“DEBUNK THIS GOT 13″

“Some places they play football at Alabama we live it”. The TIDE is by far the most successful college football program ever in the history of college football! Now, it is 2010 The CRIMSON TIDE is the current National Champion they have more NATIONAL TITLES than anyone else. Alabama has made 57 post-season appearances which is more than any other team in history which they hold that spot in front of Texas who has 49 post-season appearances! Bama is tied only with USC with 31 post-season wins! Alabama is the only college football program that owns winning records against all of its in-conference rivals both past and present! Not only that, but Alabama has accomplished all the greatness while being in the most powerful conference in the history of college football  … the all mighty SEC! So haters go ahead and argue against the facts and believe what you want we know the facts and the TIDE will continue to rise ” this is just the beginning”. The crimson tide will continue to dominate like it has over the years, yes it has had is down years but still no other team has come close in overtaking our spots in the record books. We will continue with pride honoring our outstanding traditions, concentrating on continuing to dominate the state, wining SEC championships and wining National championships. Because in Tuscaloosa, the crystal football is back where it belongs

In this day and time people want to question or “debunk” Alabama’s national championships, First of all, Alabama can legitimately claim 13 national championships with as much right as any other school that claims titles dating back to the 1800’s.. I don’t see ignorant people “debunking” Notre Dame’s, Princeton’s, Yale’s, Michigan’s, and Southern California’s titles. All of these schools claim to have more championships than are listed, but just because I tell people I am the best does not make it true. The championships are based on actual polls and it depends on when you acknowledge the “official” start of a National Championship each school can accurately claim they have the most National Champion Titles! The official national championship of college football did not begin until the BCS, prior there were numerous organizations that awarded championships, The Dickinson System was the first to gain widespread national public and media acceptance as a “major selector”, according to the NCAA Football Records Books. None of them were more legitimate than the other. Starting in 1869 through 1935 the National Championship Foundation awarded national championships. In 1883 through 1935 the Helms Athletic Foundation awarded national championships. In 1919 through 1935 College Football Researches Association awarded national championships. In 1936 the Associated Press Poll and in 1950 the Current Coaches Poll were added to the formula in deciding and are still being used today. In 1954 the Football Writers Association of America and in 1959 the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame were added to the mix in deciding the national champion. Since 1998 the BCS was created, BCS relies on a combination of polls including the AP poll, the Coach’s poll and computer selection methods to determine relative team rankings, and to narrow the field to two teams to play in the BCS National Championship. In the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s is was difficult to determine a National Champion, polls during that time since they were awarding championships before a bowl game was ever played. Championships during that time were considered “mythical national champions”, “national poll champions”, “and consensus national champions”. The “Mythical national champion” was a term used since before 1940 for a championship won by a NCAA division I football team. Especially for titles won before the current BCS system which began in 1998. Before the BCS, polls awarded championships, the coaches and/or sport writers voted, such as the AP, UPI and USA today polls, they all have combined during the early years to awarded championships. This led to seasons in which two or even more teams could claim to have won a national championship. The NCAA record book also recognizes “consensus national championships” as championships given to teams since 1950 by any poll, but not necessarily all of the following: the Associated Press, United Press International, Football Writers Association of America, National Football Foundation/College Football Hall of Fame, USA Today/CNN or USA Today/ESPN. On another list in The NCAA record book t also recognizes the “national poll champions” which started way back in the 1900’s it also awarded a national champion before a bowl game was ever played, bowl games didn’t start till the 1902 season, the 1902 Rose bowl, was played between Michigan and Stanford. Michigan won 49-0. It ended when Stanford requested to end the game with 8 minutes left to go in the game and Michigan agreed. That game was so lopsided that the game was not played annually until 1916, when the Tournament of Roses decided to reattempt the postseason game. The term “bowl” originates from the shape of the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, California. The NCAA started recognizing championships in 1936. They did not name the champion; they just recognized who was named champion per whatever poll was in place during that year. Alabama has 13 officially recognized national championships by the NCAA additionally there are like 4 or 5 more that are unofficial according to the NCAA. Princeton has something like 24 but 19 of those came in the 1800′s when there were only 3 or 4 teams. IF you look at their record from the first championships they won with a record of 1-0 or 2-0. They still claim them where are the haters “debunking” them? The University of Alabama has 13 NCAA recognized National Championships: 1925, 1926, 1930, 1934, 1941, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1973, 1978, 1979, 1992, and 2009. So please tell me why people continue to “debunk” Alabama’s championships? Share the hate with the other teams that claim the same championships over the years that they were awarded don’t get mad because you cannot win a championship or praying that the NCAA gives you one…. This is going to be the never-ending story of college football, which team who can or can’t claim a title that was awarded to them by a poll that was called upon and created to award a national champion during the era of a non BCS system. due to the vague ranking systems that have been in place since 1920 when the first poll was created by an economics professor with the university of Illinois, because a sense of urgency started setting in to justifiably determine a national champion, confusion on how to declare a champion is constant debate, Until NCAA starts holding a Championship Game after a legitimate playoff there will never be a true champion in the eyes of the teams who are left out of the BCS title game with equal records!!!!!!

“2010 FOOTBALL SEASON”

Football season is approaching less than a month away, fall camps are opening this week. It is Time to get down to business, Show off and prove to the head coach, show them who deserve to start and who deserves to sit. I am looking forward to sharing my thoughts and rants this year’s upcoming season. I want to know your thoughts and predictions for this upcoming season.

“Time For a change” part2

So as I previous blogged “It’s time for a change” and as more news and rumors have surfaced I have decided to write “part 2.” In the south we know that football season in approaching fast when the all of the SEC gather in Birmingham Alabama to kick off the SEC media days. SEC football media days is a three-day event that is held at the Wynfrey Hotel. The event started small, a way for reporters to inform fans on how their team is doing since last season and continues to grow bigger every year. Beginning 25 years ago, media flooded in to Birmingham each summer for interviews with SEC football players and coaches. Along the way it has grown bigger and a major event that we all look forward to as SEC fans. Coach Nick Saban kicked off the event as the first coach to speak. Of course the media will ask anything, Coach Nick Saban made a startling confession. He eats two Debbie Cakes and has two cups of coffee each morning. He watches cooking shows while channel surfing but us true bama fans already knew this about him. This wasn’t the big story at Wednesday’s SEC Media Days. The theme was the effect agents are having on college football. Coaches talked a big game Wednesday. Saban was said to have  had the money quote. “I don’t think it’s anything but greed that is creating it right now on behalf of the agents,” Saban said. “Agents that do this, I hate to say this, but how are they any better than a pimp? I have no respect for people who do that to young people, none.” Talk around the league is Suggesting the possibility of banning NFL scouts from campuses as a way to pressure the league into taking action. Would this not hurt the players they trying to help, and it could harm the programs. If NFL scouts were banned in SEC, other schools could use it to their advantage, mentioning in its recruiting pitch that it welcomes NFL scouts. Many coaches spoke about the continued problem. Coach Urban Meyer railed against a system that allows a player to be punished but leaves agents free to actually profit from their illegal contacts. Michael Lawrence “Mike” Slive is the current commissioner of the Southeastern Conference. Meanwhile, Slive continued to work the NCAA rules with a fine tooth comb, slashing league’s governing body. The triple attack from the SEC’s three biggest guns on the opening of SEC media days gives us an indication that the league finds itself under siege. If you’re a fan of an SEC team that has not yet been implicated, take no pride in your rivals  misfortune. Before long your team is going to be implicated as well. Most fans take pride into slashing others when the media surfaces with rumors that a college is being investigated due to illegal contact with NFL agents. I have been one to do so and after this multi school investigation has taken place I decide to take a different approach. That brings me to the NFL and NFLPA, the national football league players association which does have a measure of power. The organization does not tolerate agents paying college players. NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith said “Any agent or contract advisor who does that and preys upon kids like that are in college is something we’re going to deal with extremely aggressively.” Most states can charge runners or marketers with a felony for acting as an agent without a state license. The only people who can stop those wanna bees work in law enforcement.  Until law enforcement agencies begin treating agents and runners the way they treat actual pimps, nothing is going to change.

NCAA it is “TIME FOR A CHANGE”

If you follow college football you are aware of the wide spread Probes by the NCAA regarding college football players. With all of the investigations leading back to one player and his tweets, North Carolina senior defensive tackle Marvin Austin from Washington, DC appears to be a central figure in the growing NCAA investigation into possible improper dealings between agents and college football players. He is considered one of the top defensive tackles available in the 2011 NFL draft by all analysts, and of course that locks him in as a huge target for the scouts and their runners who have the attitude that they are untouchable. The scouts surround themselves with a handful of runners in attempt to protect themselves. No action has been taken at this time by the NCAA as they continue to gather information. Sources close to the University of North Carolina athletic department advised Marvin Austin will ultimately be suspended for his entire senior year due to alleged NCAA violations involving extra benefits from agents and marketing representatives. According to sources with knowledge of the situation, the next time we will see Marvin Austin is at the NFL scouting combine. Austin is not the only North Carolina player to face punishment. The probe became public about a week ago after NCAA investigators visited the campus in Chapel Hill. The NCAA officials have interviewed several North Carolina for alleged rule violations. Austin also is close friends with University of South Carolina tight end Weslye Saunders, and Alabama’s defensive end Marcell Dareus, who are also being investigated by the NCAA. The reports are continuing to multiply as the NCAA expands their investigations more names are surfacing. The Crimson Tide’s compliance staff is investigating if UA defensive end Marcell Dareus broke NCAA rules by attending the agent-related party in Florida earlier this summer. When Dareus made a recruiting visit to North Carolina during his senior year at Huffman High School, his host was Austin, who was a freshman at that time. The two became close friends. They kept in contact and as Alabama rolled last fall toward an undefeated season and their 13^th National Championship, Austin said if the Tide won the national championship, he would pay for a trip for Dareus anywhere. As Dareus’s mother lay dying in her Birmingham home, Marcell Dareus couldn’t cope, he needed to get away. it was the middle of May, and Spring classes were over. Summer classes and football conditioning wasn’t starting till early June. He gets the invitation from a friend to fly to Miami. The chance to hang out in South Beach sounded good, (hell any trip to the beach sounds good to me), and Dareus went with his good friend Austin.

With all that being said I will be the first to tell you “YES” the player should know better. Universities all over the United States pay damn good money to have a compliance staff. The job of the compliance staff is to educate players and their families on potential illegal contact from NFL scouts, agents, and among several other things. When is the NCAA going to step in and punish these scouts and agents for them illegally contacting college athletes? When is the NFL going to step in and put a stop to it? I believe all coaches should step up and ban them from the college campuses.  It is time to ban NFL teams from college campuses in order to get the NCAA to take this seriously. The issue is that agents are boldly breaking NCAA regulations and the players are the ones getting in trouble. Most college campuses are considered as welcoming schools to NFL scouts, who may come watch video at almost any time. It is Time for coaches to put a stop to it. NCAA needs to rethink their rules! They need to inform the NFL if an agent does anything to affect the eligibility of a college football player, his license ought to be suspended for a year and fined. Also the players have a responsibility to make good choices and decisions about what they do with the agents and student-athletes must be held responsible for decisions they make. How many 18-21 year olds are going too turned down “free beach trips”, “New Rides”, or a 100 grand? If the NCAA would re-examine the rules that relate to agents and put some responsibility on the agent then it would stop these guys illegally contacting college athletes.

Time to be heard!!!!!

Alright, this is new to me I have been a follower of blogs but never ventured out to write my own. I am a huge college football fan, and die-hard Alabama fan (ROLL TIDE ROLL). I have been following college football for quite some time. I am a member of many forums, and always have been just a follower. That being said I have been following college football extra close this year and looking forward to sharing my thoughts about college football, the occasional rants, and of course the Alabama crimson tide.

Hello world!

welcome to my blog!!!!! looking forward to discussing not only Alabama football but college football in general. Also the occasional off the wall topics with some much needed RANT………. stay tuned a lot more to come