Did Dan just prove

[tired]

all things equal, he'd whoop Saban's ***?

 

[thatsbaseball]

Yep, whichever team has Ridley wins that game, he was the big inequality.

 

[shotgunDawg]

Yep,whichever team has Ridley wins that game, he was the big inequality.

This is what I wish recruits understood.

There is nothing special about a helmet or jersey. It’s about the players that occupy them. If Calvin Ridley comes to MSU, we win. If Leonard Fournette comes to MSU instead of LSU, we win in 2014. If Cam Newton comes to MSU in 2011.....

 

[MaroonNation]

Dan proved there was no way in hell the league was going to risk Bamer losing after Georgia royally **** the bed earlier. The phantom push out of bounds to make Ridley an eligible receiver again proves the point that it was never meant for us to win

 

[Bobby Ricigliano]

You mean LSU in 2015 & Auburn in 2010?

 

[Shamoan]

i think he proved he COULD beat him. i dont know about the *** whoopin' part. still a play(er) or two away, but not often bama is that beat up where it lines up with our strength.

 

[Dawg1979]

This is what I wish recruits understood.

There is nothing special about a helmet or jersey. It’s about the players that occupy them. If Calvin Ridley comes to MSU, we win. If Leonard Fournette comes to MSU instead of LSU, we win in 2014. If Cam Newton comes to MSU in 2011.....

yeah, we did win in 2014.

 

[Strike.sixpack]

i think he proved he COULD beat him. i dont know about the *** whoopin' part. still a play(er) or two away, but not often bama is that beat up where it lines up with our strength.

Bama LB's were beat up but they knew going into the game we didn't have our top 2 WR either. If that didn't smell like stack the box and dare them to throw, I don't know what does. (Why the first play call eventhough we didn't hit it, made them on their heels a bit for most of the game as well).

And even with that it was on the LOS that we pushed their DL to get those 3-4 yards. Aeris made several cuts at the LOS meaning they were not pushing into our backfield.

 

[engie]

This path of discussion is one that makes me really nervous. It did shatter their air of invincibility in regards to us certainly. But now we've got their attention. And teams that play them close and leave feeling how we feel about Tuscaloosa next year is where Saban tends to really crush souls once or twice every year. He's done it to everyone that felt like they were in our same place right now almost without fail.

 

[Philly Dawg]

What makes Saban a great coach is that all things are rarely equal. He evaluates and recruits better than anyone else.

 

[maroonmania]

Dan proved there was no way in hell the league was going to risk Bamer losing after Georgia royally **** the bed earlier. The phantom push out of bounds to make Ridley an eligible receiver again proves the point that it was never meant for us to win

Yea, I get really sick of the old "well bad calls happen and you just gotta live with 'em" when these calls always go to benefit the same teams in this conference. This crap happens over and over in big time games where we are playing a so called SEC 'power'. I mean I've watched MSU games since 1981 and I don't ever remember a black and white call like that one the other night (especially now that plays can be reviewed) where a blown call ended up in giving 7 points to MSU. SEC officiating just has a lot of built in bias #1 because of the money at stake with the playoffs and bowls and #2 because almost all of the SEC officials have a connection to an SEC school in some form or fashion and very few if any are with MSU. When these blown calls start going our way every now and then to balance things out I'll believe its just random error, but there is no way the same official looking right down the sideline that threw his hat down because he saw Ridley go out of bounds would not have been able to see that there was NO CONTACT from the defender. Its just pure old unadulterated SEC bias for certain schools on display as usual. You know what they say, just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

 

[maroonmania]

His evaluation primarily consists of just going after the highest rated guys out there and getting them. He certainly does a good job of developing those players though and teaching his schemes on defense.