If we are using that as meaning “threat” then we haven’t had a real threat since 2009. I think many of us are putting expectations and capabilities that bama has year in and year out into other teams.
To be honest I would about the LA schools more than any of the Texas schools taking off under the right leadership. Texas’s history is mostly fluff. 4 NCs doesn’t exactly scream elite program.
Except for LSU, I would agree. Even though they only won 1 division title, they were the only program that Bama feared, and IMO, needed to fear. Even that hasn't been true for a couple of years now.
fans - that was the case. Now, even they are gone. Who are you concerned about this year? I'm concerned about no one, nor last year.
Auburn has beaten us more times since 11-5-11 than LSU and win more SECCGs and SECW titles than them. LSU is going closer to the Dinardo era again with each passing year. I just don’t see them as a threat since 2015.Except for LSU, I would agree. Even though they only won 1 division title, they were the only program that Bama feared, and IMO, needed to fear. Even that hasn't been true for a couple of years now.
What I mean by fear is, "going into each year, who am I concerned about?". OM, AU, even A&M have popped up occasionally, but going into each year, LSU was the only one who consistently mattered - the only one who didn't need flukes or crazy circumstances to win. Bama could have lost almost every game they played vs LSU from 2008-2015. Even when the score ended up skewed.
Ask the coaches or players or most (GrayTide doesn't count :smile
I agree - I thought I made that clear. Yes, OM and AU have beaten Bama more than LSU since '11. But my point regarding a "threat" is that LSU was the only team I was concerned about from '08-'15. And I was concerned about them every year going into the year and by the time Bama played them, the others I was never concerned about going into the year, and rarely by game time. Yes, they won by flukes and unusual circumstances, but I did not consider them a real threat other than the fact that any decent to good team is such - but LSU I feared and knew they could win straight up. I also know that the coaches and players and most fans felt the same way. (IMO, the '13 loss to AU was a result of Bama beating LSU (in the Saban jumped into AJ's arms game) and thinking that the season was thus over. They lost focus and never recovered.)
I put a mirror under their nose, it didn't fog up.
I may have misunderstood the intent of the article. I thought it was talking about being a sleeping giant in the State of Texas, not the SEC or on a National stage. When I get time I will go back and read it again.
Wouldn't another way of looking at it, to say that just because the sleeping giant never woke up doesn't mean he isn't a giant? Miami clearly was a sleeping giant prior to their ascension. The same with Florida and FSU. What's the difference? To me it speaks to potential, and the potential clearly is there. It doesn't mean they will or have realized it.
That’s fair.
Fisher pulled a Fran. One of my co-workers had a cousin on staff at FSU. I say “had” because he’s at ATM now and though she didn’t know where, she DID know in October that Fisher was headed elsewhere because he told her that much. And she’s a lifelong Tide fan and has been right on every time she’s said something.
Yup..Had it not been for Winston I'm not sure Jimbo would've won a NC as HC at FSU & he had the kinda talent Coach Saban has at Bama while he was at FSU to work with..
2005 Notre Dame says, “What about us?”
Actually it might be the opposite. The SEC is starting to become Alabama and the 13 dwarves while the ACC is starting to grow stronger. Yes by him going to aTm it pretty much means Clemson will now be the odds on favorite for a while, but its far from a done deal with the wealth of talented coaches the ACC now has over the SEC.
FSU played 2 top 10 teams (Clemson on the road) with 4 top 25 teams on their 2013 campaign not counting Auburn. Its certainly not groundbreaking but its about average. It actually is the same exact combination as our 2017 season not counting the Clemson game. But the weakest NC schedule by far is the 2004 USC season
