College Football 2009

[OumaFan]

I don't really think they're garbage, I just think the conference as a whole gets a bit overrated cause there aren't many teams at all that play defense and everybody loves a track meet. OU and Texas aren't bad defensively.

Oklahoma State is awful defensively unless they've made some big improvements over last year. They've just got to outscore people and they probably will do that to most people but you can't (and I literally mean can't, there's no gray area IMO) win the National Championship with a defense like they had last year. They'll probably win 10 or 11 games anyway cause their offense is so good.

[OumaFan]

I thought about posting this in the what are you listening to now thread

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_q4fO7DsIc

One of our talented young guys got arrested for a domestic disturbance. Turned out not to be that much, his girlfriend got arrested too, he didn't hit her or anything, just pushed her when she slapped him all that, charges dropepd, but before all this came out, like the next morning her dad came out in the press and said she probably caused it, FAN OF THE YEAR.

[VictorCharlie]

Thats awesome. Alabama has the luxury of being the best show in state. Auburn pulls some fans but my experience is that a huge majority of the state is a Tide fan. A&M has to play second fiddle to texas in this state. Even in the late 80s and early 90s when we beat their ass 10 out of 11 years the media was always looking to find us cheating. Texas constantly gets a pass when the athletic department or players screw up. If Sherman can get 6-7 wins this year and a bowl to keep his recruiting momentum going we should be back to competing with them again in the next couple years. If we tank this year though it could get ugly.

[OumaFan]

Alabama will always be the bigger name but I really don't think there's a huge difference in amount of fans, its probably 55-45 in Bama's favor, something like that. Alabama probably pulls more casual fans. It also depends on where you are, there are parts of the state that are more pro-Auburn and vice versa. I don't know how it is in Texas, I assume it goes Texas-Texas A&M-Texas Tech-TCU-Baylor-Houston, something like that?

I was a bit surprised by Franchione's lack of success at Texas A&M. Alabama fans were mad at him for how he handled the whole thing (IMO worse than anything Saban did but Saban's a dick to the media and this in the end is the most important thing) but at the same time we were mad it was kind of cause we all thought he was a good coach.

[El Kabong]

Crashing the BCS this year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbpt6ggI7S8

....WE ARE THE PIRATES OF ECU HEY!

[VictorCharlie]

Alabama will always be the bigger name but I really don't think there's a huge difference in amount of fans, its probably 55-45 in Bama's favor, something like that. Alabama probably pulls more casual fans. It also depends on where you are, there are parts of the state that are more pro-Auburn and vice versa. I don't know how it is in Texas, I assume it goes Texas-Texas A&M-Texas Tech-TCU-Baylor-Houston, something like that?

I was a bit surprised by Franchione's lack of success at Texas A&M. Alabama fans were mad at him for how he handled the whole thing (IMO worse than anything Saban did but Saban's a dick to the media and this in the end is the most important thing) but at the same time we were mad it was kind of cause we all thought he was a good coach.

Fran just never developed talent. He'd get good recruits that would either never get better or most would simply never see the field. The percentage of his top recruits that either left or were kicked off the team is absurd. He allowed A&M's storied defense to go in to the shitter and then tried to use a spread option offense but was always playing from behind because we couldn't stop anyone. He wasted two of the best QB's we ever had in Mcgee and Mcneal by turning them into option backs. Everyone at A&M thought the guy was going to get us to the next level but now he is pretty much blamed entirely for the state that the program is at the moment. It is going to be a tough climb back with top programs like texas, OU and LSU not to mention rising programs like OSU and Tech. Hell even Baylor is looking better.

[OumaFan]

Fuck, it is finally almost here. Goodbye baseball, boxing, etc.

There will be a lot of this going on this season

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO8Wf0VKip4

It looks like I will be in the Georgia Dome Saturday night.

Oh and Rich Rodriguez

Motherfucker he was so close to being our coach, thank you Mrs. Rich Rodriguez for telling your husband you didn't want to come to Alabama. People down here literally send her Christmas cards.

[amat]

Rich Rodriguez is an ass even at West Virginia when he had about 10 players I really liked, I didn't like Rich Rodriguez. I never knew that about it being the wife that spurned Alabama for Rodriguez, I don't remember it all but was Saban even being talked about as an option for Alabama before bolting Miami or did that come out of nowhere like Petrino packing up after week 14 of the NFL season to go to Arkansas?

[Nameless]

My two favorite teams are and will always be LSU and Notre-Dame, LSU because of the french background over here and the Irish because, well, they were irish with grits in when the team got founded. I must admit though that I don't follow that much collegial football by lack of time and the system of the bowls is quite confusing, even To a North American like me.

[OumaFan]

Expert analysis of the Alabama-VT game (sadly this is not me)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQcX6X0M7F4

[VictorCharlie]

My two favorite teams are and will always be LSU and Notre-Dame, LSU because of the french background over here and the Irish because, well, they were irish with grits in when the team got founded. I must admit though that I don't follow that much collegial football by lack of time and the system of the bowls is quite confusing, even To a North American like me.

As long as Notre Dame has their own TV/BCS contract I will root against them. Just irks me that they get their own special rules for BCS bowls and that no matter who they play on Saturday its on TV.