I was there just last night when I realized I was out of toothpaste and had to make a late night run.  Where else was I going to go?  But I didn't make a mess, I promise. 

That does it!!!  I knew it all along!!! We stocked the toothpaste right next to the BCS trophy!!! It was you!!!


BG:)

Oops, before I clean this mess up, I meant to ask the golden question:

Does anyone possibly have any information on Bandit being seen recently at a Walmart near aisle 4???


BG:)

Well, I haven't said anything football related on this board since I had a discussion with mostly Bandit just after the Tide blew it this year with that 9-6 loss. 

Anyway, very nice thread on the current woes at Bama. Good stuff.

See you guys at the next blue-light special, and back to Walmart I go for the clean-up on aisle 4....BRING ME THAT MOP AND SHOVEL!!!



BG:)

I didn't realize your situation until now.

Iris, great to see you got some really good news.


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ESPN's Ivan Meisel needs some cheese to go with his whine:

Ivan doesn't hate on us too much. What he said was true. For fans outside of the SEC, this is their worst nightmare. They hate this. Imagine, the news is the SEC has now won their sixth straight National Championship, and the game is still weeks away.

Incredible to me, incredulous to them!

BG

The sequel-Part deux


BG

So your the butthead that left a dang vehicle in the middle of my Parking spaces....you dirty weasel........

I had to!!! Inside of my car is the only bed I have, and I had to sleep somewhere that night!!! Sheeeezzzzzz



BG

Ah, I see ya got a pic of Pirate and myself at one of Emeril's tailgates.


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Can someone summarize?  I can't watch it here at work.

Vinnie, I would but words will not paint an accurate enough picture for you. You just have to watch this later, and enjoy the comedy at that time.

To give you a heads up what you will see, let's just say she is a loose cannon ready to explode. Give her a couple glasses of wine (droner may help here with the proper selection) and all of America would finally find out the real truth about Cam Newton's recruitment to Auburn. 


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BG I have one word for you.  Arkansas.  Arkansas lost to CITADEL on their home field that year, which immediately led to their coach getting fired.  They then came into Neyland WINLESS and shocked an undefeated Tennessee with Majors as coach.  This is after we stomped the shizzle out of a very good Florida team and beat a really good Uga team in Athens.

So you can see the "Majors effect".  We only lost by 7 to you.  I was at that game.  I thought it was pretty close.  That other poseur can say whatever he said 19 years ago, but if Fulmer had been the coach I think there would be a very good chance we win.

I'll say this...bammer did move the ball better that day and blew a couple scoring chances, but you can't underestimate how bad Majors screwed that team up.

As for your 92 D, they were very good.  I recall that Curry and Copeland were the centerpiece of that D.  It was VERY good.  In terms of later NFL success though, Curry and Copeland had rather humdrum careers.  Henderson, Ellis, and particularly Haynesworth from our late 90's team all did far better in the NFL, FWIW (although Haynesworth turned into a huge head case  ).

Bandit, you hit on the fact we moved the ball much better that day, and those numbers were what I looked up on the net thinking I would have to surely have support my comments on that game once Bandit read what I said......      True!

I don't disagree on Majors impact, or lack thereof. Emeril hit on what most Vols thought at the time, which was Majors could put a lot of talent on the field but there was always something lacking, and for what ever reason the team didn't seem to play as hard for him as they did for Fulmer.



BG 

After Neyland left let me ask you about a coach that was here and was responsible for some of the best 1950s football seen in the South....yeah that's right Neyland was still the AD but there was a new coach in town after the General had stepped down and UT was capably led by a former player of the General's by the name of Bowden Wyatt.  Then after that was Douglas Adair Dickey then there was Bill Battle who was responsible for a decline but nowhere near where Lane Kiffin decimated the program after replacing Fulmer.

I make the Majors observation based on the fact that Majors could never get over the hump of consistently beating Alabama (pre SEC 12 team league) and this was the defining game almost every year.  Majors was a good coach albeit an egotistical one, but he was not the be all to end all type of coach.  Majors won his only National Championship with Pitt because he brought in 70 players that first year as the coach.  The NCAA then got nasty and told colleges that they could not bring in 70 players in one year.  They call it the Majors rule for a reason.  

Majors was an egotist and that is certain one of his faults in its entirety.  Was Majors a great coach...hell no.....Fulmer proved that by taking Majors players and winning the first four games of the 92 campaign and beating UGA and UF back to back in 1992.  Majors was not the best coach at UT in the last 50 years he is 3rd at best.  The jury is still out on Derek Dooley.

If UT had more talent from 89 to 92 then why in the hell did Majors not win the NC during that time?  Because he was at best an ok coach and did not know how to really rally the troops and his a$$ got tighter than a hooker in Nawlins during the Sugar Bowl week.  

See even with my Crimson glasses always tightly affixed to my skull (according to my wife, they easily fit as my brain size in that skull is not so large), I even know all of that. Well, the exception is that Neyland was the AD when Wyatt was the coach...that I did not know.

Both Wyatt and Dickey had some great teams, and those Dickey teams I remember well as a kid. UT had some really great LB's on those Doug Dickey coached teams. That comment is not for you older guys who surely know that, but some of the younger who may not.


BG 

Oh, you don't have to support the position that Bama's '92 D was one of the best ever... I buy that. I just think we were pretty close to Bammer that year based on overall team strength. But the team was already divided by that point.

Heath Shuler was one great college QB.


BG

Well, we are debating what we'll never know, so you can keep your opinion and I'll adjust mine to we would've whipped the shizzle out of you if Fulmer would've been the HC.  

  LOLLLLLLL, Well, I don't blame ya...:)

Why I was so adament about that game/season is the 92 defense was really special, one of the best I've ever seen in college football. Many of those not wearing Crimson, said the same thing.

I went for google info as I thought I better get some stats quickly so I could defend my position, but you let me off easy so I won't post them. But if yall make me, I will................ (Bandit, I'm talking to you)  



BG

As I recall, it was a VERY competitive game. 17-10 I think. UT was right there. I don't know if I agree with Emeril that Fulmer would've made THE difference, but I think it's possible. He was a different coach then than he was after '98.

Disagree. As one UT fan on Gridscape said a couple of years later, "that was the was the worst 17-10 ass kicking I've ever seen."  His words, not mine, but I never forgot them. Bama dominated physically. That was one time I wasn't concerned too much that another team would score 7 more points on the Tide to tie the game. That Bama D was awesome.


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Cold Hard Facts

Majors was an egotistical maniac.  Having met Majors it was all about him and noone else....if the team won he was quick to pat himself on the back, if the team lost he was quick to shift the blame elsewhere.  Having lived through the Majors years it was a train wreck waiting to happen.  Majors could have been won the NAtional Championship in 92 if he had just stayed off the sidelines and let Fulmer interim out the year and then come back for a bowl game.  Majors was too scared that here Fulmer was taking his players and wiping the floor with the competition.  If Majors does not come back UT is in the Sugar bowl and winning the MNC that year.  They would not have lost to Arkansas, Bama, and USCe and would have played in the Inagural SEC Championship game.  


PS Majors was not all that.....

On behalf of George Teague, Antonio Langham, John Copeland, Eric Curry and the rest of that defense from the '92 National Campionship team, I'm here today to tell ya they highly dispute your claim about UT in '92. Now fully understand these are in no way my personal thoughts on this matter, but entirely of those that have been named above.


Sincerely,

BGHarper

Just sayin.....if these charges suddenly get dropped 6 months down the road, then one can figure it's more about getting rid of JoePa than anything else.

A way to just get rid of Paterno?!?!?!

Not in a million years!


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LSUFreek's take on the game....

Quasi, while this loss stung, Freek is brilliant! I've been on Rivals for years (and now 247, also), and have gone to the Mainboard on Rivals for many moons just to see an update of Freek's lastest work. Gawd, he's good!


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I have never had a big screen or a sound system so I don't know anything about what is good or not.

Looking for 55" for the LR and between 35" to 40" for the bedroom. I want HD, but after that I am clueless. Not for gaming but it could have a system hooked up from time to time. I am putting 4 speakers in the wall and a sub beside the TV. What brand components and what capabilities I don't know.

Price does matter, I repeat price does matter.

I'm sure not an electrical wizard but I can tell you this: There is A LOT of info to learn about the different types of systems, so read as much as you can on the 'net about them. Asking here is a good place to start.



BG

Come now we aint from Alabama man!!!!

You ***aint***??? 


BG

In the past hour, I listened to my car radio to an interview with someone who is very close to the situation. His Dad was the PSU radio broadcaster for many years, and he is now a local broadcaster himself in State College, PA. Needless to say but he has known Paterno and Sandusky for all his life. He is a very active member in the charitable foundation Sandusky set up for young boys, and said he knows him as well as he knows anyone, or better to say, he thought he knew him as well as anyone. He said he has personally introduced Sandusky to crowds at events over a hundred times through the years.

To hear him talk it became painfully clear how distraught this guy is over this situation. I mean he knows these folks very well, and thought Sandusky was doing great things for these kids, and when the real truth was revealed to him it seemed his whole world has been turned upside down. I think this guy and many people in central Pennsylvania are ready to string Sandusky up to tree limb and administer proper justice. To hear someone that close to the situation talk, you realize how people especially in State College are absolutely stunned by this news.


BG  

Well I meant your TEAM blew it, not you personally. 

Glad I was able to school you!  Just one of the many services I provide.

But...Fredrich Nietzche?  Dude...getting pretty deep in here.   

Nietzche??? Well, I thought ya might like that one!


BG

I know something about textbooks, fishing expeditions, comps in stores, and Yukons and that's only the public stuff.  Lots of smoke...sooner or later a fire.  


And whatever I meant by Saban being tired, he won't stay on top forever.  I was on the Mudlizard a couple years ago telling them they would not win MNCs every couple of years.  They laughed.  So yuk it up buddy, nothing lasts forever in this world.    

Let me add, that it's tough, really tough, for these guys to stay on top all the time.  No other really good coach of the last 30 years has managed it, although Osbourne had the sense to quit while he was on top.  Saban somehow snuck by with a subpar offense this year, masked by his stellar D. Much of that D will probably leave early along with Richardson and both your starting WRs and you won't really have much of an answer next year.  Probably another 9-3 year, possibly 10-2, but really you needed to use those talented D players this year and ya blew it.

First off, let me admit the obvious: You know much more about Alabama football than I. That being said, Nick Saban may be tired but I don't have the talent you have to deduce this as you do. This is an inherent ability that apparently only such gifted individuals as yourself have at their disposal.   

You have schooled me and I now know major sanctions are headed to T-town, Nick is tired, and that I somehow blew it this year ( "ya blew it") and caused Bama to lose to LSU even while we had an NFL defense playing for us. I personally feel very responsible for the loss, and will do as you admirably advised me to do. Truth be told, I think the idea is not original to you, but one you got from Friedrich Nietzsche. And that is to, "Yuk It Up Now, While You Still Can!!!"





BG

I think Y'all will wind up playing Oklahoma while LSU plays Boise State

If Stanford wins out, their sos may boost them into the title game against LSU regardless of what OSU does. Not that I think they should, but it could very well play out that way.  I don't see Boise in the championship game.

OU and Bama sounds like a good one.


BG

Yes, and next year you stand to lose a lot of that NFL defense you have.  Richardson is probably gone, and Mccarron finally got exposed last night.  Both your starting WRs will be gone also.  I just don't see your team being this good next year, but ICBW.

Don't read too much into the "Saban is tired" comment.  I only meant he looked tired at the end of the game, when you somehow allowed 12 men on the field in the critical OT period.  I would not blame him if he was tired.  He must have used a combination of gum, sticks, and mirrors to hold together your passing attack.  

As for your recruiting, good luck keeping it at the level it's at.   When something seems to good to be true, it usually is.  I could actually say quite a bit more about that, but I will let it go at that.

Yes, I agree that's what you meant about Saban being "tired." That's exactly what you meant! Also, thanks a ton for admitting that we have a ***NFL*** type of defense. I know it's hard for rival fans to admit that, so thanks for coming clean on the facts. You said there was more to add about the Crimson Tide's recruiting, and I guess you're really on top of the facts in that area too. Well, I'll go ahead and mention what I'm sure you were going to add. Yes, Bama is having another great year recruiting, and off to a great start for next year with a potential top 5 player in the country already committed out of GA, and are reportedly leading for the projected no. 1 national recruit also out of Ga. Thanks again for your honesty!

BG

Disappointing, but no crying. Bama and LSU played a great game that went all the way down to the very end, and OT had to decide it. Give the Bengal Tigers credit for the win, and both teams for playing so hard and leaving everything on the field.

They made SEC history for the first 1 vs. 2 match ever in this conference in the regular season, (Bama and UF did it in post season) and they looked like the first and second teams in the nation.

BTW, while recruiting is going well, Saban is tired, and woe is us.


BG