Bama-Notre Dame? A big game. Nick Saban? Even bigger
"You know, Brian, these crystal things can break if you drop them. Just a warning." (AP photo by John Bazemore)
Fort Lauderdale – Taking a break from leveraged buyouts, the Wall Street Journal devoted four full Friday pages to college football, labeling Alabama-Notre Dame “the biggest game ever.” And it well may be. Alabama claims 14 national championships, Notre Dame 11. Alabama had the Bear, Notre Dame the Four Horseman. But you know all this already.
The mood on the ground in South Florida is a bit different. In January 2005, USC met Oklahoma here for the BCS title, and that, at least until kickoff, felt like a bigger game. Four of the top five vote-getters in the 2004 Heisman Trophy balloting — Matt Leinart, Adrian Peterson, Jason White and Reggie Bush — were on display, and three of those would actually win a Heisman before leaving school. (Then the game began and a Sooner named Mark Bradley fumbled a punt and the Trojans won 55-19. So much for buildup.)
Before the other Mark Bradley got involved, that championship game seemed a collision of colossi. This time there’s only one giant, and he’s the guy envious rivals insists wears lifts in his shoes.
Nick Saban, 5-foot-6, towers over college football in a way that even Paul William Bryant didn’t quite. The Bear had peers — Ara Parseghian, Bud Wilkinson, John McKay, Darrell Royal, Woody Hayes, Bob Devaney, Barry Switzer, Joe Paterno. Saban stands alone. Only Urban Meyer has a case for similar eminence, and if Alabama wins Monday night Meyer will have half as many BCS titles.
Brian Kelly has steered Notre Dame to an unbeaten season, and his Irish enter the title game ranked No. 1 to Alabama’s No. 2. Yet the most revealing question directed toward Kelly at a Sunday morning briefing was, “How much of a compliment is it for someone to say they see a lot of Nick Saban in you?” Kelly’s response: “A great personal compliment … I would take that moniker any time.”
Saban has won so big at Alabama — this would make three national championships in four seasons, and it would make the Tide the first repeat titlist of the BCS era — that questions for him tend to center less on this particular team than his famous “process,” which on its face is Football 101: Work hard, recruit well, establish team discipline. This wouldn’t have been a revelation to Bear Bryant, who delighted in arriving at work before dawn and calling the Auburn football office and getting no answer, which meant he was outworking his nemesis.
Said Kelly: “I know Nick has talked about it, too — it’s a little bit old fashioned in the sense that this (game) is about the big fellas up front. It’s not about the crazy receiving numbers or passing yards or rushing yards; this is about the big fellas, and this game will be decided unquestionably up front.”
There are no gimmicks to Saban’s football. His defensive schemes are complex — when Saban was at LSU, a defensive player told the Baton Rouge writer Glenn Guilbeau that the Tigers named their different blitzes after states and ran out of states — but Alabama under Saban is essentially as Alabama was under Bryant, big and strong and fierce and above all consistent.
In his book, “How the SEC Became Goliath,” Ray Glier reports that Saban has a physical profile for recruits: Bama doesn’t want little guys, or inflexible ones. According to Glier, Georgia defensive coordinator Todd Grantham, who worked under Saban at Michigan State, has brought those guidelines to Athens. Such is the immensity of Saban. He’s not some hot coach with a sexy offense. He’s he guy who came to the league that already played the best football and has forced everyone else to do as he does.
Business publications like Fortune and Forbes have sought to discover what makes Saban so successful, as if football was all nuts and bolts and no blood and guts. (A Fortune nugget: To save time and confusion, Saban eats a salad with turkey strips for lunch every day.) But he nearly teared up when he spoke of his dad, who was known as Big Nick and who ran a service station and a Dairy Queen in Monongah, West Va., and mentioned that he hated having to wash blue and black cars because Big Nick would make him do it again if he found streaks.
Said Saban: “So we learned a lot about work ethic. We learned a lot about having compassion for other people and respecting other people, and we learned about the importance of doing things correctly. And when I started to play for him in Pop Warner football, he was the same way as a coach — attention to detail, discipline, do things what you’re supposed to do, the way you’re supposed to do it, when you’re supposed to do it, the way it’s supposed to get done … discipline was engrained in just about everything that we did.”
This isn’t to say the Saban Process is all sweetness and light. Alabama did flout the spirit, if not the actual rule, by its oversigning of recruits, and many in South Florida hate Saban for running out on the Miami Dolphins after two nondescript years. But we can’t dispute the magnitude of what he has done at Alabama, and what he has done is render himself bigger than the biggest collegiate game in many a moon.
Further reading: History may favor the underdog Irish, but Bama is too good.
Still further: Bama’s Geno Smith went the wrong way on UGA’s final play.
By Mark Bradley
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144 comments Add your comment
Grandmaster JeJe (GM)
January 6th, 2013
12:24 pm
FIRST
FIRE LD
WDE
January 6th, 2013
12:24 pm
He’s a ball coach for certain and for sure..
Hubie Green
January 6th, 2013
12:25 pm
@Mark; is this the obligatory “praise kiss of death” article you do so well? Notre Dame already has two decades worth of insignificance to make up for. Don’t pile on.
DP
January 6th, 2013
12:35 pm
Good article but I don’t agree that Saban is bigger than this game. I don’t get where all the Saban hating comes from other than the fact that he wins so much. I’m an Alabama guy but when Saban was at LSU I thought his teams were disciplined, talented and played hard. Not only has he won a lot at Alabama, but graduation rates are way up and off the field incidents are way down. I’ve never seen anything to hate, though he certainly could have done a better job of managing the communications in the period before he left the Dolphins.
And I’m not sure how Joe Paterno qualified as a peer of Bear Bryant when Bryant won 6 national championships and Paterno didn’t win his first until about 4 years after Bryant died.
Moist Dawg
January 6th, 2013
12:46 pm
This game is a matchup of two lightwait teams, one lightwait coach, one crooked sleazball coach, and two below average qbs that couldnt hold Aaron Murrays jock strap.
What a sickening display of “football” we will be forced to sit through. I can’t wait for it to just be over so I can hose off my barf bucket.
North Ave. Faithful
January 6th, 2013
12:55 pm
That moist dawg needs some meds and some basic lessons in spelling.
KBP
January 6th, 2013
1:00 pm
Saban is an EXCEPTIONAL recruiter and an excellent coach but I don’t think he is superior to other excellent coaches when it comes to X’s and O’s. Only his recruiting and BCS titles place him above his peers.
I would say Spurrier is the greatest coach in the last 30 years based on the fact that he won an ACC title at DUKE! DUKE! He then went to Florida and not only elevated that program to national prominence but he changed college football. No one was doing 4 and 5 wides in college until Spurrier. Now most every team has a 4 and 5 wide package. Zook and Meyer should thank Spurrier because they built upon the foundation he laid. Lastly, he has made South Carolina one of the most dreaded teams to play in the conference. Yes, South Carolina where no one other than Lou Holtz made them a little bit relevant. Under Spurrier they have become very relevant!
I have much respect for Saban and all he has accomplished but Spurrier is more impressive.
Go Dawgs! And by the way, Bama, beat Notre Dame!
drsoul
January 6th, 2013
1:07 pm
I think his handle defines ‘moist dawg’…totally ‘wet behind the ears’…
certainly does not ‘objectively’ know his football…and, obviously, by his spelling is only
a ’sidelines’ fan…!!!!
A person SMART enough to know.....
January 6th, 2013
1:08 pm
Looks like CHIP is only 5′-6″ too……..Two short guys with Napoleon Complexes maybe?
DawgEd
January 6th, 2013
1:12 pm
The other notable connection between Saban/Bryant is how much each of them have influenced their profession. Bryant’s methods were widely emulated in his days, particularly his development of what is basically the template for how to manage practices. Today, it’s Saban’s “process” orientation.
vikinghorse
January 6th, 2013
1:14 pm
While it might help your story for Saban to stand only 5′6″, it’s not accurate. Saban is 5′9″, per Saban. (Javier Arenas at 5′8″, standing side by side, is shorter.) Saban stands half an inch taller than Brian Kelly in all the co-pics.
Independent
January 6th, 2013
1:21 pm
UGA will show it’s relevance early next season with Clemson, S.C. and LSU in Sept….
A person SMART enough to know.....
January 6th, 2013
1:28 pm
MARK BRADLEY…………please do a LIVE blog for the Redskins vs Seahawks game. It matters more to your readers than Bama vs Notre Dame.
jack bull
January 6th, 2013
1:28 pm
Napoleon Syndrome, certainly.
Alphare
January 6th, 2013
1:31 pm
One report said on radio yesterday, when he visited BAMA team, he was impressed that all BAMA players are big and stong, look more like NFL players than college players. But when he saw Notre Dame players, he didn’t have that impression.
Mark, do you have the same impression with the 2 teams?
jack bull
January 6th, 2013
1:37 pm
Bama’s guys are bigger. It’s the ’supplement’ that Saban urges them to use.
RGB
January 6th, 2013
1:37 pm
Based on hygienically-challenged MoistDawg, Georgia was beaten by a “lightwait” [sic] team. So what would that make Georgia?
Here’s a tip MD: when you insult someone but misspell the word, it takes about three-fourths of the oomph out of the insult.
Perhaps “JealousDawg” or “GreenWithEnvyDawg” or “HateItThatI’llBeWatchingTheNLCSGameWithNoGeorgiaDawg” would be more accurate.
Time and Tide
January 6th, 2013
1:39 pm
I’m sure that Dawg Nation will be unanimous in cheering the Crimson Tide on to victory against Notre Dame. Even dawgs have to admire the strength and skills of a well-coached team of scholar-athletes, especially since they see so little of that in Athens, bless their hearts.
Save that leftover New Year’s champagne to celebrate the Tide’s second straight BCS championship!
drsoul
January 6th, 2013
1:39 pm
DawgEd…you are right…practice management and also player discipline throughout, on and off the field is similar… as the years have progressed, there are so many different outside influences on players, where their commitment has to be monitored or it can get away from them.. Bryant had to deal with the early drug culture, hair and jewelry and integration of racial backgrounds as original changes…Younger coaches like Saban inherited those and many other influences and the only way to manage this successfully is ‘hands-on’… I do not think that a lot of schools go to the extent and that is where they have issues…
jeffrey d
January 6th, 2013
1:40 pm
please do a LIVE blog for the Redskins vs Seahawks game. It matters more to your readers than Bama vs Notre Dame.
I’m way more interested in the BCS NC Game.
B
January 6th, 2013
1:52 pm
Saban will win again. It has happened before, but there is noone to compare him to now.
dave
January 6th, 2013
1:55 pm
I already saw the BCS champions. Either Oregon or Texas A&M would wipe the floor with either Alabama or Notre Dame. No need for this game to be played Monday night no matter what the ESPN hype machine says. Oregon’s loss was far less ugly than Alabama’s loss or several of Notre Dame’s wins and of course A&M beat Bama even though ESPN wants us to forget. Game tomorrow night is completely bogus.
Festus
January 6th, 2013
1:58 pm
Bet when Bear Bryant called the Auburn office when he got to work it was a collect call. Nick Saban is the reason Urban Meyer “retired”. Strange how coaches can make it to the top of the heap in college ball but when they try the pros they are mediocre. Youse guys dissing the Notre Dame Bama game, is anybody forcing you to watch it? Should be great.
72 Dawg
January 6th, 2013
1:59 pm
Biggest game ever??? I don’t think so—NOT EVEN CLOSE! Try Vince Young and Texas over Southern Cal and The Nebraska beat down of Florida over the mighty (?) Spurrier. I am not a fan of Alabama, but this is going to be an ***kicking of Olympic proportions. Alabama over the princess by a minimum of three touchdowns!!!
RollDamnTide!!!
January 6th, 2013
2:11 pm
Just Damn Roll!!
Alphare
January 6th, 2013
2:14 pm
72,
biggest or not is a matter of opinion. Everybody has his own biggest game. I never thought Texas over USC is among the biggest games.
DawgNole
January 6th, 2013
2:15 pm
BRADLEY: Yet the most revealing question directed toward Kelly at a Sunday morning briefing was, “How much of a compliment is it for someone to say they say a lot of Nick Saban in you?”
____________________
Did he really say “. . . say they say a lot of Nick Saban . . . .” That’s a bunch of “says”; gotta be a “see” in there somewhere.
Wet Willie...keep on smiling
January 6th, 2013
2:32 pm
Nick told the Bama AD Mal Moore on the way home from Miami (after he agreed to take the Bama job)..
“Your crazy to pay me this much money for I am not that great of a coach. I have to get the best players to have success”. There will be nobody outwork Nick Saban (not his staff) for he knows he has to outwork the other teams for the very reason he told Mal.
Memo…The spread is coming to the SEC and Nick knows there is nothing that can be done to slow it down. You will see Bama move more into that after AJ and Mark will have to do the same. The days of the down and distance players on defense is coming to and end because with the no huddle you can’t get your 3rd and 6 people on the field. It’s over and the game is changing. Within 5 years you will see all the now very good teams in the SEC all at 9-3 each year. That is all.
Grammar Police
January 6th, 2013
2:39 pm
Run the spell checker please.
KommentKid
January 6th, 2013
2:39 pm
Without question, Saban has a distasteful personality. But he has something most programs don’t. DISCIPLINE. That’s a word that is missing in 90% of today’s college programs. It’s the reason UGA can’t win it all. The article expounds how his father drilled it into Saban during his early life. Now he’s doing the same for these kids and it works. Of course, America long ago shunned this principle and called it outdated. Same reason Pat Summit dominated.
Flo- Ri - Duh
January 6th, 2013
2:54 pm
Game of the century – my petootie – ain’t even the best game this year. If Bummer does not win by at least 17 points then everyone will know that Saban was out coached. Talent wise Saban has three times as many top tier athletes. Any one with that much talent should win – PERIOD.
evil empire
January 6th, 2013
2:56 pm
good thing LSU signed the Jennings kid to run the spread…
lanier
January 6th, 2013
3:00 pm
this is a sports blog not a gossip column. you are a moron Bradley
Hillbilly D
January 6th, 2013
3:01 pm
this (game) is about the big fellas up front.
They all are when you get right down to it. The skill guys can’t do anything if the big guys up front aren’t getting it done.
roughrider
January 6th, 2013
3:03 pm
Saban doesn’t win all these games by luck.He recruits well and teaches his players the art of football. Hard work, concentration and dedication to the program are instilled in the players.
Moist Dawg
January 6th, 2013
3:05 pm
History will tell the true story of nick satan. Satan will go down in the anals of history as a winning coach who sold his soul to the devil just for a couple wins. I know coaches and they tell me off the record that nobody likes him and think he is a shady jerk.
I’ll never in my life root for such a classless bunch. bama is a laughing stock.
Game set match
evil empire
January 6th, 2013
3:08 pm
bama is a laughing stock
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
says the clown who calls himself “Moist Dawg”…
drsoul
January 6th, 2013
3:08 pm
Dave…I did not realize that ‘crackheads’ watched sports…much less comment on them with bizarre outbursts..
DawgNole
January 6th, 2013
3:19 pm
Moist Dawg
January 6th, 2013
3:05 pm
History will tell the true story of nick satan. Satan will go down in the anals of history as a winning coach who sold his soul to the devil just for a couple wins. I know coaches and they tell me off the record that nobody likes him and think he is a shady jerk.
I’ll never in my life root for such a classless bunch. bama is a laughing stock.
Game set match
_____________________
You “know coaches,” and they talk with you “off the record”? Aren’t you the buffoon who claims to have “inside sources”? Please tell us you’re not serious.
drsoul
January 6th, 2013
3:23 pm
“moist dawg” sounds like someone who lost his shirt on the SEC Champ game….certainly a BS’er when it comes to knowing coaches and their opinions…. ’sold his soul’ and ’shady jerk’….what a jealous jerk you are ‘md’… and, definitely not ever been an athlete…!!!
Moist Dawg
January 6th, 2013
3:39 pm
Whatever drsoul. you are just jealous that you don’t get inside information and for the record, Moist Dawg was one of the best linebackers in the state back in his day.
Glory
January 6th, 2013
3:42 pm
First off, lets be honest with ourselves. Alabama is not a great team this year. The other two title teams were great, not this one. College football does not have a dominate team this year. Alabama is not the best team in the west. Texas A&M is and its a shame that their first game was cancelled and they had to start the season with Florida. We all know what they would do to the gators now. LSU should of cruised to a win over bama, Les Miles is the idiot of the year for completely losing two games on his own. With that said, the national title game is a mirage of espns perception of the so called two best teams. But I will give ND credit. They beat everybody on their schedule no matter what the score was. They played with very good stanford team even if it ended in controversy. ND has a very good chance in this game tomorrow. Either way, this title game will be easily forgotten.
Terry
January 6th, 2013
3:43 pm
Mark,
I wouldn’t take you for a journalist to get in line and take the easy road when analyzing Saban. Yes, he’s an organized coach with great success, but do you really think he’s the only college football coach who gets up a dawn and makes his assistants work on Christmas Day? He wins more than anyone else because of a morally bankrupt “process” of removing non-perfomring upper-classmen from his roster and replacing them with new recruits.
More medical redshirts than the rest of the SEC combined? Process. Discipline problems that only seem to affect non-contributors? Process. Follow it up with over signing? Process.
I was hoping you would be better than that and really analyze what gives Nick his competitive advantage. He knows it, that’s why he pitched a fit at the SEC coach meeting last year when the recruiting laws were tweaked. Either the rules will make his system obsolete or other coaches will employ a similar “sell your soul” process of their own. Otherwise, you can probably expect a few more championships. When you’ve got 10-15 more productive players on your roster – you will win, and win big, just like the Bear did.
drsoul
January 6th, 2013
3:46 pm
Sounds like you have a lot of cleat marks all over your head, ‘md’…. sorry, no jealousy here as I would imagine that my information is more resourceful than yours… by the way, how many National Championship Rings are in your house????
drsoul
January 6th, 2013
3:52 pm
Hmmmmm, Terry, did your Momma spank you this morning for stealing money out of her purse????
Moist Dawg
January 6th, 2013
3:52 pm
Terry, I approve of your comment. It is nice to see nick satan exposed for exactly who he is for a change.
Saban OWNS College Football
January 6th, 2013
3:57 pm
Coach Saban is bigger and better than anything than anything in the entire State of Georgia.
If Mark Richt were an assistant on Coach Saban’s staff…
…well, Richt would have never been hired or welcome in T-town in first place.
Roll Tied !
A&M 29 -- Bama 24
January 6th, 2013
3:59 pm
. . . BUT Johnny Football is even bigger than sneaky Saban.
A&M 29 -- Bama 24
January 6th, 2013
4:01 pm
Saban OWNS a LOSS at Home to Texas A&M !
Wet Willie...keep on smiling
January 6th, 2013
4:03 pm
Terry…sport you have a big case of envy! Moist Doggie is just having some fun…no way he can be that stupid.
LSU has 8 players going early to the NFL…..now that is talent! Les Miles is a DA and I for one am glad he is!
Saban OWNS College Football
January 6th, 2013
4:05 pm
All the little UGA dogs die from those heart attacks in recent years by dreaming and wishing they could be intimate on a leg of such Greatness as that of Coach Saban instead of Mark “Welcome to Chick-fil-A. How may I serve you?” Richt.
Even Coach Saban’s Ford commercials are better than Richt’s.
This whole state is full of jealous haters,
GOT 5 (more yards) ?
GOT 15 ?
Roll Tied !
evil empire
January 6th, 2013
4:05 pm
@A&M 29 — Bama 24
things like that happen in the SEC West…keep bragging about the charitable victory over Florida, and your “almost” Bama win/loss/5 yards short/spike the ball/cmr&murray chokefest..
Stinger 2
January 6th, 2013
4:07 pm
Mark: Are you not going overboard with a statement that a coach is bigger than the game? I and most everyone else would agree that Saban `s record speaks for itself and he will go down as one of the great college coaches in history. But to say one person (regardless of the profession he is in or how great his record is) is bigger or better than all others is taking it too far in my humble opinion. In football, it takes more than a head coach to win.
SickandTired
January 6th, 2013
4:09 pm
Moist Dawg? Really?
Perhaps you should quit looking a pictures of Mark Richt. Then you should dry up.
beone
January 6th, 2013
4:17 pm
Living in Alabama and being neither an Auburn nor an Alabama fan, I can only comment that Saban is a Jerk with a capital J.
Kentucky Dawg
January 6th, 2013
4:21 pm
How can you write a list of great Bear Bryant-era coaches and leave out Bobby Dodd?
Saban may be a good/great recruiter, but being at Alabama makes recruiting much easier.
A&M 29 -- Bama 24
January 6th, 2013
4:26 pm
Out-Coached and Out-Played
in Bryant-Denny Stadium on Novenber 10th is not very big.
And give Notre Dame credit
for not playing any cup-cake teams like Alabama does every year.
A&M 29 -- Bama 24
January 6th, 2013
4:29 pm
November 10, 2012 —- a day in infamy.
Moist Dawg
January 6th, 2013
4:31 pm
I approve of beones comment and he is a jerk and an overrated coach.
If he was so great than why was he a complete failure and a joke in the nfl? Answer: because he cant cheat in the nfl like he can in the college.
These “reporters” drooling all over a crooked coach makes me want to vomit. They are scared to do a little research because that midget nick satan will cut them off.
The cowards are disgusting.
A&M 29 -- Bama 24
January 6th, 2013
4:41 pm
November 10, 2012—-I just wet my pants again!
Woofy One
January 6th, 2013
4:48 pm
It will likely be an Auburn – Cam Newton year for Bama.
spell check?
January 6th, 2013
4:56 pm
Roll Tied ! LMAO
please Browns
January 6th, 2013
4:58 pm
give this little man whatever it takes to get him. But just get him out of the SEC!
56 dog
January 6th, 2013
5:04 pm
i see bammer really spanked dial for that cheap hit on murray.they took care of it in house.which means they did nothing.
Paul in NH
January 6th, 2013
5:07 pm
Kentucky Dawg
January 6th, 2013
4:21 pm
Saban may be a good/great recruiter, but being at Alabama makes recruiting much easier.
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I have to agree with this one. Somehow Saban never managed to win a bowl game in 5 years at Michigan State.
Truth
January 6th, 2013
5:22 pm
The fact that moist dawg is so upset over this game makes it that much more enjoyable.
Truth
January 6th, 2013
5:22 pm
The fact that moist dawg is so upset over this game makes it that much more enjoyable.
Former Georgian
January 6th, 2013
5:24 pm
I love the comment about ND not playing any “cupcake teams”. Anyone else catch USC’s performance in the Sun Bowl? I bet Tech would have more trouble with Ga Southern!
Tide Rising
January 6th, 2013
5:26 pm
“Alabama did flout the spirit, if not the actual rule, by its oversigning of recruits,”
I see Mark Bradley remains unencumbered by mere facts. The fact of the matter is that since Saban arrived at Bama that Bama is middle of the pack in the SEC in terms of oversigning. You can look it up on rivals and scout and verify this. But don’t let facts get in the way of such a well worn L I E.
Tide Rising
January 6th, 2013
5:28 pm
“A&M 29 — Bama 24″
So…
DawgNole
January 6th, 2013
5:28 pm
Wet Willie…keep on smiling
January 6th, 2013
4:03 pm
Terry…sport you have a big case of envy! Moist Doggie is just having some fun…no way he can be that stupid.
____________________
I hope you’re right, because his posts sure make him appear stupid.
Bama fan
January 6th, 2013
5:31 pm
Notre Dame played USC on the road, Oklahoma on the road, and Stanford. What was that that someone said about them playing a “cupcake” schedule. Oh, they also played Michigan, Michigan state, and probably one or 2 other respectable programs that I haven’t thought of. And while they won a series of close games facts are facts. They still won.
Truth
January 6th, 2013
5:32 pm
Dawgnole, I hope you are right on moistdawg. I know a great many UGA fans and have no issues with them or UGA but moist seems …………… well I’ll just let you decide.
Tide Rising
January 6th, 2013
5:37 pm
56 dog
January 6th, 2013
5:04 pm
i see bammer really spanked dial for that cheap hit on murray.they took care of it in house.which means they did nothing.
I see Richt really spanked Ogletree for his head to head against AJ McCarron who, unlike a running Aaron Murray, was a sitting duck. Looks like Saint Richt didn’t do much to Sheldon Dawson for his thuggish eye poking of our All American and projected top 10 pick Dee Milliner. And last of course it looks like Richt didn’t do anything about Jarvis Jones who did a blindside cheapshot hit on Michael Williams of Alabama. Then again after this 6′6 270 lb tight end had been ploughing poor Jarvis 5 yards downfield most of the game I can’t blame Jarvis for getting tired of the buttkicking he was taking. Someone tell Jarvis he can get up off of his back now. Same for the rest of the dawg defense.
drsoul
January 6th, 2013
5:39 pm
moist is a ‘wannabe’….not a real fan, nor much of an athlete probably….hey, moist??? how many rings in your house??? you losers love to accuse winners of only being winners by cheating…!!! and, yes, A&M got one on BAMA this year, but are they playing tomorrow night???
A&M 29 -- Bama 24
January 6th, 2013
5:40 pm
…. blemished record, blemished coach, hype, hype, hype !
Tide Rising
January 6th, 2013
5:41 pm
“A&M 29 — Bama 24″
So.
drsoul
January 6th, 2013
5:42 pm
Tide Rising….only the jailbirds get punished at Georgia…
drsoul
January 6th, 2013
5:44 pm
“moist” is just a wannabe….not a real Dawg fan….probably not even a good athlete… hey md??? how many rings in that house of yours??? by the way, you losers can only cry cheating when someone beats you… and, yes, A&M did get one on BAMA, but who is playing tomorrow night????
Aggie Land
January 6th, 2013
5:44 pm
Tide Rising
January 6th, 2013
5:28 pm
“A&M 29 — Bama 24″
So…
You can go to sleep at night knowing we came into your house and beat you and if you came into our house right now we would spank you by at least two touchdowns whether you hoist that crystal ball tomorrow night or not. Real National Champions start being crowned in 2014. So your false title count will be irrelevant starting then.
globeflyer
January 6th, 2013
5:44 pm
Two points: One, Saban himself said that this Bama team exceeded expectations. Two, It is what it is, and if Bama wins the the Dawg fans can say they took the BCS National Champs to the wire. A & M is a great team, but you gotta win the right games to get in “the game”.
drsoul
January 6th, 2013
5:46 pm
A&M may have got one on BAMA this year, but who is playing tomorrow night???
A&M 29 -- Bama 24
January 6th, 2013
5:48 pm
CupCakes RISING:
Florida Atlantic
Western Carolina
Western Kentucky
drsoul
January 6th, 2013
5:49 pm
Good post, ‘globeflyer’…
Tide Rising
January 6th, 2013
5:49 pm
“only the jailbirds get punished at Georgia”
And lord knows they’ve had a bunch of em. What is it something like 50 player arrests/police contacts over the last 5 years?
And lets not forget the cross dressing gay prostitute UGA professor or the DUI athletics director with the red panties. Embarrassing I tell ya. Simply embarrassing. For punishment they should be sentenced to cleaning up the tons of trash on the northside of the uga campus after a ballgame. Its still kinda shocking that you could have so many crappy people in one setting that think its acceptable to just throw trash all over the place. Must be a Georgia thing.
Moist Dawg
January 6th, 2013
5:51 pm
I’m just as much of a fan as any of your people. I’m sick of some of you snobs and your personal attacks. We’re on the same side you morons!
Go ahead Dawg “fans” make fun of me all you want but I laugh in your faces for defending nick satan. Sometimes I think I am one of the last, true, old time REAL fans
A&M 29 -- Bama 24
January 6th, 2013
5:53 pm
Saban said losing to Texas A&M was unacceptable
unless it was his team that lost, then it should be acceptable.
Tide Rising
January 6th, 2013
5:53 pm
A&M 29 — Bama 24
You left out Michigan punkin. Or does that not fit your pre coneived idea. And Western Kentucky beat an SEC team this year. Or did you not know that? Or that they went to a bowl game? You aint too bright are ya son? And your out of conference wasn’t too impressive either. I see no big name team like Michigan on it.
Mike
January 6th, 2013
5:53 pm
You people laugh but terry is right. Saban is dirty and his process is dirty and it is fueled by the people of Tuscaloosa. Since sabans arrival, can anyone think of a good player getting in trouble at Bama? I guess we are to believe these kids are just the most well behaved kids in the conference. He and the local police are corrupt and I’m not sure you people in Georgia realize how desperate Bama fans are for acceptance. They want everyone to worship them about football. Look no further when their ridiculous fan base added five championships overnight in the 80s. It’s all about attention. Alabama was like the rest of the sec teams prior to saban. They struck gold for a while and they should be thankful he graced their presence for a few years because once he leaves they will go back to occasional good seasons and competitive but not this dominant. Trust me kids don’t want to live in Tuscaloosa. They will play there now for saban but once he’s gone, the expectations will be so high and the fans will be so depressed they will do anything for a win and to try and reclaim the same level. Saban pays, gets jobs for family members, hides money through walk one, etc. scholarships to girlfriends. All of it. He is just like the bear.
Tide Rising
January 6th, 2013
5:55 pm
A&M 29 — Bama 24
All I know is that we’re still the SEC champions and that we are in the BCS title game. You???
drsoul
January 6th, 2013
5:55 pm
”A&M 29 — Bama 24 ‘….and just what channel can we find your team on tomorrow night???
A&M 29 -- Bama 24
January 6th, 2013
5:56 pm
Last year Saban said winning the SEC Championship was not that important,
this year Saban said winning the SEC Championship was very important.
Paul in NH
January 6th, 2013
6:00 pm
Why do I get the impression that Thomas Brown is Moist Dawg’s hero?
A&M 29 -- Bama 24
January 6th, 2013
6:02 pm
Saban is the “The Spin Zone”.
Tide Rising
January 6th, 2013
6:04 pm
“Saban said losing to Texas A&M was unacceptable
unless it was his team that lost, then it should be acceptable”
Saban said that? Sure he did buddy. Or did you conjure up another fictional quote from http://www.pulledouttamyass.com
A&M 29 -- Bama 24
January 6th, 2013
6:05 pm
Last year, Saban said Oklahoma State won their Conference
but that was a minor issue,
GTBob
January 6th, 2013
6:06 pm
Anybody can win at Bama…do it in the pros! Saban and the ole ball coach were failures!!
Tide Rising
January 6th, 2013
6:06 pm
A&M 29 — Bama 24
Looks like someone has a serious case of Saban envy.
GTBob
January 6th, 2013
6:06 pm
Anybody can win t Bama…do it in the pos! Saban and theole ball coach were failures!!
Tide Rising
January 6th, 2013
6:08 pm
“do it in the pos! Saban and theole ball coach were failures!!”
So.
A&M 29 -- Bama 24
January 6th, 2013
6:08 pm
Winning your Conference is important only if Bama wins it,
otherwise not so much.
Tide Rising
January 6th, 2013
6:09 pm
“Last year, Saban said Oklahoma State won their Conference
but that was a minor issue,”
Looks like someone gets their news from http://www.fictionalquotes.com
A&M 29 -- Bama 24
January 6th, 2013
6:10 pm
Saban would never “spin” an issue in favor of the Tide,
he is just too ethical.
Tide Rising
January 6th, 2013
6:12 pm
A&M 29 — Bama 24
January 6th, 2013
6:08 pm
Winning your Conference is important only if Bama wins it,
otherwise not so much.
All I know is that we’re the 2011 BCS national champions. You don’t like it? Sucks for you ma’am. You’re welcome to come shine that 2011 BCS trophy for us. It’ll give you a good chance to see what one looks like up close and personal.
A&M 29 -- Bama 24
January 6th, 2013
6:15 pm
SEC Officials
would never compromise a call because Saban was on the sideline.
Tide Rising
January 6th, 2013
6:15 pm
“Saban would never “spin” an issue in favor of the Tide,
he is just too ethical.”
Too bad you can’t back up any of your BS.
Old Dog Class of 80
January 6th, 2013
6:15 pm
“Satan will go down in the anals of history as a winning coach who sold his soul to the devil ”
Moist Dawg – I hope you just can’t spell – I am sur you meant annals when you said anals – unless you are thinking of sodomy.
Tide Rising
January 6th, 2013
6:16 pm
“SEC Officials
would never compromise a call because Saban was on the sideline”
Well of course. Saban has the game officials over for dinner and drinks the night before the game and hands out envelopes of cash to them. Didn’t you know that?
A&M 29 -- Bama 24
January 6th, 2013
6:17 pm
SEC Officials
would never overlook excessive holding by the Tide offensive line.
Tide Rising
January 6th, 2013
6:22 pm
A&M 29 — Bama 24
January 6th, 2013
6:17 pm
SEC Officials
would never overlook excessive holding by the Tide offensive line.
Perhaps you should pay them better like Saban does. BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
01HAWK
January 6th, 2013
6:22 pm
I tell you the jealousy on this blog is so funny. I even have one of my Church members that will not speak to me because I am a BAMA fan.
You GEORGIA fans are hillariously funny. Get a life and realize that BAMA fans are laughing at the comments you make.
Tide Rising
January 6th, 2013
6:24 pm
A&M 29 — Bama 24,
Its been fun but I gotta go. Enjoy living life vicariously through someone else’s win. Its sad and pathetic. But funny nonetheless. And enjoy watching the tide roll to a 3rd BCS national championship in 4 years tomorrow night. I know I’ll enjoy it. Loser.
Tide Rising
January 6th, 2013
6:26 pm
01 Hawk,
Its hilarious to watch the sheer jealousy and anger over Bama’s success. And its sad to watch a guy live vicariously through another team’s win. Still funny though. Anyway I hope the above poster will enjoy watching Bama roll to a 3rd national title in 4 years. I know I will.
Tide Rising
January 6th, 2013
6:27 pm
A&M 29 — Bama 24
January 6th, 2013
6:17 pm
SEC Officials
would never overlook excessive holding by the Tide offensive line.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
Tide Rising
January 6th, 2013
6:29 pm
See you guys later. I’ll be back after our soon to be acquired 3rd BCS title in 4 years. HAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
Athens
January 6th, 2013
6:29 pm
Funny how no alums of UGA or Alabama post nonsense on articles.
Athens
January 6th, 2013
6:32 pm
@01HAWK
Probably because all the Bama “Alums” I know have great respect for UGA and don’t run their mouths…
Paul in NH
January 6th, 2013
6:37 pm
“I even have one of my Church members that will not speak to me because I am a BAMA fan.”
Must be one of those churches that has a different interpretation of the Gospels.
JB
January 6th, 2013
6:44 pm
Tomorrow’s game is an arranged marriage…..With 3 days notice, Texas A&M beats either by two TD’s. They have already whipped Bama at Legion field a few weeks ago.
JB
January 6th, 2013
6:48 pm
Wouldn’t be surprised if Kelly didn’t approach the Head Ref tomorrow during warmups and ask HIM his opinion of what OL holding consists of.
A&M 29 -- Bama 24
January 6th, 2013
6:49 pm
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Alabama is just another one loss team, nothing special.
Wet Willie...keep on smiling
January 6th, 2013
6:57 pm
We might be but we get a chance to take home another glass ball….and your tream ?
Notre Dame is going to play very well. I hope we can get a win. If not then we get on the bus and get back to T-town and start to work again. The new 30 million weight room will be open in early March.
Red Stick
January 6th, 2013
7:02 pm
Bama wins 27-10. Notre Dame is not that impressive. Oregon would have been a better matchup although I think the Tide would beat them too.
Geaux Tigers
Go SEC
Athens Tider
January 6th, 2013
7:03 pm
“Moist Dawg – I hope you just can’t spell – I am sur you meant annals when you said anals – unless you are thinking of sodomy.”
I think Moist Dawg was thinking of sodomy. Maybe that why he’s so moist.
Red Stick
January 6th, 2013
7:07 pm
Moist Dawg attacks anyone who supports any team but UGA. He’s a classless poster who brings nothing to the blogs here.
Geaux Tigers
Go SEC
Chuck
January 6th, 2013
7:10 pm
Don’t ever mention that waste of oxygen with the likes of Bear Bryant and these other fine men again. Barry Switzer is garbage, plain and simple. His teams played stupid in college, and Dallas won a Super Bowl with him at the helm in SPITE of his terrible coaching (that says a lot about the team Jimmy Johnson put together up there). The Cowboys have never been the same since that joke of a human being was named coach by an even bigger joke of a human being.
Delbert D.
January 6th, 2013
7:21 pm
If someone can present a thesis as to why some team other than these two should be in this playoff, we can have a dialectical discussion on it. Maybe Mark can assume the role of Socrates.
Truth
January 6th, 2013
7:33 pm
Let’s all form a circle around moistdawg and give em a big group hug. If that doesn’t work, then a good counselor is the only other answer I have.
Wet Willie...keep on smiling
January 6th, 2013
7:35 pm
Oregon is good no doubt and I am glad Bama doesn’t have to play them. Looks like Chip Kelly will return to the Ducks. I guess Phil Knight will pickup the tab and create more uniforms.
JJ
January 6th, 2013
7:53 pm
I couldnt care less. The Alabama fans have nothing else in that state but football. So sad!!
DawgNole
January 6th, 2013
8:00 pm
Moist Dawg
January 6th, 2013
5:51 pm
I’m just as much of a fan as any of your people. I’m sick of some of you snobs and your personal attacks. We’re on the same side you morons!
Go ahead Dawg “fans” make fun of me all you want but I laugh in your faces for defending nick satan. Sometimes I think I am one of the last, true, old time REAL fans
_____________________
You CANNOT be for real. Good gracious, what a whacko.
it is what it is
January 6th, 2013
8:01 pm
Saban been crying lately, give me a break…he’s crying because he knows it is just a matter of time before the NCAA comes after his player payouts, transcript fraud, etc…Preaching to his players about Honor. Where was the honor when Saban told the Dophins owner he was “all in” while the private plane at the airport was waiting to take him to Alabama.
The ND coach same no class loser too. Lying to his former team about never leaving only for them to find out from reporters while arriving to the team banquet to celebrate an undefeated year.
Some character in that one.
Poopdawg
January 6th, 2013
8:10 pm
If Bama can keep the officials believing their OL never , and I mean never hold and their DBS never hold or cause pass interference then I like Bama big. Hell I would take Vandy over ND if they could get those advantages. Tide rising and Hawk, congrats on your teams success but remember you both have done nothing . Y’all are actually hurting the team you love by being classless jerks!
Brewmaster
January 6th, 2013
9:04 pm
I am a huge fan of the Dogs ( 1983 grad), but I have to say this to Moist Dawg : you are a complete buffoon and I would suspect that most Dog fans on here agree. And please stop telling us what you ” approve” of about the Dogs or anything else. Your approval means nothing. Try using Damp Rid and maybe we will then be rid of Moist.
Getting some
January 6th, 2013
9:26 pm
Moist Dawg
January 6th, 2013
12:46 pm
This game is a matchup of two lightwait teams, one lightwait coach, one crooked sleazball coach, and two below average qbs that couldnt hold Aaron Murrays jock strap.
What a sickening display of “football” we will be forced to sit through. I can’t wait for it to just be over so I can hose off my barf bucket.
_____________________________________________________
I can’t figure out if your are ignorant or just stupid, either way your negative everyone else, over the top UGA approach demonstrates your level of football knowledge. We all have learned that when you post it is like reading a science fiction book but mostly unreadable due to your lack of the common use of the english language. I sure your parents are all proud of you for getting your GED and getting a job down at the factory AND shacking up with your boyfriend.
The funny thing is that no matter how loud you scream, no matter how hard you pout, it does not change the fact that Nick Saban, and Steven Spurrier have had careers others would chop off your fingers for while you are stuck working for the “man” and have zero for a future, just like every other meth head who cannot save a dime each week and live pay check to pay check.
Moist Dawg
January 7th, 2013
12:33 am
getting some, enough with the personal attacks, and for the record, I could buy and sell you before lunch.
Copper
January 7th, 2013
4:24 am
Dawg fan here, Saban showed a huge amount of class after the SEC championship game. He congratulated UGA on a great game and season. Although my coach did not return the same courtesy, I think CMR is a good man, but not on the same level as Saban. This Dawg fan says Roll Tide, well at least for today.
Whiskey Breath
January 7th, 2013
7:30 am
At least he is not a phony Christian. He leads the SEC in graduation, lowest penalties, and kids
staying out of jail. He is a devout Catholic and teaches young men how to be succesful on and off the field. He accepts responsibility when his team comes up short. He doesn’t go over to the student section and take a bow when they win. Instead of letting the media and fans go after a assistant,
he comes to their defense. He doesn’t try to find ways to bring other teams down when he can’t beat them on the field. Basically, he is a real man.
Whiskey Breath
January 7th, 2013
7:41 am
How many times does Bama have to kick your sorry mutt butts before you will give Bama respect?
You have no damn shame, Bama get’s a lot of it’s players right from your back yard.
Instead of holding zipper head accountable, the best you can’t do is say he is cheating.
You are one classless, trash bunch
Makemyday
January 7th, 2013
7:54 am
BEST GAME EVER? Really? I dont even think the best Team in the Nation is in this Game! TEXAS A&M
Just another Beauty Contest for the BSC!
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getting some
January 7th, 2013
8:50 am
Moist Dawg
January 7th, 2013
12:33 am
getting some, enough with the personal attacks, and for the record, I could buy and sell you before lunch
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Look who is talking about Personal Attacks….Mr. LIAR ,,,,YOU COULD NOT BUY A CHEESE SANDWICH WITH 3 DAY OLD BREAD.
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LifetimeTider
January 8th, 2013
7:50 pm
You goobers need to remember this “We’re Alabama, and you aren’t”. There, that takes care of that.