Confession Time: Have You Ever Given Up on the Tide BEFORE A Game Was Actually Over?

selmaborntidefan · Mar 9, 2013

And no, I don't mean when we're down 42-6 with three minutes left like 1998 Arkansas.

Have you ever had a Tide game when we were within a score and yet you gave up? Better yet - how often have you
given up and then we won?

What brought this up was I watched our LSU game from November, where AJ led the drive in Baton Rouge. I went over
and checked out the game thread to see what was going on and well, it wasn't pretty.

So have you ever done it - be honest.

I can name one right off the top of my head (to say nothing of the previous regime, when I usually figured "how are we
going to blow another fourth quarter lead" but I digress):

1998 LSU

That is one of my favorite games and admittedly bizarre. We SHOULD have lost - let's be honest. When we picked off Tyler
in the end zone and kept it at nine I figured we had a shot. Then when Pflugner's FG to make it a six-point game was blocked,
I actually DID give up.

But I did stay and watch the ending even though I figured we were done. Great one. The other time I'll admit was 2000 USM, when Zow threw the pick early in the fourth. Yes, I keep the game on, but boy was that awful.

ccc2259 · Mar 9, 2013

I'm sure I have, but I honestly can't remember doing it. Don't know if that's a sign of loyalty or senility!

92tide · Mar 9, 2013

I think my thoughts can be summed up as such. Up until about the final minute of the 2000 ice bowl, I was convinced that we would somehow win.

RollTideMang · Mar 9, 2013

The most recent one for me was the 2010 USCe game. I gave up about midway through the 4th and went to take a nap. I didn't give up this year even when it looked like we were going to lose to LSU and TAMU (we did lose).

TrampLineman · Mar 9, 2013

If it wasn't a blowout I held false hope to the end.

Yea me.

Bama Bird · Mar 9, 2013

The LSU game this year

PattheCatinSaudi · Mar 9, 2013

Jan 1, 1972 against Nebraska.

64met · Mar 9, 2013

The LSU game in 2012.

JBama_in_PCOLA · Mar 9, 2013

Confession Time: Have You Ever Given Up on the Tide BEFORE A Game Was Actually

Any game where JPW had to come from behind...

Ole Man Dan · Mar 9, 2013

Re: Confession Time: Have You Ever Given Up on the Tide BEFORE A Game Was Actually

During the Shul era. (Probation was...)
We managed to stay in most games, but...
We lacked the magic, the conditioning, the fortitude, and the coaching experience.
We didn't break a lot of hearts back then.
Our bend but not break Defense frequently was fractured.

As a man I liked Coach Shula.
As a coach, I was waiting for him to go.

Ty Webb · Mar 9, 2013

Re: Confession Time: Have You Ever Given Up on the Tide BEFORE A Game Was Actually

Interesting question.

I remember sitting in the stands in the first quarter of the Alabama vs LSU game in November 2003 thinking there is ZERO ZERO ZERO chance that we were going to be able to beat the 2003 Saban coached LSU squad. I stayed for the whole game but knew we had NO chance.

The game looked like men against boys. LSU had Skyler Green, Bowe, Vincent, Broussard, Addai, Spears, Landry, Lavalais, Webster, etc.

LSU won 27-3 but it felt like 49-0.

Alabama22 · Mar 9, 2013

Re: Confession Time: Have You Ever Given Up on the Tide BEFORE A Game Was Actually

Georgia game in 1985. Shula led a great comeback in the final minute.

WalkaboutSean · Mar 9, 2013

Re: Confession Time: Have You Ever Given Up on the Tide BEFORE A Game Was Actually

2004 against South Carolina in Bryant-Denny - I don't know if I ever gave up, but it was one of the few (only?) times I ever saw an Alabama team give up. For the game, our 2 QBs combined for 4 interceptions. A definite lowlight of the Shula era.

TheRealPokeChop · Mar 9, 2013

Re: Confession Time: Have You Ever Given Up on the Tide BEFORE A Game Was Actually

yes. i went to college from 2003 to 2008 plenty of opportunties in there to give up on shula games.

TiderJack · Mar 9, 2013

Re: Confession Time: Have You Ever Given Up on the Tide BEFORE A Game Was Actually

Ty Webb said:
Interesting question.

I remember sitting in the stands in the first quarter of the Alabama vs LSU game in November 2003 thinking there is ZERO ZERO ZERO chance that we were going to be able to beat the 2003 Saban coached LSU squad. I stayed for the whole game but knew we had NO chance.

The game looked like men against boys. LSU had Skyler Green, Bowe, Vincent, Broussard, Addai, Spears, Landry, Lavalais, Webster, etc.

LSU won 27-3 but it felt like 49-0.

This is a game I gave up on also but I think most of us had to since they dominated from start to finish. IIRC, we kicked a field goal in the final few minutes to avoid the shutout. That was when I started admiring Saban's team and disliking him since they were so good.

Airborne Tider · Mar 9, 2013

64met said:
The LSU game in 2012.

This.

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gamersfuel · Mar 9, 2013

the lsu game this past year. my cousin and i werent able to attend and were on thephone during the game. once we came back to win we both agreed to never let anyone know that our conversation ever happened.

gtowntide · Mar 9, 2013

I'm not sure what year it was but Southern Miss beat us 21-0.We could do nothing right the whole game.

WalkaboutSean · Mar 9, 2013

I attended that Southern Miss game. It's said that DuBose offered his resignation immediately after the game. (Alas, it was declined.)

BamaHoosier · Mar 9, 2013

This year during the A&M game. I got up and left the game at least twice, and kept coming back when it looked like we were going to pull it off. That still is one of the most gut-wrenching losses I've ever seen.

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