Bama

[Bulldogg31]

Played golf with a Bama grad this week who is a big Dak fan. He was mentioning how many analysts were picking us to give them a good game (or even win) this year.

He asked when was the last time we beat them. It was 2007. I told him I didn't think Mullen's teams had even held a lead against Bama so we looked it up.

I was right. Our last lead was Nov 15, 2008. We led 7-5 in the 2nd Qtr.

Wow. I knew it was bad but that's amazing. When we play this November 11 it will have been 8 years. Crazy.

 

[MaroonNation]

I didn't think they really existed till I started working at the hospital I work at now and one of the Hospitalists is a Bama grad. One of the coolest, most Level-headed dudes I know.
I also worked at UMC when Keith Meloncon was doing his orthopedic residency and he actually played football at LSU.

 

[Lucky Dawg]

For a university of that size, actual graduates are harder to find than a leprechaun riding a unicorn. The few that I do know are great people, and intelligent enough to know that they have no need to talk smack. They're the premier college football program in the nation, and that's that.

My cousin graduated from UA around 2004. Anytime I'm bombarded by one of the sidewalk fans while in my MSU gear, I just politely respond "Oh, you're an Alabama fan? My cousin went there. What year did you graduate?" In 15 years, I've never had a single one actually answer the question. If one ever does, I might drop dead on the spot.

 

[Drebin]

For a university of that size, actual graduates are harder to find than a leprechaun riding a unicorn. The few that I do know are great people, and intelligent enough to know that they have no need to talk smack. They're the premier college football program in the nation, and that's that.

My cousin graduated from UA around 2004. Anytime I'm bombarded by one of the sidewalk fans while in my MSU gear, I just politely respond "Oh, you're an Alabama fan? My cousin went there. What year did you graduate?" In 15 years, I've never had a single one actually answer the question. If one ever does, I might drop dead on the spot.

This. Most of the people who went to school there are delightful, although there are some exceptions. It's generally the ones in the sleeveless tee shirts and the mullets, who look like they haven't bathed in days and couldn't find a coherent sentence with a dictionary, and couldn't find Tuscaloosa on a map who like to talk the most ****. We this, and we that, like they're better than someone because they decided to jump on a bandwagon and be a front runner. Those are the worst.

A very large segment of the Ole Miss fan base is the same way - people who never go to a game or never darkened a doorway in Oxford, but love Ole Miss because of the Old South imagery that it's always reflected.

 

[boatsandhoes]

I must be out of my mind, but.....

I think if you can put pressure on hurts (make him shoulder the load) and could stop the run you could beat them. Have to stop his running too. I don't think hurts is that skilled at passing, but he carved us up like a pumpkin on Halloween last year.

You have to score td's when you get chances, and you can't afford any TO's, or mistakes. Especially on special teams. mullens style doesn't seem to do well at all against a saban D.

 

[MaroonNation]

I would venture to say that 3/4's of the people at Alabama football games didn't actually attend school there. If they did go to college it was UAB, UAT, USA, UWA, UNA. A lot of Auburn fans that actually went to college went to Troy or Jacksonville State.

 

[the dog is on the loose]

Real bama fans are generally nice people. These are the ones who have either attended bama or have been lifelong bama fans. I would say a vast majority of their fans are bandwagons fans and they are atrocious. I know one in particular bandwagon fan and he is we this or we that. I told him his opinion doesn't count because he is a bama jumper.

 

[FlotownDawg]

My brother is an Alabama graduate, and he can't stand the trailer park Alabama sidewalk fans who talk the most ****. He makes fun of them as much as I do, and says they give the university a bad name.

 

[RocketDawg]

One of the guys in my golf group is a "bandwagon" Alabama fan ... we this, we that ... and never went to college. And he thinks I should change my allegiance since I live in Alabama and earn my living there. He just doesn't understand, and never will ....