Plaid Palace
| Favorite team: | Alabama  |
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| Registered on: | 1/14/2016 |
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re: A Picture Summary of Every Bama Thread Started Over the Past Week
Posted by Plaid Palace on 1/15/16 at 3:05 pm
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re: Question for Alabama alumni
Posted by Plaid Palace on 1/15/16 at 2:20 pm
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I don't see what USA has to do with UA.
It is basically a relief valve for in-state students who Alabama would be forced to take but not have a second option. It lets you get off the hook for taking underperforming kids because the state doesn't produce enough high performers to fill classes at Alabama and Auburn, but you can't just shut out a large chunk of the state as the state's flagship school if there aren't other big, 4-year options.
UCF and USF are that valve for UF, and USA is acting that way for UA. A lot of kids that used to sneak into UA are now having to go to USA instead and USA is ok expanding in size to allow that increase.
re: Is Lane Kiffin the best OC in the SEC?
Posted by Plaid Palace on 1/15/16 at 2:14 pm
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If we didn't have elite talent at almost every offensive skill position outside of QB it would have been a different season.
I think we had very average talent for a Top 10 team on the offensive line. Cam will be a 1st round pick, Kelly will be a mid round pick and Shank and Jackson will probably not even be drafted. Big P might end up being a really good player, but he was very average and played like a freshman most of the year.
Outside of Ridley we had a pretty good college WR in Stewart and a solid slot man in Mullaney. We weren't exactly overflowing with NFL players at those spots either.
And, of course, our quarterback will have slim to no chance to be drafted.
re: Is Lane Kiffin the best OC in the SEC?
Posted by Plaid Palace on 1/15/16 at 2:00 pm
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Alabama was 6th in the sec; 5th in the sec west and one spot below lsu in points per possession which is the stat you look at to see how efficient your offense is.for the record ole Miss is 4th and Arkansas is 8th.....in the country
2015 vs Power 5 teams
#3 SEC PPG (34.0)
#4 SEC YPC (4.59)
#3 SEC Passer Rating (145.11)
#5 SEC YPP (5.88)
2014 vs Power 5 teams
#2 SEC PPG (34.2)
#4 SEC YPC (4.75)
#2 SEC Passer Rating (151.04)
#4 SEC YPP (6.36)
We didn't have a great offensive game this year against Arkansas and we still put up 400 yards of total offense, 27 pts and missed 2 field goals (including a chip shot).
re: Been reading some Clemson message boards..cocky bunch still.
Posted by Plaid Palace on 1/15/16 at 1:46 pm
2 days ago we were getting told to stop slurping Watson and Clemson and now we are being told we aren't giving them enough respect.
I just need someone to let me know the correct response to the team that we beat in the national title game. Thanks in advance.
I just need someone to let me know the correct response to the team that we beat in the national title game. Thanks in advance.
re: Been reading some Clemson message boards..cocky bunch still.
Posted by Plaid Palace on 1/15/16 at 1:35 pm
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Clemson had 23 individual plays that went for 10 yards or more. That compares to just 11 such plays for Alabama.
Alabama had 8 plays of 25 yards or more (not including the KOR for TD)
Clemson had 4 plays of 25 yards of more
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And Clemson's defense was far more physical and put far more pressure on Coker than anyone expected them to.
Jake Coker had the 2nd best game of the season (202.96 QB Rating) and best game against a Division 1 opponent of the season (235.54 rating vs Charleston Southern).
re: Question for Alabama alumni
Posted by Plaid Palace on 1/15/16 at 1:14 pm
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I used to live in Burke and could walk anywhere in 15 minutes.
Yep, I lived behind the cemetery, in the fraternity house on New Row and then back behind the cemetery and I only drove at night back to campus from the off-campus house for studying. I walked everywhere always in the fraternity house.
re: Question for Alabama alumni
Posted by Plaid Palace on 1/15/16 at 1:09 pm
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You pretty much still can.
Used to walk from house right behind the cemetery to Bidgood everyday. Took about 20 minutes. That was way back in the late 2000's.
re: Check in if your favorite sports team has had a Championship dynasty
Posted by Plaid Palace on 1/15/16 at 1:01 pm
Twas a joke
re: Check in if your favorite sports team has had a Championship dynasty
Posted by Plaid Palace on 1/15/16 at 12:53 pm
North Dakota State, been a big fan since whenever they started winning
re: Realignment? The talks are starting again
Posted by Plaid Palace on 1/15/16 at 12:43 pm
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Why do you say that? Not saying you're wrong, just curious.
They see themselves as academic schools and our conference as an athletics conference. To summarize, they look down on us as institutions and would want to be in a league with like-minded schools.
NC State and Virginia Tech would be much more likely options, though the politics of splitting in-state schools from their rivals would be difficult, especially in Virginia. Virginia (the state government) had a big battle when Tech got into the ACC, and I think they even passed bills stating they couldn't split apart (could be wrong there).
re: Realignment? The talks are starting again
Posted by Plaid Palace on 1/15/16 at 12:37 pm
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I would much rather have UVA than VA Tech. They have great baseball and basketball programs and great academic program, but I realize football is king, and VA Tech wins that category. I feel like UVA fits in better culturally as well.
UVA and UNC wouldn't join the SEC unless everything blew up and things significantly changed. They'd be much more apt to join the Big Ten.
re: Check in if your favorite sports team has had a Championship dynasty
Posted by Plaid Palace on 1/15/16 at 12:36 pm
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LSU Baseball. The 90s. It was great
Such incredible teams
re: Question for Alabama alumni
Posted by Plaid Palace on 1/15/16 at 12:25 pm
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Pettway used their debit cards and was kicked off of the team for one season, became a juco all American, so Saban decided to let him back on the team.
Pettway was involved, kicked off, went to Junior College and worked his way back to a second chance. He then took the second chance and has, by all accounts, been an excellent student and teammate that will graduate with a degree and a clean slate.
I'm proud that we gave the kid a second chance and he has made the most of it and will be a fellow alumni. Isn't that what "family" is supposed to be all about? Or is that just an empty slogan reserved for fellow white people from Montgomery Academy, Homewood and "the good ones" on the football roster?
re: Question for Alabama alumni
Posted by Plaid Palace on 1/15/16 at 10:37 am
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nastier remnants of the old south to experience real opposition for the first time
I agree. It seems to me that they are keeping many old Alabama traditions that I love while simultaneously removing many of the old, nasty, "unofficial positions" of many groups on campus. I think it's been a pretty good mesh so far.
re: Realignment? The talks are starting again
Posted by Plaid Palace on 1/15/16 at 9:34 am
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OU isn't happening without Ok State. In other words it isn't happening at all.
Virginia and Virginia Tech are in a similar situation.
re: Realignment? The talks are starting again
Posted by Plaid Palace on 1/15/16 at 9:34 am
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what talks?
Oklahoma President Demands
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University of Oklahoma President David Boren told the Tulsa World on Thursday night he wants “comprehensive reform” of the Big 12 Conference.
That includes an expansion to 12 teams, the folding of the Longhorn Network and other third-tier TV properties into a Big 12 network and a conference football championship game.
His comments came in an interview with Tulsa World sports columnist John E. Hoover.
Boren on Wednesday released a statement to the Oklahoma Daily student newspaper:
“The Big 12 is disadvantaged when compared to the other conferences in three ways. We do not have at least 12 members, we do not have a conference network and we do not have a championship game. I think that all three of these disadvantages need to be addressed at the same time. Addressing only one without addressing all three will not be adequate to improve the strength of the conference.”
The NCAA Division I council on Wednesday approved a measure that would allow the Big 12 to play a conference title game in football with only 10 members.
Playing a round-robin schedule is part of the new rule. This season, Oklahoma would have had to play Oklahoma State in a conference title game the week after OU had beaten the Cowboys. Last year, in the scenario, TCU and Baylor would have played weeks after Baylor’s victory at home.
re: Realignment? The talks are starting again
Posted by Plaid Palace on 1/15/16 at 9:29 am
I am pretty confident that if the SEC moved to expand again it would chase schools in Virginia and North Carolina.
re: Realignment? The talks are starting again
Posted by Plaid Palace on 1/15/16 at 9:23 am
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Because the Big XII can hold a conference championship game with only 10 teams, they do t need to expand.
Oklahoma is very much still in favor of it
Realignment? The talks are starting again
Posted by Plaid Palace on 1/15/16 at 9:15 am
Do you think that this will start another domino effect or that it will just be a Big XII move (if they move at all)?
Are the supposed iron clad contractual agreements signed by a lot of conferences and schools post-2011 enough to stop more shifts?
Are the supposed iron clad contractual agreements signed by a lot of conferences and schools post-2011 enough to stop more shifts?
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