🏈 You know...I honestly don't know what to say...

[djngl1]

http://www.tidesports.com/apps/pbcs...DEO/911232013&template=video&lineup=431782885

I want to say a few things before you click the link. First off the issue I have begins with the question that was ask at around the :40 mark.

As a lifelong Alabama fan this irritated me, however after I stepped back and thought I realized "this is the world we live in today". I guess more of us fans need to come to the conclusion that a lot of kids coming out know nothing about Alabama Football. Notice I made "Football" a proper noun in the previous sentence. It is that in this state. What we play here versus the vast majority of the country is completely different...to us. To many others, for a very long time, we have been an afterthought. I really believe that kids coming out now, who were just being born when we won our last title, know nothing of Alabama Football. The slight, and in some cases overwhelming, arrogance we as Alabama fans possess needs to be dialed down a bit. A prime example, in the Florida loss last year a heard a lot of our people letting the Gator fans know that "we" still have 12 National Championships. In the video you got a guy who has meant a whole lot to this university and in all honesty I still don't think he "gets it". If Javie "got it" he wouldn't have dared to say it like that. Was he being honest? Most likely. Are we at a point in our program where all that may change? I hope so. But by him saying that, it kinda made me feel like, maybe we for a very long time we were not the Alabama Football that everyone knew loved and looked up to. I would like to think that we are headed in that direction again, but for people to not have the attitude like he did when ask about the Iron Bowl Rivarly, we need to "consistently" be the Bama of old and not just act like it. Roll Tide.

 

[djngl1]

one more thing, I shouldnt have titled that what I did considering I wrote so much. I apologize.

 

[lilstat]

To me, we have been living on our "Tradition" for a long time. The time is now to bring it all back. I love the "Tradition" we have at our school and in our state. But it is time for a new era to evolve and time for the Tide to Rise again.

 

[BAMAFSTBACK]

Yeah I was also shocked.

 

[LBS]

I think you read too much into that, or made a generalization that was a bridge too far.

Javi is from Tampa, a large enough city that a high school kid may not care to see further than his local world. Think about it. He referenced the Florida/FSU rivalry, which is something that come to him vice him having to seek out. Yet he also says that Auburn and Alabama are teams in the same conference as Florida.

This is a statement about Javi and where his individual attentions were when he was 16-17 years old. I'm sure there is some High School Junior at Robinson High School in Tampa that today does not know Auburn is at least Division 3, and if it were not for Javi they would not know about Alabama either.

BTW, its alright to be proud and boastful of 12 national championships.

 

['65 Cobra]

I agree with LBS - reading WAAYYYY too much into that. It is nothing more than what he grew up with and what he heard of as a kid and a teenager. It's certainly not his "fault" nor an indictment on his loyalty that as a kid, he simply wasn't exposed to or heard about much more than the Florida schools. It happens. Clearly as per his comments he has since come to appreciate the Alabama tradition and the rivalries and that is where he is at now. As far as I'm concerned, that's all that matters. Frankly, I think he has just the right attitude about the whole thing. It's great for all of us fans to be full of emotion and bravado, but it makes me confident when I hear our guys talking down the Ben Tate nonsense and talking about the fact that those comments are not the reason to play great, that we play great because that's what we do. Quiet, Calm, Confidence - let the play on the field speak loudest. It's the hallmark of champions.

PS - I laughed to myself when I saw your second post in this thread because after reading the title and then reading your opening post I thought, "this guy sure has alot to say for someone who 'honestly don't (sic) know what to say'."

 

[paintrockfan]

sounds to me that he said what we all believed to be true all along. He assumed that in the state of Alabama any other football school in the state that is not the University of Alabama must be a division III school. Seems to me that barners should be the ones who are angry at this interview. It further cements their status as the little step sister of the Tide.:nana:

 

[4th-and-1]

those interviews were really impressive..

 

[TerryP]

Just to sidetrack this a tad...

I saw a lot of people complain about this game being moved to Friday. But, never did I see then consider the exposure it places on this game nationwide.

And...kids out of state not understanding the rivalry? Hell, I grew up in it and still wonder why some take it as far as they do.

BUT, this I can say with no doubt.

Players may not understand what it's like to be a Bama football player when they arrive on campus. After they leave? It's a different story, entirely.

 

[BamaCore]

Just to sidetrack this a tad...
I saw a lot of people complain about this game being moved to Friday. But, never did I see then consider the exposure it places on this game nationwide.

I still don't see how playing in the afternoon on black Friday gets us any more exposure than a Saturday 2:30 game considering we're the #2 team in the country. With people having to work, or wanting to shop...I just don't see it high on people's list of things to do unless they already were the type of person who was planning on watching it anyways. I may be wrong, that's just how I see it.

 

[BamaFan615]

I still don't see how playing in the afternoon on black Friday gets us any more exposure than a Saturday 2:30 game considering we're the #2 team in the country. With people having to work, or wanting to shop...I just don't see it high on people's list of things to do unless they already were the type of person who was planning on watching it anyways. I may be wrong, that's just how I see it.

I think he's speaking more on the matter that there aren't any ACC (or Big 10, Pac 10 or Big East) games on at the same time as we are playing on Friday. So fans in North Carolina or Florida or Ohio or wherever will probably be more prone to turn on the Iron Bowl on Friday since there aren't any other games on that dealing with their respective conferences. So while SOME people might have to work or go shopping, the numbers might not be that much bigger but the nationwide exposure certainly is going to be there.

And considering how much talent we are getting from outside of the state of Alabama...it's great for the program.

 

[djngl1]

Ok I started it so maybe I can end it...

I think he's speaking more on the matter that there aren't any ACC (or Big 10, Pac 10 or Big East) games on at the same time as we are playing on Friday. So fans in North Carolina or Florida or Ohio or wherever will probably be more prone to turn on the Iron Bowl on Friday since there aren't any other games on that dealing with their respective conferences. So while SOME people might have to work or go shopping, the numbers might not be that much bigger but the nationwide exposure certainly is going to be there.

And considering how much talent we are getting from outside of the state of Alabama...it's great for the program.

The biggest problem I had was the fact that he said it. This is and always will be our biggest rival and he completely downplayed it by saying he "had never heard of Alabama" and "Auburn was a div III school" lol. He should have grown as a person since high school and known that wasnt the "right" response.

Number 2: this playing on Friday thing is total CRAP. Just my 2 cents!

Happy Thanksgiving and Roll Tide!

 

[cartag]

Well, consider this. Javy was born in 1987. He was 13 years old in the year 2000. Bama football may have been under the radar for the next few years for several reasons.

It seems to me he's an honest young man telling it the way he remembers. He didn't understand what the tradition at Alabama was till he came here.

 

[BamaNan]

I think he's speaking more on the matter that there aren't any ACC (or Big 10, Pac 10 or Big East) games on at the same time as we are playing on Friday. So fans in North Carolina or Florida or Ohio or wherever will probably be more prone to turn on the Iron Bowl on Friday since there aren't any other games on that dealing with their respective conferences.


(((So while SOME people might have to work or go shopping,)))

the numbers might not be that much bigger but the nationwide exposure certainly is going to be there.

And considering how much talent we are getting from outside of the state of Alabama...it's great for the program.

Why would anybody want to shop the day after Thanksgiving? Having worked in retail for far too long before I found an office job, I never want to see a mall again, especially on Friday after Thanksgiving. And BTW, I've been retired for several years, and I still never want to see a mall again.

Shopping can wait - football's more important. Besides shopping online is much easier on a person physically and emotionally.

ROLL TIDE!!!

 

[BamaNan]

Just to sidetrack this a tad...


(((I saw a lot of people complain about this game being moved to Friday.)))


But, never did I see then consider the exposure it places on this game nationwide.

And...kids out of state not understanding the rivalry? Hell, I grew up in it and still wonder why some take it as far as they do.

BUT, this I can say with no doubt.

Players may not understand what it's like to be a Bama football player when they arrive on campus. After they leave? It's a different story, entirely.

My son's birthday is Friday. Every few years his b'day is on the day of the Alabama/Auburn game. He was born he was born on Iron Bowl Day.