InkStainedWretch

I'm a man after Gene Stallings' own heart, I'll be happy with a one-point victory in an SEC road game after that war last week.

Not really off topic because we're so steeped in that tradition. Someone in a post on the More Sports Board ... not the Rant ... made the comment that in the last five years the "pageantry and tradition" of college football has been destroyed. A poster whose info shows he is an LSU fan responded with this, and IMO it's as in the middle of the bull's eye as anything that I've seen any place on this website since I signed up.

Thoughts?

I hate to break it to you, but it started LONG before the last 5 years. And it is YOUR fault (not you individually, fans in general)

40 years ago the fans demanded that every game be broadcast on TV. The market delivered it. And it came with increased money to the schools and conferences. Fans demanded their team win at any cost. The market responded by increasing coaching salaries because having decent success for a few years at a school wasn't good enough. The team had to be great every year. If not, fire the coach and go get the best...no matter the cost. The coaching market responded. As did the school's markets. YOU demanded to be in the stadium. You demanded great success. You demanded the best. So the market raised the prices to pay for it.

YOU did not like that voters decided the champion off the field. So the BCS was born. YOU kept demanding the best coaches, the best facilities, the best players, championship success...so the schools and conferences took steps to raise more money (conference realignment, new massive TV contracts, etc)

The BCS wasn't good enough. More teams should make the playoffs. So the CFP was born. The players, smartly, recognized the schools, conferences, coaches were making ever increasing MILLIONS of dollars with the players cut still being the same it was 50+ years ago. The players, understandably, wanted a share of the massive amounts they were helping generate.

YOU made all but a few bowl games generally irrelevant. YOU demanded donors pay millions for player, or to fire a HC 3 years into a massive contract then hire a new best ever HC for even MORE money...until he fails to win championships in 3 years. Then YOU will demand he be fired and the process starts all over again.

YOUR desire for sex was ever increasing and could not be satisfied. So the prostitute is just giving you what you want at the ever-increasing cost you are willing to pay.

Now you want to go back to "simpler times" in the "good ole days". That's not happening. And it is YOUR fault

It is stone cold dead. It is not on Congress’ post-election agenda, it will not be on the agenda of the new Democratic controlled Congress.

“(DeBoer) went into that game last night with a plan and stuck with it. He didn’t overreact to things that didn’t go (as) planned. He coached strategically.

“Kiffin coached like an emotional manchild. The decision to go for it over and over again on 4th down at the bama side of the field when you get the ball to start the 2nd Half was reckless. I get he wanted to correct himself from the Kentucky game but the difference is that Kentucky 4th and 1 decision could’ve ended the game it’s just the first half he didn’t need to go for it that many times that early.”

“Before hiring Kiffin I often complained about his coaching personality and all of those things were on full display once again.

“He gets bored by plays that work.
He takes risks when he gets frustrated.
He doubles down on bad decisions.”

I’m not trying to tug chains like Puerto Rico Blaze but I know there are a bunch of people out there who still, in their heart of hearts, want this nimrod on our sideline. Even though IMO it would be an unmitigated disaster.

I think it’s like Shocco, in a rare bit of reality, observed, it’s a dick matching deal between programs as to who gets the big name and can crow about it.

In the real world of trying to win games instead of one-upping the competition, give me solid, stolid, boring DeBoer with a better OC.

Good for him. I’m hoping like Popeye he’d had all he could stand and couldn’t stand anymore.

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What happened to the Keelon from the beginning of the year

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Kirby Smart and Glenn Schumann

If you will look at my OP, I said I liked the way they celebrated. I think the Twitter people bitching about this … who were specifically bemoaning the absence of a dogpile … are morons. I just wondered if I was missing something.

For the record I hate burnouts by the winner in NASCAR. Drive to victory lane and get out and get your trophy, act like you’ve been there before.

Twitter is melting down today because the Brewers apparently weren’t sufficiently crazy after they won the World Series. The catcher just walked up and shook the pitcher’s hand and … Gasp! Horrors! … they didn’t do a team dogpile on the pitcher’s mound. In this era of social media exhibitionism, I found it refreshing. In 1965 after he threw a 3-hit shutout on two days’ rest in Game 7, Sandy Koufax simply shook his catcher’s hand and walked off the field.

Thoughts?

Agree 1,000%

And we have some stuff that must be fixed, bottom line.

But we were dead meat … dead meat … in that game even when the score was close and we pulled it out of our asses.

I’m not going to sunshine pump. Go back and look at my posts Saturday, I was as angry as anyone. I’m just choosing to think maybe it registered with some people and I think we are going to get our people back and with an extra week to prepare we going to beat LSU’s arse. They are not that good and Lane Kiffin isn’t God.

Yes he’s a Barner but he generally plays it very straight in these Monday morning recaps.

His last three words scream volumes though and when you get down to it, they describe something a team needs to have as much as 22 5-stars and it’s absolutely in line with something that Coach Bryant once said. That you are going to have moments when nothing is right, nothing is working, everything is caca, but you still have to find a way to get it done.

Another comeback win. QB helped find a way. Missed a few throws. QB designed runs helped. Play action opened some things up. Made plays on scramble drill. OL had some whiffs in the run game. TEs back to being super physical. Counter play had good success. Had a free runner get through. RPO game solid. Off on a few of the reads. OL still stepping on each other a bit. 79 strained. Showed good fight. Had a run stunt hit against them. Liked the picked movement. 3 was dynamic in open field. Run thru hurt in short yardage. 5 had a big day n def, pick 6, PD, solo tackles. Added to run game late with extra defenders. 88 played well vs run. Rush lanes off at times. Forced some miss reads in zone read game. 90 good pass rush reps, good hands vs run. 7 added pressure from depth. 14 looked great on DL, power, twitch! Found a way.

That’s why I can’t believe all the people who are conceding defeat.