The "I'm ashamed of myself" thread.

I will never be ashamed of myself for either supporting my alma mater nor for questioning things when they go wrong. When you love a university and team, it's like loving a family member in that you will always love them, but you don't always have to like what they do. There were a number of choices made in yesterday's game that I know I question because of the outcome. Had the consequences of those choices been different, I wouldn't have questioned them at all, most likely.

It is what it is. It's sports. It's like life. You deal with the bad right along with the good and just hold fast. But ashamed? Not one iota.

I liked the call the kid missed it by about 3 yards & he was dead center of the goal post.

A whole lot of stuff went wrong besides that field goal.

Alabama beat Alabama yesterday, not any missed field goal.

dWarriors88 said:

I feel like a handled the loss as well as anyone could. I didn't throw or brake anything. No screaming. There was only sadness.

And last night was the worst sleep I've had the whole year. That last play haunts me.

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Same here. I went to bed as soon as I could because I couldn't stand being awake and thinking about it. Then I kept waking up because I couldn't stand being asleep and dreaming about it.

How's THAT for feeling miserable and out of sorts?

Florida Tom said:

I liked the call the kid missed it by about 3 yards & he was dead center of the goal post.

A whole lot of stuff went wrong besides that field goal.

Alabama beat Alabama yesterday, not any missed field goal.

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yeah we have a good future with him. He has a good leg.

Florida Tom said:

I liked the call the kid missed it by about 3 yards & he was dead center of the goal post.

A whole lot of stuff went wrong besides that field goal.

Alabama beat Alabama yesterday, not any missed field goal.

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I thought it got a LOT closer than that. The replay I recall seeing had it JUST missing by about a couple of feet. Of course, the trajectory would need to factored in. But, oh well--the kid has a LEG and I can't wait to see him kick!! I prefer TD's, but when we need the FG kicker, I'm excited that it will be Griffith.

If he had made the kick, he would have been forever immortalized in Iron Bowl Lore, like Van Tiffin.
Instead, we have another Punt Bama Punt.

cbi1972 said:

If he had made the kick, he would have been forever immortalized in Iron Bowl Lore, like Van Tiffin.
Instead, we have another Punt Bama Punt.

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Kick, Kick, Kick, Bama Kick.

SMH

No shame in losing a ball game...none what so ever! The only thing that I'm ashamed of is that I am now forever more connected to those idiots who posted hateful, threatening comments on Cade Foster's twitter page. That's disgusting, uncalled for, and totally unexcusable. An earlier poster suggested that they remove themseles from the Bama Nation....I second that motion. All in favor, please say ROLL TIDE!

CrimSonami said:

Okay...... I must admit I'm ashamed of myself. Last night I openly questioned the decision to kick the field goal that ultimately cost us a chance to win it in the end. I thought we should have taken our chances in OT. But after listening to CNS response on the decision I can now say I stand corrected and admit I'm just a bitter fan for having lost to the barn.

I HATE LOSING TO THE BARN!!!

And to those FANS??? who are/were cyber threatening Cade Foster. You are hereby invited to excuse yourself from the Bama Nation. You are completely and totally undeserving to wear Crimson or utter the words ROLL TIDE.

RTR!!! :biga:

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I don't question the kick. We should have done something to win it in regulation and either choice was a long shot.

It really shouldn't have come down to that situation. We should have been in victory formation with the game already won. I'm not calling out any player, coach or unit but we had our opportunities and just didn't make good on them. That's the way it is sometimes.

bama_fan01 said:

No shame in losing a ball game...none what so ever! The only thing that I'm ashamed of is that I am now forever more connected to those idiots who posted hateful, threatening comments on Cade Foster's twitter page. That's disgusting, uncalled for, and totally unexcusable. An earlier poster suggested that they remove themseles from the Bama Nation....I second that motion. All in favor, please say ROLL TIDE!

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Its the internet. Its SOP

BigBama76 said:

I don't question the kick. We should have done something to win it in regulation and either choice was a long shot.

It really shouldn't have come down to that situation. We should have been in victory formation with the game already won. I'm not calling out any player, coach or unit but we had our opportunities and just didn't make good on them. That's the way it is sometimes.

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I made this exact comment in the game thread last night. Had we played to the level we're capable (see second half agains LSU, among many others) we win going away.

I'm not ashamed at all. Puzzled at times, but never ashamed.


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CrimSonami said:

That was me in the OP. And a huge ROLL TIDE! Saw on the ESPN page where AJ, CJ and more of the team called the cowards out. Would dearly love to have a few of the team members show up on the idiots doorstep and ask for an "explanation". I hate idiot Bama fans as much as barners!

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Isn't threatening someone a felony? You would think that law enforcement could track these head cases down through Twitter, and prosecute them. They might not think its such a great idea anymore. Totally embarrassed by the behavior of "fans".

CrimsonCrusade said:

Saban is not a god. He makes mistakes, like every other human being, and he made plenty last night. I'm not ashamed at all for questioning those decisions. That's part of being a fan after a loss.

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Saban didn't make mistakes my friend, he made decisions. A few of those decisions now look like mistakes because the players didn't execute the plays. The field goal attempt at the end had a far greater chance of being successful than a hail mary.
Blaming Coach Saban for this loss is ridiculous.
The real reason we lost this game is because we made mental mistakes in critical situations,especially the false start on the made field goal attempt-- we dropped passes like we haven't done all year, and we got our butt totally whipped on both sides of the line of scrimmage.
Auburn ran the ball with success in every critical situation. They kept us from running the ball in every critical situation.
That's winning the line of scrimmage and that's ultimately why we lost the game.
Blame somebody if you have to, but in the real world of football, we just got beat. It's that simple.
Now, let's get ready and be better for the next one.
sip

I'm not sure how to make this, but I do feel some kind of relief after the initial "pain" after yesterday's game.

<< I was very pessimistic at that point and thought we would have had no chance in OT. >> That's just how I felt. In fact, I was so relieved that we didn't have to go through overtime and still lose that I wasn't as upset as I otherwise might have been at the outcome of the kick.

And I certainly thought the idea of using next season's kicker made perfect sense at the time.

RTR

I just kept saying to myself we've got to seal the deal! We've got to Nail that coffin shut or we are going to be bitten by a rattlesnake/black widow spider/tiger!

The problem: we never nailed that coffin shut and that dude came outta the coffin and ran 100 plus yards! Game over!

The decision to kick a field goal at the end wasn't the worst call. It was the combination of horrid decision after horrid decision leading up to trotting a freshman out for a 56 yarder that baffled me. Because I revere the man i can fool myself into thinking that most were justifiable. I'll even trust that something was terribly wrong with Kenyan Drake and not moan about that. Or that 11 games into the season our H Back has not been coached enough to know who to block on the most important play of the game. But the choice to go for it on 4th down and not kick a 30 yarder in the middle of the field to go up by two scores with minutes left me speechless and probably had even Belichek screaming at his television in disbelief.