I'm reading through the articles and blogs and can't help but notice all the overwhelming hate being spewed toward the Alabama program. I started thinking to my self what is going on here? Alabama has played great football when they weren't supposed to. We've showed up in games that were sure losses. Clemson, Georgia and even Tennessee was supposed to play Bama tough. Yet the Tide played great and left victorious. Now 12 weeks into the season and our schedule is all of a sudden "soft" and we are overrated big time. Just about everyone is looking at this weekend as a "test" for this cinderella team that is some how unscathed and sitting at 9-0. Unscathed from what? This blanket soft schedule? Instead of getting angry and screaming obscenities (though that is fun) I decided to find a different perspective and this is what I found. Alabama has not won a national title in 16 years. It's been 9 years since the last conference title. Roughly a decade. College football fans have a short memory. Very short. So where am I going with all this? No ones heard of Alabama! We are that team who goes through coaches like underwear trying to reach a level of success that was decades old. We are the team that has lost to Auburn six years in a row. LSU has beaten us 5 straight. Tennessee ran 7 in a row on us. We were a punching bag and for the most part, a punch line. The new cloth was purple and gold or the Orange and blue of the Swamp. So who are we? Believe it or not we are the new guy at the party. The guy that is going to take the girl and everyone knows it. Jealous of our tradition? NO. Jealous of our fan base? NO. We are moving into their territory and it makes them angry. I don't call it a comeback. No, I call it a rebirth. This is the new Alabama. And it looks good.
Roll Tide!
Roll Tide!
