| FTBL Crazy idea

[c5vetman]

I know this is assanine, but does anyone else think that maybe we lost this weekend to ULM on purpose? Maybe not the team lost on purpose, but maybe Saban wanted them to lose. Maybe he didn't prepare them like he should have, just to prove a point. Maybe he did this to fire them up, let them be embarassed by a "lesser" team so they would band together and work even harder this week to prepare for the barn.

The only reason I say this is because everywhere he's coached, he has gotten his team embarrassed at least once in the first years. Then, the following years, they become good teams. I realize that they also get better talent in those years, but I could see this as a good fire starter, don't let them beat you like you lost last week.

I know we don't have the talent of a lot of the SEC teams, but we always play with heart. We never get blown out, but occasionally we lose to teams that we should have beaten badly. Maybe this is part of the "process", to get the team to realize that just because you should win, doesn't mean you will. You have to play as a team and execute, or even a lowly team can beat you.

Like I said, this is completely crazy, but what does anyone else think? (Trust me, I haven't been drinking!)

 

[BAMAFSTBACK]

Doubtful it was done on purpose. But if this loss should some how fire up the boys past Auburn then good on Louisiana-Monroe.

 

[Argo]

Sweet Baby Jesus. Don't give any possible lurking sports reporters any ideas. I'd hate to see this question get asked to Saban at a presser this week.

 

[Swamptick]

As crazy as it does sound I have entertained similar thoughts. I seriously doubt that there is any merit to the thought but that did not stop me from pondering it. Saban's proclivity in dropping one game he should not each year cannot be entirely dismissed.

All in all I just think we were looking ahead to AubRun. Wonder if it will help.

 

[Tideboy]

Preposterous.

adjective completely contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd; senseless; utterly foolish


Set the bottle / pipe down....walk away. $%CR

 

[Atlanta_Tider]

I read on an AU board earlier that same thing. Someone on that board started a thread saying we lost to ULM on purpose and that the ONLY reason Saban was hired at Bama was to beat AU every year and not play for the NC every year.....
I think BS on it all!

 

[Outlaw]

 

[bamatommy]

Set the bottle / pipe down....walk away. $%CR

:lol:

 

[billfish]

You got the thread title right! :lol:

No....we got beat because of execution(lack of) and TO's. Ask Carr...ex Michigan coach on Monday about it. :shock: The saying Any given Sunday now goes for any given Saturday IF you aren't ready. Even lowly ULM. Huge loss to LSU....followed by a loss to MSU and then Barn on deck....while ULM is a sandwhich game.....recipe for disaster....especially since we're no dominant team that's barely 1 deep. :shock:

I'm sure there are more than just you that thought that...or would like to hope that was/is it. That's not championship football and it's going to take execution and 0 TO's like we have seen them play before to win Saturday. What Saban keeps preaching is finish and consistency....along with a few more "choice" words I'm sure this week.

I say the guys will be focused.

 

[c5vetman]

And I said a couple of times how crazy I thought it was, but it could be possible, in a bizarro world, which this season has been.

It could be a tough love tactic - go ahead, play and think like you don't need to be a team, see what happens, sort of thing.

I don't believe that he was brought in to only beat the barn, but I could see how this could be beneficial to the team.

Like I said, it was a crazy idea, completely assanine, but it's something that came across my mind. I totally believe Saban is the right coach for us, and I truly believe he has the best for the team at heart, which is exactly why this could be used as a wake-up call. We're already (most likely) bowl bound, but to a lowly bowl, so what's to lose really?

We came close to beating lsWHO, but the Miss ST game was our emotional let down of the year, so we should have gotten over the hangover before ULM.

Just some message board fodder! Trying to get the creative juices flowing!

 

[billfish]

I hear ya man. No doubt it's been a bizzaro season.

I agree with you......I think we got bigger fish to fry than Aubarn. I think soon we'll show just how insignificant they really are in college football.

 

[Guest]

I do believe that we probably held some things out of the gameplan that could have helped us...I also think that we could possibly have looked at Auburn some, thinking this would be a breather.

But I have no thoughts that we threw the game. None whatsoever.

 

[c5vetman]

I didn't really mean that we purposely threw the game, I'm just saying that maybe Saban held out a little from his motivation, to get these guys to thinking, hey, if we keep playing like we're playing now, anybody could beat us. Just instead of being on them as hard as usual, he let them revert back to their attitudes from the Shula years, so that his process could be driven in a little harder. Like, "see, this isn't how I've been coaching you all year, and you see how it played out?"

I would never suggest that we threw the game, not from the player's perspective, or even the coach's, just that we didn't prepare for ULM like we did for Tenn, and that that proves a point. YOu have to prepare for the weaker teams just like you do for your rivals. That's all.

And I was saying that this has happened everywhere Saban has been, at least once, and his teams always play better after something like that. Like when LSwho played UAB and was beaten. Not long after that, that team started playing much better. I know it also had to do with talent levels getting better, but it doesn't matter how much talent you have, it's how that talents gels as a team, look at ND this year.

 

[Guest]

Personally I think it is the players attitudes and willingness to put everything they have in the game and practice. Saban can only do so much and we have some "superstars" who think the team revolves around them. We need to see and hear more "we" and less "me". Let Saban find the players in the program and the recruits who will buy into his system. Things will change. Roll Tide.