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re: Say what you will about Bear Bryant
Posted on 7/18/22 at 8:43 am to SidewalkTiger
Posted on 7/18/22 at 8:43 am to SidewalkTiger
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Posted on 7/18/22 at 8:52 am to omrebelfan20
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Well if all your star players would actually play and not opt out during their sophomore years you might field a team that doesn’t get their shite kicked in
Scored 20 with a db/Wr acting as quarterback.
Posted on 7/18/22 at 9:07 am to omrebelfan20
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Well if all your star players would actually play and not opt out during their sophomore years you might field a team that doesn’t get their shite kicked in
Leonard Fournette practically opted out during the 2016 season, but not before he set a school record against the Rebs.
Posted on 7/18/22 at 9:48 am to SidewalkTiger
Still the best that ever coached the game, there were a few National titles that he was robbed of as well at Bama. 1966 is one that comes to mind.
Posted on 7/18/22 at 9:54 am to SidewalkTiger
Posted on 7/18/22 at 10:11 am to DeltaFishTiger
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Junction boys is a made up story to deflect from the fact that no one wants to play for A&M unless they’re getting paid
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Bryant signed with A&M for $15,000/yr ... without even seeing the campus. When Bryant’s family first arrived in dismal College Station, biographer Allen Barra recounts how Bryant’s wife, Mary Harmon, exclaimed, “Oh my, oh my. What has Daddy done?”
Bryant compared the all-male military school to a penitentiary, and recruiting was a chore. Future Dallas Cowboys star quarterback Don Meredith turned Bryant down in part because there were no female students at A&M. Bryant made do with what he had — and, it appears, some extra cash.
After a brutal first training camp that weeded out much of the team and was later memorialized in The Junction Boys, the Aggies went 1-9 in 1954. But that would be Bryant’s only losing season as a head coach. The team quickly burst onto the national scene, though such NCAA violations as paying players would cost the undefeated Aggies a Cotton Bowl berth after the 1956 season.
For A&M, 1957 began with a No. 2 ranking and a stacked lineup that included eventual Heisman Trophy winner John David Crow.
Junction is characterized as a dusty, god forsaken, little place in the middle of the Texas Prairie. In reality, it is quite a step up from College Station.
Junction is in the NW portion of the Texas Hill Country, at the confluence of the spring fed North & South Llano Rivers, ~ 120 miles west of Austin.
The crystal clear, spring fed creeks and rivers of the Hill Country offer more desirable recreational opportunites than the chocolate brown waters of the Brazos River.
Posted on 7/18/22 at 10:55 am to Ptins944
quote:Junction, in a drought, before air conditioning, was not for the fainthearted. Bryant let someone else set up the logistics for the camp and was appalled when he got there (the field was full of grass burrs, for what grass it had). But, Bryant's tough man persona wouldn't allow him to back off, so they went on with the camp. In later life, he admitted it was a mistake and apologized for his decisions, but the ones who survived it were definitely a tough bunch who set the tone for those later successful teams.
Junction is characterized as a dusty, god forsaken, little place in the middle of the Texas Prairie. In reality, it is quite a step up from College Station.
Junction is in the NW portion of the Texas Hill Country, at the confluence of the spring fed North & South Llano Rivers, ~ 120 miles west of Austin.
The crystal clear, spring fed creeks and rivers of the Hill Country offer more desirable recreational opportunites than the chocolate brown waters of the Brazos River.
Posted on 7/18/22 at 11:37 am to twk
quote:Texas, before air conditioning, was not for the fainthearted, whether in a drought or not.
Junction, in a drought, before air conditioning, was not for the fainthearted. Bryant let someone else set up the logistics for the camp and was appalled when he got there (the field was full of grass burrs, for what grass it had). But, Bryant's tough man persona wouldn't allow him to back off, so they went on with the camp. In later life, he admitted it was a mistake and apologized for his decisions, but the ones who survived it were definitely a tough bunch who set the tone for those later successful teams.
Not saying the camp wasn't hard (makes a good story), but it was next to the Llano River. The clear, cool spring fed creeks and rivers in the Hill Country is an oasis compared to most of Texas. People from West Texas went to Junction on vacation.
Posted on 7/18/22 at 11:38 am to DeltaFishTiger
Your public ignorance noted. Lol...still out on jr high summer break?
Posted on 7/18/22 at 12:54 pm to Godawgs4
quote:Guess who and where was TAMU's lone victory in 1954
State played @ UGA in 2020 with 44 players and lost 31-24 with the game tied in the 4th quarter and remaining in doubt until right at the end.
But yes, it would be difficult to sustain an entire season with that small of a roster.
Posted on 7/18/22 at 12:59 pm to FearlessFreep
quote:I think this is where I am supposed to use some "our boys were away fighting in the war" excuse.
Guess who and where was TAMU's lone victory in 1954
Or can only A&M do that?
Posted on 7/18/22 at 1:10 pm to omrebelfan20
Bear would have been thrown under a jail if he did what he did to those boys back then today. Probably as recent as 1980.
Posted on 7/18/22 at 1:19 pm to SidewalkTiger
Imagine fielding a team during a 2 year bowl ban because the NCAA decided they wanted to set an example out of your school.....and 2-3 later.....the shite they sodomized your team over is made legal.
Matt Luke > Junction Bear Bryant
Matt Luke > Junction Bear Bryant
This post was edited on 7/18/22 at 1:20 pm
Posted on 7/19/22 at 6:52 am to Olderthandirt
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but he did not care about fake championships.
Nah...he only claimed a few.
quote:Then that filth at Alabama let his corrupt arse run wild.
Junction Boys the ones who survived respected him to the end. They almost all led very successful lives and often credited lessons learned while surviving the junction
He ruined the careers of literally hundreds of players. Before scholarship limits and transfer portals. He would have a hundred scholarship players. Young men that thought they were going to "play" at Alabama.
They rode pine the whole time. Offered a scholarship just so they couldn't play against that selfish old son of a bitch.
Posted on 7/19/22 at 7:02 am to dstone12
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That was when they played games with thirty-eight players.
Only team that does that is LSU, these days.
Others just cancel.
LSU cancelled on Alabama in 2020 and wanted to cancel the make up game but the SEC office strongly suggested they play the game. Orgeron wasn't happy about it
This post was edited on 7/19/22 at 7:04 am
Posted on 7/19/22 at 7:05 am to Whitey Bigsby
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Whitey Bigsby
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He ruined the careers of literally hundreds of players. Before scholarship limits and transfer portals. He would have a hundred scholarship players. Young men that thought they were going to "play" at Alabama.
They rode pine the whole time. Offered a scholarship just so they couldn't play against that selfish old son of a bitch.
LOL at the bitter old fart still pissed at a guy that died 40 years ago.
Posted on 7/19/22 at 7:07 am to dstone12
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Scored 20 with a db/Wr acting as quarterback.
that's 20 better than Joe Burro scored in 1 of his 2 games vs Alabama
Posted on 7/19/22 at 7:08 am to BLG
You do realize whose alt this is, right? Not surprising at all
Posted on 7/19/22 at 7:23 am to BLG
quote:You mean the same old wife-beating drunk you Bama fans are in idolizing after 40 years?
pissed at a guy that died 40 years ago
That guy?
Posted on 7/19/22 at 7:24 am to Hback
quote:Why don't you tell us.
You do realize whose alt this is, right? Not surprising at all
Idiot.
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