IT’S SPRING AGAAAAIINN…
Trickles of information…frightening injury rumors…players posting astonishing numbers who will no doubt fade and linger on the bench for the real season…it’s spring agaiiinnn, as Biz Markie would sing (sic) and Alabama’s back on the grind as of Friday. We’re paying attention for two obvious reasons:
1. They beat the scales off our team 30-3, and we’re anticipating revenge months ahead of time.
2. How the Tide when 10-2 with Mike Shula at head coach and Joe Kines calling the shots on defense still mystifies. Really, try to wipe what you remember about last season’s Alabama team from your head: in 2000, would either of these men even pique your interest as potential candidates for either position at San Jose State? Mike Shula attempted to end Warrick Dunn’s life for two years before Tony Dungy fired him, and Joe Kines was coming off a tumultuous and often disappointing stay as DC at Georgia…neither one made you leap up and say, “Fine work, sir! Help yourself to any one of my teenage daughters,” as we said to the television image of Steve Spurrier following the 1997 Sugar Bowl. (We actually don’t have any, but we’d certainly let him take one of yours.) Just further evidence of the kismet and complexities of putting together the right coaching staff at the right time; this group of former losers and myeahh-ish guys put together a tightrope act that nearly had Alabama in the BCS. Simultaneously, Dennis Franchione flails around at 5-6 in College Station and wonders what world he’s entered. No one knows anything.
Meanwhile, while toodling around MikeShula.com, we found this offseason gem: a picture of Joe Kines on his bio looking for love in all the wrong places. Try NOT to lick the screen.
Joe Kines’ After Seven: a fragrance you’ll never forget.
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Todd says:
SECChris- I know you Barners don’t read too good, but when did I say Buffalo was 1AA? And really, you want to say you tried to find a crappy team but you couldn’t find one so you had to settle for Buffalo? Cause last season Buffalo went an impressive 1-10. What, Western Kentucky isn’t returning your calls anymore? Tuby got his ass handed too him by every BCS non-con he’s ever played so he refuses to play them anymore, face up to it and don’t act like you play a tough schedule. I’m owning up to our non-conference schedules being weak the last few years due to probation. Before the sanctions we were scheduling series with BCS teams like Oklahoma and UCLA, and now that we are out we’re scheduling series with BCS teams like Ga. Tech, FSU and Penn Sate. Why don’t you own up to your non-conference schedules being weak because you’re too pussy to play BCS teams anymore after Southern Cal and Ga. Tech taught you that scheduling D1AA cupcakes four seasons in a row is a sure way to make you look good cause you can’t hang with real competition.
February 24th, 2006 at 5:13 pm
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Auburn Fan says:
Does this blog have an ‘ignore all Bama fans function’? If so, can someone direct me to it?
February 24th, 2006 at 5:30 pm
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Todd says:
Just like an Aubie, the Bama fan correctly points out that AU isn’t scheduling BCS opponents during the regular season anymore because their blessed coach (that was a pr nightmare plane ride away from being replaced) just can’t seem to beat them so you want to ignore it instead of admitting that your program and your coach don’t have enough balls to add one more quality opponent on top of an SEC schedule.
February 24th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
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Orson Swindle says:
Love…exciting and new…
February 24th, 2006 at 6:34 pm
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Auburn Fan says:
Todd,
In the immortal words of Brian Fantana, just stop posting for a while. Sit the next one out.
Regardless of the fact that we lost, we just did finish playing Southern Cal and Georgia Tech for non-conference foes. Now I know they’re no Florida International or Duke, but I digress.
Isn’t there a sump pump somewhere in Boligee that you need to clean out?
February 24th, 2006 at 7:18 pm
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SECChris says:
Todd said: “the Bama fan correctly points out that AU isn’t scheduling BCS opponents during the regular season anymore”
The FACTS say: Washington St, from the Pac-10 (A BCS conference; look it up) is on the 2006 schedule. West Virginia (from the Big East, and current Sugar Bowl champion) is on future schedules. (Maybe Todd needs to look up the definiton of “correctly?” Someone who can read, help him out.)
Todd said: “Tuby got his ass handed too him by every BCS non-con he’s ever played so he refuses to play them anymore”
The FACTS say: Syracuse, Penn St., Wisconsin and VaTech are all from BCS conferences, and all have lost to Auburn in the last four years.
The bottom line says: Todd is an idiot who has to make up “facts” to support his ignorant ramblings.
By the way, when was the last time bama beat a team from a BCS conference during the regular season? (Here’s a hint– the coach at the time was Gene Stallings.)
Also, are you the least bit embarrassed that the on-line media guide at http://www.rolltide.com — “the official site for University of Alabama athletics”– still lists the head coach as Dennis Franchione?
February 25th, 2006 at 1:33 am
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NewAZTiger says:
He’s probably too embarassed after learning that the Crimson Tide was named after tying Auburn and the elephant came from beating a 3-5-1 Ole Miss Team.
Bama fans shouldn’t be talking about non-conference opponents. Auburn can at least wipe the floor with La Tech, not go 1-2 vs them. And Northern Illinios has never ever ever ruined our Homecoming.
February 25th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
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Todd says:
SECChris – Syracuse is the only one of those teams Tuby played during the regular season. Wins over Penn State, Wisconsin, and Va. Tech were in bowl games. If you can tell me how Tuby managed to go ahead and schedule his bowl appearances and opponents ahead of time I’d like to know. I’ll admit that I forgot he won the second game of the Syracuse series, so there’s a feather for your cap, but besides that one win he hasn’t beaten an opponent from another BCS conference during the regular season his entire career.
Auburn Fan- My point was that after playing southern Cal and Ga. Tech you losers quit scheduling BCS opponents. The past two season there hasn’t been a single BCS non-con opponent on your schedule, while we may not have beaten our BCS non-con opponents we were man enough to schedule them instead of the Citadel and Western Kentucky.
February 25th, 2006 at 3:52 pm
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Auburn Fan says:
Washington State must not be in the Pac 10, they must be the the Big Sky. Todd, tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
February 25th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
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SECChris says:
“Syracuse is the only one of those teams Tuby played during the regular season.” True, but where in your statement “Tuby got his ass handed too him by every BCS non-con he’s ever played so he refuses to play them anymore” does it imply “regular season only?” In fact, the word “ever” implies just the opposite: “EVER, regular or post-season.”
“The past two season there hasn’t been a single BCS non-con opponent on your schedule.” Really? By “the past two seasons,” one would assume you mean 2004 and 2005; Auburn played Georgia Tech in 2005. (You had no problem remembering that when you were using that fact to ridicule Auburn; funny how you seem to forget it as soon as you want to make a different point.”
Maybe “the past two seasons” was meant to include seasons prior to 2005; in other words, 2003 and 2004. If so, sorry; Auburn played two BCS non-conference teams in 2003, USC and Georgia Tech. (Facts you KNEW when you were using them against Auburn, but that you forgot when you tried to argue a different point.)
Face it, you’re not very good at this arguing stuff, mostly because you’re not smart enough to do it without lying. I will give you credit, though, for lying so creatively; I’m sure that’s regarded as “high intellect” among you and your bammer buddies.
February 26th, 2006 at 2:25 am
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Auburn Fan says:
Hey SEC Chris,
The NCAA are the liars. Bama didn’t cheat, they didn’t prove a thing.
Sincerely,
Monotooth Nation
February 26th, 2006 at 10:51 am