Just another reason to give thanks for not being an Auburn Fan.

Roll Damn Tide!

You can’t understand. You argue about clarity because you don’t have it. You hear me say “I hate Auburn” and you assume it’s for the wrong reasons. Make no mistake, I would hate any team that has done a lot of the things Auburn has done and the way their culture thinks it’s “us against the world” and their hate for the WRONG reasons.

But I’m also an Alabama fan. So hating Auburn is easy and second-nature. I don’t expect you to understand it, because you simply think it’s for the wrong reasons.

Yet you keep coming back to Alabama pages to yell and scream at them? That’s not clarity. You use whatever you can to hurt people, but I tried to pretend that makes you feel better, except it doesn’t, does it? How can it?

You know a lot about football. You could be helping other people learn about it. You could be doing some good for your Auburn friends right now——Lord knows they need the help right now, and not everyone is capable of helping (in fact, most people can’t). Maybe you can.

Instead, you come here and smash rocks with metal bats.

Clarity isn’t something you have to argue. Once you’ve seen the Matrix, you can’t forget. I used to think it was just the success of winning a national championship that was enough to bring clarity, and for some at Auburn it was. For most, and for you, it wasn’t. And that sucks. Because you probably won’t get that opportunity again.

And in the meantime, all you can do is fight it? It makes no sense to me. It’s sad, to me. I wish all college football fans could have the clarity we have, and had even before Saban. I knew I would see another title in my lifetime. I knew we weren’t going to be great every year. Notre Dame lost the national championship in a bad way, yet I’ve still met plenty of fans that knew they would be in that position, and that have clarity, including before the 2012 season. I wish you were capable of it. I honestly don’t think you are. It kinda just makes me sad. There isn’t anything I can say or do, or anything that Alabama can do that would make you feel better.

If Alabama players all tested positive for massive quantities of deer-antler-spray and all championships and wins from the past 5 years were vacated, you wouldn’t be happy—–you’d come to scream about how there are some Alabama fans who would think the wins count and on and on and on. I can’t imagine you would accept it and enjoy it. You wouldn’t.

Why not? Why so much hate? Why is the “me against the world” syndrome so intrinsic to the heart of the culture at Auburn? I know so many Auburn fans who aren’t like that, but they’re still exposed to it all the time, and then there are the ones that just need a push, but you come here to an Alabama site to do that? What’s the point?

Swinney coaches fundamentals and discipline. To you, all you see is x’s and o’s. How am I supposed to react? It’s like asking your dentist for a pizza and a tattoo.

Sorry about your loss. Roll Tide.

Apparently, you are as confused about the definition of the word “clarity” as you are about the definition of a HUNH offense, because that incoherent diatribe failed to offer anything resembling clarity. My personal favorites were the statements, “It’s allowed me and many of my friends the opportunity to have enough clarity to enjoy football and not to harbor so much hate for the wrong reasons.”, soon followed by, “Make no mistake, I hate Auburn.” Yeah, that’s some real “clarity” right there.

Even if I was wrong, it would be incidental. You don’t want to talk, you just come here to stir trouble because you can’t stand Alabama. If I say it’s a hybrid, you argue it’s based on what you want. If I say the point is fundamentals and game management, you respond only by arguing about who left Auburn to do what now? I get it, but I don’t get it.

Let me tell you something. Success brings clarity. When you have success, you can recognize and appreciate the struggle and the sport of football, among other things. Alabama has had lots of success in my lifetime. It’s allowed me and many of my friends the opportunity to have enough clarity to enjoy football and not to harbor so much hate for the wrong reasons.

Auburn has had success, but it’s tainted, even if they think it’s not, because mostly it hasn’t given them any clarity.

Make no mistake, I hate Auburn. But I don’t go out of my way to read Auburn blogs just to comment and complain and stir trouble on them.

Tennessee hasn’t had success in so long that I think they’ve lost all the clarity they had in their culture. Some teams have never had it. The teams that handle losing the worst seem to have the least clarity.

I’m not going to argue anymore because it serves no point. You don’t want to talk, you want to point fingers and bug people. You pick and choose which sentences to focus on in an attempt to simply make trouble. I can’t relate to that. I don’t understand it.

The worst part is you often sound like you understand football. It’s like a surgeon who, instead of surgery, spends his time smashing rocks with a metal baseball bat.

Clarity. Roll Tide.

Scarbinski is alway looking for a dark cloud behind Alabama’s silver lining!

We’re talking about hiring a coach at Alabama.

Not Tennessee.

Let me put it to you this way; I like Derek Dooley. But Derek Dooley does not get hired as the head coach at the University of Alabama.

I’m not sure if you’re trying to use Dabo or Smart as the example, but still, the University of Tennessee is not the University of Alabama. Derek Dooley is not Kirby Smart.

I’m gonna leave the comment here—-the Alabama fans will get it. No worries. Roll Tide.

I suppose we could stand and argue about the difference in speed versus the difference in position-based execution, but I don’t want to argue. Good grief. You explicitly look for ways to argue instead of discuss, and I still fall for it.

So now if I start talking about how good Tahj Boyd was last year I’m afraid you’ll just argue that he’s the reason for Clemson’s success, or Dabo Swinney wouldn’t be able to do anything without (insert name here), etc. Or you’ll try to argue what hurry-up is or isn’t.

What Clemson did that represented Alabama the last two seasons is a reliance on a game manager at the QB position and, most importantly, solid fundamentals rather than opportunistic talent showdowns. Dabo coaches fundamentals and discipline. That is what I mean. Football isn’t simply X’s and O’s and a play clock. So when you start saying Clemson looked more like Auburn than Alabama, the scores at the end of the game the last two years have to mean a lot—–Clemson winning more than they have in 30 years, and Auburn breaking down into arguably the worst-performing BCS-winning team in the era.

Clemson winning football games resembles Alabama more than Auburn for that reason alone. Winning is important here. Fundamentals are important here. Trying to argue about why it’s working isn’t important here. Roll Tide.

You’re right, Chizik did get of of Malzahn’s way in 2010. Then he made Malzahn slow the offense down in 2011 after the Clemson game because he was scared the young defense was getting gassed. It’s really pretty silly to argue with that because no one seriously disputes that’s what happened.

Here’s my favorite passage from your post: “He also knows an awful lot about being a good coach, even if he’s never been the head coach. Nick Saban’s process works, I don’t think that’s a question now. I’d rather hire someone at least familiar with part of that process than someone who doesn’t know anything about it from outside the organization.” I’d swear I was listening to an endorsement of Derek Dooley from when he was hired at Tennessee when I read that.