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    Yea, I'm thinking Alabama has definitely reached the level of the analogy with Dorsey's Hurricanes of the early part of the 21st century. They have went from great college football team to Masters of the Universe. I'm sure they're starting to think the same thing. That's when things start to go wrong, terribly wrong.
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    Quote Originally Posted by traderumor View Post
    Yea, I'm thinking Alabama has definitely reached the level of the analogy with Dorsey's Hurricanes of the early part of the 21st century. They have went from great college football team to Masters of the Universe. I'm sure they're starting to think the same thing. That's when things start to go wrong, terribly wrong.
    Things will go terribly wrong when others poach Saban's braintrust to a point it effects the corpporate memory too severely, the NCAA spanks them if they're cheating, or Saban loses his drive.

    Think Dabo losing his brain (Chad Morris) @ Clemson, or Meyer's culture and recruiting finally eating the Gator program up from the inside.

    In other words, something has to change for them to go from +1 to 0 or -1 on the sine curve. Right now they are a machine but there is only one way to go on the sine curve for them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by traderumor View Post
    Yea, I'm thinking Alabama has definitely reached the level of the analogy with Dorsey's Hurricanes of the early part of the 21st century. They have went from great college football team to Masters of the Universe. I'm sure they're starting to think the same thing. That's when things start to go wrong, terribly wrong.
    While I'm uncertain about the demise, it does seem we've reached some kind of hyperbole saturation point with regards to Alabama and the SEC as whole. There's no doubt that the conference is far and away the best. And anyone willing to argue otherwise is delusional.

    But all of the hype - the Alabama/Denver Broncos betting line, the incessant shouting down of anyone suggesting an SEC team won't win the 2014 National Championship ("the real question is, would another non-SEC team even score in the MNC?!?!1?"), the perceived (right or wrong) extreme ruggedness of the SEC schedule (say what you will, the bottom six teams are middling) - starts feeding itself. It's a positive feedback loop. With the much celebrated eight teams in the Top 25, most conference victories automatically qualify now as big victories.

    In a sport so dominated by subjective analysis (even the computer rankings are highly contingent), how can we ever move from this paradigm? Wining games doesn't necessarily seem like the answer (2013 interconference win percentages: SEC - .833, B10 - .766, ACC - .767, P12 - .853, B12 - .733 [link]). I suppose it's likely the seven consecutive championships, but I yearn for the days when it was conceivable that the entire football constellation didn't revolve around Mike Slive's Birmingham office. Again, I reitterate, the SEC is the dominant college football conference, but can't we return to rational conversation?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jojo View Post
    Things will go terribly wrong when others poach Saban's braintrust to a point it effects the corpporate memory too severely, the NCAA spanks them if they're cheating, or Saban loses his drive.

    Think Dabo losing his brain (Chad Morris) @ Clemson, or Meyer's culture and recruiting finally eating the Gator program up from the inside.

    In other words, something has to change for them to go from +1 to 0 or -1 on the sine curve. Right now they are a machine but there is only one way to go on the sine curve for them.
    It could be anything, it just happens. Even machines break down or become obsolete, and I've observed that it usually happens about this time for the invincibles. Especially in the crazy world of college athletics, when one jilted lover of the program snitches and the walls come tumbling down. NO ONE gets on top and stays on top without collateral damage. The collateral damage is like an episode of Cold Case, just waiting for the clue to be found. Its not if, but when. And I think its close. Saban knows it. The highlights of the screaming to get the machine fired up--its close. And mighty was the fall.
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    Quote Originally Posted by traderumor View Post
    It could be anything, it just happens. Even machines break down or become obsolete, and I've observed that it usually happens about this time for the invincibles. Especially in the crazy world of college athletics, when one jilted lover of the program snitches and the walls come tumbling down. NO ONE gets on top and stays on top without collateral damage. The collateral damage is like an episode of Cold Case, just waiting for the clue to be found. Its not if, but when. And I think its close. Saban knows it. The highlights of the screaming to get the machine fired up--its close. And mighty was the fall.
    Well if Texas can be mediocre, any program can be mediocre.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jojo View Post
    Well if Texas can be mediocre, any program can be mediocre.
    Good example. Every program gets saturated at some point. I think its just the nature of things, which makes me laugh when folks talk about Alabama as if this is just going to be the norm unless Western culture falls off the face of the earth.
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    Quote Originally Posted by traderumor View Post
    Good example. Every program gets saturated at some point. I think its just the nature of things, which makes me laugh when folks talk about Alabama as if this is just going to be the norm unless Western culture falls off the face of the earth.
    I think to be fair, it's only Bama fans that truly talk like Bama will reign for a 1000 years. They have never understood that Tuscaloosa is actually not the center of the universe. I don't think many people outside of Bama fans think the Crimson Tide are bullet proof. I think they'd lose to Oregon by double digits this year and I don't think they emerge from the SEC undefeated.

    Some of that "pride" is unique to the South (for many years football was one of the few sources of pride for the state of Alabama), some of it is the swagger associated with tradition of a historically succesful program and lets face it there is ALOT of storied football tradition and chronic success jammed into the short distance between Auburn and Tuscaloosa. For a population that tends to spend 95% of it's lifespan within 100 miles of their birthplace, it's pretty easy to ignore the rest of the world.
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    I seriously don't understand how every Ohio State thread eventually devolves into discussion about the SEC.
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    I seriously don't understand how every Ohio State thread eventually devolves into discussion about the SEC.
    It might have something to do with OSU fans discussing a national championship?
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    It might have something to do with OSU fans discussing a national championship?
    Which is why a playoff can't come fast enough. Any system that can have a team go undefeated and not even have a chance to advance to a championship game is a flawed system.
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    Daughter Lizzy is in the south stands Block O this season.

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    Football is a total joke. That wasn't even a penalty on Roby and he gets ejected? Completely livid right now. That stupid rule needs to be elimated by next Saturday.

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    Doesn't look like the defense got any better over the bye week. I think they've run a bootleg pass to a TE about 5 times so far. No adjustments

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hillsdale87 View Post
    Doesn't look like the defense got any better over the bye week. I think they've run a bootleg pass to a TE about 5 times so far. No adjustments
    It's awful. Really was hoping for some type of growth, but same crap.

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    Something that has been great to see is Braxton as a passer. I used to cringe when he would drop back to throw the ball. His arm strength is impressive, and his accuracy has been surprising. Even on the pass that was broken up in the end zone on 4th down, his pass was in a perfect spot


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