bamaoldtimer

Bobby Bowen leaving and Miami beginning their slide benefited Bama immensely during Saban’s run. Also, Tennessee and LSU were off. Saban was a good Coach coaching during an era where ND, USC, Nebraska, Florida, FSU, Miami, Tennessee all were down. It was Clemson who was. Bamas nemesis along with Ohio St. with Auburn thrown in. The Texas schools and OU were down and out.

The above isn’t Saban’s fault but if 3 or 4 of these teams had been like their past glory, Saban’s record would have been different,

Saban was good, very good but the BEAR was a bigger than life character.

quote:

---

He's feeling the heat. It's got to be at least a NC game appearance this year. He needs to chill. Maybe he should try hot yoga.

---

That a lot of pressure for an alcoholic to deal with. I think Sark has the best Coaching job in America. There are no excuses for not winning.

I agree, he is feeling the heat and he’s only human. I pray he’s not back on the sauce.

quote:

---

It isn't sarcasm...

If private equity gets involved... That may be exactly what we have... in football anyway

---

First, i am not an expert on private transactions. My simplistic understanding in the PE world is you buy at 5x and build up the revenue and profits then sell for 9x

I dont think PE is suitable for college football. The schools and in most cases the state owns the university and i don't see PE being viable. Perhaps for non state funded private schools like ND or Baylor it might work .

Long term, networks arent paying for Baylor vs Tulsa. They dont want Miss St vs Vandy either.

At some point, greed will prevail. The Big Ten and SEC will go away and remanants will form a new 32 team super conference.

Here is my super conference. Remember, it’s the off season and im bored so here goes.

South Div LSU, ALABAMA, AUBURN, OLE MISS
South Central Div. TENN, CLEMSON, GEORGIA, SOUTH CAROLINA
Southeast East Div FLORIDA, MIAMI, FSU, UNC
East Div. VA TECH, VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, BOSTON COLLEGE
Southwest Div. TEXAS, A&M, OU, ARKANSAS
Midwest Div. MISSOURI, NEBRASKA, COLORADO, IOWA
North Div. Ohio St, Michigan, PENN ST, ND
West Div USC, WASHINGTON, OREGON, ARIZONA St.

quote:

---

Yes
Apply it to all collegiate sports and have one governing body. Then break away all sports from the universities and make them individual private entities. Then let the schools start club teams with the original understanding of school sports reinstated.

100% on board

---

1. Your reply reeks of sarcasm. I love it.

Excellent post. My take as a southerner whose Alabama family goes back to Fort Mims and earlier, is that racism is the natural order of things in the world. Humans are territorial, carnivores, hunters and gatherers. We protect our turf with a vengeance.

The South was protecting their turf. Slavery to a southerner was not what the civil war was about. It was the catalyst that set it in motion but states rights and sovereignty was the issue.

We southerners have endured decades of redicule and scorn for this position.

Ole Miss represents the last bastion of that fervor of southern pride which was lost after Lee”s surrender. I say if a black youth wants to play football for Ole Miss in spite of everything he knows, who am I to criticize the students for what they do.

A vast majority of southerners have strived to shake off the ugliness of slavery and oppression imposed on the black people of that time and even afterwards under Jim Crow.

Lane used this old stain on Ole Miss to try and get advantage in recruiting. To my knowledge Kiffins family is not southern and therefore has no emotional connection.

Kiffin is a scumbag or what my ancestor’s would call a carpetbagger . LSU can’t whitewash the stain he has brought to LSU.

I suggest the Ole Miss people continued to prove they can be inclusive people and welcome all.

I hope Ole Miss stomps the Tigers this year.

quote:

---

Aggie won’t destroy anything, they love this hayseed conference.

But yes, we will absolutely gut this place from the inside out.

---

lol. Hayseed conference. Good.

hay·seed
/'ha?sed/
noun
1.
grass seed obtained from hay.
2.
INFORMAL•NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH
a person from the country, especially a simple, unsophisticated one.
"notices of agricultural sales are an irresistible lure for hicks and hayseeds

You unwittingly described yourself my friend.
:cheers:

quote:

---

Yeah, everyone thinks I’m trying to troll Alabama. I really just don’t think they have the wealth to keep up in this era. They just don’t have super elite alumni like other SEC schools do

---

I admit I’m poor. How about YOU? Where do you vacation in the summer?

Orange Beach? Mexico? St, Simon’s ?

Your like the person who says, “ I’ll be honest with you”, hell yea you’re trolling. But why? No reason to.

Perhaps you don’t fully understand how nil and pay for play works.

Check out the horses Bama has coming into the portal versus the bums that left or were told to leave.

It’s Pro football man. Either produce or get the frick out!

This turnover in football will be this way every year. Perhaps your needs are 4 really good DL. Say, 750k x 4 $3mil. Say you got a great qb you are already paying 5 mill a year. A few great DB’s at $1.5 mil a year. A few great Lb’s at $1.5 mil. You see, Bama has plenty of money if it needs to spend.

The secret to success will be learning how the pros evaluate and value players and work within their budgets.

The cheating in college ( Texas and A&M) looking at you, will be reined in.

Oh! My bad. Thanks for heads-up.

Kyle Henderson of bama fb said he sighed this weekend? Big DL

quote:

---

Only complainers are fat, old, bald boomers shaking their fists at the sky

---

You been spying on me :rotflmao:

lol.