College Football 2009

[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?

[OumaFan]

Yes it was almost a done deal for Rich to us, glad it didn't happen. There was some speculation for a while with Saban coming to us, that's where he got ripped so much cause he said he wasn't coming at some press conference when he was still at Miami, like he was the first to do that. Speculation built for a while but I didn't believe it all till like two days before they hired him.

Anyway V Tech really doesn't scare me that much (we are death to run on, Tyrod Taylor better be an improved passer) but starting to get a bit worried anyway. There's some speculation that Julio Jones and Mark Ingram won't play, some deal where they went on a fishing trip in the summer, even though the guy wasn't a booster and is apparently an Auburn fan, there's still speculation they might get suspended for a game. We have multiple swine flu cases and our starting DE got shot last night in an attempted robbery. Shot in the arm, he's in good condition but I can't see him playing.

[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.

[OumaFan]

clemson-GA Tech turning into a solid game.

[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.

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.

I agree. such contract is totally unfair for the other teams and it is a rightful reason why to not like them, the thing is having Irish blood myself and cheering for them since I was a little wee kid, I emotionally have a lot of difficulties to stop to like them but I am rational enough to realize that this contract is unfair and not good for the whole collegial scene.