It’s A Love Hate Thing: Love Bama & Hate TN
My grandparents live in this incredible home, looks something straight out of a Southern Living magazine. Did I mention the home sat on a golf course right in the valley of the incredibly gorgeous Smokey Mountains. Oh no, not The Smokey’s set in the Carolina’s, but right down the highway from Neyland Stadium, in [...]
Saturday was like Christmas morning at my house! So excited about College Game Day, I couldn’t help but to wake up earlier than usual because of all the excitement in my bones! All day with family, BBQ’n and the SEC dominating in most of their match ups. Oh, well, except Auburn of course! (sorry that [...]
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The SEC of 2012 won’t look like the SEC of 2011, even if teams duplicate their 2011 records. Texas A&M and Missouri are joining the party, and SEC teams will have to adjust to the arrival of their new cousins.
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At least one current – and one future – SEC school is searching for a new head coach, and others might join the party by the end of the season. Around college football, there have been 20 Division-IA programs already find themselves with a vacancy since the end of the 2011 regular season. The question is, are there enough good coaching prospects to go around?
Continue reading …Auburn wrap-up: Alabama may have punched its BCS ticket by punching out Tigers
November 26, 2011 1 Comment
Alabama made Auburn look like the Auburn most Alabama fans were expecting to see after the Tigers hired a 5-19 Gene Chizik away from Iowa State prior to the 2009 season. After an up-and-down first season, Auburn rode Cam Newton and Nick Fairley to a national championship in 2010. Then, the 2011 season came about. After seeing Gus Malzahn’s offense for two years (three if you count his aborted tenure at Arkansas under Houston Nutt many moons ago), SEC defensive coordinators caught up. Without Fairley around to flip field position or (especially) Newton around to make the Tigers’ offensive engine purr, Auburn spent 2011 getting blown out by the four best teams it faced – LSU, Arkansas, Georgia and Alabama.
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Dear Auburn, Now you know Mrs. Sonshine doesn’t easily hate anyone or anything, I am pretty loving and compassionate if I might say so myself! Unfortunately though, in my upbringing I’ve been trained to hate you because of history’s web of rivalry between you and my Alabama Crimson Tide. My dad played for Coach Bryant [...]
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Almost unbelievably, Alabama’s 2011 game against Auburn threatened to become an afterthought after a slew of upsets the last two weeks put Bama back in position to reach the BCS Championship Game. There was Iowa State’s upset of Oklahoma State, USC’s upset of Oregon and Baylor’s upset of Oklahoma, not to mention Oregon beating Stanford the week before and Boise State falling to TCU. This week, some will turn the bulk of their attention to LSU-Arkansas, but as a tight game against Mississippi State and a hard-fought win over Georgia Southern will attest, if Alabama takes its eyes off Auburn, a backbreaking upset loss could be the result.
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This is not an official University of Alabama document. The depth chart is taken from individual practice and game observations, and is color-coded. Seniors are in black, juniors previously on the team are in green, junior college transfers in their junior year are in purple, junior college transfers in their sophomore year are in yellow, sophomores previously on the team are in blue, redshirt freshmen are in cyan, and true freshmen are in red. NOTE: Because Alabama will operate from a three-wide set as often as not, 12 offensive positions are listed.
Continue reading …There was nothing fun about this game, unless you’re the type that finds wonderment in carnival sideshows featuring bald guys who attach chains to various body piercings and suspend themselves from the ceiling. While Alabama was never really threatened by the Eagles, Alabama was also never comfortable. Were it not for a late touchdown, the margin of victory in this game would have threatened to shuffle Alabama’s standing in BCS rankings, were it not for Oregon and Oklahoma flubbing up against Southern Cal and Baylor, respectively.
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Guest Commentary: A Look Back: When Bear Broke The Record
November 26, 2011 2 Comments(On November 28, 1981 – thirty years ago this coming Monday – Paul William “Bear” Bryant surpassed Amos Alonzo Stagg to become the winningest coach in NCAA Division-I history. This post is a look back through the final phase of Bryant’s pursuit of the record along with some thoughts from an adolescent of 30 years ago viewed through adult eyes).
It hadn’t seemed possible just a few years earlier. But the countdown began on October 4, 1980, when Paul “Bear” Bryant became just the third coach in NCAA Division I-A history to win his 300th game with a 45-0 pasting of Kentucky. The Tide was in the midst of its greatest ever run, a decade-long dynasty that netted the Tide three national championships (and losing a fourth on a disputed vote), five straight 11-1 seasons, nine SEC titles, and an overall record (1971-81) of 117-14-1 for an unheard of winning percentage of .886. The win against Kentucky put Bryant within striking distance of the all-time record of NCAA wins held by Amos Alonzo Stagg, who coached for 65 years and won 314 games. Looking over the horizon, the Bama faithful began to count down the wins until Bryant would be the winningest coach in college football history.
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