All of us here at 3SiB have been pretty slack in our posting and we want to apologize to all of our readers (Mom). It’s been pretty lean news-wise with just the periodic early commitment for next season’s recruiting class and the half-hearted attempts at mocking. But then Auburn, as always, rides to the rescue.
Today, we were tossing around ideas, and we had a discussion about some comments Tommy Tuberville had regarding this not new teleconferencing thing Saban is credited with not inventing. Namely, that Tuberville thinks it’s a great idea, won’t be doing it. So we got into a debate, me saying that not doing it was irresponsible and short-sighted, others saying Auburn has done fine the past six years and that’s enough proof of things to come. We never agreed (I’m right), but decided to offer it to you. Feel free to weigh in, but first, you have to check this out. I was searching for the quotes from Tuberville for this article, and was directed via al.com to this proud website:
This site is everything Tide fans love about Auburn. Ugly, obsessive, and contains fewer references to Auburn than it does Bama, including the title. If you don’t feel like counting, just look at the ads. All for Bama products.
Not all Auburn fans are like this–there’s probably even one who knows something about Auburn–but it’s sites like this that make it easy to stereotype. It also provides me one more point of comfort: Auburn fans are so proud of only alumni supporting their program, looking down upon Alabama for having so many fans that never took a class at the University. Well, when your fans post things like this, distancing yourself from their education is a bit easier when you don’t share it. Don’t make me post a Kenny Irons interview. I’ll do it, I swear.
Ball, Kenny. Ball? Say Ball. Ba-ll.
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Tubbs will only use teleconferencing if it’s a three star recruit with high character.
I don’t think he’ll use it because what’s the point? He already knows which kids he’s going to sign, and he always gets the ones he wants.
I didn’t see any posts about the Draft…
http://cfn.scout.com/2/745648.html
This made me chuckle, thought I would share it…
Look at all those references to LA MO…
A good coach does not lose to LA MO, even Brooks wouldn’t let it happen to him, he has dignity.
Your title generated some strange related posts. Unless it’s Tubb’s fault that Shell has polluted Barbados. But we know that’s not true. It’s Saban’s fault.
You and I are getting a completely different set of results. All three of mine were Auburn related, though fittingly, one included Alabama (sharing the cover of NCAA 09 for the Wii), one was about streaking at Auburn in the 70s (those are pictures even Google won’t show you), and one complaining that Auburn doesn’t get enough respect for beating Florida.
“They have soft toilet paper and every kind of toilet paper and they are all throwing it at a tree. I was like ‘Why are they throwing all of this toilet paper at a tree?,’ and they told me that they were rolling Toomer’s corner. I asked who is going to clean all of this mess up and they told me that the wind would blow it all away or the rain would wash it down. They said sometimes they have people come clean it up and I said that I wouldn’t want to have to clean up all of this toilet paper.”
Kenny Irons owes me a new pair of jeans. Wow. Just–wow. I mean, that guy seriously went to college? Are you kidding me? I’m going Jim Mora on this one: “We just got our ass totally kicked. We couldn’t do diddly-poo grammatically. We couldn’t make a coherent statement. We couldn’t make sense, we didn’t try to make sense. We couldn’t complete a thought. We sucked.”
That, my friend, is just one of the many offerings in public speech that Kenny Irons has given us. There’s always his feelings on traveling with his own midget, which aren’t as family-friendly as we try to be here. Some of the best material, though, is the synergy that comes with joint interviews with his brother David. Hearing David explain the difference in a football and a banana…I just don’t have the words. Thankfully, he did.
Video conferencing - yes.
Victories against Auburn the past six years - no.
I’m guessing, Moondog, that you fall in the camp that says doing something new is bad because it retroactively had no impact?
Not at all, in fact I’m all for developing new technologies and innovative thinking. I’m merely stating fact. Saban is using video conferencing and Tuberville isn’t. Auburn has owned you guys for six straight years without using video conferencing to communicate with recruits. It’s that simple.
You’re drawing a correlation between unrelated things. Or at best, you’re saying that Tuberville doesn’t need to keep up with the times because the past was good to him. If so, I’ll give you a really good deal on a Betamax VCR.
How is it unrelated? Are you suggesting that Tuberville has recruited players without video conferencing? Are not those players he’s recruited on the field when Auburn plays?
For you to suggest it isn’t related is absurd. You just don’t want to admit that Tuberville has used old school methods to recruit players that are clearly better than Alabama’s. The proof is the record against the Tide.
Ask yourself this. Would video conferencing with a recruit win you a game? The point I’m trying to make is it doesn’t matter how you recruit. The trick obviously is to get guys that win games on Saturday’s. Auburn has done that and Alabama, at least against Auburn, hasn’t.
It absolutely matters how you recruit. Tuberville has won the past six years with recruiting classes that were stronger than Alabama’s. This past recruiting season, despite his sixth win in a row, he lost out 100% of the time he went head to head with Alabama. Tuberville can talk all he wants about getting the class he wanted, but he can’t deny that he went after a lot of kids that he didn’t get because they’d rather play for Saban. And it’s already happening again this year. No one was video-conferencing last year–or at least, not in any appreciable way–so to say that Tuberville wasn’t doing it last year is irrelevant. Getting the best recruits absolutely matters and in probably 90% of the interviews with kids after they commit, the first reason they give is that they were comfortable with the coach. Right now, one coach in the state is getting to know the recruits. And one of them has said he already sees them enough as it is. Which of those two coaches do you want leading your team? The one working his tail off for the future, or the one who thinks the PAST six years are good enough? I’m not saying he needs to be afraid of Saban. I’m saying he needs to start acting like the coaches that have won a national championship instead of just whining that he wasn’t given one.