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So you think your team has arrived. How cute.
So your team finished an improbable season in 2013, sneaking up on everyone they played in an anomoly of a year. That is awesome.
Now do it again.
Do it when everyone has their game with your team circled on their schedule. Do it when for other programs beating your team defines their season, regardless of the results in other games.
String together another season where it takes every team you play being at their best and you at your worst in order to beat you.
Heck, string together two back-to-back 10-win+ seasons before you claim youāve arrived (sorry Auburn, ā88 & ā89, your only stint, was an eternity ago). Do it 14 times and get back with me
Let me know when your team crosses the threshold of a 90% or higher winning percentage over five seasons and get back with me.
Let me know when your program becomes the benchmark of success. When your logo or name ignites a fanbase because they want to believe they are nearing the success they know you have.
When you darken the door of a thing called āsustained success,ā not just talk about sustained success, send me a telegram. Let me know.
When coaches of other programs spend more time watching your teamās game film than time on any other opponentā¦get back with me.
When you do something more than once, dipping your preverbial toe in the pool of success before being thrust back into the shadows by the pains of reality, pop me an email.
When your coach can tell your fanbase āNick Sabanās run is overā by your longterm on-the-field success, NOT just by a boast to the koolaid drinking boners at a booster event, Iāll sit up and listen.
Holla when 11-2 and 10-3 are bad years for your school.
Let me know when āBeat (your schoolās name here)ā becomes the definition of success for programsā¦pick one, any oneā¦across the country.
Let me know when you have more rivals than youāre even aware of because EVERYBODY looks as you as their rival, mainly because your team has kicked their asses so many times it has invoked a hatred in them for your school thatās difficult if not impossible to define.
Let me know when your program steps into the double-digit category for National Championships. Or even conference championships.
Let me know when your team wins it all three times out of the last five tries. Not one every fifty years, or just getting to the big game.
Let me know when your program brings home the hardware and doesnāt have to slump off the field amid somebody elseās grafitti.
Heck, let me know when geographically the majority of fans even know where your school is.
Let me know when rival fans of your school run their mouths incessantly in the offseason because they know in their heartsā¦with very little convincingā¦that they canāt replicate what they witnessed the previous season from their schoolā¦because fantasies, EA Sports simulations and DVR replays are all theyāll soon have.
Let me know when your program doesnāt have a coach who has only worn the big boy pants for only two seasons.
Let me know when the coach you want so much to believe is the real deal owns not one, not two, not three, but FOUR national titles.
And let me know when your team sells out your stupid stadium when OUR team isnāt playing there too.
The fact is, Alabama is āAlabamaā, and your team is not. Despite any recent, short-term success.
Alabama still owns college football. And Alabama, despite any recent luck, still owns your program.
No matter how hard it is to swallow, let me know when what Iāve just force fed you isnāt true.
Thought so. Roll Tide!
http://capstonereport.com/2014/06/2...s-college-football/23711/#P5LdJK4GqpWH1EkO.99
So your team finished an improbable season in 2013, sneaking up on everyone they played in an anomoly of a year. That is awesome.
Now do it again.
Do it when everyone has their game with your team circled on their schedule. Do it when for other programs beating your team defines their season, regardless of the results in other games.
String together another season where it takes every team you play being at their best and you at your worst in order to beat you.
Heck, string together two back-to-back 10-win+ seasons before you claim youāve arrived (sorry Auburn, ā88 & ā89, your only stint, was an eternity ago). Do it 14 times and get back with me
Let me know when your team crosses the threshold of a 90% or higher winning percentage over five seasons and get back with me.
Let me know when your program becomes the benchmark of success. When your logo or name ignites a fanbase because they want to believe they are nearing the success they know you have.
When you darken the door of a thing called āsustained success,ā not just talk about sustained success, send me a telegram. Let me know.
When coaches of other programs spend more time watching your teamās game film than time on any other opponentā¦get back with me.
When you do something more than once, dipping your preverbial toe in the pool of success before being thrust back into the shadows by the pains of reality, pop me an email.
When your coach can tell your fanbase āNick Sabanās run is overā by your longterm on-the-field success, NOT just by a boast to the koolaid drinking boners at a booster event, Iāll sit up and listen.
Holla when 11-2 and 10-3 are bad years for your school.
Let me know when āBeat (your schoolās name here)ā becomes the definition of success for programsā¦pick one, any oneā¦across the country.
Let me know when you have more rivals than youāre even aware of because EVERYBODY looks as you as their rival, mainly because your team has kicked their asses so many times it has invoked a hatred in them for your school thatās difficult if not impossible to define.
Let me know when your program steps into the double-digit category for National Championships. Or even conference championships.
Let me know when your team wins it all three times out of the last five tries. Not one every fifty years, or just getting to the big game.
Let me know when your program brings home the hardware and doesnāt have to slump off the field amid somebody elseās grafitti.
Heck, let me know when geographically the majority of fans even know where your school is.
Let me know when rival fans of your school run their mouths incessantly in the offseason because they know in their heartsā¦with very little convincingā¦that they canāt replicate what they witnessed the previous season from their schoolā¦because fantasies, EA Sports simulations and DVR replays are all theyāll soon have.
Let me know when your program doesnāt have a coach who has only worn the big boy pants for only two seasons.
Let me know when the coach you want so much to believe is the real deal owns not one, not two, not three, but FOUR national titles.
And let me know when your team sells out your stupid stadium when OUR team isnāt playing there too.
The fact is, Alabama is āAlabamaā, and your team is not. Despite any recent, short-term success.
Alabama still owns college football. And Alabama, despite any recent luck, still owns your program.
No matter how hard it is to swallow, let me know when what Iāve just force fed you isnāt true.
Thought so. Roll Tide!
http://capstonereport.com/2014/06/2...s-college-football/23711/#P5LdJK4GqpWH1EkO.99
