Football roundup
Well, i'm putting off talking about bayfest and the acts I saw until later in the week mainly because i'm too lazy to get the pictures off of my camera right now. So, I will talk about the weekend football games instead.
I do want to cheer on the other team from the state of Alabama but so many of them can be so annoying (this is most certainly not aimed at any of my friends who are Aubies because they are cool). It starts with their coach. He is a weasely no good dirty scoundral. He blatantly runs the score up try and make the voters, who don't see their games, maybe cast a vote for them. Their non-conference schedule is a joke, Washington state, Buffalo (didn't know they had a team), Tulane, and Arkansas State. They scheduled Southern Cal a couple seasons ago and lost, then the next season they lost again then dropped them from the schedule. I want both Alabama and Auburn to schedule good non-conference games like Alabama-Oklahoma or Auburn-USC or like next year with Alabama playing Florida State.
Saturday I was so happy to see Arkansas take Auburn behind the woodshed. During the week leading up to the game, Tubby (Auburn coach Tubberville) spoke out about how he felt that the BCS was unfairly biased against Auburn. Maybe he should have just kept his big mouth shut because now, everyone understands why the BCS wasn't favoring them, because they were overrated. This weekend will be interesting with Auburn hosting Florida who is coming off big wins against Alabama and LSU in the swamp. Can they pull out an upset or will Florida take another step towards the SEC Championship game? I will vote for the latter from what I saw last weekend.
If you haven't noticed or heard I am a die-hard Alabama fan. You cut me and I bleed crimson and white. I would proudly trade in my cap for a houndstooth hat if I didn't think it would make me look odd. But, the way the team has played the last three games has been horrible and the coach has been talking like we are about to turn a corner and that we are competitive up till the fourth quarter. Whats worse, it sounds like something a Duke or Vanderbilt team would be saying not the coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide should be saying.
We have talented blue chip prospects which many teams would drool over landing. We have a quarterback which, arguably, has more composure and presence in the game than Brodie Croyle. We still have Kenneth Darby who has been a dominate force on the ground the last two seasons but cannot get into his groove yet this year. We have talented wide receivers who can be called on at any time to catch a pass for a first down, but have the speed to break any catch for a touchdown any moment. But what do we have to show for it? Two conference losses and a team that trailed Duke (ranked 117 of 119 division I-A schools) 14-10 at halftime at home to a team who had only scored in one of their 4 previous games for a season total of 13 points. If Duke was not a wakeup call to this team then the next stretch of games will be long and tiresome to us die-hard fans.
The way they played they will surely lose to Tennessee, LSU and Auburn and probably in a very sad way. We should have won at Arkansas and we could have won at Florida. This is something that has to be taken care of at the coaching level. Either they have to change what they are doing and learn that they have to be dynamic or get them out of Tuscaloosa (except for Joe Kines, he's the one that is actually doing something).
~Roll Tide~
I do want to cheer on the other team from the state of Alabama but so many of them can be so annoying (this is most certainly not aimed at any of my friends who are Aubies because they are cool). It starts with their coach. He is a weasely no good dirty scoundral. He blatantly runs the score up try and make the voters, who don't see their games, maybe cast a vote for them. Their non-conference schedule is a joke, Washington state, Buffalo (didn't know they had a team), Tulane, and Arkansas State. They scheduled Southern Cal a couple seasons ago and lost, then the next season they lost again then dropped them from the schedule. I want both Alabama and Auburn to schedule good non-conference games like Alabama-Oklahoma or Auburn-USC or like next year with Alabama playing Florida State.
Saturday I was so happy to see Arkansas take Auburn behind the woodshed. During the week leading up to the game, Tubby (Auburn coach Tubberville) spoke out about how he felt that the BCS was unfairly biased against Auburn. Maybe he should have just kept his big mouth shut because now, everyone understands why the BCS wasn't favoring them, because they were overrated. This weekend will be interesting with Auburn hosting Florida who is coming off big wins against Alabama and LSU in the swamp. Can they pull out an upset or will Florida take another step towards the SEC Championship game? I will vote for the latter from what I saw last weekend.
If you haven't noticed or heard I am a die-hard Alabama fan. You cut me and I bleed crimson and white. I would proudly trade in my cap for a houndstooth hat if I didn't think it would make me look odd. But, the way the team has played the last three games has been horrible and the coach has been talking like we are about to turn a corner and that we are competitive up till the fourth quarter. Whats worse, it sounds like something a Duke or Vanderbilt team would be saying not the coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide should be saying.
We have talented blue chip prospects which many teams would drool over landing. We have a quarterback which, arguably, has more composure and presence in the game than Brodie Croyle. We still have Kenneth Darby who has been a dominate force on the ground the last two seasons but cannot get into his groove yet this year. We have talented wide receivers who can be called on at any time to catch a pass for a first down, but have the speed to break any catch for a touchdown any moment. But what do we have to show for it? Two conference losses and a team that trailed Duke (ranked 117 of 119 division I-A schools) 14-10 at halftime at home to a team who had only scored in one of their 4 previous games for a season total of 13 points. If Duke was not a wakeup call to this team then the next stretch of games will be long and tiresome to us die-hard fans.
The way they played they will surely lose to Tennessee, LSU and Auburn and probably in a very sad way. We should have won at Arkansas and we could have won at Florida. This is something that has to be taken care of at the coaching level. Either they have to change what they are doing and learn that they have to be dynamic or get them out of Tuscaloosa (except for Joe Kines, he's the one that is actually doing something).
~Roll Tide~
posted by Brian Wright at 9:15 PM
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