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Should be a relatively easy win. I expect Tua to get us off to a fast start and maybe he won't even need to play the entire game. Without Lamar Jackson Louisville is at best an average team and perhaps even below average.
And Lamar Jackson didn't look very good even average SEC Defenses anyway.....
It got started right here....
I'm hoping that Louisville will buy out of, or be bought out of, that game. And replaced by UCF. The SOS derived from either one will probably be no worse than FSU this past season.
Safe to say that Bama's SEC competition in 2018 will be the barn and UGA. Have you seen their schedules? The barn plays two FCS schools. Alabama State and Liberty. UGA plays Austin Peay. MTSU. UMass, and GT.
I just can't wait for it to get here. I wish we had a better match-up, but it will be a good test of our new secondary...
Amazing at how pessimistic some alleged Alabama fans are. The team is well equipped to repeat this year. There is elite talent top to bottom. This offense has the best talent overall in the Saban era. Defense will have new faces but there is so much speed and athleticism. There is absolutely no reason for Louisville to score more than 20 on us and us score at least 40 on them. Petrino is a great offensive mind but one would think the talent disparity will be clear.
Huh?
We didn’t play in the Sun Bowl in 90, we played in the Fiesta Bowl.
Easy mistake though. We went to so many Sun Bowls I’m not sure our coach knew Marty Robbins was long dead.
My bad. I was only 7 at the time and remember today how badly they beat us.
Well I was 7 once, too, but I remember the Braves beat the Padres 9-5 with Messersmith on the mound and Matthews homering but that might just be me.....(Blue font)
And then when you were 9 you saw the reason for the loss when Bama beat Miami in the Sugar Bowl. Stallings mailed in the Fiesta Bowl and went recruiting, resulting in the 92 NC. It's the reason we now have a dead period in recruiting during the Bowl season.
And while Bama was recruiting, Louisville had SEVEN weeks to prepare for the game. Bama played Cincinnati and Auburn after Louisville finished their season on 11/10 and accepted the Fiesta bid. Howard Schnellenberger sat 3 rows in front of me at the Auburn game knowing full well he was going to be playing Bama although bids could not be extended until a team finished their season. The bid was supposedly to go to Bama (7-4) or Ole Miss (9-2), but Arizona was in the middle of a huge controversy over the Martin Luther King Birthday Holiday and there was no way the Fiesta was going to invite Ole Miss and their rebel flags.
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As a matter of fact I remember one Arkansas player saying that sometimes in practice Petrino would send the D to the showers and give their time on the field to the O. When I read that I LOL'd because we already figured that.
I'm curious as to whom precisely you think supports this thesis?
The following players were on the 1990 team and could in no way be said to have been recruited by Stallings in that time frame:
Antonio Langham
George Teague
Eric Curry
Derrick Lassic
Martin Houston
Tarrant Lynch
Tobie Sheils
Roosevelt Patterson
Lemanski Hall
Michael Rogers
The core of the team was there in 1990, so this idea is absurd on its face.
I'm not gonna say Stallings wasn't out recruiting but this is trying to put ketchup on manure and say it tastes good.
Yes, he knew this the day of the Auburn game because there was a HUGE stink about whether teams from the state would go because Arizona didn't
recognize the MLK holiday. The problem with this whacked out theory is that the Fiesta Bowl wanted Notre Dame and Virginia first, both of whom
turned them down. In fact, what the Fiesta Bowl wanted was to pit Virginia against the SEC runner-up. UVA made clear they weren't going and
Louisville was a fallback choice, accepting the bid on November 18th.
They didn't know they were playing Alabama or Auburn until the end of November.
And besides - we're not talking a week off vs a week playing a game. That long off makes a team rusty and Browning Nagle popped us for over 450 yards passing so......no......
You may have a point there, but the original line-up was supposed to be Virginia - founded by that slave owner Jefferson - and the SEC runner-up. I won't deny your point that that probably played a role in it but......Alabama isn't really any better than Mississippi in race relations at that time, either.
But the idea Stallings basically pulled a Franchione and mailed it in? Ridiculous.
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