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It's still the preseason... so ... this ... makes ... this ... a ... preseason Alabama team?

I still think medina's point about the bowl having a case at missing out on, for example, Texas or Oklahoma specifically, is a valid one.  The truth is that Baylor and ISU aren't going to draw as many eyeballs as Texas, so the bowl (or rather, the bowl's media/marketing/advertising partners) would have at least some claim to damages based on lost revenue.

The real point is, this is so convoluted and tangled, that a conference-affiliated university with those complex media contracts, isn't going to attempt it.  We're discussing a hypothetical that's never going to happen.

Y'all are gonna roll on to another NC.  Doesn't matter who you have at QB.  Pretty boring for the rest of us, but if it were my team I'd be thrilled with each and every crystal football (or whatever it is these days, I wouldn't know).

Over the 1970s, only two programs finished with more than 100 victories, and both of them -- Oklahoma and Alabama -- ran the Wishbone for virtually the entire decade.

Leach, whose offense just led the nation in passing attempts for the sixth straight year, isn't so sure, either -- that still, 50 years later, Bellard's brainchild, in its original form, couldn't flourish.

"Nobody has ever truly stopped the Wishbone," he said. "There's a point to where people have lost interest in the Wishbone. But nobody ever really successfully stopped it."

did ya read the wishbone story on ESPN.com?

linked on the offseason thread

our secondary worries me more than qb. the qb gets headlines, but we have one that's gotten us to the cfp title games twice and was 1 second away from winning one. if the other one beats him out, i feel good about his game.
but we lost our entire secondary. both corners, star, nickle, and both safeties, 6 players all gone.
only thing that comforts me some is:
1 - our dline should be able to get a ton of pressure on qb and shorten time the db's have to hold down the fort.
2 - our schedule is weak, especially on heavy passing teams. aTm, the most pass happy threat in west, is going to more pro style with jimbo, leaving only louisville as only real threat that are also air-borne attacks. au, msu and lsu are all based on ground game primarily.