🏈 Louisville wanted to replace VA Tech in Tide's season opener

[PhillyGirl]

http://www.al.com/alabamafootball/index.ssf/2013/04/report_louisville_inquired_abo.html

 

[doemasters]

I would have liked to have a home and home with them as well

 

[planomateo]

Louisville is striking while the name is hot, good marketing move on their part.

Hey everyone, look at us....

 

[mhardiman]

I would have liked to have a home and home with them as well

I know it may sound dumb to some, but I would like to trade the ACC Kentucky for Louisville. Louisville may not have the long history in basketball Kentucky does, but Louisville will always be completive in basketball from here on out and there Football program is light-years ahead of Kentucky's.<o></o>

 

[PhillyGirl]

I absolutely love Louisville, I really wish we were playing them. VA Tech was a threat like 3 years ago but Thomas just looks bad anymore.

 

[bamaraider]

I'd like too see Alabama get revenge against Louisville from the '89 game....Game still sticks in my head :dejection:

 

[mhardiman]

I'd like too see Alabama get revenge against Louisville from the '89 game....Game still sticks in my head :dejection:

That was 1990 season (1991 Fiesta Bowl) in Stallings first year; 1989 was the year we were undefeated until we lost to the barn in our first Iron Bowl at Jerdin Hare then lost to Miami in the Sugar bowl.

 

[252BAMA]

I'd like too see Alabama get revenge against Louisville from the '89 game....Game still sticks in my head :dejection:

'90 season (Stalling's first). 01/01/91 game. Two points. One, Louisville had 6 weeks to prepare for the game. Two, debatable if Bama prepared at all.

First point. Louisville played their last game of the season on 11/10 against Boston College and were immediately invited to the Fiesta Bowl. Bama played Cincinnati on 11/17 and Auburn on 12/1 and were invited after the Auburn game. Howard Schnellenberger sat 3 rows in front of me at the Auburn game, knowing full well that he was going to play Bama. The bid was supposed to be between Bama and Ole Miss, but the State of Arizona was in the middle of a huge controversy over the pending "Martin Luther King Day" and there was no way in hell the Fiesta Bowl was going to invite them and their Rebel Flag waving fans. Louisville prepared for Bama from 11/10 forward.

Second point. Stallings and most, if not all, of the assistant coaches went recruiting after the Auburn game. Which is why Bama won the NC in '92, and why we now have the "dead period" in recruiting during that time.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Do a doubleheader, and play them both!

 

[bamaraider]

'90 season (Stalling's first). 01/01/91 game. Two points. One, Louisville had 6 weeks to prepare for the game. Two, debatable if Bama prepared at all.

First point. Louisville played their last game of the season on 11/10 against Boston College and were immediately invited to the Fiesta Bowl. Bama played Cincinnati on 11/17 and Auburn on 12/1 and were invited after the Auburn game. Howard Schnellenberger sat 3 rows in front of me at the Auburn game, knowing full well that he was going to play Bama. The bid was supposed to be between Bama and Ole Miss, but the State of Arizona was in the middle of a huge controversy over the pending "Martin Luther King Day" and there was no way in hell the Fiesta Bowl was going to invite them and their Rebel Flag waving fans. Louisville prepared for Bama from 11/10 forward.

Second point. Stallings and most, if not all, of the assistant coaches went recruiting after the Auburn game. Which is why Bama won the NC in '92, and why we now have the "dead period" in recruiting during that time.

That was 1990 season (1991 Fiesta Bowl) in Stallings first year; 1989 was the year we were undefeated until we lost to the barn in our first Iron Bowl at Jerdin Hare then lost to Miami in the Sugar bowl.

Ahh thanks, got the Miami and Louisville games mixed up. Knew it was somewhere in those years

 

[252BAMA]

Ahh thanks, got the Miami and Louisville games mixed up. Knew it was somewhere in those years

I erased the memory of the Louisville game when Bama beat Miami in the '93 Sugar Bowl for the NC. Schnellenberger had prepared Louisville for one game. Stallings had prepared Bama for the future.

 

[bamaraider]

I try to, just like I try to erase the 2010 Iron Bowl and the 2009 Sugar Bowl...It just sticks in there.......