CURIOUS INDEX, 10/9/07

The Saban weekly press conferences are getting better and better…two weeks ago it was anger and finger pointing for throwing bottles and calling his assistants, last week it was a lecture on the difference between image and identity, and this week it was condensation and second guessing. Pure gold.

Hate to hear that about Limas, as much as that picture pains me to look at Limas is a stud and that was a big time catch. Just wish Hamby would have held onto the ball like Limas did.

Orson, is he also second-guessing the management at Nick Saban’s Grey Suit Warehouse?

Rumor has it that the manager won’t last another month, as red tie sales are slumping.

Re #1: “condensation”? WTF? Does Gary Williams need to send him some deodorant?

condescension…lol…it’s too early for this shit.

heh… Fulmer’s got a huge couple of weeks ahead of him. If he can stay focused and be meticulous in his preparation he is poised to have a big day. He’s had this day circled on his calendar since last year.

Is he getting ready for 3rd Saturday in October? Is he preparing to host the Spurrier and his #7 Gamecocks?

no… Fulmer has got Halloween dead in his sights and he’s going to shake that holiday like a piggy bank until all the candy and treats that are rightfully his fall out at his feet.

saban pressers…not as good as the parcells pressers i used to listen to here in dallas…but way above average.

limus sweed never blew up like i thought he would. i thought he was the next roy williams/calvin johnson, but it never happened. probably mack’s fault.

The high and distant angle makes the Akron play look much more like peewee soccer than college football usually does. Also, the call is great — who suspected there was so much announcing talent slumbering in the mid-majors?

Re: #8

If you only knew….

So what exactly happened in that amazing play?

Did the guy lateral the ball to a team mate who took it all the way?

Cool play.

I’m glad Akron’s four fans got to see that in person.

As for the rest of you, while you watch your fancy-pants “network” television, we in the MAC get those wonderful webcam feeds from outer space, which is the equivalent of watching a Pitt Panthers game from one of those snooty restaurants up on Mt. Washington, or perhaps observing Peden Stadium from Bong Hill, not that anyone would really remember what that’s like.

Whoops, that game was at the ‘Zoo — forgot. in that case, there’s no excuse for how empty the stadium is.

God, I fucking hate Phil Fulmer. He can’t even trash-talk the press with any degree of originality.

Go back to Sweden, Limas!
(what?! he’s black?)

God, i wish people would stop reminding me about that UT vs OSU game … A great game, but i’ve never seen our fans more quiet as they were filing out of the Shoe.

Over in our neck of the woods, Akron’s win brought back memories of the “it ain’t over Tillitz over” play from 2002, as captured by the Voice of the RedHawks, Steve Baker.

http://www.mattsledge.com/sw/audio/The%20Play.mp3

Another thing y’all miss out on in bigger conferences is wild animals that run onto the field of play during the game. To help you hear what you’ve been missing . . . .

http://www.mattsledge.com/sw/audio/GIVESIX.ram

I’m not second-guessing. But I am second-guessing

War is peace!
Freedom is slavery!
Ignorance is strength!

Orson you know what Phil Steel’s 5 star lock was last weekend? Vandy +8. I think he may have missed the AU vs FLA game.

Gerry,

Credit Mack Brown and Greg Davis. Texas would be unbearably awesome if Mack had fired his buddy Davis and hired a good oc.

Prothro,

What are you scoffing at? I took Vandy +8 as well. That was a lead pipe cinch. Everyone knew that. Look at how close we were to being right. Frickin’ Vandy.

what exactly is going on in the photo for this story at the Sun, re: [NAME REDACTED]? Is that photo credit to the AP? So, the faceless AP photo bureau is attempting to mock DeMotivationals (or the general internet meme that springs from the DeMotivational posters)? But they’re doing it wrong? Is that what’s happening?

Tennessee may have kicked our asses but …. at least we didn’t get a punt blocked. Oh, wait …

Had to buy a new pick-up truck yesterday to console myself. Lord, I hope we don’t have another blow-out game; I can’t afford another truck.

“$32 million. Worth Every Penny.”

Yes, paying that much for knocking down a pass in the end zone to beat the Coogs is what I call sound investing.

I took Vandy +8 as well. That was a lead pipe cinch. Everyone knew that. Look at how close we were to being right.

3 TD’s=close?

Limas’ poor showing this year is now explained. Trying to shake press coverage with a painfully broken wrist can’t lead to a whole lot of productivity.

He’ll always be the guy who made THE catch for the Longhorns at the ’Shoe.

#22

Nope the extra couple million made sure we picked the pass off in the end zone last week.

As much as I like to be winning by more over the Houston’s of the world-its not about this season, Alabama fans pretty much wrote this season off as hopefully an 8 win season and are getting ready for the influx of big time talent that Saban is bringing to the school. I don’t think Saban can walk on water, but he can recruit and is smart enough to surround himself with some of the best assistants in the game as well.

Akron/Western Michigan?!?!? NOW You tell us?!? Damn you Swindle! You’ve been so preoccupied with your soujourn to Baton – Jeune is it – to watch that pathetic little scrimage you didn’t give us analysis and prediction of AU/WM not even time and channell? They way things are going one of them’s bound to be in NO in Janurary.

At least tell us when the replay is. Be quick. I’ll rush home for lunch to DVR it. Lovely day in Manhattan after all, what with humidity at barely 100% and rain about to pour like dead kittens from those buckets on Lloyd Carr’s porch.

After the last 10 mos. I personally think Saban surronds himself with people who can pump out the pub. He is all pub and no results. Look at LSU that program has gotten stronger without him. That is why he keeps changing jobs before people can figure him out. His PR is what gets him paid not undying work ethic or his brilliant football mind. He is an ass of the highest degree and his departure from Tuscaloosa will be one of the ugliest things in the history of sports. I think he has set himself up for certain failure. There is no way he can meet the expectations that will be bestowed upon him at U of A.

1. Which of the bammer assistants are the best in the land?? Certaintly not your OC, who he has shown open disdain for.

This Saban hiring is slowly morphing its way into one of the biggest disasters of all time. And yes, it will be very entertaining.

#28

Sounds like Urban Meyer’s first year in Florida. Or Saban’s first year at LSU.

tim in tampa,

Hey! Don’t forget the MAC’s new ESPN regional package this year, which goes out to 30 or so markets around the country.

Full World Wide Leader production values, enabling me to kick back on my sofa four-plus hours from Muncie and enjoy Ball State’s defense getting lit up more often than a roach left behind in Snoop Dogg’s Escalade.

Oh, wait. That actually kinda sucked.

#29

Will he get the axe after getting Croomed in Starksvegas? Or worse, lose to The Orgeron???

He will suffer being burned in effigy at the base of Denny Chimes.

[Name Redacted] Anyone?

"I know we’re Alabama and they’re Houston, so we’re supposed to beat ‘em, and kill ‘em, and all that stuff but I told you that before we ever started that wasn’t going to be the way it was, and it wasn’t that way. Now, could we have done a lot better? Absolutely. Do we all want to do a lot better? Absolutely. Are there lots of things we can improve on? Absolutely. So, we’re gonna work hard to do that. But we did win the game. We did compete to the end, and that’s a real positive, and there were a lot of good things done in the game as well. So we do have the capability of doing those things, we just need to maintain those things with a better level of consistency throughout the game.

And at the start of that, when he said We’re Alabama, he did the little quote thingy with his hands before and after he said Alabama.

Saban = Redacted?

NewAZTiger = Auburn and Croomed

doing little quote thingy with hands

Limas Sweed is a senior.

5

Get your shots in now at the Bama program. You’ve got about a season and a half before they’re a consistent top 15 program again. Mark it down.

I’ve heard that for the last 15 years running.

#29

 “This Saban hiring is slowly morphing its way into one of the biggest disasters of all time.”

Care to elaborate?

#40, watch the press conference linked in #34. Watch the body language, and listen to the tone.

Then, recognize that there is an article about Alabama football in a major paper in the state every single day of the year.