💬 My first pet peeve of the offseason. I'm not the only one pissed about it.

[TerryP]

Someone.

Please.

Tell me. When has Coach Burns missed on a running back?

 

[TUSKtimes]

Someone.

Please.

Tell me. When has Coach Burns missed on a running back?

Please tell me he's recruiting Tua Tagovailoa? :bamadance:

 

[doemasters]

Ahmaad Galloway?

 

[OldPlayer]

Isn't a pet peeve something that annoys you? You're annoyed by success? Maybe I'm not understanding due to your accent.

 

[UAgrad93]

NEVER!!

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Isn't a pet peeve something that annoys you? You're annoyed by success? Maybe I'm not understanding due to your accent.

Perhaps Terry is concerned with all the media hand-wringing over our running back group this year. We've had a pretty good run, so why worry that we're not adequately stocked with high performers?

 

[OldPlayer]

Perhaps Terry is concerned with all the media hand-wringing over our running back group this year. We've had a pretty good run, so why worry that we're not adequately stocked with high performers?

So the pet peeve is the media! Got it.

 

[BamaFan334]

His rings prove he hasn't. Someone que the picture.

 

[TerryP]

Isn't a pet peeve something that annoys you?

Perhaps Terry is concerned with all the media hand-wringing over our running back group this year.

Concerned isn't the right word, Tim. Slightly annoyed?

So the pet peeve is the media! Got it.

I can understand a little skepticism with the quarterback position even though there are two years of examples demonstrating success. The QB position is a different animal.

But running backs? I like Marcus Spears a lot on SECN. His reasoning for picking LSU—aside from loyalty to his school—doesn't appear to boil down to what LSU has but more on him thinking what Bama hasn't proved with the RB's this season. Unproven? Yes, they are. Is that a reason to be skeptical about whether the Tide will get production from that position this season?

IF they'd had a bad year over the last decade, OK. But, under Burns, they haven't.

 

[TerryP]

Ahmaad Galloway?

DuBose/McCorvey recruit.

 

[planomateo]

Concerned isn't the right word, Tim. Slightly annoyed?



I can understand a little skepticism with the quarterback position even though there are two years of examples demonstrating success. The QB position is a different animal.

But running backs? I like Marcus Spears a lot on SECN. His reasoning for picking LSU—aside from loyalty to his school—doesn't appear to boil down to what LSU has but more on him thinking what Bama hasn't proved with the RB's this season. Unproven? Yes, they are. Is that a reason to be skeptical about whether the Tide will get production from that position this season?

IF they'd had a bad year over the last decade, OK. But, under Burns, they haven't.

Remind me again what LSU's done with the QB position since Mr I'm gonna win the Heisman twice had his problems. Hell, they can't even manage to find a "game manager". They've been a QB away from MNC's for the last decade...

 

[PCRammer]

I look at it like this. The media can't say Alabama is fine at every position so they need to pick out the 2 that are most questionable. That would be RB and QB.

 

[OldPlayer]

Concerned isn't the right word, Tim. Slightly annoyed?



I can understand a little skepticism with the quarterback position even though there are two years of examples demonstrating success. The QB position is a different animal.

But running backs? I like Marcus Spears a lot on SECN. His reasoning for picking LSU—aside from loyalty to his school—doesn't appear to boil down to what LSU has but more on him thinking what Bama hasn't proved with the RB's this season. Unproven? Yes, they are. Is that a reason to be skeptical about whether the Tide will get production from that position this season?

IF they'd had a bad year over the last decade, OK. But, under Burns, they haven't.

I think the other contributing factor is that it is so hard to win the conference once, but twice? Three times in a row? Odds say it won't happen. Reality says, Alabama has Saban.

 

[TerryP]

Three times in a row?

Which leads me to ask, "why not just say so?" I don't have any issue with someone saying "the odds don't favor Bama." Pointing to a position, especially one where there is a track record of success, just doesn't compute.

 

[OldPlayer]

Which leads me to ask, "why not just say so?" I don't have any issue with someone saying "the odds don't favor Bama." Pointing to a position, especially one where there is a track record of success, just doesn't compute.

It's a talking heads program. "Three times in a row?" isn't a lot of talking.

 

[TerryP]

"Three times in a row?" isn't a lot of talking.

?
But it is ... I know I could fill in five minutes of air time talking about odds. Hell, think about it. 98-99 to 2014-15 was the time between back to back, right?