Recent Comments

Rumor has it that Metallica is writing a new song, entitled "Enter Sam Rogers."

Every night, before he goes to sleep, the Sandman checks his closet and under his bed.....for Sam Rogers

David Wilson went to eat Chic-fil-A on Sundays (natch) only to find Sam Rogers already there

It's played at the Richmond Coliseum, not the Siegel Center. The Coliseum seats about 13k. I know VCU fans are eager to play and beat us, so it may sell out, but I doubt it will be 'fast.'

O/U: 10 wins.

Agree with you 100% Horse. Whether you love or hate him, Saban is legit and a transcendental figure in the way he approaches the game. Andy Staples has a great article about the "Sabanization of College Football " and about how he approaches the game and the kids. He is a CEO and runs the program as such. He also focuses A LOT on soft skills like the mental side of the game.

He isn't my favorite person, but I have a huge amount of respect for what he's done and how good he is at it.

And as a secondary thought, what would happen if Wang snapped to Hollodick?

I don't disagree with your point about the cyclical nature of program strength, but I think the examples you provide, in retrospect, all had predictable declines. Any program that has a great CEO-type coach will be a strong program, but I think it takes skilled position coaches and coordinators to make a football team great.

USC seems to me to be a program that was probably skirting the rules all along (same with Ohio State). Once their CEO left, it was up to someone else to pick up the pieces. If you saw Pony Exce$$, the Ron Meyer situation reflects this perfectly.

Texas is a great program and will always be pretty good. Even though they haven't been great recently, it took Vince Young to bring the national championship (much like, I think, it took MV7 to get us to the MNC game once). A good program can win the MNC with a transcendent player. We saw this with Auburn, too, and, again, I think they were skirting the rules all along.

But Alabama seems to be on the up and up, has a coach who might be the best in CFB history, and shows no signs of slowing down. It will take Saban leaving before that team declines. That isn't to say they'll win it all every year, but they're going to be preseason top three until he isn't there anymore.

Hooray for Information Awareness briefings!

I like them too and would love to see them stay. I don't like when uniforms are constantly changing. But for real....if they actually read this forum they would know where we stand on the helmet issue. I think recruits like the changing helmet thing unfortunately.

Apparently Beamer really likes the unis we wear now. They were originally only supposed to be throwbacks worn for one game in '08 but then he kept choosing to wear them and they eventually became the official jersey

Well, I think the offense also doesn't get to dictate who the defense blocks either - if you are doing something that could be illegal based upon what the defender does, and you do it every play regardless of what the defender does, then you're expecting to chop block at some point during the game. The onus to follow the rules is on the player that the rules apply to. It isn't on the defender to not get dangerously chop blocked. It's on the offense not to do it. Paul Johnson disregards this, and plows ahead anyway, knowing that they don't get called reliably anyhow, and that makes him dirty.