• Follow us on Twitter @buckeyeplanet and @bp_recruiting, like us on Facebook! Enjoy a post or article, recommend it to others! BP is only as strong as its community, and we only promote by word of mouth, so share away!
  • Consider registering! Fewer and higher quality ads, no emails you don't want, access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Even if you just want to lurk, there are a lot of good reasons to register!

Texas 21, Alabama 37 (BCSCG) Jan 7, 2010 on ABC

Jump to latest Follow Reply
Sort by date Sort by votes
I cringed at the question: "So Colt - How does it feel to be kicked in the gut and watch all of your hopes and dreams crushed without you being able to do anything"? Well - that is what it sounded like to me when she asked how it felt to watch them lose the game without him. He struggled, but displayed great control and class in forming an appropriate response.
 
Upvote 0
"No way. Colt McCoy wouldn't have played an entire half like a freshman. We can't prove anything but I think Texas would have taken this one with McCoy in the entire game. Bama's secondary couldn't hold off that attack for 2 quarters, never mind 4."

Texas has no answers what so ever for Bama. Bama was running at will on Texas.

I think Colt makes the game closer but Bama might not have been as conservitive knowing the D had this game won. A lot of what if's but IMO as much as it pains me to say this... Bama was the best team in college and they showed it last night. That Oline and DLine are just plain nasty.
 
Upvote 0
Texas has no answers what so ever for Bama. Bama was running at will on Texas.
Click to expand...
And Bama's secondary had no answer for Texas' receivers. They were open all day, especially while the freshman panicked in the pocket.

On the first INT to Arenas, a TE was wide open directly in front of him. Colt doesn't miss that.

Colt doesn't miss Shipley wide open on the double move, and there would have been more of those if that game was any indicator.
That Oline and DLine are just plain nasty.
Click to expand...
And they got owned by Texas' pass rush. We were robbed of a great matchup of contrasting styles. Dominating strength in run, run blocking & stuffing the run against great finesse passing, lockdown coverage and a ferocious pass rush.
 
Upvote 0
Merih;1638470; said:
I think there's more to it than just football, honestly. There is this mentality of the south that's not as prevalent in any other region of the United States. What used to shine through as valor and brotherhood now just reeks of being ingenuous and outdated (at least to those of us who aren't from the south).

As far as football is concerned, however, it is a very good feat. But, in my mind, Florida's titles belong to Florida; LSU's title's belong to LSU, and Bama's title belongs to Bama.
Click to expand...

GPA.
 
Upvote 0
It's just the South. The persecution complex goes back at least 160 years and probably longer so when success comes at something the "us against the world mentality" comes out as obnoxious regional chest thumping.

The football stats don't lie, but when an SEC fan gives me crap I just pull out a 50 dollar bill, remind them where the President portrayed on it came from and point out that they can win the next 1000 BCS championships and Ohio still will have the all-time bragging rights over them.
 
Upvote 0
Link

But the Tide defense would not tolerate what would have been an epic collapse; it forced the turnover and Bama scored the touchdown that put the game away.
Click to expand...

Completely unnecessary touchdown, a knee would have gotten the job done, UT wasn't going to use their TOs.

This is SabanBall. Hit like your scholarship check depends on it. Take the ball away (five times in this game). Win.
Click to expand...

A strong run game, strong defense, and the turnover battle produces results. End of story.
 
Upvote 0
Jagdaddy;1638668; said:
It's just the South. The persecution complex goes back at least 160 years and probably longer so when success comes at something the "us against the world mentality" comes out as obnoxious regional chest thumping.

The football stats don't lie, but when an SEC fan gives me crap I just pull out a 50 dollar bill, remind them where the President portrayed on it came from and point out that they can win the next 1000 BCS championships and Ohio still will have the all-time bragging rights over them.
Click to expand...

Having lived in the South longer than I've lived in Ohio now, there is some truth to this statement. I don't know what it is, and I don't hate them or blame them for it, but there is a mentality that pits the Southeastern US against the rest. A lot of people in this region honestly don't like people from outside the region, and while they are usually nice, caring people, they'll take shots at you if they know you aren't from there.

I do feel that part of this is that so many people have transplanted from northern and western regions to the South. I like the South, I like the culture, but it is different from any other region in the US, and they take pride in that, just like we take pride in being from Ohio.

Football stats don't lie. I can't say anything other than a Rose Bowl victory makes the sting a little less painful.
 
Upvote 0
To be honest, I completely understand the conference pride point. Nearly everyone wants their conference to be considered "good." I consistently find myself rooting for Big Ten teams when they play non-conference competition. While I can't imagine myself running around town chanting "Big Ten Big Ten!" should Penn State or Iowa win the BCS title, I would certainly feel a little better knowing that the conference had earned national respect based on the win, and that at least OSU had lost to the best in the nation.

The thing I don't quite understand about the chant is that it happens at the game. I don't think I am going out on a limb when I assume that the majority of those in attendance were either fans of Bama or Texas. I doubt legions of fans from Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, etc made the trek out to Pasadena to watch the game. Bama won, and I would expect the Bama fans to go crazy. I would expect to hear screaming, crying, Bama related chants/fight song (I have no idea what their traditions are), but to instead begin a conference related cheer seems odd to me. When OSU won the title, the Big Ten conference was the last thing on my mind. The fact that my team won the title was all that I cared about.

Maybe its a cultural thing, I don't know. The chant doesn't even bother me, I just find it odd. I don't know how many soccer fans are on this board, but I guarantee you that if the US wins the World Cup, I am NOT going to be chanting "CON-CA-CAF!!!!"
 
Upvote 0
I think a little of it comes from the fact that SEC fans feel like there is a bias for other conferences and they get no respect....which may of had some merit 20 years ago but that is far from the truth now.

They also still point to Auburn going undefeated and not getting a chance for the NC.....like they are the only conference that has ever been a victim of that..... :roll2:
 
Upvote 0
TJnTN;1638683; said:
I think a little of it comes from the fact that SEC fans feel like there is a bias for other conferences and they get no respect....which may of had some merit 20 years ago but that is far from the truth now.

They also still point to Auburn going undefeated and not getting a chance for the NC.....like they are the only conference that has ever been a victim of that..... :roll2:
Click to expand...

The media trumpets them, which causes a backlash from other conferences, which causes them to backlash against the other conference fans, etc. etc.

Best way to deal with it is to just ignore it starting with ignoring the idiotic comments on ESPN.
 
Upvote 0
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top