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Mild gripe. ND and Oklahoma were throughly and obviously dominated in the first halves of their games. Oklahoma had every bit as hopeless a start as Pitt had in the Clemson game. The announcers in both games were no where near as mocking toward these teams as they were toward Pitt. Frankly it should be far, far more deserving for Oklahoma and ND, both blue bloods, both with boosters lavishing payola on top prospects, to be mocked for terrible performances, vs a team with 2 star jabronies like ours that just sort of pretends. They are both as 100% balls-in on football as Bama and Clemson; it's a disgrace that they both were so outclassed.
And Oklahoma even repeated our delay to start the second half!
No other programs are anywhere near Bama and Clemson in terms of institutional commitmt to football. And it shows. OSU is close, which is why they are in the CFP most of the time.
Relatively speaking though, Oklahoma and ND dedication to football is about, conservatively, a trillion percent more than Pitt
We will continue to disagree on this one, I don’t see Ohio St anywhere near the big 3 (Alabama, Clemson, Georgia) the last few years.
I think Oklahoma would’ve beaten them relatively comfortably had they met this year.
Here is how much talent Alabama has:
Najee Harris is the best HS RB I have ever seen in person. (I never saw Dorsett.) He is from Antioch in Northern California, but I saw him play twice in the LA area. Unbelievable size and speed. He was the Rivals number one overall player in the Class of 2017. I thought it was a slam dunk he would be a starter for 3 years at Alabama, then jump to the NFL. He still likely will jump to the NFL after next year, but for two years at Alabama, he has shared time with two other TBs, and he isn’t the starter.
By the way, although they offered him, I was told by someone who is right about these things most of the time that he wouldn’t have been admitted to Cal, Stanford, UCLA or USC. Antioch is close to Concord De La Salle, and most of the top HS players in that area go there. But, he went to Antioch Senior HS because he couldn’t get admitted to De La Salle. At Alabama, of course, getting in was not an issue.
Najee Harris is the best HS RB I have ever seen in person. (I never saw Dorsett.) He is from Antioch in Northern California, but I saw him play twice in the LA area. Unbelievable size and speed. He was the Rivals number one overall player in the Class of 2017. I thought it was a slam dunk he would be a starter for 3 years at Alabama, then jump to the NFL. He still likely will jump to the NFL after next year, but for two years at Alabama, he has shared time with two other TBs, and he isn’t the starter.
By the way, although they offered him, I was told by someone who is right about these things most of the time that he wouldn’t have been admitted to Cal, Stanford, UCLA or USC. Antioch is close to Concord De La Salle, and most of the top HS players in that area go there. But, he went to Antioch Senior HS because he couldn’t get admitted to De La Salle. At Alabama, of course, getting in was not an issue.
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Thought they went a little vanilla on offense. It’s their biggest edge, I would’ve thought they’d push it a little more.
Oklahoma's gonna be sick about how poorly they played in the first quarter. They've outscored Bama 27-10 since then, but 28 points is just too much to overcome. They need a turnover in the worst way, preferably a pick 6.
They shouldn't be. Bama laid off the gas for a little bit and had mental mistakes. This outcome could have been much worse.
All the credit to Reilly and Oklahoma, they fought like hell in the 2nd half. Bama is just on another level.
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Correct. After that debacle at the end of the first half where Bama had 4 straight idiotic penalties in the red zone including one that took a TD off the board and another that would’ve been a 1st and goal, and Saban went apoplectic, slammed his headset and started berating players, something changed. None of them would even stop and face him when he was screaming at them, they just put their heads down and walked past him while he screamed at their backs. The body language and energy was negative. Whatever St. Nick said to his team at halftime, it was not well received. They should’ve been up at least 35-9 at tha half. It reminded me of the scene in All The Right Moves where Craig T Nelson berated his team and singled out the Vooch at halftime, causing them to basically quit on him.
The only school that requires you gain admission prior to being offered is Stanford. There is very little wiggle room to get a football player admitted that isn't based upon his academic record. The job they've done since Harbaugh has been nothing short of excellent. Their recruiting pool is unbelievably small.
Notre Dame likes to see a 2.85 core prior to offering.
No one else has any higher admission standard than the other. If you're cleared by the NCAA and you can play, you're as eligible at WVU as you would be at PITT, psu, Duke, OSU, Bama, etc.
I know that most of you know this, but Joe Namath couldn’t get into Pitt, PSU or Maryland, so of course Alabama it was.
And if they weren't athletes, 95% of them would never get accepted to Stanford. No question they recruit good students, but they aren't judged by the same criteria as non-athletes. Not even close.
The counter argument is that any top HS player with good grades is an easy recruit for Stanford.
tO$U is closer to Pitt than Alabama, Clemson and Georgia. I would think they are more likely to move closer to Pitt going forward.
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