More "wish list": At least one of the Gym Tide national championships. Maybe the first . . . 1994[?] Also, one of the SEC champs in hoops. (Yes, it has been a while)
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Loving the Alabama Take-Over of SEC Network
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I think an All Alabama network would be fun, but we'd become another Texas, and that is probably not a good thing. I do think they could digitize all the games ever recorded or televised along with the coaches shows and make it available on the net. I just don't think we could produce enough content to fill the time on a full fledged network. You would have to have advertisers and they would have to be local Alabama companies who would not pay as much as other national networks.
The fact is the SEC network is built by Bama. without Alabama as the premier teams ratings would be so so and they would be in much fewer homes nationwide. ESPN expected 60 million household at the launch and I think had 90 million. That made a huge difference in revenue. The longhorn network is struggling financially BTW.
No, there can be no Alabama Network. All of the possible content has been sold to ESPN via the SEC Network.
This is why there are such problems with the Longhorn Network in the Big 12. There cannot be a Big 12 Network and the conference suffers because of it (in comparison to the Big Ten and SEC).
This is why there are such problems with the Longhorn Network in the Big 12. There cannot be a Big 12 Network and the conference suffers because of it (in comparison to the Big Ten and SEC).
I finally watched all the games that were on the SEC network from a couple of weeks ago. I was wondering if anybody else noticed the foam finger #1 at the end of the Penn State '79 game? It was made so that it looked a lot like Auburn's AU design. Was this the way we did our designs in the 70's and we just changed because of Auburn's design, or did we do it first? I really didn't even remember foam fingers then though.
Me too.
My 1st Sugar bowl was "Woody is a Pecker" I still think if Coach Bryant had beaten Notre Dame in 73 or one of the later games we'd have been voted #1.
Too bad a plus 1 system wasn't in affect back then. I think that team would have stomped N.D. in the ground. (The Ohio St. game team)
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Michael Ventre
Los Angeles Daily News article by Michael Ventre
Jan. 1, 1993
NEW ORLEANS -- Miami is No. 1. It will stay that way.
Alabama doesn't have a hope, or a prayer, or a shot in the dark of upsetting the Hurricanes for the national championship in tonight's Sugar Bowl. And it won't even be close. Alabama will be trounced, clobbered, mauled, devastated, humiliated and left for dead. The Crimson Tide will not roll, not even a little bit. Tonight you will experience low Tide. Probably even ebb Tide. You wouldn't even have to hike up your pant legs to wade in what be left of this Tide after the Hurricanes pass through.
Final Score Alabama 34- Miami 13
Vandy's day was Sunday. I got to see them beat the barn (with Tubby) and UT back to back.
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I was living in LA in 1993, LA could care less about college football. I do recall reading this article at the time. Thanks for bringing back all the memories.
Miami vs BAMA 92 Sugar Bowl Article
One shining example that it doesn't take a PhD in Nuclear Physics to cover college football for the hometown paper.............
"Miami will blow away Alabama"
Los Angeles Daily News article by Michael Ventre
Jan. 1, 1993
NEW ORLEANS -- Miami is No. 1. It will stay that way. Alabama doesn't have a hope, or a prayer, or a shot in the dark of upsetting the Hurricanes for the national championship in tonight's Sugar Bowl. And it won't even be close. Alabama will be trounced, clobbered, mauled, devastated, humiliated and left for dead. The Crimson Tide will not roll, not even a little bit. Tonight you will experience low Tide. Probably even ebb Tide. You wouldn't even have to hike up your pant legs to wade in what be left of this Tide after the Hurricanes pass through. Here are the reasons why:
Reason No. 1: ATTITUDE
The Alabama people are just too darned nice. They're too respectful. All their players act as if Bear Bryant is waiting in the woodshed with a whittled switch if they misbehave. This may be OK in the SEC, where everybody is like that. But how can you build up a nice healthy hatred for a renegade school like Miami if you spend most of your time acting like Sunday school teachers? You may not like Miami, but they have an attitude. And you NEED an attitude. Just listen to Miami wide receiver Lamar Thomas: "I try to talk to the defensive back as much as possible. When he starts listening, that's when I know I have him in my back pocket."
Reason No. 2: AIR POWER
Alabama believes in establishing its running game. That's dandy, except for the fact that tonight the only running the Crimson Tide will do is running onto the field, and then running off it. Alabama will not be able to move the ball. It won't be able to BUDGE the ball. You will need calipers to measure Alabama's productivity on the ground. So then the Alabama players will have to throw. And they won't be able to do that, either. And they'll commit turnovers. And then the Miami players will boogie and gyrate as they create a new dance for the occasion. See, Alabama's quarterback is a guy named Jay Barker. He is a nice young man, and when he regains consciousness late tonight, I hope he has a plan for the future that features him as a constructive member of society. Because when the fraternity brothers of I Slamma 'Bama get through with him, the only football he'll ever want to play is Nintendo. Miami, on the other hand, has a Heisman Trophy winner at quarterback in Gino Torretta, a formidable offensive line and a fine group of receivers. "We're too talented," Miami wideout Kevin Williams said. He speaks the truth.
Reason No. 3: COACHING
Don't get me wrong. I like Gene Stallings. He's a terrific coach. He has restored much of the luster to the Alabama tradition. And he has his club on the brink of a national title. But he made a big boo-boo Thursday night. He kept his players at their hotel, the Hilton, instead of packing them up and taking them to some secret location, a la John Thompson of Georgetown and, for that matter, Dennis Erickson of Miami. "They showed Bourbon Street on TV," Erickson said Thursday. "I'm glad I wasn't there. It's unbelievable, all the hoopla....We'll go to someplace so remote even I won't know where it is." That's good. For a game of this magnitude, you have, in no particular order, groupies, derelicts, boosters, maniacs, spouses of boosters, students, drifters, children of boosters and drunken rednecks scattered throughout the teams' hotels, trying to get a piece of the action. This isn't good.. On the night before a game, the team needs to stay together, avoid distractions at all costs and focus on the task at hand. Stallings, though, has chosen to keep his team in the middle of the madness. Big mistake. Most teams look confused and disoriented against Miami anyway. Tonight Alabama will look that way during pre-game introductions.
Reason No. 4: KARMA
You just get the overwhelming feeling that its Miami's year again. Little things are adding up. Alabama lost one of its best linebackers for the Sugar Bowl when Michael Rogers was injured in a Christmas Eve car accident. Miami survived the Pell Grant scandal and Hurricane Andrew and the loss of star defensive end Rusty Medaris and is still brazen as ever.
Tonight the Tide won't roll.
It will roll over.
Miami vs BAMA 92 Sugar Bowl Article
One shining example that it doesn't take a PhD in Nuclear Physics to cover college football for the hometown paper.............
"Miami will blow away Alabama"
Los Angeles Daily News article by Michael Ventre
Jan. 1, 1993
NEW ORLEANS -- Miami is No. 1. It will stay that way. Alabama doesn't have a hope, or a prayer, or a shot in the dark of upsetting the Hurricanes for the national championship in tonight's Sugar Bowl. And it won't even be close. Alabama will be trounced, clobbered, mauled, devastated, humiliated and left for dead. The Crimson Tide will not roll, not even a little bit. Tonight you will experience low Tide. Probably even ebb Tide. You wouldn't even have to hike up your pant legs to wade in what be left of this Tide after the Hurricanes pass through. Here are the reasons why:
Reason No. 1: ATTITUDE
The Alabama people are just too darned nice. They're too respectful. All their players act as if Bear Bryant is waiting in the woodshed with a whittled switch if they misbehave. This may be OK in the SEC, where everybody is like that. But how can you build up a nice healthy hatred for a renegade school like Miami if you spend most of your time acting like Sunday school teachers? You may not like Miami, but they have an attitude. And you NEED an attitude. Just listen to Miami wide receiver Lamar Thomas: "I try to talk to the defensive back as much as possible. When he starts listening, that's when I know I have him in my back pocket."
Reason No. 2: AIR POWER
Alabama believes in establishing its running game. That's dandy, except for the fact that tonight the only running the Crimson Tide will do is running onto the field, and then running off it. Alabama will not be able to move the ball. It won't be able to BUDGE the ball. You will need calipers to measure Alabama's productivity on the ground. So then the Alabama players will have to throw. And they won't be able to do that, either. And they'll commit turnovers. And then the Miami players will boogie and gyrate as they create a new dance for the occasion. See, Alabama's quarterback is a guy named Jay Barker. He is a nice young man, and when he regains consciousness late tonight, I hope he has a plan for the future that features him as a constructive member of society. Because when the fraternity brothers of I Slamma 'Bama get through with him, the only football he'll ever want to play is Nintendo. Miami, on the other hand, has a Heisman Trophy winner at quarterback in Gino Torretta, a formidable offensive line and a fine group of receivers. "We're too talented," Miami wideout Kevin Williams said. He speaks the truth.
Reason No. 3: COACHING
Don't get me wrong. I like Gene Stallings. He's a terrific coach. He has restored much of the luster to the Alabama tradition. And he has his club on the brink of a national title. But he made a big boo-boo Thursday night. He kept his players at their hotel, the Hilton, instead of packing them up and taking them to some secret location, a la John Thompson of Georgetown and, for that matter, Dennis Erickson of Miami. "They showed Bourbon Street on TV," Erickson said Thursday. "I'm glad I wasn't there. It's unbelievable, all the hoopla....We'll go to someplace so remote even I won't know where it is." That's good. For a game of this magnitude, you have, in no particular order, groupies, derelicts, boosters, maniacs, spouses of boosters, students, drifters, children of boosters and drunken rednecks scattered throughout the teams' hotels, trying to get a piece of the action. This isn't good.. On the night before a game, the team needs to stay together, avoid distractions at all costs and focus on the task at hand. Stallings, though, has chosen to keep his team in the middle of the madness. Big mistake. Most teams look confused and disoriented against Miami anyway. Tonight Alabama will look that way during pre-game introductions.
Reason No. 4: KARMA
You just get the overwhelming feeling that its Miami's year again. Little things are adding up. Alabama lost one of its best linebackers for the Sugar Bowl when Michael Rogers was injured in a Christmas Eve car accident. Miami survived the Pell Grant scandal and Hurricane Andrew and the loss of star defensive end Rusty Medaris and is still brazen as ever.
Tonight the Tide won't roll.
It will roll over.
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