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Whatever "It" is. Bama has lost "It"

Posted on 11/7/22 at 2:02 pm
Posted by TigerFan244
Member since Jan 2012
2986 posts
Posted on 11/7/22 at 2:02 pm
Used to be an intimidation factor with Bama - gone

Bama used to impose their will on their opponents, especially late in games - gone

Teams would lose the game mentally before they ever played the game physically - gone.

Not sure what else "It" involves but clearly Bama has lost "It."
Posted by Solo Cam
Member since Sep 2015
34633 posts
Posted on 11/7/22 at 2:04 pm to
They're fans are saying Scott Cochran and since he's left they're not as physical
Posted by DhanTigers212
Member since Dec 2014
10368 posts
Posted on 11/7/22 at 2:08 pm to
All good things must come to an end. It’s inevitable. frickers have had so much success. They’re so miserable that can’t even enjoy that.
Posted by Powerman
Member since Jan 2004
170280 posts
Posted on 11/7/22 at 2:08 pm to
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They're fans are saying Scott Cochran and since he's left they're not as physical



Just googled him and didn't realize he was an LSU guy that got his start in coaching here

Dude has been a part of 7 national championship teams...pretty incredible career
Posted by cajuntiger07
Down DA Bayou
Member since Jan 2009
4459 posts
Posted on 11/7/22 at 2:12 pm to
Too bad he likes adderall!
Posted by red sox fan 13
Valley Park
Member since Aug 2018
18157 posts
Posted on 11/7/22 at 2:12 pm to
Saban doesn’t have elite assistants anymore and that keeps his teams from being what the once were. In 2015, he had Kirby, Lane, Mario Cristobal, Billy Napier, and Mel Tucker all on staff. Compare that to the island of misfit coaches he has now.
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
87713 posts
Posted on 11/7/22 at 2:13 pm to
hate to say it but one reason for the diminished intimidation factor is all of the hired guns we’ve brought in over the last few years, they didn’t grow up around the SEC, aren’t in awe/skeered of the gumps
Posted by MrWalkingMan
Republic of West Florida
Member since Aug 2010
7787 posts
Posted on 11/7/22 at 2:13 pm to
Idk the refs still seem to be for them and that was always a big part of the “it”
Posted by red sox fan 13
Valley Park
Member since Aug 2018
18157 posts
Posted on 11/7/22 at 2:15 pm to
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hired guns
Goes the other way too, I saw some Bama former players saying this team full of mercenaries doesn’t have the passion or fire for the program that the old guard had.
This post was edited on 11/7/22 at 2:16 pm
Posted by TBoy@LSU
Member since Sep 2012
5999 posts
Posted on 11/7/22 at 2:16 pm to
That loving feeling?
Posted by WillWorkForLSUTicket
Tiger Country
Member since Aug 2005
840 posts
Posted on 11/7/22 at 2:17 pm to
I think it is the attention to detail. Saban is old and can't micro manage like he used to. I have never seen a Saban coached team with as many penalties and other mistakes as this one. They are probably cutting corners in practice as well.
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
87713 posts
Posted on 11/7/22 at 2:18 pm to
they’re all considered pros now, do the job you’re being paid to do
Posted by Tigerbloods
Member since Aug 2018
214 posts
Posted on 11/7/22 at 2:20 pm to
I dont think Bama has necessarily lost "it". The thing is is that they've raised the bar of the college football and other schools had had enough and are starting to catch up.

I still don't believe all this talk about how the bama dynasty is over. I hope that it is, but SEC fans have said that after every single bama loss going back to like 2014. It has always been wishing thinking. With that being said, it certainly appears that it could be the beginning of the demise giving how old Saban is. Heres to hoping it is.
Posted by atltiger6487
Member since May 2011
19674 posts
Posted on 11/7/22 at 2:21 pm to
quote:

Whatever "It" is. Bama has lost "It"

they were a bad pass interference call against Tennessee, and a 2-point conversion against us, from being undefeated.

Now yes, the 2022 Bama team isn't the dominant juggernaut they were in past years, but they haven't "lost it."
Posted by Broken Arrow
Member since Dec 2007
7762 posts
Posted on 11/7/22 at 2:24 pm to
quote:

All good things must come to an end. It’s inevitable. frickers have had so much success. They’re so miserable that can’t even enjoy that.



Saw a grown man blubbering after the game. Snot running down his face… the whole nine yards. Wtf is wrong with gump fans? I can’t imagine a life more miserable. It is literally all some of them have.
Posted by Bmath
LA
Member since Aug 2010
18841 posts
Posted on 11/7/22 at 2:26 pm to
This game reminded me a lot of those Les era games where LSU had Bama but snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Told my dad in the stands that I’ve seen this movie before. So glad to be wrong and witness a break for LSU in the end.
Posted by Team Vote
DFW
Member since Aug 2014
7925 posts
Posted on 11/7/22 at 2:30 pm to
I’ve felt this way for a while. go back to last year when we should have beat them with that abomination of a team. They are still very good and will still contend for championships. But they have lost the aura of invincibility that they had from 2011-2017ish. It probably started with that arse beating they took from the Trevor Lawrence Clemson team. Kind of an Emperor Has No Clothes moment.
This post was edited on 11/8/22 at 11:40 am
Posted by Circle G84
Member since Nov 2022
644 posts
Posted on 11/7/22 at 2:31 pm to
I don't believe they've lost it, but they now have a team in the West that the coaches expect the same standard of excellence that Saban has been promoting all along. The alignment is here.
Posted by TooSober
AA Meeting
Member since Oct 2015
627 posts
Posted on 11/7/22 at 2:37 pm to
They are also 2 plays in the Texas and Texas 4&8 games from being a 4 loss team looking at going to a bowl game in Nashville.

Notice that us and Texas 4&8 ran basically the same last play of the game, but we can coach and execute and 4&8 can't.
Posted by Penrod
Member since Jan 2011
51551 posts
Posted on 11/7/22 at 2:43 pm to
quote:

hate to say it but one reason for the diminished intimidation factor is all of the hired guns we’ve brought in over the last few years, they didn’t grow up around the SEC, aren’t in awe/skeered of the gumps


All of this is wrong. Bama didn't dominate because folks were intimidated, folks were intimidated because Bama used to rape them.

Bama used to only have one or two close games per year. They were the most talented team in the country, and they were the most relentlessly aggressive. Is that the way they look now? Not to me.
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