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bradical
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Quoted for future signature material. Blue is going to beat the Tide this weekend.
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Junior Griffey
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I am ripping this off completely from a Michigan blog I frequent (MGoBlog), but it's a good quick read.
Before the final seconds on a hot September Saturday in Texas, the Crimson Tide will feel it. Doubt. At first it will be almost nothing. The ball will come out of McCarron’s hand a little too soon. He will be a quarter-step behind to present the handoff. Those speedy SEC defenders will miss a tackle. These will be shrugged off and a mental note made to correct the issue. Then, in a moment of clarity they will think “We could lose this game."
The thought will be expelled immediately by hubris but the damage will be done. The impregnable façade will reveal its flaws. Nick Saban knows this. Every coach does. This is the reason why the game is played. If it was purely formulaic then why bother? Your score is not necessarily seven hundredths of the total of your offensive yards.
We all know the stories. Goliath fell. Casey struck out. There will be triumph against all odds and the champion will go down. Broken pieces will be remade into something different and better. As the favorite must admit to the creeping malaise, so the underdog must realize the emergence of a new hope. At this moment three defensive line coaches are commencing to make a five star recruit into the man that he always might have been, precisely because it was not formulaic. Because a five star recruit can still be a work in progress, and because a walk on can be captain.
Hope finds faith among the hopeless and the haughty are made low. The opportunity for the triumph of the overlooked is exactly when the challenger believes that fate is earned and destiny is a decision. As for the Tide, they can throw out all those great backs and great quarterbacks and great defensive players throughout the country and in this conference. But there’s going to be one team that is going to play solely as a team.
THE TEAM THE TEAM THE TEAM.
GO BLUE.
Before the final seconds on a hot September Saturday in Texas, the Crimson Tide will feel it. Doubt. At first it will be almost nothing. The ball will come out of McCarron’s hand a little too soon. He will be a quarter-step behind to present the handoff. Those speedy SEC defenders will miss a tackle. These will be shrugged off and a mental note made to correct the issue. Then, in a moment of clarity they will think “We could lose this game."
The thought will be expelled immediately by hubris but the damage will be done. The impregnable façade will reveal its flaws. Nick Saban knows this. Every coach does. This is the reason why the game is played. If it was purely formulaic then why bother? Your score is not necessarily seven hundredths of the total of your offensive yards.
We all know the stories. Goliath fell. Casey struck out. There will be triumph against all odds and the champion will go down. Broken pieces will be remade into something different and better. As the favorite must admit to the creeping malaise, so the underdog must realize the emergence of a new hope. At this moment three defensive line coaches are commencing to make a five star recruit into the man that he always might have been, precisely because it was not formulaic. Because a five star recruit can still be a work in progress, and because a walk on can be captain.
Hope finds faith among the hopeless and the haughty are made low. The opportunity for the triumph of the overlooked is exactly when the challenger believes that fate is earned and destiny is a decision. As for the Tide, they can throw out all those great backs and great quarterbacks and great defensive players throughout the country and in this conference. But there’s going to be one team that is going to play solely as a team.
THE TEAM THE TEAM THE TEAM.
GO BLUE.
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RITM
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Beating from start to finish. Fortunately the game was on the front end of the season so we all can be spared the elite of the Big 10 vs elite of the SEC argument for an entire year.
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goldenegg1
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So the question is, is Alabama that good or is Michigan that bad?
Bama is pretty damn good, but still has a long way to go. This wasn't LSU.
Michigan is a great big 10 team, that and a bag of chips will get you an outside shot at not embarrassing yourself in the SEC.
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Junior Griffey
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If the Big Ten teams could sign 100 recruits every year (I exaggerate) and then cut the worst ones, they'd be on par with Bama and LSU.
It wasn't that long ago that Bama was rebuilding. Their time will pass; they won't be this good forever. They're in the same boat at Miami in the 80's, 90's FSU, 2000's USC.
When your 3 deep looks like an NFL roster, something is off. Bama is a football factory that serves as a prep school for the NFL. Hell, OSU tried to cheat under Tressell and still got rolled by almost every SEC team they faced.
It wasn't that long ago that Bama was rebuilding. Their time will pass; they won't be this good forever. They're in the same boat at Miami in the 80's, 90's FSU, 2000's USC.
When your 3 deep looks like an NFL roster, something is off. Bama is a football factory that serves as a prep school for the NFL. Hell, OSU tried to cheat under Tressell and still got rolled by almost every SEC team they faced.
RITM
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But even if/when Bama has a down year, history has shown in the BCS era that another SEC team is in the mix for a National Championship.
