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Alabama Crimson Tide (official thread of Football, Fake Championships and Banjo)

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Tomateaux Quinoa Gumbeaux said:
Another thing to remember about how bad pre-Saban Alabama had been is that one of their coaches (Franchione maybe?) left Bama unexpectedly to coach Texas A&M. And he wasn’t pushed out of Bama for a scandal, Texas A&M was more appealing to him at the time.

That says much more to me than losing to NIU and UL-Monroe.
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Tomateaux Quinoa Gumbeaux said:
Another thing to remember about how bad pre-Saban Alabama had been is that one of their coaches (Franchione maybe?) left Bama unexpectedly to coach Texas A&M. And he wasn’t pushed out of Bama for a scandal, Texas A&M was more appealing to him at the time.

That says much more to me than losing to NIU and UL-Monroe.
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Nutjob fanbase. They make our worst t-shirt alums look relatively sane. Didn't Bill Curry leave after receiving death threats against his family...and he won a national championship.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Nutjob fanbase. They make our worst t-shirt alums look relatively sane. Didn't Bill Curry leave after receiving death threats against his family...and he won a national championship.
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As far as I can recall, none of the face painting “buck nut” contingency has ever done prison time for poisoning oak trees.

Re: curry

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The appointment of Bill Curry as head football coach...

The appointment of Bill Curry as head football coach at Alabama sparked death threats to Curry and university President Joab Thomas, police said....
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- The appointment of Bill Curry as head football coach at Alabama sparked death threats to Curry and university President Joab Thomas, police said.

Tuscaloosa Police Chief Jerry Fuller said Monday an anonymous caller said he had sent two men to kill Curry at a news conference in Tuscaloosa Sunday. Fuller said the call was traced to a phone booth in rural northwest Alabama.

'A male caller (said) he had hired two men to kill Coach Curry during the news conference,' Fuller said. 'We treated it seriously.'

Thomas, who headed the search team that picked Curry, the head coach at Georgia Tech, to replace Ray Perkins, who resigned last week to take the head coaching job of the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers, said he received several 'death threats' over the weekend after reports leaked that Curry had been hired.

Thomas said Curry's reputation as a coach who insists on academic performance from his players was a major factor in the decision. Curry's record was 31-43-4 at Georgia Tech. Thomas admitted Curry's losing record and lack of an Alabama background angered some 'so-called' Alabama fans.

'I received some threats which I considered to be life-threatening,' said Thomas, who eventually was forced to take his home phone off the hook. 'They were serious. Some of them said, 'We're going to get you for this and you'll never survive. ... People are going to wipe you out.' '

Curry said he never learned of the death threats.

'I would love for it not to be true,' Curry said. 'To my knowledge, nothing like this has ever happened before.'

Thomas said the hiring of Curry and athletic director Steve Sloan from Duke sends a message that Alabama will no longer be known 'as a football factory,' and admitted that 'I have probably put my job on the line.'

Curry is from Georgia, graduated from Georgia Tech and played in the NFL with Baltimore, Houston and the Los Angeles Rams. His rise to one of the top coaching positions in the nation without an Alabama background has surprised and angered many around the Crimson Tide program.

'Bill Curry is a fine guy. I knew him when I played against him in professional football,' said Lee Roy Jordan, a star linebacker with the Dallas Cowboys and one of the most popular Alabama players in the 1960s under Coach Paul 'Bear' Bryant.

'The only question I have is that he does not have a background at Alabama,' said Jordan, who wanted the job but was not given an interview because he has no coaching experience.

Bill Battle, an All-Southeastern Conference end at Alabama who was later forced out of his coaching job at Tennessee so former Volunteer star Johnny Majors could return, said he was 'taken completely by surprise' at the selection of Curry.

'It's not his fault he's from Georgia Tech,' Battle said. 'But I've seen some good programs go down fast.'

'I'm sort of shocked,' said Jimmy Sharp, who played on Bryant's 1961 team and coached for Bryant 12 years before taking over as head coach at Virginia Tech. Sharp later coached for the USFL's Memphis team.

'I bet I've had 100 calls the past few days from others who are shocked,' Sharp said.
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apnews.com

Alabama walk-on football player arrested on sodomy charge

A walk-on member of the Alabama football team has been arrested on a charge of second-degree sodomy.
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Alabama walk-on football player arrested on sodomy charge​

A walk-on member of the Alabama football team has been arrested on a charge of second-degree sodomy involving a juvenile female.

Antonio Ross, 19, a freshman defensive back with the 10th-ranked Crimson Tide, was arrested at his home in Weaver on Monday after being indicted by a Calhoun County grand jury. Ross was released from Calhoun County Jail on Monday on $50,000 bond.

“Tonio Ross is no longer part of the program and has been removed from campus,” Alabama said in a statement.

Second-degree sodomy is a class B felony under Alabama law meaning that a person without prior convictions looking at 2 to 20 years in state prison.
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LovelandBuckeye said:
Do you think Saban wishes he had Maryland's QB?
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LovelandBuckeye said:
Try living anywhere near or in that state. Absolute nutjobs!
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I've never lived there, but traveled there quite a bit in younger years and worked there a while last year.
yes they are all absolute nut jobs.

HOWEVER.....

they have plenty of Blue eye blonde haired Southern Belles tiptoeing that line on the Crazy-Hot matrix.
and a large percentage are the exact right amount and type of crazy!

and they LOOOVE them some coon ass accents!

in one small town in particular even the Waffle House has only hotties working there.
and they enjoy showing out oft owners what to do on their time off. :pimp:

*Note: stay away from Opelika, AL though. The women there are bearded Offensive Lineman types that wreak of 3 day old grease from the local Choke n Puke.

Tomateaux Quinoa Gumbeaux said:
I’ll take your word for it. My efforts are solely directed towards making tomato gumbo, and trying to live near that dump would be too draining.

It is telling, however, that I thank God each morning for Mississippi existing as a buffer.
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what's telling is the you live in Slidell and can safely talk shit about a part of the world that isn't Alexandria, LA.
 
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