In Honor of Our Visitors

And of course who can forget the REAL Miss Alabama



Thanks to Bama Dave for contributing a couple of Pics.

A Few Links

Saban's Press Conference transcript

An Article Comparing Saban and Belichick

A Long List of Coach O quotes

If you haven't seen it, great Tommy West video after getting fired at Memphis

Hallelujah , Starkville is getting a true Cigar Shop

Coo-Chee Jen Sterger is getting rid of her boobs, moment of silence please

It's Bama Week

The 3rd ranked Tide rolls in this week, the fifth Top 15 team to do so this year.

This is always a fun week. We wrote some about it last year at this time.

I'm sure RVs will start pulling in today or tomorrow. As will the most hodge-podge group of fans in the country.

It will be millionaires, biker gangs, Bama Dave, hot as hell sorority girls, coked out strippers, dudes in mullets and wife beaters, sissy boys with Bama bangs, fat chicks in Wal-Mart's latest Bama game gear, and probably that big bastard who whooped up on ole Saddawg that time at The Club.

Love 'em or not, Bama brings some folks.

I think I saw where Bama opened at a 13.5 favorite. That sounds about right.

To tell you the truth, I really have no idea how this game is going to turn out.

It's Bama week.

Let the fun begin.

I Shouldn't Write This Post

I really shouldn't. I've got to be a dumb ass to open this can of worms.

Just as big of a dumb ass as Ole Miss is for opening their own can of worms.

You see, the future shysters and housewives with substance abuse problems evidently chant "The South Will Rise Again!" during a song they call "From Dixie with Love."

Now I've been going to Ole Miss games for a long time. I've never noticed it. I never even heard anything about it until I read about it on an Ole Miss message board a few years ago. It was news to me.

I've asked a few Ole Miss I know about it, and they say they haven't noticed or heard it. I've asked fans of teams that have played Ole Miss and they didn't know what I was talking about.

But that's ok. Ole Miss themselves made sure to publicize it.

Chancellor Dan Jones was quoted in a national publication saying it had to stop. The student paper at Ole Miss did too, even suggesting the students yell "To Hell with LSU!" instead.

Now ole Sweet Shep Smith has a video out asking the students not to do it.

In today's Clarion Ledger Houston Nutt says it must stop.

Problem is, nobody would have known a damn thing about it if Ole Miss itself had not brought it to everybody's attention.

Jones has threatened to make the band quit playing the song if the chant doesn't stop.

I learned a long time ago the best make to make a Southerner keep doing something is to tell him he has to stop doing it.

Why would they do that? Then it hit me.

Listen up Reb fan, they aren't after your chant. They are after your song.

They got rid of your flag. They got rid of your Col. Reb. Now they want to get rid of your Dixie.

I'll bet Rebels is next, sometime in the future.

This chant is giving them the vehicle to get rid of Dixie.

Why else would the powers that be at Ole Miss bring all this to light themselves?

In the above article, Nutt himself says it hasn't hurt recruiting. He never had a problem until last week when all this got publicized. Publicity Ole Miss itself created.

The flag and Col. Reb died with the blessing of the majority of Rebel fan's blessing because it "hurt recruiting."

I'm betting we hear that line again. Over the chant and the song.

Jones is no idiot. He knows the mind of rebellious students in Ole Miss's history. The more they tell them not to do it the more they will do it.

Therefore, he now has the excuse to get rid of the song.

Now, I'm a State fan. I could care less what the Land That Time Forgot chants.

But, Ole Miss is going the way of this country.

They take a little something away, then when the heat dies down over that, they take something else away.

It goes on and on until one day you are left with nothing, wondering where it all went.

Everybody is now stirred up over the "South Will Rise Again?"

They should be stirred up hoping this Country will rise again.

2008 vs 2009

Kyle Veasey from the Clarion Ledger did a little comparing of stats from the last 2 years.

Croom ought to be arrested for theft and fraud.

2008 vs 2009

I Thought About A Bye Week For Myself

I found these however and thought I would share them...........................

Rick Cleveland article on Jack Cristil

LSU Freek strikes again..........

Pumping Gas

Oregon and USC

Anthony Dixon makes the Hotlist from ESPN

Roll Bama Roll documents Ole Miss message board meltdowns

In Honor of Our Hosts

And, of course, I had to include the picture that gave us Peeping Croom

Random Pics From the Florida Game

Thanks to those that sent some in..............






























------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Chalk Talk: Officiating

Our staff's Coach's take on referees...........................................................

I always jokingly called them a necessary evil.

I want to believe that 99% of them really try to do a good job. That it kills their soul to get a call wrong. That they live in fear of making a bad call that costs a team a game.

Unfortunately, that's getting harder to believe nowadays.

Don't get me wrong, most truly care. But the few that don't are hurting the game.

I've had my share of dealing with officials. I'm even friends with a couple now.

I've heard every thing from, " Coach, I screwed up. I'm sorry", to " Coach, we don't screw up calls."

I have no problem with the first quote. They are human. The second quoted guy needs his ..... well I'll let you think of something.

We were once up 24-0 late in the first half. The other team was obviously holding our DE. I'm screaming at the ref responsible and he says, " No, he's not, I know holding when I see it."

"What? He's TACKLING our guy."

"I'm the expert here," was his reply.

That made me as mad as I've ever been during a game.

"No, you are not. You are an overweight trucking executive( he really was) who maybe played HS football. That's your problem. You think you know more than anybody because they found a stripped shirt big enough to fit you. I'm the expert here. This is my profession. I've been studying it 7 days a week for 20 years. You couldn't coach my team if I gave you the playbook. All these people didn't show up to watch your fat ass referee a game. They showed up to watch these players play. You are the least important thing here. Yet, you think you are the most important. Call the damn game, I hope it's your last."

Can you believe I got a 15 yarder for that?

I know what the guy was doing. He saw we were winning fairly big and decided it wasn't that important to call the hold. They are not getting paid by the hour. He wanted to hurry things along.

However that is not fair to the game, and it's not what he was there to do.

They are there to call what they see. Not what they think they see. I've always said that if they aren't 100% sure of what they saw, they have to hold onto the flag.

In the State -Houston game, there is no way on earth that the ref who called Lee over the line was 100% sure he saw him cross it. There is no way the ref who made the celebration call on Georgia was 100% sure. There was no way the ref who flagged Arkansas for the personal foul was 100% sure.

Listen, the speed of today's game is going to lead to missed calls. Middle aged men trying to run up and down the field with today's players is tough. There is no way they can see everything at the speed it's happening. But if they don't see it beyond a shadow of a doubt, they can't throw the flags. Yet they continue to do so.

So enter replay. Or not.

A couple of years ago, Ole Miss got hosed against Alabama on a replay. State has had two fairly obvious plays that replay should have been over turned this season not be. It happens every weekend somewhere.

I really would love to be by the guy in the booth and hear his thought process. I'll admit, I'm completely ignorant of whatever they do up there. I'm for replay. It is supposed to help make the game better. It's supposed to protect the officials on the field. It's supposed to help teams not be victimized by a bad call. It's supposed to help the game be pure.

But whatever they are doing now is not helping the game.

A Couple of Links

Saddawg 1 is fueling right now for the trip up to StarkVegas. Buzzing in tonight so I can spend all day tomorrow on campus.

Too bad there's no Marriott.

Here's some more State- Florida articles..............

Chris Low on the Gators

Chris Low on Dixon

Chris Low's Week 8 picks

Jacksonville Article

State fan want to fight Goober Gator writer

And finally, the Kiss of Death from Rick Cleveland