Recruiting Football Talk VIII

#60,962
#60,962
Devo182 said:
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In the history of the playoffs, more 9-3 SEC teams (5) have finished in the top-11 (leaving room the G5 team to get in) than a 10-2 SEC team has finished outside the top-11 (only once).

It would be historically unlucky for us to finish 10-2 and not make the playoffs. Even moreso in the modern SEC, having added an extra tough game to everyone's schedule.
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In general I agree with you but the playoffs have their own rankings. You add in automatic bids and the fact that we don’t know exactly how they will set the criteria for entry for the rest of us. Right now our strength of schedule sucks because Alabama lost to Vandy and we lost to Arkansas. NC State and Oklahoma being terrible hurts us too.

If a few 1 loss teams drop that 2nd game it helps us. If we lose to UGA our best win is only Alabama who could be 9-3 by then. Maybe that’s enough but I’d like a little insurance. :)
 
#60,964
#60,964
A lot of football left to play in the season for the SEC and things could get spicy over the next 3-4 weeks. LSU and TAMU could F some things up...We need some dominos to fall to help us out and we need to take care of business and either beat GA, keep it close/respectable (10pts), and win the rest of our games. Vandy at Candy makes me a bit nervous. They will be playing with their hair on fire. That may very well be an ugly win.
I like that Ga has to play FL and at Ole miss before they play us... hard to get up for the Vols after two physical games. We CANNOT take kensucky kroger coal miners for granted. We go dark mode at night on halloween week and we should obliterate them... should...

Heck, TX AT Vandy could be close the first half. Commode's don't give a flying F at this point... playing with house money which is dangerous.
 
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#60,965
Ace said:
I have been told that Saban did not allow anyone to talk to him in the office without an appointment. He would enter staff meetings right on time to start and was the first to leave at end of meeting. People did not speak to him unless he spoke to you first. Not sure how strict this was, but former player told a friend of mine that he was very personable and available as long as you scheduled to meet him or he initiated conversation. Very driven and scheduled which are not bad at all.
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Eh, I think Saban can be Saban. Expecting someone else to be Saban could be a recipe for disaster. They didn't hire DeBoer b/c he is Saban. They hired him because of what he's done as him.
 
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