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I would stay in Northport instead of Tusc. if you can find a room, but if not I would look at Columbus rather than Bham. It is about the same distance and if you take 82 out of Tusc. you can be there in a third of the time it would take you to get to Bham.

I love the "special pressure" part. Because the folks in Texas would be perfectly happy paying him a huge salary to NOT win national championships. He could just take it easy with no expectations to live up to... :rotflmao:

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Hey man! Where have you been? I'm still in tower #3 on the beach. Are you watching your football at Captain Fun's on the boardwalk?

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Nope...got season tix this year and been going to every home game with GF and going to see her for the away games. I'm actually buying a house and will be off the beach this Dec. Where have you been watching the games?

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I'm hoping that AJ's remarks about not seeing it as a rivalry are how the entire Bama team feels. Tennessee's best chance is Bama feeling we're an automatic win. While I know Saban and Bama fans won't be caught looking ahead, a team filled with players who are used to beating us soundly may make that mistake.

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I hope that is how the entire team feels as well. I guess I take that comment in a different way. Not that it is an automatic win or disparaging towards TN, but that TN is just the next team on the schedule no more and no less. Has nothing to do with rivalry or any other hype, just the next ones in line to get processed.

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Oregon could compete on a one game basis. Doubt they could run the table in the SEC though

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Agree. Just don't think they could take the physical pounding week in and week out. They just wouldn't hold up over the course of a year.

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Are you talking about the Bama fans here? Because it seems like you are talking about them because, for the life of me I can't understand why asking why Bama has struggled at home more than on the road against ranked teams would cause people to get so upset when your team has won 3 out of 4 national championships.

Using the term "struggle" is relative, of course.

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Yep, you nailed it right on the head, that's who I'm talking about. Brilliant deduction sir.

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So you are saying the players had the same intensity level as they did in November? Play calling aside, are you really going to try to say that they were giving it everything they had? I won't disagree that the coaches didn't adjust properly but the players didn't even try with what was called

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Yes, why would they not have the same intensity coming into that game? If they didn't they they shouldn't have been there. Was it beaten out of them in the course of the game?...yeah, probably but that's part of playing the game. Bama made them quit...MADE them. I'm sure you are right and they were not giving their all after getting their asses beat all over the field after a while.

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So you are basing your argument that it was a fluke because of piss-poor coaching. Well, then, that means that it wasn't a fluke. LSU gave it everything they had in that game and it was enough. Also, Bama was out-coached. Sounds like it wasn't a fluke to me.

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Fair enough...perhaps fluke isn't the right choice of words for what I mean. I agree, in that respect Bama was out coached but I regard it as a fluke in that the better team lost because of some poor play calling in key situations. Granted, that is part of the "team" though so I concede your point.

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I don't care how he played in other games or in his dreams. LSU outplayed Bama in every way and only lost because of poor calls at the end (same argument as yours). Again, Bama winning was only as much a fluke in that game as LSU winning the year before.

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Well, I would say that his level of play was a fluke....never before and never again. Just an opinion and maybe he will prove me wrong this year, we will see. Poor calls??...AJ operated like a surgeon on that drive. No defense in the country was stopping that drive. In what way did LSU outplay Bama in every way? Don't really see that at all.

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As for the 2011, where am I bitching? I am simply stating a fact that another team had a reasonable argument for a place in the game. The BCS determined who played who and that is the way it goes but that still doesn't change facts that OSU had a much more legitimate argument in 2011 than UGA did in 2007.

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The argument for OSU certainly was reasonable, but so was the decision to leave them out of the title game. At the end of the day you had two teams with one loss. Team A lost to the #1 team in the country. Team B lost to an unranked team. Not a big stretch to say that team A is the one to advance.

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Lmao VA Tech hasn't been hyped since 2006

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I'm not talking about tech this year....in past years.
They haven't finished the season well since then, but there was plenty of hype for them at the start of quite a few seasons. Again, I'm not referring to what reality proved to be the quality of the team, but rather the mental aspect of preping for a team that is supposed to be a great matchup. I just wonder if it has any kind of impact or not.

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You quoted an LSU fan, sidewalker

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I'm aware of who I quoted.....is his representation of the thread not accurate?