BTW, Ohio State fans trying to falsely equate the Bama loss to LSU with what the Buckeyes plopped against Purdue last year and Iowa the season before – especially those who dared to whine that the world is out to get your upstart program that never gets a break – almost all of this applies to you, too …
I don’t care about Alabama.
The sports information department is great, I’ve made plenty of media friends around the program over the years, and Saban is actually a whole lot cooler than you think. But even though a College Football Playoff without Alabama would be like Thanksgiving without the turkey – seriously, a bucket of chicken is SO much better – whatever. Win your division.
I do get the screaming about the process. For the umpteenth time, I’m with you, everyone, on conference champs needing to be in the playoff. However, what I don’t get is the blind anger out there towards the program and the accomplishments under Saban.
Thanks to the social media world, it’s easy for opposing fans to get lazy.
There’s a media conspiracy to pump up Alabama. ESPN is in on it because it has a vested interest in the SEC. The College Football Playoff is rigged. It’s all a deep state thing to make sure Saban and the Tide get every break for ratings, because there’s a bias towards the SEC, and …
ENOUGH.
It’s one thing to be sick of Alabama, but there’s a reason everyone in the media gushes over this program.
Really? You’re going to make me do the resumé thing by pointing out Saban’s six SEC titles while at Alabama, five national championships, four straight national championship appearances, and how the program is probably two plays and a Tim Tebow epic fourth quarter away from winning three other national titles?
I still argue that the 2011 and 2017 teams had no business playing for the national championships, and then I’m politely reminded that they won them.
It’s not like Alabama is whizzing away its chances. Under Saban, it has never been 2001 Nebraska, or 2003 Oklahoma – who lost to Saban’s LSU team – or 2007 Ohio State, who all caught mega-breaks and lost in their respective national championships. And why?
Talent. You want to know the real reason why the media is all in on Bama? Along with the consistent winning …
63 players have been drafted over the last seven years with 26 first rounders over the last nine drafts. In the Saban era, you could almost have a first round made up entirely of Crimson Tide players. This program – along with Ohio State – is just more consistently freakishly talented than anyone else.
It doesn’t mean you have to like it, so …