Did Nick Saban run up the score on Jim Harbaugh in Alabama football's win vs. Michigan?

Montgomery Advertiser ^ | January 1, 2020 | Adam Hensley

[Mastador1]

What kind of new age crybaby crap is this? I thought the whole point of any sport, other than golf, was to score more than your opponent? I think that is more insulting, to the losing team to stop treating them as valid opponents and playing with the same commitment all the way to the end of the game.

[Mastador1]

What kind of new age crybaby crap is this? I thought the whole point of any sport, other than golf, was to score more than your opponent? I think that is more insulting, to the losing team to stop treating them as valid opponents and playing with the same commitment all the way to the end of the game.

[krogers58]

In hockey a team will continue to try to score even with mere minutes remaining even when they are up by several goals and it is impossible for the other team to ever hope to catch them. This is never an issue in hockey.

Hockey has a whole series of unwritten rules to deal with these situations. Once the game is no longer in doubt, usually a 4 goal differential, unless it's early in the game, all serious hitting stops. Generally, depending on your coach, paybacks are appropriate when you are ahead. This means repayment for various cheap shots taken against players who have taken cheap shots at the winning team's players, where, due to discipline, they were not allowed to retaliate at the time. Players who play balls to the wall, when ahead, are cut loose by the coach and the enforcers for his team, and are allowed to bear the full brunt of the opposing teams anger. Nobody drives the net when the game is no longer in doubt, for either team. As these rules are unwritten, they are subject to change at any given moment.

[cranked]

The outright humor of all this talk of “running up the score” is both arbitrary and subjective. K-Mart Blue Light Special - Kleenex - Hit it!

[OrioleFan]

Isn’t there the story of Woody Hayes running up the score on Michigan in a blowout by going for two after a late touchdown. When asked after the game why he went for the two point conversion, he responded, “Because they wouldn’t let me go for three.”

[Theophilus]

Maybe Saban was weary of telling his players the bowl was a place to showcase their tallent to pursuade them to play? May e Saban felt his team didn’t earn enough points in the 1st half?

[CrimsonTidegirl]

Oh, okay.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Izzat a wolverine?

[sphinx]

I don’t care about the final touchdown. Michigan ran the ball effectively in the first half and led at halftime. They looked like a different team in the second half. I don’t follow Michigan football, but given his record in big games and bowl games, I have to think that’s on Harbaugh.

[Palio di Siena]

Second paragraph of the article says it all.
Saban is referred to as a “five time national champion”.
Harbaugh is referred to as “Harbaugh”.

[rbmillerjr]

“A little spanking of a Michigan team by a Bama team is always a good way to end the season.”

Either way - Bama is watching the playoffs and Championship from home, while Clemson goes for another National Championship.

[TheConservativeBanker]

I’m reminded of a Barry Switzer statement when one of his Oklahoma teams was accused of “running up the score”. He basically said that by game end he was usually playing second and third string players. His question was this: When I send in the reserves, should I tell them to play badly?

Also, a 12 point lead with six minutes left is not necessarily a secure lead.

[grey_whiskers]

To make it worse, the Minnesota Mascot is the "Thirteen-lined ground squirrel" aka Golden Gopher.

MInnesota managed to modify the logo to make it even less intimidating

Old:

New:

Still, things could have been worse.

Here's the original logo from days of old:

[fortheDeclaration]

How about taking a knee?

[dfwgator]

Meanwhile....Auburn, what was that?

Although that was a nice tribute to Pat Sullivan with the “7” on the helmets.

[big'ol_freeper]

Roll Tide...

...any time a Harbaugh is humiliated it’s a good day.

[petitfour]

You betcha! Najee deserved to end his Bama career on a high note.

Saban has had to preach the 60 minute game rule to his teams every year. Gus Malzahn used one second on the clock to beat Bama on more than one occasion.

[Karl Spooner]

Yes.

[rbmillerjr]

LOL, the only place the Tide is rolling this year is in the washing machine during the playoffs as Clemson and LSU play for it all.

And as far as Harbaugh’s being humiliated, stick to Jim.
John Harbaugh is now beating the Steelers with Ravens backups lol.

[big'ol_freeper]

John will be humiliated too. Harbaughs. It’s what they do.