🏈 Is this the best team we've ever had?

[SpecThis]

It's probably the most decorated.

Individual Awards
Jack Lambart Award Winner
Butkus Award Winner
Broyles Award Winner
The Heisman Trophy Winner
*Possible Coach of the Year Award winner
6 AP First team All-Americans (a NCAA and SEC record)
1 AP Third team All-American
8 All-SEC First Team Players
1 All-SEC Second Team Players
...not to mention all the nominations


Team Awards
2009 SEC Western Division Champions
2009 Southeastern Conference Champions
*possible 2009 National Champions

Could this be the best team to ever put on that crimson jersey?

 

[JoshB]

lets wait until after January 7th to answer that...

 

[crimsontidecasey]

Nope, lets say it now. This is by far the greatest group of players to ever wear the Crimson and White uniform. Without a doubt. Not 1 team from our program's storied history matches up with the group of guys Saban has put together. NOT ONE. Call me psycho, homer, etc. but it's true.

 

[Tider27]

It's not very hard to come to that conclusion, but of course we'll have to wait until Jan 7th to see if they're truly legendary. I would be proud of how far they came this year without a NC, but let's be honest...National Championships are what Alabama is all about.

Come January 7th, this team certainly has a chance to "writ her name in crimson flame".

 

[russb8903]

As physically capable athletes I think they're arguably the best. However, "best of all time" I think is impossible to determine as it would be relative.

 

[joeman546]

If we win the NC game then the answer is yes, only then.

 

[elbatider]

The best teams in our history have won National Championships. This one is capable of doing the same but right now they have not. Talent wise they may be one of the best but until January 7th we will not know if they have the heart and drive to finish and go down as of one of our best teams ever.

 

[Crimson&WhiteGecko]

Premature ejaculation at this point. :no-no:

 

[reger60]

I'm hoping this is one of the 13th greatest Tide teams of all time.

 

[CtrlAltDel]

Hard to say. In football, you must take 10 year chunks of time and measure them against themselves. Nutrition, standards of living, medical care, weight lifting techniques, dedication, etc... change so fast.

EVery generation gets bigger and stronger. Let's look at the '66 team and the 92 team.

Clearly, the '92 team would toy with the '66 team as if it were not really a game at all but, a slaughter.

What does that mean though? Both teams were the very best that the nation had to offer in their own respective time periods.

In the year 2190, when kickers are 6'9", 350 pds, and they are the small players on the team, can you compare them to our 2009 team and try to figure out which team was better?

Better in what time period, what era? But yeah, this is one hell of a team and I am loving every second of this season and they are a fantastic team and I have no doubt they will bring it home.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

The best teams in our history have won National Championships. This one is capable of doing the same but right now they have not. Talent wise they may be one of the best but until January 7th we will not know if they have the heart and drive to finish and go down as of one of our best teams ever.

While it's generally true that our best teams were national champions, it's not an absolute. See 1966 as a glaring exception. In eleven games, Bama was undefeated, had six shutouts and gave up a grand total of 37 points. The 1966 squad may have been Coach Bryant's best team.

RTR,

Tim

 

[elbatider]

No doubt that team was hosed.

 

[usn92]

While it's generally true that our best teams were national champions, it's not an absolute. See 1966 as a glaring exception. In eleven games, Bama was undefeated, had six shutouts and gave up a grand total of 37 points. The 1966 squad may have been Coach Bryant's best team.

RTR,

Tim

Coach Bryant always said the 1966 team was the best team he ever had.

 

[CtrlAltDel]

While it's generally true that our best teams were national champions, it's not an absolute. See 1966 as a glaring exception. In eleven games, Bama was undefeated, had six shutouts and gave up a grand total of 37 points. The 1966 squad may have been Coach Bryant's best team.

RTR,

Tim

Not only were they undefeated, Tim, but two time defending national champions. Not only were they two time defending national champions but, they had the toughest strength of schedule in '66 while also being undefeated.

Not only did they play the toughest schedule in the nation in '66, two teams that tied each other "SOMEHOW" jumped them in the rankings during the season.

'Bama started the '66 season at #1 and did not lose a game, never really came close to losing a game. A couple of games were somewhat close but, the outcome, as we say, was never in question.

You can thank George Wallace and his idiocy for 'Bama not being the only 3Peaters in history. Thanks go out to Bull Connor and the stupidity dwelling inside of his thick skull also.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Not only were they undefeated, Tim, but two time defending national champions. Not only were they two time defending national champions but, they had the toughest strength of schedule in '66 while also being undefeated.

Not only did they play the toughest schedule in the nation in '66, two teams that tied each other "SOMEHOW" jumped them in the rankings during the season.

'Bama started the '66 season at #1 and did not lose a game, never really came close to losing a game. A couple of games were somewhat close but, the outcome, as we say, was never in question.

You can thank George Wallace and his idiocy for 'Bama not being the only 3Peaters in history. Thanks go out to Bull Connor and the stupidity dwelling inside of his thick skull also.

The 11-10 Tennessee game was close.

 

[CtrlAltDel]

The 11-10 Tennessee game was close.

LOL.

So was this year's Hillbilly Nation game.

You are right.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

LOL.

So was this year's Hillbilly Nation game.

You are right.

In that game, we went down 10-0 in the first quarter, didn't score until the fourth, and kicked a FG to go ahead in the final minutes. A missed UT FG in the waning seconds secured the victory.

 

[CtrlAltDel]

In that game, we went down 10-0 in the first quarter, didn't score until the fourth, and kicked a FG to go ahead in the final minutes. A missed UT FG in the waning seconds secured the victory.

Okay, I was wrong.

I suppose this close scrape is why 'Bama lost their chance to be 3Peaters. I never really studied it that close.

Jesus, those damn hillbillies owned us for real that year. They kept 'Bama from achieving what has not to this day been achieved.

I really dislike them.

'Bama just wasn't good enough.

 

[LBS]

Nope, lets say it now. This is by far the greatest group of players to ever wear the Crimson and White uniform. Without a doubt. Not 1 team from our program's storied history matches up with the group of guys Saban has put together. NOT ONE. Call me psycho, homer, etc. but it's true.

I suppose one can get any result they want, provided they define the standards by which the contest is measured.

No doubt, this group is very good, but how does one discount 12 former National Title squads? Where did those teams that won Back-to-back title fall short? But for the Heisman, we broke no new ground really, and many would conceed that Ingram is not the best Bama has ever fielded.

I'm not saying they are not really good, but I am asking to be shown head-to-head how these guys beat the greats of the past.

 

[rtauburnsucks]

lets wait until after January 7th to answer that...

I agree.


The media is hyping us up so much, its almost like they are trying to create the perfect storm for Texas. Lets hope coach Saban is countering that and drilling our guys daily about how good Texas really is.

I think Texas is a dang fine football team, and the BCS NC is going to be a dog fight.