Poor Richard

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Jimbo mailed it in his last year there. You can't tell me that his apathy didn't trickle down

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Well just when I thought I’d heard it all. :cheers:

How many years does Taggart get to reverse the “apathy” Jimbo injected into that program “filled with 4 and 5 star players”, according to you?

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Ask Willie Taggart at FSU. his team is loaded with 4 and 5 star talent.

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I’ve been led to believe that Jimbo Fisher left that program in shambles :dunno:

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O is now 13-4 vs the SEC west over 3 seasons now...

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Well actually he’s 11-4 against the West if facts are your thing. Regardless, that’s a very specific measuring stick.

That leaves his winning percentage at a solid 73.3%.

However, when you factor in total SEC record he is 15-6, which drops that to 71.4%.

If you want to get most specific however, his record against the West and Florida, our permanent opponent, his record drops to 12-6, leaving him at 66.7%.


Just so we all have our facts straight :cheers:

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the hardest division in the hardest conference that has EVER existed.

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What year is it??

:lol:


Thanks to all who took the time to give it a look. :bow:


As for those who thought it was too long, I can assure you this is the shortest I’ve ever done :lol:

I don’t usually post them here, but I’m too excited for this game not to put this out there.

Maybe in the future I’ll try putting some of the shorter editions here as well :cheers:

DON'T THEY HELP THEMSELVES

While Burrow has scratched and clawed his way to become the face of the LSU Tiger program, Alabama's sophomore sensation Tua Tagovailoa has made it look easy as he has established himself as far and away the favorite to take home the Heisman Trophy in December.

Since taking over as starting quarterback for Jalen Hurts at halftime of the National Championship Game last season, Tua has taken the college football world by storm.

Hurts, who had gone 26-2 as starting quarterback since winning the job as a true freshman, leading Alabama to two straight National Championship Games, struggled in that first half as Alabama fell behind 13-0 to the undisputed SEC Champion Georgia Bulldogs. Then a true freshman himself, Tua came into the game and never looked back, throwing three touchdown passes, including the game winner in overtime to give Nick Saban his sixth national title.

After much discussion throughout the offseason, Tua was named the starter over Hurts going into the season. That move has transformed Alabama from a workmanlike, physically imposing steam engine locomotive of a program that wore its opponents into submission for a decade, into a high octane bullet train that overwhelms its opponents leaving them tattered and ripped to shreds by halftime, usually before the first quarter is even over.

This Alabama team has been up by at least three touchdowns at halftime of every game this season, and by at least 30 points in all games but two this season. This is primarily due to the play of Tua, who has led an aerial assault throwing for over 250 yards a game and 25 touchdowns, without a single interception, while completing over 70 percent of his passes. All while playing almost strictly in the first half, and not at all in the fourth quarter.

For the first time in this incredible run by Saban in Tuscaloosa, he has a transcendent superstar that is not only the face of the Tide program, but all of college football.

If LSU hopes to finally turn the tide in this series, Dave Aranda and his ferocious defense will have to find a way to slow down the inevitable Heisman Trophy winner to do it.



THEY POINT THE CANNON AT YOU

As if beating Nick Saban's annual playoff juggernaut for the first time in seven years won't be difficult enough, the SEC officials, and offices, have decided to give Saban's Tide an additional boost, as usual, to ensure that Order is maintained in this series.

What is different about this potential game altering penalty, however, is that the call won't happen on the field Saturday night. This time, the flag was thrown and replay confirmed two weeks ago in the final minutes of the Mississippi State game. Without getting into the merits of the play and review, as it was certainly a judgement call, the indisputable fact is that it was a huge decision that will have an immeasurable impact on how the biggest game of the season plays out in Tiger Stadium.

As #3 LSU takes the field against #1 Alabama, the Tigers will be without superstar linebacker Devin White for the entire first half due to his ejection for targeting against Bulldog quarterback Nick Fitzgerald.

White is not only LSU's best player and unquestioned lock of a top 10 pick of the NFL Draft in a few short months, but he is also likely the biggest key to slowing down Alabama's best player as well. This is obviously a huge advantage for Saban and Tua, as getting out to quick starts and huge leads has been the common theme in the dominance that Alabama has displayed over every team they've played thus far.

But there has been another, perhaps more drastic effect of that penalty that has the potential to impact the game in a way that few could have predicted, and certainly none would have intended.

The backlash over losing such a key player in such questionable fashion has been universal. Every single citizen of Tiger Nation has been galvanized in the understanding that Alabama is, and has always been, given every advantage in their plunder of the Southeastern Conference and College Football as a whole.

So while one player may have been successfully negated for 30 minutes of the game, one hundred thousand voices have been awakened for weeks and will relentlessly roar into the night sky of Death Valley with the single purpose of drowning out The Tide on Saturday night to erase years of frustration.

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For all of the talk about the supposed Decline and The Rematch breaking Miles, that 2013 season actually marked the beginning of the assault on the LSU program and Miles himself that led to his eventual ousting.


That Alabama investigation came out at almost to the day that the Miles/Oklahoma State Sports Illustrated hit piece broke. It was coordinated, and also came right after the big win over TCU when it finally looked as though we had the passing game that Tiger Nation had been waiting to see.


For that Ok State made up non story to a huge story to dominate news coverage for days when actual pay for play allegations were PROVEN against a current coach on his way to a three peat was absolute confirmation that everything that we all thought after Alabama and Saban were given their Mulligan, that the fix was in.


It must have been a deflating realization that no matter what, Saban was always going to control the narrative and we'd never be given on a level playing field.

In fact, for the entire offseason before in 2012, Sports Illustrated spent months searching for violations at LSU while trumping up a nonsense article on Mathieu as some kind of troubled pariah during his suspension, and couldn't find anything. Which is when they decided to head to Stillwater to dig up old dirt from disgruntled former players.

This was a coordinated attack against Miles and honestly it's pretty incredible he survived it as well as he did.


That was also right after Freeze's now infamous haul with the 13 class that was obviously not on the up and up, which led to those critical losses in 13 and 15. It just seemed like Miles had a realization that he and LSU were always going to be fighting a losing battle.



Despite all that, he fights back and goes out and signs the best class in school history, and almost immediately his own Athletic Director begins the Miles clause that disrupted that offseason, which without question set a negative tone leaving Chavis with basically one foot out the door and looking to move on before that season even started.


It's so deflating how things turned out after The Rematch, when we went from the top of the college football world to being actively torn down from multiple assaults both outside the program and within.

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Oh Ethan

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2018 is probably not the year. Basically replacing the entire defense

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This has been said almost every year for half a decade.

Given the offenses they will face in 2018, the Alabama defense will be just fine.

Wanted to bump this. Got an update from their Go Fund Me last night. Looks like the kidney transplant is going forward this morning.

It wasn’t clear from his post, but geauxcoco is actually the donor for his daughter.

Hopefully Tiger Nation can send this Tiger family great vibes or prayers for those so inclined this morning and throughout both of their recoveries.



Here is the update from the Go Fund Me:

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I have been getting questions about what has been going on, and I'm so sorry I haven't posted updates recently....here is what has been going on since the family got to Charleston:

Soon after the family got there, Katie had to get a blood transfusion as they could not keep her blood count up. Due to this, the transplant was postponed temporarily. They had to wait a few weeks to test her blood to see if she was still a match with Drew (it takes that long for antibodies to show up after a transfusion). There was still a chance Drew would be a match, but the odds were not as good as before. On top of that she had been very nauseous as they were trying to get her nutrition just right.

Katie started doing better and was finally keeping some food down. She was getting all of her food through a feeding tube. The doctors felt that she was not healthy enough for a transplant then and with proper nutrition/dialysis they would get there soon.

A few days ago the family found out that Drew is still a match! AMAZING!!! The transplant is tomorrow at 7:30 am! Positive thoughts and prayers go out to the Duffey family tomorrow!

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