🏈 "...and Alabama folds like a cheap tent in late-season games."

[252BAMA]

Bulletin board stuff from:

10 biggest BCS Championship roadblocks---Lisa Horne

Doesn't even have Bama in top 10. Remark above was made in #10-Florida.

http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/pgStory?contentId=9626758#sport=COLLEGE FOOTBALL&photo=9626106

 

[alagator]

Frankly, for far too many years now, and in many sports other than football, the statement is pretty accurate.

Shula's best team stood at 9-0 with a realistic, albeit unlikely and unanticipated and unpredicted, chance at playing for the SEC Championship, if not even the National Championship, by winning a November game at home against LSU and lost - and folded even more the next week with a wholly uninspired performance at Auburn.

Last years team stood less than 12 minutes away from the BCS title game and the strongest and most dependable part of the team, the defense, folded by allowing two long and time consuming touchdown drives.

Baseball team this year only had to win 2-of-3 against a horrible Auburn team to win the SEC (West and Overall) and instead became only the second (or perhaps third) team to lose a conference series to The Barners and fell from first to fourth. Then went 1-2-BBQ in both the SEC and NCAA Regional tournaments. Finishing the season 1-6 is folding like a cheap tent.

Senior laden golf team goes into the 2008 NCAA Tournament seeded 1st and finished 12th. Youthful laden 2009 team wins its first NCAA Regional ever and then fails to make the cut at the NCAA Finals.

Softball team spends all year (year after year) accumulating wins and brashness and shows up at the WCWS and plays a first game like it is the first softball game they have ever played. The ladies are 0-6 in opening round games in Oklahoma. (Then they blow a three run, two-out lead in the bottom of the last inning to fold to Florida yet again.)

And too many of our other teams do not even put themselves in position to fold late by folding early.

I love UA, but our sports teams have for the better part of fifteen or twenty years been underwhelming when faced with a late season opportunity to step up and make a name on the national scene.

So the comment might be bulletin board material, but it is also mostly true. And I, for one, am more interested in seeing that reality changed than in pretending it is not true. (Terry, can I make this a MM bash? :lol: )

 

[TerryP]

So the comment might be bulletin board material, but it is also mostly true. And I, for one, am more interested in seeing that reality changed than in pretending it is not true. (Terry, can I make this a MM bash? :lol: )

As long as you bash Nestle's as well...

 

[252BAMA]

As long as you bash Nestle's as well...

LM....er:rofl:

 

[Kozlowski]

Im always game for a Mal bashing thread:hyper:

 

[alagator]

Im always game for a Mal bashing thread:hyper:

But it is such an easy mark that sometimes I feel guilty.

But the feeling goes away shortly.

A little SAT formatted statement...

"MM is to Jeremy Foley as Nestle's is to Hersey's."

That is to fulfill Terry's requirement.

 

[TerryP]

But it is such an easy mark that sometimes I feel guilty.

But the feeling goes away shortly.

A little SAT formatted statement...

"MM is to Jeremy Foley as Nestle's is to Hersey's."

That is to fulfill Terry's requirement.

MM is a Mars company product which ranks below that of Hershey and Nestle...which was, in my odd way, part of my thought process with the quip. (if you are gracious enough to concede it qualifies as a quip)

In light of the recent Machen/money thread...Hershey's is switching to cheaper ingredients in their chocolates.

 

[kc]

MM is a Mars company product which ranks below that of Hershey and Nestle...which was, in my odd way, part of my thought process with the quip. (if you are gracious enough to concede it qualifies as a quip)

In light of the recent Machen/money thread...Hershey's is switching to cheaper ingredients in their chocolates.

...add will probably become more expensive.

UGA at number 2....VT...4...wow

 

[TidePride50]

Frankly, for far too many years now, and in many sports other than football, the statement is pretty accurate.

Shula's best team stood at 9-0 with a realistic, albeit unlikely and unanticipated and unpredicted, chance at playing for the SEC Championship, if not even the National Championship, by winning a November game at home against LSU and lost - and folded even more the next week with a wholly uninspired performance at Auburn.

Last years team stood less than 12 minutes away from the BCS title game and the strongest and most dependable part of the team, the defense, folded by allowing two long and time consuming touchdown drives.

Baseball team this year only had to win 2-of-3 against a horrible Auburn team to win the SEC (West and Overall) and instead became only the second (or perhaps third) team to lose a conference series to The Barners and fell from first to fourth. Then went 1-2-BBQ in both the SEC and NCAA Regional tournaments. Finishing the season 1-6 is folding like a cheap tent.

Senior laden golf team goes into the 2008 NCAA Tournament seeded 1st and finished 12th. Youthful laden 2009 team wins its first NCAA Regional ever and then fails to make the cut at the NCAA Finals.

Softball team spends all year (year after year) accumulating wins and brashness and shows up at the WCWS and plays a first game like it is the first softball game they have ever played. The ladies are 0-6 in opening round games in Oklahoma. (Then they blow a three run, two-out lead in the bottom of the last inning to fold to Florida yet again.)

And too many of our other teams do not even put themselves in position to fold late by folding early.

I love UA, but our sports teams have for the better part of fifteen or twenty years been underwhelming when faced with a late season opportunity to step up and make a name on the national scene.

So the comment might be bulletin board material, but it is also mostly true. And I, for one, am more interested in seeing that reality changed than in pretending it is not true. (Terry, can I make this a MM bash? :lol: )

Sad, but true.

 

[UAgrad93]

Were they talking about the football team folding late or did they mean to speak of the baseball team after Jake Smith went down in a heap at the SEC tourney. I hate to say it but the guys did pack up the tents after Jake went down.

 

[TerryP]

Were they talking about the football team folding late or did they mean to speak of the baseball team after Jake Smith went down in a heap at the SEC tourney. I hate to say it but the guys did pack up the tents after Jake went down.

I'm pretty familiar with Lisa and haven't seen any articles from other other than football related stuff...