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I seem to recall Jimmy Johnson being berated about running up the score and he said something like "if they don't stop playing why should we?"
Oh come on. They kept running the ball the entire final drive, and Michigan frequently failed to tackle the runner. What were they supposed to do, sit on it?
I admit was surprised Bama went for the score rather than end the game.
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Bama ran the ball up the middle each time. So no, I don’t think they were trying to run up the score.
Sabin gets paid to win and win impressively. Winning big intimidates future opponents in many ways. Its all about winning and the bucks winning brings.
At this level of competition, there is no such thing as running up the score. This is not Jr-high girls basketball.
Bama had a disappointing season by their recent standards. A little spanking of a Michigan team by a Bama team is always a good way to end the season.
Maybe 10 years ago Troy was trailing Middle Tennessee with very little time left.
I can’t recall the details but Troy was trailing by 2 scores and time running out. Troy scored on a big play, recovered an onside kick and made another big play, winning what has always since been known as “The Miracle In Murfreesboro.”
You can’t go back. Everybody does it now. No more that magnanimous gentleman stuff. If you’ve got it, flaunt it. That’s been my observation.
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After that learn that occasionally you will get your face ground in the dirt. It builds character.
Sports should teach you how to lose, how to win and how to play hurt.
All those things prepare you for life where you will sometimes win, sometimes lose and sometimes have to play hurt.
Uh. The margin is not that big....
is Michigan whining or something?
Even though about 5 starters aren’t playing, my DAWGS are beating up Baylor(19 to 0)
Did Saban run up the score?
I hope so. Jim Harbaugh is a jerk. He has tried all sorts of stupid stunts aimed at Alabama’s recruiting. Some of his stunts resulted in NCAA legislation prohibiting his “creative” activities. Spending the night at a recruit’s house and having “satellite football camps” are a couple of examples.
We ran the ball 9 straight times on the last drive. If they didn’t want Alabama to score, they should have stopped calling timeouts and just stopped Alabama from running the ball.
Headline sounds like it was written by a dipwad liberal baby.
What’s Saban supposed to do, not hurt Michigan’s fee-fees?
My criticism of Alabama is for running the ball when they were only 12 points ahead. They were obviously dissing Michigan. Because if they thought Michigan was able to play at Alabama’s level, they would have tried harder to score with a whole minute left.
Michigan’s coach and players apparently weren’t ready to play the big boys.
If I remember correctly a football game has 60 regulation minutes. Therefore, playing the game to the best of your ability for 60 minutes seems to me to be the only way to play the game.
In baseball it is not uncommon for a team to win by say, 13-1. No one ever to my knowledge has ever criticized the team with 13 runs as running up the score on the team with 1 run.
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.
Why does this seem to come up fairly often in reference to football?
18 points is hardly “running up the score”, that’s basically three possessions of scoring ...
I like coaches that make their players give 100% every minute of the game...
That said, there’s a time to pull your starters out.
Dunno about the lead’s question, but one things for sure > Wisconsin was robbed by a ref in the fourth quarter.
Deep down, Oregon’s gotta know it too, and it oughta bother ‘em.
Good. Harbaugh Is a whining classless jerk.
Maybe there should be surrender flags used in college football... We'll just have to learn to call it faggot football...
I hate Bama and 19 points is NOT running up the score. Especially in college where margins of victory are routinely over 50.
Question is silly IMHO.