PSA: Abandon All Hope

[POTUS]

Nah. Hope is playin' us this year. She's gonna let us get a lead in the second half for sure. Diabolical.

 

[Wesson Bulldog]

Bear Bryant died in 1983. Last game was the 1982 Liberty Bowl. The next year Alabama beat us 35-18 in Tuscaloosa.

But hey, you were really close...

I was fixing to say, a few years off there sport.

 

[patdog]

I dunno. I would take Croom against Alabama any day before Mullen and Alabama. If there is one team that Croom could get ready for it was Alabama. He might have only been awake all week for the Bama game to win that one

Uh, no. Just no.

 

[patdog]

Easy big fella. Let's not forget that Croom coached against Mike Shula and first-year Saban trying to clean up Mike Shula's mess. Alabama wasn't very good. Hell, Louisiana Monroe beat Alabama during that stretch.

And Bama lost 12 games in the 8 years Mullen was at State. Most of those to top 5 teams.

 

[Negative Waves]

It was 16 years between the 80 and 96 wins. They've beaten us 16 times between the 07 game and this year. We're ranked #16. What does that mean? That we are bad at beating Bama in football.

 

[Dawgzilla2]

Bear Bryant died in 1983. Last game was the 1982 Liberty Bowl. The next year Alabama beat us 35-18 in Tuscaloosa.

But hey, you were really close...

A lot of people forget Bryant retired from coaching before he died. He remained Bama's AD and hired Perkins, but he really wanted Gene Stallings.

Perkins also took over the AD role when Bryant died. Its really hard to imagine someone being both Head FB coach and AD these days.

 

[RBcoach]

Compared to Louisiana Monroe...

Name any other team you felt confident that Croom could beat while at State.... Sure wasn't Maine. At least against Alabama, I knew Croom would have our guys ready to run through a brick wall for.

 

[Drebin]

Name any other team you felt confident that Croom could beat while at State.... Sure wasn't Maine. At least against Alabama, I knew Croom would have our guys ready to run through a brick wall for.

Fun fact: State also lost three times to Alabama under Croom and was outscored 79-20 in those games.

That was the worst five game stretch for Alabama in their modern football history (since 1990 expansion).

 

[seshomoru]

It was 16 years between the 80 and 96 wins. They've beaten us 16 times between the 07 game and this year. We're ranked #16. What does that mean? That we are bad at beating Bama in football.

16 years since the Saints won the Super Bowl and got crossed off the list.

 

[tired]

 

[HomeBoyDawg]

Go ahead and come to terms with it. It will make Saturday afternoon less painful.

 

[TrueMaroonGrind]

Counterpoint: what if we blow them out?

You won’t be able to tell me nuthin

 

[TaleofTwoDogs]

Counterpoint: what if we blow them out?

Then our rather large gift to the SEC Referee Benevolent Retirement Fund worked!

 

[Darryl Steight]

If it works every time, you've really been screwing us over for a long time.

You need to hydrate better son!

20% of the time, it works every time**

 

[HumpDawgy]

 

[skip dog]

I dunno. I would take Croom against Alabama any day before Mullen and Alabama. If there is one team that Croom could get ready for it was Alabama. He might have only been awake all week for the Bama game to win that one

 

[DawgsNCowboys87]

I want to abandon hope but I just can’t
We’ve all seen this movie before but Kamario has me blind with hope.

Same here but we must have a healthy K1 and Fluff. In fact really they need each other . Also we’re gonna need the O Line to give Kamario more time and at least play a good bit better. Fluff has made so many blocks so K1 had enough time to throw the ball accurately. I didn’t even know before the bama game that Kamario was gonna be struggling that hard. Also Fluff was listed as probable before the game so yes it was very bad to lose that. With an extra week off and a lot of treatments hopefully Kamario and a lot of players a lot of them will feed much better.

 

[OG Goat Holder]

I dunno. I would take Croom against Alabama any day before Mullen and Alabama. If there is one team that Croom could get ready for it was Alabama. He might have only been awake all week for the Bama game to win that one

Holy hell, how did we miss this clown

M17er is a dipshlt or he wasn't old enough to remember back then

 

[RBcoach]

Holy hell, how did we miss this clown

M17er is a dipshlt or he wasn't old enough to remember back then

Yes I was drunk, and at the troughs when we had the 100+ pick six. All I am saying is Croom had our players ready to play Bama more than any coach in recent memory.

 

[DawgsNCowboys87]

I remember how hopeless things felt on this day - until the Johnson interception!

Just wish Croom had worried more about building a winning program than "respect."

Same here I was at that game. I’ll never forget it seeing that pick 6 forced by Titus Brown and ran and picked off by Anthony Johnson for I think was a 106yd pick six. Which also gave us bowl eligibility! Which was huge for us at that time.