The only reason the Dogs even had a chance of beating Bama is # 1 they were playing @ home and # 2 all the SEC teams that are competitive are cuz they pocess the same kind of speed in all phases of the game. I think the SEC is the BEST conference in College Football, I don't know if its the weather they play in all year or if its home grown talent, staying @ home to play in or around the state they were born, but for some reason the SEC seems to be the most dominant conference year in and year out.. IDK if teams like U of M or OSU get the same quality players / talent from from northern states / schools where they have a strong hold on recruiting kids from within the surrounding northern states like the kids playing down south. :dunno: but it always seems like whenever a Big Ten team plays a team from the South they usually lose or get outplayed because of the speed factor... IDK why that is??
This is something that I have been saying for years. Northern coaches don't seem to understand that speed is every bit, if not more important than size.
Example: Let's say you have an offensive line that averages 350. That sounds awesome, but if all those fat-ass lineman are as slow as snails, the defensive lineman don't have to run over them when they can more easily just run around them. In years past, this was a problem I noticed a lot with Ohio State, but now that they have someone like Urban Meyer, I believe he will bring them back to prominence.
As for your question about why southern athletes seem to be better than northern athletes, IMO, it's because of the enviroment. We have a much warmer climate and because of that, our people are far more active. We have grown accustomed to the heat. Over the years, I've seen stories about Chicago having a lot of people die from heat exposure during the summer months. You never see that down here in Birmingham/Atlanta/Miami/etc. As such, northerners are not as active in the summer months. In the winter, it's much colder and northerners stay inside, so that too limits their activity. Because of all this, southern athletes tend to be slightly smaller with better speed.
one more thing before i go...i want to comment on a couple of bad calls. most bama fans dont cry about spilled milk but i seen to calls or should i say one bad call and one no call..that was BS! 1 was the tip ball...be damn if i seen a tip. when i football is tipped in the air its going to change in direction one way or the other..that one never did. and the bullshit head shot to murry after the play was complete bullshit! in the first degree. coach bear would have sit his ass down a game or two. that is not alabama football! bama fans dont wont a win like that. had that put murry out i would have turned the tv off. and bet your ass i bet nick chewed his ass all the way back to T town
I don't know if the ball was tipped or not, but I have to ask, have the rules been changed? The announcers kept making a big deal about that play being reviewed, but as far as I know, that play was
not reviewable. Aren't reviews limited to turnovers/touchdowns/ball placement?
