🏈 Alabama Football: What Alabama Must Do to Beat Florida This Saturday

[BAMANEWSBOT]

Alabama will have little time to relish a come from behind win against No. 10 Arkansas and even less time to iron out the kinks before facing No. 7 Florida.

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[BamaDelta]

The article states three int.'s last week for us. Hmmm, I remember two.

 

[planomateo]

wow, Urban is sitting Rainey this week http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/gato...n-meyer-rules-out-chris-rainey-for-this-week/

is he finally catching hell for the number of arrests that have occurred at UF during his tenure?

 

[bamadezz]

wow, Urban is sitting Rainey this week http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/gato...n-meyer-rules-out-chris-rainey-for-this-week/

is he finally catching hell for the number of arrests that have occurred at UF during his tenure?

Seems he and Mark Richt let thier players do whatever they want. Another Dawg was arrested Saturday night after being pulled over for a DUI. I guess he took the loss a lot worse then others...
http://www.ajc.com/sports/uga/richt-kicks-freshman-linebacker-636631.html

 

[planomateo]

not sure if you watch Real Sports on HBO, this comment was made about agents in college football vs Urban's University of Florida's arrests "sheet" during the last show, which is what I was referring to above.

“Finally tonight, a few words about crime and punishment. I’m no legal expert, not by a long shot, but I do believe that driving drunk, robbing a convenience store, and hitting your girlfriend are all worse offenses than dealing with an agent. Most people would agree with that I think except, it seems, the folks in charge of college football.

How else to explain the fact that the USC Trojans are currently on NCAA probation while the Florida Gators are not, even though Florida’s program has seen 27 different players arrested during the short tenure of Coach Urban Meyer. That’s right, by NCAA standards, 27 arrests merit not so much as an official reprimand. But dealing with a prospective agent prematurely, as former Trojan Reggie Bush did, gets your program punished for four years.

It’s not just about USC. NCAA investigations are ongoing at the Universities of Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina for the same kind of premature conversation with agents that Bush had. And it’s not just about Florida. Players at Pittsburgh, Missouri, Tennessee, Oklahoma State, Southern Mississippi, UCLA and elsewhere have also been arrested this year. But all of those programs are, by NCAA standards, in full compliance.

Look, no one’s naïve enough to think football’s ever going to be played by a bunch of choirboys. It’s not. But you’d think that NCAA officials could, at the very least, give coaches and athletic directors a reason to be as diligent about illegality as they are about eligibility – and right now they don’t. Until and unless they do, the NCAA’s idea of institutional control is anything but.”

 

[bamadezz]

Nice post. I refuse to pay what Direct wants for HBO so I miss a lot of great shows:frown:, but that's another story. I guess Urban feels he needs to finally "handle" the situation. I thought Rainey was a done deal though. I remember reading he was "no longer part of the team" like a day after the news of his arrest broke. :headscratch:

 

[son of tradition]

The article states three int.'s last week for us. Hmmm, I remember two.

Lester had two, and Dre had one.

 

[BamaDelta]

Lester had two, and Dre had one.

Got that, but in this article the statement prior says Florida threw one int. Then it states Alabama had three. While we were on the good end of three picks it makes it sound like Greg threw three picks (which we know he didn't). No biggie though. Just go win!

 

[Duder]

Bama doesn't need to do anything different. They had a successful formula the last two times they played Florida and those Florida teams were vastly superior to what you face Saturday night. Pound the hell out of their defense and don't let up until the end of the game. The not letting up part is what bit you guys in Atlanta in 08.

I admit, I bought into UF's preseason hype. I thought Brantley would come in and have a steady hand and take control of the offense. We've seen it before--Leinart taking over for Carson Palmer--hell even McElroy for JPW--Brantley just looks lost and Meyer doesn't remember how to call plays like he did when Chris Leak ran his offense. He may have stumbled onto his new formula last week where he will use Brantley as his "Chris Leak" and the freshman as his "Tebow" to run the Wildcat but I just don't know that it is going to work against Alabama. Bama's defense is substantially faster than UK's and yes, the secondary has looked suspect at time but Bama brings a far superior defense to the table than Kentucky did. As much as I want to say I think Bama will lose I see them winning easily. The biggest mistake they could make is treating this like a bigger or different game. Handle it the same way they've handled everything else over the last two plus years and UF goes home empty handed.

 

[AFF]

In the words of 'Pea' Rooney Stapler, ex Grissom High basketball coach/asst. football coach:

"If y'all score more points than them, niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine out of ten times you're gonna win the game!"


We just need to do whatever we have to do to get through these next two games with a 'W'.

 

[BamaDelta]

IAs much as I want to say I think Bama will lose I see them winning easily. The biggest mistake they could make is treating this like a bigger or different game. Handle it the same way they've handled everything else over the last two plus years and UF goes home empty handed.

Yep, that's what all the pundits said about the Arkansas game too. See how that one turned out. It will be a battle come Sat. night in Tuscaloosa. We will have our hands slap full of all kinds of Gator trickery. I know Saban probably started watching film of Burton the second he stepped on the airplane in Fayetteville. I don't doubt that our staff will have us ready. I just hope they play it the way they're taught when it's right in front of them.

 

[AFF]

Make no mistake, Florida joins Alabama as the winningest program the past two years at 30-2.

We made Tebow cry last year. There's nothing they want more than to send the heralded and 'undefeated since the womb' QB McElroy home crying. They have talent. They have motivation. They will give us their very best shot. If there's one game this year when Florida may play over their heads - it will be this one. I expect a great game and we had better be ready for the Gators.

 

[Duder]

In the words of 'Pea' Rooney Stapler, ex Grissom High basketball coach/asst. football coach:

"If y'all score more points than them, niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine out of ten times you're gonna win the game!"


We just need to do whatever we have to do to get through these next two games with a 'W'.

I hated Coach Stapler with a passion when I was at Grissom. He treated the football team like second class citizens. I played football at GHS right after Stapler successfully recruited Marvin Stone to move school districts (not speculation, it actually happened). All of the sudden they signed a contract with Nike and got some national pub because he had the #1 player in the country.

 

[Duder]

Yep, that's what all the pundits said about the Arkansas game too. See how that one turned out. It will be a battle come Sat. night in Tuscaloosa. We will have our hands slap full of all kinds of Gator trickery. I know Saban probably started watching film of Burton the second he stepped on the airplane in Fayetteville. I don't doubt that our staff will have us ready. I just hope they play it the way they're taught when it's right in front of them.

I know I'm not a pundit but I had actually picked the Bama/Arkansas game to be close.

If UF's great hope against you guys is running a freshman QB in the Wildcat they're in for a long, long day. Bama's defensive speed is head and shoulders above Kentucky. Simply put, it won't work against you guys.

If Brantley suddenly becomes the passer that everyone thought he was coming into the season they may give you guys a hard time. If UF is to beat you this year I figure their best chance is in Atlanta in December after their offense has had the struggles of the regular season to galvanize them.

Just my opinion, take it for what it's worth but I'd be shocked if it were a true struggle Saturday night. I know UF has had the entire offseason to seeth over what happened last December but they just don't look like world-beaters this year. I hate to say this, but if I'm right about your secondary "growing up" last weekend, you guys are damn near unbeatable.

 

[AFF]

I hated Coach Stapler with a passion when I was at Grissom. He treated the football team like second class citizens. I played football at GHS right after Stapler successfully recruited Marvin Stone to move school districts (not speculation, it actually happened). All of the sudden they signed a contract with Nike and got some national pub because he had the #1 player in the country.

Stapler was funny. He always had some sort of home spun saying. I wasn't a huge fan of his mainly because - like most coaches back then - he also served as the campus police. When all you want to do is skip your lunch break to have some 'alone time' with your girlfriend, it's a real pain having to be on the lookout for the coaches roaming the parking lots...

I read somewhere that he's now come out of retirement and coaching girls basketball at Randolph.