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Last year, Arkansas did something

in Balance Discussion Thu Nov 29, 2018 8:05 am
by laiyongcai92 • Farseer | 152 Posts | 1520 Points

you’d think would be hard to replicate: But you only get so many years on this planet, and it’s important to always be growing and always be innovating. So on Saturday, the http://www.authenticsatlantafalcons.com/cheap-jake-matthews-jersey Razorbacks did this: ENHANCE: An absolute slobberknocker there between two Hogs. There’s a part of my brain that’s telling me it’s unfair to bring up something Arkansas did last year and insinuate it’s some kind of trend, because the program had a different head coach then. Chad Morris’ team is not exactly responsible for the sins of Bret Bielema’s team. Then there is a part of my brain that’s telling me that Arkansas needs to cease all practice operations other than making sure it doesn’t have players running into/over each other in the course of random pre- and post-snap motions. The road to contention in the SEC West is long, and it requires the Hogs to, first off Black Terrell McClain Jersey , literally get out of each other’s way. Well hi, it’s Week 12 of the college football season and folks, Alabama had its worst half of the entire season against none other than 4-5 FCS team The Citadel during what’s supposed to be the SEC’s cupcake week. Bama was easily able to pull away in the second half and win 50-17, but The Citadel’s first half was glorious. 1. THE CITADEL TIED BAMA AT 10 IN THE FIRST HALF. Drink it in, folks. ESPNThe first half spread had Alabama -42!2. Alabama gave up more yards in the first half than it did all season. Nick Saban’s defense had given up fewer than 100 yards on defense in the first half all season. The Citadel had 149 yards of total offense in the first half alone. The Citadel runs the triple option, a hard system to defend Black Brandon Fusco Jersey , especially when you have a week to prepare. Running the ball that much also helps keep possessions down (Bama only had four in the first half), limiting the damage the more talented team can do.“It’s very challenging because it’s obviously different from anything that we see (with any regularity),” Saban said earlier this week. “We did spend some time (working against it) in fall camp. We did spend some time during the bye week trying to get our players to have a little better understanding of what they need to do and how they need to play it.”3. This was by far the worst first half for Alabama so far this season.The Tide entered this game first in the nation in beating its first-half point spreads, putting up big leads at the break every single week.4. The Citadel scored the longest rushing touchdown Bama’s defense has given up in years!5. The Tide needed 12 and a half minutes to score on offense — nearly six times longer than usual for Alabama. Until the LSU game on Nov. 3, Bama scored in the first two minutes of every game this season. 6. This Alabama fan drove nearly 800 miles to watch all that. 7. The Citadel’s Twitter account was having so much fun. Here it called out two SEC West teams who got shut out by the Tide:8. Saban already hated facing flexbone teams.This isn’t all that surprising — triple-option military academies are a combined 36-11-1 against huge point spreads since 1995. The Citadel isn’t technically Army, Navy Youth Vic Beasley Jr Jersey , or Air Force, but it is similar in some ways. And anyone who picked The Citadel to cover the 53-point spread enjoyed that first half, to say the least.Saban hasn’t exactly taken FCS and triple option teams lightly. He once had this had this unforgettable quote about Georgia Southern in 2011:Alabama scored quickly in the second half and ended up winning comfortably, but hey, it was fun while it lasted!

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