🏈 So, what does it all mean?

[redandwhite10]

First off, thank you for being classy even in defeat. You have a fine football team that was minutes away from going to Miami.

What does this game mean in the college football world? The SEC is supposed to be bigger, stronger, faster, and deeper. Non-AQ teams are not supposed to compete at this level. But Utah was faster, more athletic, better prepared, and more ferocious. Played their hearts out.

Alabama's players wanted to be there, if they didn't Saban wouldn't recruit them and wouldn't play them. (By the way, I was very impressed with Saban, Caldwell, JPW, and the other player in the presser.) When someone comes out and punches you in the mouth three times in less than ten minutes it's near impossible to maintain your composure.

But here's the thing: the Tide DID make a comeback. If they didn't want to be there this game could have ended 38-3.

The current football system is a form of bias and segregation. Recruiting evaluations are flawed in many ways, pre-season polls are flawed, BCS poll is flawed. I think that we as fans need to start a grass roots movement to knock these barriers down together as much as we can. I realize Bama benefits from the bias, but in the end I think everyone would rather settle it all on the field.

While Alabama may feel embarrassed by this loss, they shouldn't. It's only existing barriers and bias' that make you feel that way. Utah is a superior team. Getting beat by a superior team should not be embarrassing.

I hope this game is viewed as a critical turning point in the way college football is managed. I hope that fans will garner greater respect for teams everywhere.

I hope at some point we get a home and home series between our programs as I think you would all enjoy a trip out to Salt Lake.

Best of luck next year and for the years to come. Saban may want to recruit some speed from the Rocky Mountains Seriously though, best of luck next season and maybe we'll see you again in the post season

 

[Guest]

The SEC is supposed to be bigger, stronger, faster, and deeper.


While Alabama may feel embarrassed by this loss, they shouldn't.

Congrats Red,

I will have to say we should be Embarrased we got out A** whipped like school boys. IMO the program should be embarrased, the SEC, and the players. All I've seen since then is a long line of excuse about who was out, playcalling, and tackling.

Bottom line our team got beat and it wasn't even close they should be embarrased. It's not the fact that we lost just the way we lost. Our team is better than what they looked. Well, just have to move on and get better.

 

[redandwhite10]

I see your point. I suppose how you lost wasnt the greatest. Just wanted to point out that losing to Utah just because they are Utah is not the embarrassing part.

 

[Guest]

The SEC is supposed to be bigger, stronger, faster, and deeper.


While Alabama may feel embarrassed by this loss, they shouldn't.

Congrats Red,

I will have to say we should be embarrassed we got out A** whipped like school boys. IMO the program should be embarrased, the SEC, and the players. All I've seen since then is a long line of excuse about who was out, playcalling, and tackling.

Bottom line our team got beat and it wasn't even close they should be embarrased. It's not the fact that we lost just the way we lost. Our team is better than what they looked. Well, just have to move on and get better.

Let me take a different spin in disagreeing while agreeing with this statement (as I understand it).

The disgrace is not that we lost, or even the score, it is that we did not come in prepared. That 21 point first 12:00 was too much to overcome, and it was caused by our failure to enter ready to play. Could we have won, without a doubt. Consider this spin.

Proven over a full season, Utah proved itself to be a 37 point per game team. Yet 21 points in 12:00 is setting a 105 point pace for a game. They did not improve that much, thus the reason predominantly has to be our Defense.

Over the following 4/5ths of the time, our Defense got its head into the game and held this 37 pt./game team to just 10 points. That is a 12 point per game pace. Did Bama improve 10 fold during the game, no. Did Utah get worse at a 10 hold pace, no. So what do we make of this?

Frankly, I would trust 4/5ths of a game as being the true measure of the teams.

On the other side of the ball the same pattern is seen. Bama with zero points in the first 1/5th of the time, and limped to 17 points during the final 4/5ths.

Its means little, but the truth is that we did outscore the Utes 17-10 over 4/5ths of the game. That is roughly a 20-12 pace stretched out over a full game. I say this only to underscore the severity of the whole that the Defense dug for the team. It was simply too deep to over come, and THAT is what we should be ashamed of.

 

[Crimsonblood82]

It means there needs to be a playoff. I've said it time and time again, if you want to know why the BCS is still around, just FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL....

 

[TerryP]

It means there needs to be a playoff. I've said it time and time again, if you want to know why the BCS is still around, just FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL....

OK, where does it lead?

So many repeat this phrase because they hear it constantly. Yet, I suspect, many don't understand why it is what it is today, or where the money ends up.