Alabama vs. Michigan in 2012?
Very interesting to say the least...
ed. - As awesome as this would be, I'm going to keep my skeptical hat on for the moment for two reasons:
1) As Cook points out, that would leave Michigan with only 6 home games, and even considering the money made from the TV deal would likely mitigate any real monetary losses from losing a home game, big time programs are still loathe to drop below seven home games.
2) From the Alabama side, we've heard plenty of rumors of a 2012 opener in Dallas (UCLA and Texas Tech being the two biggest), so it seems a little odd that such a huge match up could have been kept quiet for so long (according to Cook, the deal will be inked tomorrow). Still, we've been looking for a big name OOC opponent for 2012 and UM certainly fits the bill. Guess we'll know more soon.
UPDATE: Estes tried to run down a source at UA to confirm or deny the Michigan rumors, and all he can get is that the matchup is "being considered" but no deal is close to being finalized at this point. Like I said before, we've heard rumors about several different teams and locations for the 2012 opener, so it would be highly unlikely that inking a deal with Michigan would have been kept under wraps right up 'til the deal is signed.
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Linking Brian Cook is a bannable offense
that aside, I would love to see this, even though I have doubts that RichRod will still be there in 2012.
"Yeah, it's Tennessee, that's the way it is sometimes." - Corey Zickefoose, Pulitzer Prize winner and robbery victim
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day." - Dean Martin
by Thomas Walker Esq on Aug 8, 2010 1:49 PM CDT reply actions
Yeah, I love
the way they took the opportunity to show the loss. Would not happen now….not by a loooongshot. I agree, Rich Rod won’t be around much longer, unless, he pulls a rabbit out of his …
"...because you've got your mind right, and that's the way we like it." Nick Saban
Imagine the blogging tension
if this were to happen! I’m not foreseeing any friendly roundtable discussions or anything…
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by RememberTheRoseBowl on Aug 8, 2010 2:42 PM CDT reply actions
Forgot about them.
I’m guessing you figured out to whom I was referring.
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by RememberTheRoseBowl on Aug 8, 2010 6:37 PM CDT up reply actions
They can MGOTOHELL
If this does get inked, I do not look forward to 2+ years of their OS BS.
Auburn and Tennessee fans are a lot like Slinkys...neither are worth much but you do get a sense of satisfaction from pushing them down a flight of stairs
from Gentry's twitter
Not the first I’ve heard of Michigan as a potential ‘12 opener, but this is also about the fifth “reported” opponent so far. We’ll see …
"Yeah, it's Tennessee, that's the way it is sometimes." - Corey Zickefoose, Pulitzer Prize winner and robbery victim
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day." - Dean Martin
by Thomas Walker Esq on Aug 8, 2010 2:47 PM CDT reply actions
Hopefully
if this does turn out to be true Michigan can get their shit together by then so it’ll at least a competitive game.
no, hopefully not
if the game happens i want to see a 77 point ass whipping unlike anything those smug d-bags have ever conceived of.
The beauty of The Process is that you have never arrived, so you get to continue being perpetually awesome... -Espyonage
If they put a team on the field that resembles anything that has come out of there the past 2 seasons no doubt we’ll see a 77 point ass whipping. I’ve seen no evidence that they’ll be making any dramatic improvements under RR anytime soon.
Michigan is Michigan
….they’ll rebound. This is actually the first time they have had a lull in their program. Remember…we were there just 4-10 years ago ourselves… With that being said…I think we have much more talent, and should win the game, but its not like Michigan is Louisiana-Monroe. Oops…did I say that?
while i would love for this to be true.
if brian cook is the one saying it, then we know that by definition, it can not true.
count me in with the lot who says i’ll believe it when i see it.
The beauty of The Process is that you have never arrived, so you get to continue being perpetually awesome... -Espyonage
Who in the Wide World of Sports will be UM's coach by then?
Cuz RR aint surviving this year, nothing short of beating tOSU….Les Miles may take the job if he will take a big pay cut after getting fired at LSU…everyone seems to think Harbaugh is the man that UM wants. It wont matter, we will pound them anyway, and UM will use the old “new coach, new scheme” excuse.
"We don't have to ride around in limos to sell recruits. We have over 57 years of NFL coaching experience on Alabama's coaching staff. Thats what we sell."
Coach Nick Saban
Here we go again....
Saban is such a snake oil salesman…giving other teams a hope for moral victories..
"You stay bought into it when you see your opponent sucking air and physically failing and you're still fit and ready and you know you own his ass."- Corey Reamer speaking about Coach Cochran
by bammer on Aug 8, 2010 5:20 PM CDT reply actions 2 recs
i'm getting sick of all these out of conference cupcakes...
alabama keeps scheduling. at some point we have to say “enough.”
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by kleph on Aug 8, 2010 5:49 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
indeed
i thought we were gonna focus on playing at least one marquee team a season…
The beauty of The Process is that you have never arrived, so you get to continue being perpetually awesome... -Espyonage
Yeah.
I mean, we could at LEAST schedule the Citadel.
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by RememberTheRoseBowl on Aug 8, 2010 6:39 PM CDT up reply actions
black shoe diaries
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by kleph on Aug 8, 2010 7:15 PM CDT reply actions 3 recs
I rec'd the livin' daylights out of that post.
Thanks for the link.
"Let's go be champions, boys!" - Greg McElroy
(Formerly SugarBowl93)
by RememberTheRoseBowl on Aug 9, 2010 12:42 AM CDT up reply actions
I'll believe it when it happens.
I’d love to play Mich. but I think they would not agree. After all, money is not the issue for them.
However, if we could get a nuetral game in Dallas against any “name” team that would be a plus.
As much as I hate Auburn I hate Tenn. that much more.
I for one would like to see this for different reasons...
Michigan is a great program with a ton of tradition and history. BTW they are going through what we did not to long ago. I hope RR can turn it around, but I doubt it. If they lose their season opener to UConn then you can pretty much exept no bowl and no more RR next year.
I hope they turn it around,
but not with RR. He seems to be quite the little scum bag, and I’d hate to see him get credit for something like that. Hopefully they get a new coach soon, and things start coming back around for them.
"Let's go be champions, boys!" - Greg McElroy
(Formerly SugarBowl93)
by RememberTheRoseBowl on Aug 9, 2010 12:46 AM CDT up reply actions
Do you know whose team sucks?
Michigan’s team sucks, and I have proof they provide support to terrorists.
The Alabama Crimson Tide....2009 National Champions
Mgosnobs
While I would find it difficult to ever hate something more than the pumpkin flavored purina checkerboard they paint in Knoxville ever year, comments like these are moving those winged maize and blue helmets up my shit list:
“Wheee, they are already excoriating Brian over on the Bama boards!
Note to impenitate Bama visitors: you may not like what the estimable Mr. Cook has to say about your program and oversigning, but I have yet to read one cogent rebuttal, outside of ad hominem attacks"
If only I had a diploma in English from Michigan and could understand such comments!
Maybe if they’ll help us translate English we could help them translate success on the football field.
Oh well…back to my work…as a rocket scientist in Huntsville
"You gonna pull those pistols or whistle dixie..."
I have yet to read one cogent rebuttal, outside of ad hominem attacks
illiteracy. our nation’s secret shame.
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by kleph on Aug 9, 2010 8:23 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Well I could make up some bologna about
immoral practices regarding the signing and mistreatment of players on the roster at Michigan. I could state the obvious that their players’ crying about extra practicing time, when they are so obviously terrible, lends credence to the notion of “Michigan sucks.”
Enjoy your spaghetti.
The Alabama Crimson Tide....2009 National Champions
Ahhhh
hahahahahahaha
I'm in no condition to drive...wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk.
by That Other Dave on Aug 9, 2010 9:51 AM CDT up reply actions
I've always found the
“illiterate” attacks to be quite amusing, seeing as how here on da internetz we kinda communicate by nearly nothing but the written word. al.com might well be one of few places people write words, but could still be described as illiterate, but it just seems a bit ironic to me, is all.
"Let's go be champions, boys!" - Greg McElroy
(Formerly SugarBowl93)
by RememberTheRoseBowl on Aug 9, 2010 10:10 AM CDT up reply actions
George Carlin said it best...
“We do think in language. So the quality of our thoughts can only be as good as the quality of our language.”
think about how f*ckin dumb the average american is
now think about how half of are even dumber than that…
GC, rest in peace…
The beauty of The Process is that you have never arrived, so you get to continue being perpetually awesome... -Espyonage
by tempebamafan on Aug 10, 2010 3:34 AM CDT up reply actions
The only word I can think of to describe what’s going to happen to Michigan if this deal is inked is “pillage”.
"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here"
Plunder.
Ravage. Decimate. Annihilate. Massacre. All excellent words, but ‘pillage’ is a mighty fine on itself!
"Let's go be champions, boys!" - Greg McElroy
(Formerly SugarBowl93)
by RememberTheRoseBowl on Aug 9, 2010 10:12 AM CDT up reply actions
i've got a phrase that comes to mind....
“pink sock”. we’re going to expose michigans pink sock to the world if this game does happen…. i’m at work and will certainly be fired if i fire up a link to the urban dictionary definition of “pink sock”, it suffices to say it’s part of the human anatomy and… well i’d better stop now.
The beauty of The Process is that you have never arrived, so you get to continue being perpetually awesome... -Espyonage
Tagline. . .
at Michigan blog MGOBLOG????
“Take it like a man”
That is so very wrong, yet so appropos since now they have the coach to give it to them in a manly manner.
so it's tomorrow...
and the deal isn’t inked. if nothing else, mgoblog is certainly consistent.
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If this game does happen
can we please use it as an excuse to bury the freakin hatchet?
We have our opinions on the oversigning issue, they have their opinions on the oversigning issue, both sides resorted to name calling and both sides think the other fan base is full of illiterate idiots
seriously pointless reason to be in a feud that, granted, I once took part in
seriously, we’re mad at Michigan? Michigan? Basically the argument to be mad is, “Fan base, that we never interact, with dislikes the fashion in which our coach recruits. Let’s get angry.” And their response is, “Fan base, whom we never play, is angry at our opinion of their coach. Let’s get angry at them for being angry at us.”
They made fun of our web site, we made fun of their web site, and lots of capital letters were used to describe each others mental capabilities.
It’s an argument that could only exist on the internet.
Frankly between two traditions like Michigan and Alabama, we’ve probably got bigger fish to fry than a pointless argument of ethics that results in nothing.
I’ve got enough hate on my plate to deal with without having to add Michigan to the list because they think I’m [insert southern stereotype here].
In fact, most SEC players don't consider their careers complete unless their bus nearly gets overturned in Baton Rouge or someone flings bodily fluid at their coach's wife in Gainesville. - Andy Staples
"[insert southern stereotype here]"
I just imagined this written on the back of Ned Beatty’s underwear. What is wrong with me?
HA!
In fact, most SEC players don't consider their careers complete unless their bus nearly gets overturned in Baton Rouge or someone flings bodily fluid at their coach's wife in Gainesville. - Andy Staples
by Wallacewade04 on Aug 9, 2010 3:45 PM CDT up reply actions
Heh..
after going to that fountainhead-of-logistical-nonsense website, I have to agree that it IS one of the worst on the web. I thought our fans were delusional…sheesh. Hell, at least we try to back up our stories with something other than “we might know we’ll have a senior at QB…whoever he is….oh, and a coach, too….whoever he is…and we’ll beat yous inbreds…yeah…” Please. They are kinda like we were in the “wilderness years”, though. The blind leading the naked.
"...because you've got your mind right, and that's the way we like it." Nick Saban
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