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CFB 2015 Off-season thread: 12 Gauge backfires on Super Mariota, Mario FPS unlikely
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Really unfortunate for that kid and MSU. Hope his recovery is quick and without any lingering issues. Preseason injuries are the worst.
The Notre Dame one isn't bad but that UCLA uni? Holy cow, someone needs to stop Adidas before they do further damage to my eyes.
bucknuticus
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Literally look like UABs uni, UAB is back a few years early guys!
You know what. The University of Alabama system has taken a lot of shit for killing UAB's football program, but I now believe that blame was wrongly placed. I bet, if you follow the money, Notre Dame was behind it. Notre Dame wanted UAB's uniforms, but the Blazers wouldn't give up their identity just because Notre Dame wanted them to. So Notre Dame did what Notre Dame does, and murdered UAB's football program. Now, who's to stop the Irish from picking the uniforms off of UAB's carcass, and slapping some shamrocks on them and calling the uniforms their own?
toweringinferno
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I'm glad that kind of bullshit doesn't fly in the pros anymore.
You have to be careful with that style of coaching in CFB, too.
The only way it works IMO is if your team is having incredible success. As soon as the facade of invincibility breaks the whole thing starts to fall apart.
Fragamemnon
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Apparently there was also an incident where the wrong Little Debbie snack cakes were provided in Saban's office cupboard and he went ballistic on the Dolphins front office. I'd love to know the details on that one-getting your stash of Oatmeal Creme Pies replaced by Banana Twins is cruelty of the worst order.
We have an Aussie who picked Ole Miss. You should pick a team to follow. That's a lot more fun than just rooting for everyone to lose. The schadenfreude is much more delicious when it's coming from a team you hate.
bucknuticus
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Pick uab!
You see... It doesn't even matter if this is true or not.
It sounds like it *could* be true, and that's a bad reflection on Saban in and of itself.
What kind of bullshit? Not wanting to participate in a lap dance?
Believable that he went ballistic? No. Believable that he was upset and commented on it? Absolutely. For better or for worse, Saban is a man of routines. His days are, for the most part, meticulously planned out. He eats the same thing for breakfast. Eats the same thing for lunch (ham salad, I think I remember from another article). Eats the same snacks. His reasoning is that he doesn't want to waste time on insignificant bullshit decisions like that. That's who he is.
Saban's reputation for having a temper comes from lashing out at reporters who ask questions that he thinks are either stupid, insulting or not pertinent to what they're supposed to be there to talk to him about (Alabama football). I don't give a shit that he raises his voice or gets annoyed with the media at times. Every coach does that to some extent (see: Gundy being a man and 40) when they think the media has overstepped their bounds. Saban isn't always correct when he does this. For example, instead of yelling at the reporter, he should have taken his lumps with the whole Jonathan Taylor situation from earlier this year, and owned up to making a mistake by giving him a scholarship.
I don't think there has been a single report from Bama of Saban treating his staff with anything less than respect, and I think this is the first I've heard of any such story from Miami or LSU. So, no, I don't think that Saban has a reputation that makes this Little Debbie story credible or believable. Maybe if he was yelling at a reporter who ate his last oatmeal creme pie, but not at some secretary who mistakenly purchased the wrong snack cake for him.
Nothing in those stories is unreasonable.
Coughlin is supposed to be a traditional hard ass. Part of the reason the Jaguars fired him way back when.
You see uptight dickhole, and I see a married man who was probably really embarrassed by that whole thing even happening.
He linked where he got it from and it went through anecdotes that he went through with Keith Traylor and Zach Thomas.
I read it earlier when it was posted on Deadspin too.
Fragamemnon
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Texas is removing a statue of Jefferson Davis from their campus and putting it in a museum.
So much for the Longhorns ever joining the SEC.
So much for the Longhorns ever joining the SEC.
perfectchaos007
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It was getting too expensive to pay for graffiti removal each week.
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Aggy would probably find some use for it.
Fragamemnon
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Just replace it with a statue of Bevo with his ass pointing towards college station.
Affeinvasion
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Yeah, but that would require UT acknowledging the existence of A&M. Non-starter.
I, too, understand why immature jackholes would laugh at putting a married man in a difficult position. I just don't agree with it or think it's very funny. I would hold this opinion even if the coach in question was Phillip Fulmer, though, I admit, I probably wouldn't have said anything if it was him.
I don't see any disconnect between his actions leaving the room and his actions walking up the stairs and through his office door. If you think his "lapdance reaction was defensible," then why does slamming the door suddenly become unreasonable or indefensible? The man was probably both embarrassed and angered by the situation he was placed in. I would be too.
This guy gets it.
Naw, son. The political leadership of the south prior to and during the Civil War redefined incompetence, as evidenced by the fact that they let a war break out in the first place. They could probably move the Davis statue to the local dump and still be good. Now, if they do the same thing to a Robert E. Lee statue, then they might face some hostility.
Notre Dame is just that damn evil.
Affeinvasion
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It sounds like a lot of it was power struggle between players and coach, and the coach lost.
perfectchaos007
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"You only roast the ones you love" and Saban was definitely roasted/pranked
ConfusingJazz
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It's something Tech would do.
This is a far cry from your first post:
But I'll take it. The whole stripper story occurred before he'd coached a single game, so I'm not sure what facade of invincibility had been erected or destroyed.
Saban's coaching style is definitely dictatorial and did not translate well to dealing with the millionaire NFL players. No denying that at all. I'm not sure if this was a power struggle, but the Keith Traylor story definitely was.
Fixed it for you.
Jesus, will you bitter corndogs let him go.
bucknuticus
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But for real guys, these fucking couches over here need to be set on fire
ASU and Tech were in the same conference for over 20 years but I think only played each other like 9 times. I think it was due to ASU being an integrated team.
The legend of the Will Rogers statue having its rear end facing College Station is not actually true. I'd be surprised to find out that it's even pointing eastward enough to get past San Antonio or Austin, much less all the way to College Station.
It wasn't repositioned so that the rear end would face College Station, it was repositioned because the rear end already WAS facing directly towards downtown Lubbock. It was originally built to look like he was riding off into the Western sunset but downtown Lubbock is just a mile or two to the east and some locals apparently didn't appreciate that.
I remember looking back at that a while back and as best as I could tell conferences in general were just quite different back then. A lot of teams would finish up the year with only a couple of conference games played.
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Example - From 1932 to 1938, Tech was in the Border Conference with 5 other teams (including ASU), but they averaged only about 1.4 conference games per season in those years. Their conference records each year were things like 2-0, 1-0, 0-0-1, etc. ASU, on the other hand, during that period averaged about 4.5 conference games per season.
Arizona, though, is in the top 10 for Tech as far as total games played. Go figure.
Purple Cheeto
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Vernon Adams graduated EWU today and can now enroll and start practicing with Oregon. In a few weeks he could be playing against EWU.
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How many chopblocks though?
bucknuticus
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Torrance Gibson, top 2-10 athlete in the 2015 class, was signed to play QB. He started taking reps at WR today, we can literally have an offensive play where only QBs are playing a different position.
I'm surprised Texas Tech isn't #1 on that list.
Not because our offense was great, but because our terrible run defense meant that our offense only had about 5 minutes of possession in every game.
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yellowjacket25
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Upcoming quote from an ESPN expert: "That offense just isn't built for third down."
Chopblock Tech really is the most persecuted program in the country.
Azwethinkweiz
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The GT defense force really is the most amusing one we have here.
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