| FTBL People leaving the game early?

[muckraker]

here here Swamptick !!!

I was there. my first Bama game ever!
was sitting on the 50-yard line in the press box and I loved it
stayed till the final gun...

it was a win for a program that will get there under Saban
it'll take a little time, but Bama will get there..

ROLL TIDE !!!

 

[Guest]

I talked to my friend who works on some of the ambulances during gameday and he said that most of their calls on saturday were due to heat. We should never leave a game like we left it on Saturday. The team needed us there. I bet Saban would've been a lot more mad about people leaving should we have lost. However, if there were any defense to leaving the game early, it would be that it was extremelly hot. For those that left early, some dedicated people would very much like to have your seats.

Good lord it's not like it was 105 degrees with a heat index of 115. People in their 20's should be able to handle 90 degree weather. The sun was down a good bit by the 3rd quarter so stop making excuses for the lame asses that left. The last time I sat in the student section a third of the students could care less about the game. They were too busy talking to buds and hotties. They should donate their tickets to someone who wants to be there.

QFT!! It was not THAT hot on Saturday. Moreover, it was not very humid at all compared to TRUE summer. The fans who left were fairweather fans in the true sense of the word. Fans like that give us a bad name. It is THOSE fans that think we should replace any coach as soon as he looses a few games.

Makes me sick.

The sad part was that it was students.

 

[rooster03]

Good post IMO swamp the 2nd and 3rd team playes need support to if it is a blow out and We ask our team to ply hard for the entire game and they see the fans leaveing them that don't look good IMO

 

[WDE1313]

leaving games early happens everywhere in the NCAA and I find it kind of odd that a HC that is being paid 4 mill is taking time to teach football classiness 101.

I dont usually agree with much said on Finebaum but a caller had it right when he said that NS needs to worry a little more about the game and let all of the other things work themselves out.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

leaving games early happens everywhere in the NCAA and I find it kind of odd that a HC that is being paid 4 mill is taking time to teach football classiness 101.

I dont usually agree with much said on Finebaum but a caller had it right when he said that NS needs to worry a little more about the game and let all of the other things work themselves out.

I think it's evenhanded of him to take the time to thank the fans who supported them and remind the ones who left that they're missing out and needed.

By the way, what is the salary threshold to "teach classiness"? Somewhere between tub's and Saban's salaries, I guess.

http://www.trackemtigers.com/tag/Tommy Tuberville on Brandon Cox

Perhaps you have to have it to teach it. The day Bama runs a fake field goal late in a game, up by 21, I'll rescind that statement.

Oh, I forgot to add one of my favorite public tubs quotes: "If I wanted to run a high school offense then maybe I'd start Jason Campbell".

Teach on.

RTR,

Tim

 

[AlaphaMale]

leaving games early happens everywhere in the NCAA

Doesn't make it acceptable. Didn't your mother ever teach you about bridges?

I dont usually agree with much said on Finebaum but a caller had it right when he said that NS needs to worry a little more about the game and let all of the other things work themselves out.

Fans have nothing to do with the game? Coming from a fan of a team that has yet to sell out a game this season I understand why you'd think that.

 

[WDE1313]

leaving games early happens everywhere in the NCAA and I find it kind of odd that a HC that is being paid 4 mill is taking time to teach football classiness 101.

I dont usually agree with much said on Finebaum but a caller had it right when he said that NS needs to worry a little more about the game and let all of the other things work themselves out.

I think it's evenhanded of him to take the time to thank the fans who supported them and remind the ones who left that they're missing out and needed.

By the way, what is the salary threshold to "teach classiness"? Somewhere between tub's and Saban's salaries, I guess.

http://www.trackemtigers.com/tag/Tommy Tuberville on Brandon Cox

Perhaps you have to have it to teach it. The day Bama runs a fake field goal late in a game, up by 21, I'll rescind that statement.

Oh, I forgot to add one of my favorite public tubs quotes: "If I wanted to run a high school offense then maybe I'd start Jason Campbell".

Teach on.

RTR,

Tim

If I remember correctly wasn't there booing in just about every game last year inside BDS?

I never meant to insinuate that CTT was a Saint but was merely saying that NS probably should have left the scolding of students and fans up to the president and AD, or is he filling those positions as well?

And before we begin to bring CTT class into question let's revisit some of these gems...


http://www.al.com/sports/birminghamnews/rmelick.ssf?/base/sports/1191313513257540.xml&coll=2

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16911090/


http://blogs.sun-sentinel.com/sports_football_dolphins/2007/02/sabans_final_fa.html

 

[WDE1313]

leaving games early happens everywhere in the NCAA

Doesn't make it acceptable. Didn't your mother ever teach you about bridges?

I dont usually agree with much said on Finebaum but a caller had it right when he said that NS needs to worry a little more about the game and let all of the other things work themselves out.

Fans have nothing to do with the game? Coming from a fan of a team that has yet to sell out a game this season I understand why you'd think that.

When did I say fans had nothing to do with the game?

 

[AlaphaMale]

leaving games early happens everywhere in the NCAA

Doesn't make it acceptable. Didn't your mother ever teach you about bridges?

I dont usually agree with much said on Finebaum but a caller had it right when he said that NS needs to worry a little more about the game and let all of the other things work themselves out.

Fans have nothing to do with the game? Coming from a fan of a team that has yet to sell out a game this season I understand why you'd think that.

When did I say fans had nothing to do with the game?

In reference to CNS comments on fans leaving early you posted...

NS needs to worry a little more about the game

He was. At BDS the fans are an important part of the game. That tradition is built on years of selling out games. As you're a barner I don't expect you to know anything about that.

 

[moreno_iv]

If I remember correctly wasn't there booing in just about every game last year inside BDS?

I never meant to insinuate that CTT was a Saint but was merely saying that NS probably should have left the scolding of students and fans up to the president and AD, or is he filling those positions as well?

And before we begin to bring CTT class into question let's revisit some of these gems...


http://www.al.com/sports/birminghamnews/rmelick.ssf?/base/sports/1191313513257540.xml&coll=2

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16911090/


http://blogs.sun-sentinel.com/sports_football_dolphins/2007/02/sabans_final_fa.html

I suppose you were at just about every Alabama home game last year since you seem to recall booing at just about every game... :roll:

If you think calling out the NCAA and other conferences for holding athletes to lower standards than the SEC does, you are more ignorant than you at first appear.

Ok, so he called the Corndogs coonasses. Big freaking deal. It's no worse than being called a redneck (which Auburn fans love to call Bama fans and vice-versa, if I remember correctly).

Did you expect a U-Haul to show up at CNS's house in Miami? How does that have anything to do with class? If the cry-baby Miami fans can't stand to see a Crimson Tide tractor-trailer, they need to re-evaluate their lives.

As long as it took you to come up with all those links, I would have thought you would have done better. I guess that's what I get for giving a Barner any credit at all. :?

 

[TerryP]

leaving games early happens everywhere in the NCAA and I find it kind of odd that a HC that is being paid 4 mill is taking time to teach football classiness 101.

I dont usually agree with much said on Finebaum but a caller had it right when he said that NS needs to worry a little more about the game and let all of the other things work themselves out.

The comment made by Saban was at the beginning of the presser. It was a joke about not leaving early because the games had been ending late. It wasn't a "football classiness 101" instruction seminar like you have suggested.

Forget what you may have read or been told...it was a bit of levity, period.

 

[TerryP]

Not to ruffle any feathers, but I have been to a fair amount of Alabama football games (having been born and raised in Tuscaloosa) and I have NEVER NEVER NEVER N E V E R left a football game early. Not when we were up big, not when we were down big. Not when it was freezing and not when it was sweltering.
.

Auburn in T-town, 2000. Started tailgating around 8AM (maybe 3 hrs sleep)with the temp in the low teens, wind blowing, with sleet and rain. I left at halftime to go to the house and watch the game there.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

leaving games early happens everywhere in the NCAA and I find it kind of odd that a HC that is being paid 4 mill is taking time to teach football classiness 101.

I dont usually agree with much said on Finebaum but a caller had it right when he said that NS needs to worry a little more about the game and let all of the other things work themselves out.

I think it's evenhanded of him to take the time to thank the fans who supported them and remind the ones who left that they're missing out and needed.

By the way, what is the salary threshold to "teach classiness"? Somewhere between tub's and Saban's salaries, I guess.

http://www.trackemtigers.com/tag/Tommy Tuberville on Brandon Cox

Perhaps you have to have it to teach it. The day Bama runs a fake field goal late in a game, up by 21, I'll rescind that statement.

Oh, I forgot to add one of my favorite public tubs quotes: "If I wanted to run a high school offense then maybe I'd start Jason Campbell".

Teach on.

RTR,

Tim

If I remember correctly wasn't there booing in just about every game last year inside BDS?

I never meant to insinuate that CTT was a Saint but was merely saying that NS probably should have left the scolding of students and fans up to the president and AD, or is he filling those positions as well?

And before we begin to bring CTT class into question let's revisit some of these gems...


http://www.al.com/sports/birminghamnews/rmelick.ssf?/base/sports/1191313513257540.xml&coll=2

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16911090/


http://blogs.sun-sentinel.com/sports_football_dolphins/2007/02/sabans_final_fa.html

Nah, he's not filling in as President or AD. The President's busy cementing The University's position as the largest, best known and academically superior school in Alabama. The AD's busy with a building program, and planning for the next since we bring more to a scrimmage than you do to an SEC contest.

As Moreno mentioned, that's a pathetic list of "indictments" of Coach Saban. His work ethic is well known. That he has a few parting comments for fans and students is a non-issue. That is, unless you're an aubrun fan viewing the world through manure-smeared glasses.

The man is humble in victory but blameless in defeat. Tubby will blame his players, his staff, injuries and even ESPN for his team's shortcomings. Never himself. Selling out players after a loss was almost an art form:

"If I wanted to run a high school offense then maybe I'd start Jason Campbell."

No, this was not a comment meant for his staff’s ears only. Tommy said this for all the media to hear at a post game press conference. Not exactly constructive criticism for the quarterback who would eventually save Tommy's rear!

RTR,

Tim

 

[Guest]

Just a thought...how many people do you think left Baton Rouge early the other night? How about Gainesville the week before?

I don't agree with it necessarily but much of it has to do with the product on the field.

 

[Guest]

Not to ruffle any feathers, but I have been to a fair amount of Alabama football games (having been born and raised in Tuscaloosa) and I have NEVER NEVER NEVER N E V E R left a football game early. Not when we were up big, not when we were down big. Not when it was freezing and not when it was sweltering.
.

Auburn in T-town, 2000. Started tailgating around 8AM (maybe 3 hrs sleep)with the temp in the low teens, wind blowing, with sleet and rain. I left at halftime to go to the house and watch the game there.

I stayed at that game. It was miserable but I still satyed. I was in school at UA at the time.

 

[rooster03]

I think tuberville would have liked for the barn fans to have left the South Florida games as i remember some booing there

 

[Colin]

The only time my family and I has left early during a game was when we recieved a call when my grandma had just passed away. The way I see it, if you're going to spend all that time/money/gas/effort to go to T-Town to watch a bama game, and you call yourself a fan, then stay the whole game.

 

[BammerHammer]

Why ask Why?

People left early because our team was stinking up the field. I know it looked like a close game but really FSU kicked our butts all day and we just didn't play well. I hope this isn't a vision of things to come under Saban?

 

[moreno_iv]

Re: Why ask Why?

People left early because our team was stinking up the field. I know it looked like a close game but really FSU kicked our butts all day and we just didn't play well. I hope this isn't a vision of things to come under Saban?

For some reason, I smell cow manure.

)N(

 

[WDE1313]

If I remember correctly wasn't there booing in just about every game last year inside BDS?

I never meant to insinuate that CTT was a Saint but was merely saying that NS probably should have left the scolding of students and fans up to the president and AD, or is he filling those positions as well?

And before we begin to bring CTT class into question let's revisit some of these gems...


http://www.al.com/sports/birminghamnews/rmelick.ssf?/base/sports/1191313513257540.xml&coll=2

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16911090/


http://blogs.sun-sentinel.com/sports_football_dolphins/2007/02/sabans_final_fa.html

I suppose you were at just about every Alabama home game last year since you seem to recall booing at just about every game... :roll:

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Once again I am a student at ua. I attended(wearing neutral colors) the Duke, ULM, Ole Miss and Iron Bowl(which we won...again) games last year and yep there was booing at every game :wink: