The only thing that separates UT from the Barn is their most recent recruiting class…and thats about it.

…why do y’all go to RTT and TET and wherever to stir up trouble? We get pissed if their regulars do it to us, so extend them the same courtesy that we ask, namely that this is an Alabama blog and it should be a place for Alabama fans to come and discuss the Crimson Tide and whatever else among their fellow fans, not a place for any yahoo with a computer to stir up their rivals. TET is for Auburn fans, leave it to them. RTT is for Tennessee fans, leave it to them.

I have to agree with Todd on this one. I post on TET every now and then but never against Jay – cause I Can’t say anything nice – and the last nine months or so, only civil stuff. I am way past the whole jumping their shit, but quite frankly I enjoying reading some of their authors.

What you said, while your intention was probably good, was perceived as a flame, and I cannot condone that nor support you. Think about if they were posting on our blog, or how they posted when Shula was here (yes, there were a few flamers that pissed us off).

You are better than that, dude.

Y’all keep it down. If Pete hears you went somewhere else to talk football he’s gonna be pissed. Oh crap, here he comes… you didn’t see me…

i just want to thank everyone for understanding what i was saying and backing me up….oh wait..

is that the blogs are not an excuse for a flame war even though many posters/trolls think so. It is a new form of communication, and people hide behind random screennames in order to act however they so choose without a sense of morality supporting their actions. I have been guilty of this in the past. However, if you look at it as a forum for intelligent, educated debate, then it has served it’s true purpose.

The blogs are far more enjoyable when you have Aubies such as Gump and WEA posting opinions and views (along with LSUJonno, Kyle, and others) that follow a civil debate. The same reason I changed my posting habits a good while ago, rather than responding to everything posted at TET and allow myself to be bated by the bad fans (and we all have them), I choose to read and post as fairly and maturely as possible.

I havent been perfect, and I have acted like an ass at times in the past, but I tell you what – I have had the great fortune of meeting a few of the RBR regulars (who have all become very good friends with) and when you put a screenname against someone you are having a beer (or 40) with, this shit becomes real. So much so, you start putting your reputation at risk by behaving badly on the boards.

Bammer, I understand where you are coming from – I really do. You enjoy the debate…I feel ya. But in all honesty, how did you expect them to act? We would have done the same, dude, and you know it. I enjoy your passion, but sometimes you just gott a let it go. It ain’t that deep, really. And this is from someone who has looked like a jackass on more than one occasion.

Bammer, you’re a great dude and all. I think the Falcoholic would benefit from your contributions as RBR has.

However, regardless of your intentions, college rivalries are so bitter, so ingrained, and so organic that it is not a matter of having an informed yet disagreeing opinion; it is a matter of having a disagreeing opinion in the first place.

As Todd stated,

[Regardless of] how "respectfully" you disagree with a Tennessee fan on a Tennessee blog, the fact that you are an Alabama fan disagreeing will never be taken the right way

I love the Tide and would defend my support to the death, but I’m not going to willingly walk into a bar in Knoxville or Auburn and say “You know, your head coach might not be as good as you expect and here’s why.” I’d have bottles thrown at my head.

I’ll equate it to the Falcons/Saints rivalry. As people, Saints fans are great. I have a decent relationship with plenty of Black and Gold supporters. I’ve even helped the Canal Street Chronicles (SBN Saints Blog) work on user statistics and mapping. I do not, however, talk with them about football. It’s impossible. “Impasse” would be the best way to describe it. I don’t tread on them, they don’t tread on me, and we get along.

I do respect your courage and mettle. I just think it’s best if these well informed and, let’s just say it now, correct opinions are left here at RBR. If the RTT and TET guys want to insult us here on the blog, let them. All the more shame to be loaded on their shoulders.

Seriously. Go read what you posted.

Am I the only one in the world that thinks that Lane Kiffin might be the next big bust in college football head coaches.

You just called another team’s guy “the next big bust” in college football. You can’t even pretend like you didn’t know what that was going to do. Coming back here and playing the victim card is really, really weak.

Even if you were right, this is a really tacky way to do it.

You don’t go to your friends’ house and say “Man, your wife sure is packing on the pounds these days, isn’t she?”, do you?

Same thing.

There is one huge problem with this analysis. First, it’s “annual bowl revenue” and not "annual BCS bowl revenue.’ The power conferences send more teams to non-BCS bowls than the MWC or any other conference which doesn’t have an automatic bid to the BCS. For example, the MWC has only four conference tie-ins to bowls (Las Vegas, Poinsettia, Armed Forces, and New Mexico). The ACC has nine: (BCS, Chick-fil-A, Gator, Champs Sports, Music City, Meineke, Emerald, Humanitarian (I think this one has been replaced), and the EagleBank bowl)).
Further, bowls with power conferences pay more on average. Only the Las Vegas pays at least $1 million, whereas 6 pay at least a $1 million for the ACC. This increase had a lot more to do with having more bowl games than anything else. These extra bowl games usually selected teams from the power conferences, because well, a 7-5 Clemson will bring in more money than a 7-5 UTEP. Simply put, even without the BCS, the disparity would still be there. You also can’t argue that it’s collusion just because of a disparity. The Big Ten has nothing to do with the ACC’s selection into the Chick-fil-A bowl and the BCS certainly doesn’t have anything to do with the payouts of non-BCS bowls.
Further, the MWC doesn’t want a playoff. Part of going to a bowl game is the requirement to sell an allotment of tickets. Utah had to sell about 7,500 of their original 17,500 tickets to Alabama fans and the general public in order to ensure they didn’t end up losing money. And that was with four weeks of selling! Now, imagine if they only had one week (a playoff would have to start the very next week and probably have it’s championship around mid-December – like the other NCAA Divisions). Further, imagine if Utah had to do this to the 2-3 rounds of the Championship; now, imagine if one week the game was in Florida, the next in California, the next in New Orleans. It’s unlikely that a team that struggled to sell the allotment for one game will be able to sell it for another two on short notice.
No, the MWC wanted one of two things: an automatic bid of their own or to eliminate automatic bids. The MWC is more mad that Boise St. and TCU did not get in as well. The problem is that the BCS bowls also have long-standing traditional tie-ins with these bowls (example: ACC with the Orange). I’m not hearing the MWC willing to give up the Las Vegas bowl to replace a tie-in. The MWC is just being disingenuous when they said they wanted a playoff.