News Article: College Football: Alabama Goes Electric (Rolling Stone article)

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For much of the game, this Alabama looked like nothing like the Crimson Tide we had come to know, a team that had been especially built to defy the bells and whistles of modern college football. Instead, they looked like a 21st-century squad, and this was both exhilarating and frightening, because if Alabama has now mastered this, too, what the hell are the rest of us supposed to do now?
Saban, in a move that almost seemed deliberately made to troll the Internet, hired ex-USC coach Lane Kiffin as his offensive coordinator.
Through its first four games this season, Alabama has put up an average of 42 points and nearly 600 yards; the Tide are averaging more yards passing than they are yards rushing, even as they remain a work in progress. Cooper, the wide receiver, is essentially uncoverable. Sims, in his first year as a starter after playing behind fixture AJ McCarron, is getting better every week. And this is where it gets frightening, because Alabama still has three devastating running backs that helped the seal victory last Saturday, and because Saban still has more pure talent to work with on defense than any other program in America. So what happens when the Process melds with progressiveness? What happens if Alabama continues with this obscene offense, and gets it act together defensively?
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http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/college-football-alabama-goes-electric-20140922

There are some glaring mistakes in the article, imo, but I do love some of it...
 

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So what happens when the Process melds with progressiveness?
Heads are exploding across the world of entertainment and it's not because their music is turned up too loud! :smile:
 

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You'd think a magazine titled "Rolling Stone" would have articles about music. ;)

Edited to add:

Maybe Saban is a rock star, who can also really coach.
 

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"Their defense was intermittently lousy ..."

Huh? Florida went 2-13 on 3rd down conversions, got DOUBLED UP on time of possession, amassed a whopping 200 total yards, and scored exactly zero unassisted (by Alabama's offense) points.
 

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"Their defense was intermittently lousy ..."

Huh? Florida went 2-13 on 3rd down conversions, got DOUBLED UP on time of possession, amassed a whopping 200 total yards, and scored exactly zero unassisted (by Alabama's offense) points.
I guess he counts the one play where Jabriel Washington got beat as "intermittently lousy". Our "D" played a very good game.
 

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"Their defense was intermittently lousy ..."

Huh? Florida went 2-13 on 3rd down conversions, got DOUBLED UP on time of possession, amassed a whopping 200 total yards, and scored exactly zero unassisted (by Alabama's offense) points.
Yah, that was one of the glaring mistakes I alluded to - focus on the overall message...
 

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Hey, man...........I remember when Dylan went electric. And Howling Wolf.



Maybe this also belongs in the "What do you think of CLK as OC now?" thread.
 
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