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"Yea Alabama 2009 prepares the Alabama fan for the upcoming season with detailed player and opponent profiles, as well as in-depth and entertaining features on the team's recruiting and play calling. Of course, no Alabama publication would be complete without a look back at the storied history of the program, and a look forward at what the Saban machine will do next. Edited by Todd Jones and Joel Gamble of RollBamaRoll.com, Yea Alabama is 128 pages of the most in-depth and entertaining Crimson Tide analysis available anywhere."
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| Final - 11.21.2009 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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| Chattanooga Mocs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Alabama Crimson Tide
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21 | 14 | 3 | 7 | 45 |
Week Twelve Afternoon Thread
by outsidethesidelines on Nov 21, 2009 2:16 PM CST
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Roll Tide and such as 'Bama wins in blowout fashion against the Mocs. Discuss all of the rest of the games this afternoon and tonight here.
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Week Twelve Open Thread: #2 Alabama vs Chattanooga
by Todd on Nov 21, 2009 10:14 AM CST
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 10-0 (7-0) |
Bryant-Denny Stadium |
 6-4 (4-4) |
Are we ourselves?
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MBB: Long-gestating vengeance against Providence achieved, 84-75
by Mac T on Nov 20, 2009 9:34 PM CST
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I really hate Providence College, ever since they ruined my birthday by beating the Tide in the Sweet 16 in 1987. (I especially hated Billy Donovan, and he's certainly done nothing to change that.) So I'm especially happy to report that Anthony Grant's crew went to 2-1 and knocked the Friars from the ranks of the unbeaten tonight.
It was a hardfought, back-and-forth game, which Providence led 37-33 at the half. Neither team could get out to a lead of more than about five points, but Providence led much of the way. Mikhail Torrance, however, wouldn't let the Tide lose. Leading 76-75 with 46 seconds to go, he stole the ball and went coast-to-coast, laid the ball in, and was fouled, finishing the old-fashioned three-point-play to make it 89-75. He then made three out of four further free throws (Andrew Steele getting an offensive board off the other) down the stretch to secure the win. Torrance finished with 26, and played all but one minute.
In addition to Torrance, JaMychal Green was his usual self with fifteen points and twelve rebounds, but the key was Justin Knox, who hadn't done much in the first two games but finished with a double-double (13-10) of his own; he was only 1-6 from the field, but 11-12 from the line. Senario Hillman, who dunked to end the game, finished with nine. It was a very even game, as noted. The Tide had one more rebound (47-46) and neither team shot well, but the Tide won the game at the line, hitting 27 of 35 free throws.
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The 2009 Home Game intro video is finally posted
Nick Saban on preparing for all possible circumstances | Smart Football
Smart Football has a short blurb on Saban's philosophy about getting prepared early for any eventuality. Go read it.
about 24 hours ago
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Your Friday Beauty and (Parts of) the Beast
by Todd on Nov 20, 2009 3:15 PM CST
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Do Tasmanians eat Vegemite? I hope not...
We have a new winner in terms of horrible taste. Yes friends, dried anchovies are preferable to Vegemite, yet Australians put this stuff on their toast in the morning and use it to make pastries. Seriously Australia, WTF? Enjoy. I didn't.
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On the Road Again: (Mis)adventures in Starkville
by Nico2.0 on Nov 20, 2009 12:53 PM CST
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ed. note: For those of you that picked up a copy of Yea Alabama 2009, you'll remember reading a story I wrote called "The Things We Do For Love" where I chronicled a lot of the ridiculous scenarios I've found myself in while trying to get to various Alabama games. Too bad I didn't save that article for the 2010 edition, because my trip to Starkville this past weekend easily qualified to be in it and hands down would have been the crown jewel anecdote in the article.
Let me just start off by saying that, yes, I realize hitchhiking in this day and age is an exceptionally bad idea. On Saturday, November 14th just a bit before 3:00 p.m. in western Alabama, somewhere between the tiny hamlets of Gordo and Reform (populations of 1,677 and 1,978 respectively according to the 2000 census) my friend Wes' car broke down (some of you may remember Wes from this post.) It's a 21st-century-made specimen of fine German engineering and has faithfully taken us to games in the past. As a matter of fact, the deal I struck with him was I'd give him the game ticket for free if he was willing to drive. That was the level of faith I placed in the ability of his automobile to take us to and fro sans incident.
The car began having trouble accelerating as we rolled down US Highway 82 and we saw a small garage that was still open as we began noticing the problem. We turned around and pulled in just as they were closing up shop. Nice folks that they were looked at the car for a while, but stated they didn't know much about this type of car, but recommended we not drive it any further. They kindly told us we could leave the car there if we wanted to since it was unlikely we'd be able to find anywhere this late in the day on a Saturday that would be able to work on it.
Get-It-Changed Oil & Lube in Gordo, AL
While Wes spoke with the proprietors of the oil change place, I took out my cellphone and began calling everyone I could think of that might be going to the game or who knew someone that might be going to the game. I called comer4tide and chinesedentist, but neither of them were going to the game. Chinesedentist (Bo), said he knew some folks that were going and that he'd make a few calls. I called Alabama ManDance and T.J. from Tower of Bammer and they too got on the phone and started working their contacts. I called a friend that went to Mississippi State, I called Todd and Kleph. I pretty much ran through my entire phonebook.
After what seemed like an eternity of making phone calls, we decided to ditch the car and start walking...with our thumbs out. We knew the car wasn't going to get fixed that day, so we might as well get to the game. We were most of the way there, we already had tickets...it seemed like the logical thing to do.
As I stated at the beginning of this article, hitchhiking is a very bad idea, but here's our rationale for why we felt okay about it. We were decked out head to toe in Bama gear and nearly every car we saw while trying to figure out what to do had Bama flags flying from the windows or Bama magnets on the door or Bama stickers in the windows (and often all three.) By our reckoning, someone in that line of cars would realize that we were fellow fans stuck between a rock and a hard place and that we just wanted to get to the game. After a couple of miles of walking and hundreds of cars passing us by with that "Well, we'd like to help you and we know you're probably okay but sorry we're driving on anyway" look on their faces, we saw a pick-up truck pull into a business a short distance up the road. We both figured it was simply them stopping in to shop, but they turned around and we had a flutter of hope that they were coming back for us.
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Alabama & SEC Graduation Success Rates
by kleph on Nov 20, 2009 9:30 AM CST
in Football
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With Senior Day almost upon us, I though it might be appropriate to consider graduation rates for Crimson Tide football. It just so happens that earlier this week, the NCAA released it's Graduation Success Rate data. While this was met by the usual chorus of praise from the applicable panjandrums it's probably safe to say almost none of us paid much attention to it at the time.
It turns out the numbers are pretty interesting. The graduation rate for the four-class average - the cumulative tally of students entering college between the fall of one year and the fall four years later - for Alabama football has risen steadily over the past half-decade. In fact, as the Tuscaloosa News points out, the GSR numbers for both football and men’s basketball "are higher than the university’s overall graduation rate."
So it seems The Process most certainly does include academics. But then I got to thinking... how does this stack up against the other football programs in the conference? The answer is after the jump.
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Virginia Tech
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Sat 09/05 | W 34 - 24 |
| Fla. International | Sat 09/12 | W 40 - 14 |
| North Texas | Sat 09/19 | W 53 - 7 |
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Arkansas
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Sat 09/26 | W 35 - 7 |
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Kentucky
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Sat 10/03 | W 38 - 20 |
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Mississippi
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Sat 10/10 | W 22 - 3 |
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South Carolina
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Sat 10/17 | W 20 - 6 |
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Tennessee
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Sat 10/24 | W 12 - 10 |
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LSU
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Sat 11/07 | W 24 - 15 |
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Mississippi St.
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Sat 11/14 | W 31 - 3 |
| Chattanooga | Sat 11/21 | W 45 - 0 |
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Auburn
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Fri 11/27 | 1:30 PM CST |
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Florida
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Sat 12/05 | 3:00 PM CST |
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