. That Nittany Lions squad beat #2 Nebraska, #13 West Virginia, #13 Notre Dame, #5 Pitt, and #1 Georgia.
SMU had played only two ranked teams, beating #19 Texas and finishing with a tie against #9 Arkansas and beating #6 Pitt in the Cotton Bowl.
EDIT - Looks like RollTide beat me to this.
This post was edited on 5/1/26 at 3:06 pm
Posted on 5/1/26 at 3:11 pm to BigAL Golesh
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paying players, free suits, free cars, parents put up in lake houses, duffle bags full of cash, free rims, pay for play, signing bonuses....
NCAA rules damn sure didnt stop bama and saban from cheating thanks to Mike Slive and Mark Emmert. bama fans acting like they didnt cheat will always be laughable
Posted on 5/1/26 at 3:12 pm to TxAgveteran
Nick Saban wrecked a lot of people.
Posted on 5/4/26 at 12:07 pm to TxAgveteran
Ari's right you know
Also, all these guardrails and shite he's talking about wouldn't afford his best Bama teams a decade ago - that team would probably cost like $100 million not $50 million
Also, all these guardrails and shite he's talking about wouldn't afford his best Bama teams a decade ago - that team would probably cost like $100 million not $50 million
Posted on 5/4/26 at 12:14 pm to RunningJacket
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SMU was just getting started which is why the SEC had the NCAA take them out. If SMU had gotten the Bama treatment they’d have multiple Natties by now. It takes a while to get the system rolling and maintaining it. Even Bama had some down years.
Fair but lets face facts at the end of the day
They had Bobby fricking Collins as their head coach, if Ron Meyer had stayed, hed be a college football coaching legend - Collins just wasn't the coach for SMU to sustain greatness and it showed his final 2 seasons there
Posted on 5/4/26 at 12:21 pm to RunningJacket
Weakass alter.
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Posted on 5/4/26 at 12:43 pm to lewis and herschel
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Funny he created the largest stockpile of unfair advantage thru talent in Modern football history only to whine about fairness once the field has been leveled...
Well Kirby is doing the same thing.
Posted on 5/4/26 at 12:46 pm to TxAgveteran
I knew the loss of Saban and rise of NIL would be really bad for bama but I still can’t get over their humiliation at the hands of Indiana. It was like the Hoosiers were playing a division 2 team.
Posted on 5/4/26 at 12:57 pm to labamafan
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Well Kirby is doing the same thing.
I think his 2021 and 2022 teams would've destroyed his current Georgia teams
His 2017 Georgia team would probably cost around $100 million to assemble
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