re: Do you guys truly believe the RTWFU! thing is going to influence Bama’s performance

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The whole post game locker room thing is more of something thier fan base has put in their heads as fabricated motivation than the actual team. Bama fans think the world revolves around them, and think every team that beats them is fortunate and should only act as such. Celebrating in any form is distasteful and unearned. It’s part of their extreme fragility.

For Saban and his players they’ve built a program that doesn’t need to rely on weird forms of motivation and is a large part of why they’re as good as they are. They’ll beat us, likely by a lot, and it will in no part be because LSU enjoyed what ended up being the 4th most important win of last season.

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I disagree. When you have the level of sustained success as they have maybe the biggest "enemy" the coaching staff faces on a year to year basis is complacency. While I don't think Saban would be calling play action bombs late in the 4th quarter if they were up by 30 points, you can bet your arse that video (and other things) will be used for motivation. This isn't your typical LSU v. Alabama game where LSU is generally the most talented team Alabama will face on a yearly basis...in a hostile environment. This is a game where Alabama is an enormous favorite going into a virtually lifeless Tiger Stadium. Their players know they are huge favorites and there is no doubt Saban is concerned about complacency because of it. Thus, he will use any edge he can get to combat that complacency.

For Ed's part, I don't mind the statement (thought it is absurd players are videoing postgame locker room speeches and broadcasting it to the world). But if you are going to have big time bravado, then make sure you do everything possible to back it up

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They’ll beat us like they’ve beaten every teaM this year.

Blow out first half
Cruise control second half

Saban is too good to let easy motivational bonus material go unused. Chances are, Saban himself won't talk about it, but that strength and conditioning staff will absolutely hammer on it this week.

Bama and Saban rely on very little emotion. They’re robotic..we are a faceless opponent that the death star will blow up. Probably 49-55 to say 7-10. Then they’ll do the same next week and beat Florida by 25...win both playoff games by double digits.