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All-American [581]
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For the Alabama Slammers,
Jan 7, 2013, 4:13 PM
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You do realize Frank Howard, Danny Ford and Dabo Swinney are all proud Alabama graduates. Coach Howard a Clemson legend, on the Ring of Honor, Coach Ford brought the only NC to Clemson is still loved by the Tiger faithful, and now Dabo is bringing back respect to Clemson football. For those who refer to Alabama players and fan base as redneck inbreds, think about what you are saying. I would wager none of you would say that to the face of these three men.
Regardless of what you think about Alabama, they have a long history of one of the most successful programs in college football and 8-12 National Titles depending upon whose list you believe. Yes Bama is in the hated SEC of which many Clemson faithful would love to be a member. I don't know if these comments, opinions, and insults are based on stupidity, ignorance or just plain envy.
And how in the he!! can any Southern boy pull for the Irish of ND against Alabama?
Go Bama, ROLL TIDE ROLL
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Roll Tide. They don't need our help though. ND is weak.***
Jan 7, 2013, 4:13 PM
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ND is weak? That is why they're the only undefeated team in
Jan 7, 2013, 4:21 PM
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the country and one of the toughest schedules
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CU Medallion [58609]
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Ohio State***
Jan 7, 2013, 4:30 PM
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110%er [6894]
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toughest schedule? Based on what?
Jan 7, 2013, 4:32 PM
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Michigan State? Flop. OU? Flop. USC? Flop. Yes, pre-season it looked like a hell of a schedule. No so much in reality. And not to mention, they ### near lost about half their games.
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110%er [6894]
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Despite my irrefutable argument, I am for ND.***
Jan 7, 2013, 4:34 PM
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Orange Blooded [3422]
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Orange Blooded [2680]
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Re: Roll Tide. They don't need our help though. ND is weak.***
Jan 7, 2013, 4:35 PM
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CharlestonTom, did you happen to look at Alabama's schedule this year? if not, here it is:
Michigan - overrated Big 10, SC beat them also
Western Kentucky - Wow
Arkansas - another Wow
Florida Atlantic - They have football?
Ole Miss - fairly good
Missouri - overrated
Tennessee - awful this year
Miss State - Ole Miss beat them
LSU - good team, we beat them
Texas A&M - very good team
Western Carolina - Wow
Auburn - Double Wow
Georgia - good team
8 out of the 13 teams they played were bad. They lost to a good Texas A&M team. They should have lost the Georgia game as well as the LSU game. Notre Dame will win this game tonight!
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All-TigerNet [11076]
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I watched them play. I also watched ND play. Based on
Jan 7, 2013, 4:37 PM
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my observations, Alabama is a much better team. I don't give a sh*t what their schedules looked like.
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Orange Blooded [4098]
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Re: I watched them play. I also watched ND play. Based on
Jan 7, 2013, 6:01 PM
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agree Bama is better team.. when ND played OK and won I thought that good!! BUT, then I saw OK and they are just NOT GOOD!!Bama by 14-21 tonight
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CU Medallion [63387]
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Can't pull for either one tonight, including the
Jan 7, 2013, 4:15 PM
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commentators. I am pulling for the refs, the commercials, and the snack-bowl
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Re: For the Alabama Slammers- very successful and get thanks
Jan 7, 2013, 4:15 PM
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for helping write the NCAA rule book. A majority of the rules now in place stopped abuses Alabama was doing
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All-American [581]
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Please cite a couple of those rules.....***
Jan 7, 2013, 4:34 PM
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CU Medallion [68779]
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Re: For the Alabama Slammers- very successful and get thanks
Jan 7, 2013, 4:52 PM
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well giving players scholarships in other sports when the play on the football team comes immediately mind. there hasve been text book irregularities and oversigning is an ongoing issue. Here is some other stuff I found:
NCAA sanctions
In August 1995, the NCAA Infractions Committee found four violations of NCAA rules by the Alabama football program. Alabama cornerback Antonio Langham signed with a sports agent and applied to enter the NFL draft in January 1993, and received deferred-payment loans totaling $24,000. Alabama's football program was placed on probation, suffered scholarship limitations, a one year post-season ban (1995), and forfeiture of eight wins and one tie from the 9–3–1 1993 season.
On February 1, 2002, Alabama was sanctioned for giving recruits cash and other impermissible benefits. The NCAA leads its report with an incident in which a recruiter gave a prospect $20,000 in cash, lodging and entertainment. During the 2000 season, an assistant football coach in Memphis, Tennessee claimed that an Alabama booster had paid him US$50,000 to encourage one of his players to sign with the Crimson Tide.[121] [122] A secret witness was later revealed to be Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer.[123][124] The report includes, paying a high school coach to influence a prospect, violating legislation relating to standards of honesty and cooperation, all expense-paid visits to the campus, giving a football student-athlete an SUV for his time at Alabama, cash payments to various other football players, and several other infractions. Because Alabama was still on Repeat Offender status, the NCAA imposed public reprimand and censured, Alabama received probation from 2002 to 2006, post season ban in 2002 and 2003, loss of 21 scholarships over 3 years, and extension of Alabama's time on the Repeat Offender list. Criminal charges were filed stemming from one of the incidents.[125]
On June 11, 2009, Alabama was sanctioned for impermissible benefits for textbook and supplies related infractions, valued at approximately $40,000, involving 201 student-athletes in 16 of 19 sports, including football. They were forced to vacate 21 wins from the 2005, 2006, and 2007 seasons, pay a $43,900 fine, received a public reprimand and censure, were put on three years probation, ending in June 2012, and remain on the Repeat Offender list until June 2014.[126][127][128] The university stated "none of the textbooks or materials was used for profit or to get items not related to academics, and that the athletes involved who still have eligibility remaining have had to pay restitution."[129] Alabama's appeal of the ruling was unsuccessful.[130]
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Legend [19671]
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We should pull for Nick Satan because Bama is in the South
Jan 7, 2013, 4:15 PM
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and we have a few coaching ties? Seriously??
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Orange Blooded [2413]
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I'd pull for the Taliban over the SEC.***
Jan 7, 2013, 4:18 PM
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110%er [6894]
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LOL. This ^^^***
Jan 7, 2013, 4:35 PM
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Legend [16252]
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Clemson has Bama ties? Who knew?***
Jan 7, 2013, 4:19 PM
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Re: Clemson has Bama ties? Who knew?***
Jan 7, 2013, 4:24 PM
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You forgot to mention the late Charlie Pell who reignited the football program in the late 70's before leaving to take the job at Florida. He left Danny with the talent it took to win the NC in 1981.
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Oculus Spirit [83625]
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let me guess....
Jan 7, 2013, 4:23 PM
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you don't know any Alabama fans?
Alabama fans act the same way whether Saban is the coach or Mike Shula is the coach.
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All-In [25225]
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why is the number of national titles a reason to pull for
Jan 7, 2013, 4:25 PM
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them? should we also pull for the Yankees and Lakers?
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Maybe a sinkhole will swallow both of them!
Jan 7, 2013, 4:33 PM
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I'd hate to miss that.
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110%er [8455]
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I'm pulling against Sakerlina
Jan 7, 2013, 4:38 PM
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Whoever SC is pulling for, I'm pulling against. It's just that simple.
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Orange Blooded [2989]
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Those guys are bandwagon idiots.***
Jan 7, 2013, 5:04 PM
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Orange Blooded [2989]
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I used to always pull for them for that. But...
Jan 7, 2013, 4:41 PM
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that was long before TV networks started their brewhaha and teams were just teams. It affects the pollsters and the numbers, and the SEC has been getting all the voting advantages. When other teams lose competitive games they get knocked down far enough in the polls to keep them out of it, where as, like when UGA got humiliated earlier in the year, they were still on the fringe.
SEC has had too many advantages in the past decade, while other teams lose their shot (because it's the getting to the NC game that matters-- once there, it's almost 50/50 and one game). I just don't think with Bama's history, both good and bad, that they need anymore advantages too.
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Orange Blooded [2989]
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Bump.***
Jan 7, 2013, 5:04 PM
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Commissioner [909]
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Not interested in pulling for anything SEC-related.
Jan 7, 2013, 4:47 PM
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n/a
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Re: For the Alabama Slammers,
Jan 7, 2013, 4:50 PM
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This Southern man does not pull for ND, unless maybe they were playing the coots.
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I pull for whatever helps Clemson...ND winning helps us more***
Jan 7, 2013, 4:54 PM
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110%er [6162]
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With a Bama degree...your opinion doesn't count here***
Jan 7, 2013, 4:54 PM
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All-American [581]
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Yes it does.***
Jan 7, 2013, 8:04 PM
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110%er [7831]
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I like the Alabama Shakes better than the slammers***
Jan 7, 2013, 5:06 PM
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Re: For the Alabama Slammers,
Jan 7, 2013, 6:38 PM
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It's 2013, not 1863 or 1968 or 1990.
Another Alabama win goes a way towards enlarging the disparity between our conference and the SEC, both moneywise and ranking.
A ND win chips away at the wall a little.
I hate them both, but pulling for Bama is pulling against Clemson.
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Re: For the Alabama Slammers,
Jan 7, 2013, 8:12 PM
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Nope, time for the mighty sec to fall.
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