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They wouldn't have sniffed the playoff in 2008. They weren't ranked until after the Egg Bowl and even then it was #25. They ended the season with their highest ranking: #20.
Thanks, detail police. My point was that they were a damn good team, and perhaps the best team in the country at the end of the year.
So the 20th ranked team was "perhaps the best team in the country?"
If Michael Oher really wanted to get the Tuohys back, he should make a substantial gift to the team they hate the most - The Mississippi State Bulldogs.‘The Blind Side’ family responds to Michael Oher’s bombshell lawsuit against them
The family featured in the Hollywood blockbuster “The Blind Side” fired back Monday at ex-NFLer Michael Oher’s claims they swindled him, calling the allegations “insulting&#…
They were the best 8-4 team in the history of college football. Okay maybe the last Fifty, FIFTY! FIFTY!
I have one question for them that we all know the answer. Would they have gone through any of this if Oher had not been a 6' 4', 315 lbs football player?‘The Blind Side’ family responds to Michael Oher’s bombshell lawsuit against them
The family featured in the Hollywood blockbuster “The Blind Side” fired back Monday at ex-NFLer Michael Oher’s claims they swindled him, calling the allegations “insulting&#…
Hang a banner.
The answer is a resounding NO! Hugh Freeze was the high school coach that set the Touhy's up with Oher. Now, do you believe for a minute that this wasn't an NCAA violation? This entire "fairy tale" of a movie made Oher look bad and I don't blame him for retaliating. They had to make him look bad in the movie or people would have know that it was an illegal recruitment of a great player.
We already know that they didn't "adopt" his younger, non-athletic brothers.
And this right here is the crux of the entire thing
Nice selective quoting. "at the end of the year" was an important part of the post. And of course you leave off how they beat the national champ. And destroyed the vaunted Leach team. And beat us (the team that beat Vandy that beat them) like a rented mule. Nutt had some growing pains at the beginning of the year. Like I said originally (that lame brains like you can't comprehend), I'm just glad they were the new 'good' team on the block that year, because talent-wise, they were right there with the top teams in the nation.
Jumping to conclusions on SPS is likely the most exercise you get. And you serve up hot takes like Shannon Sharpe on a three day cocaine bender.
I’d hit it…
Yeah....I mean, I get it, it's fun to pile on here. But I think this is a pretty frivolous lawsuit. Just my opinion.
I just gotta say - if I needed money, my parents wouldn't ever give my siblings money but not me. We are treated equally in their wills. I would bet the Tuohys would give their biological children the money if they needed it too. The difference is that now they have no use for Michael Oher just like they never had any use for his non athletic siblings.
Isn’t that the team that beat Florida and destroyed Texas tech in the bowl game? Obviously they didn’t deserve to be in any hypothetical playoff but I do think at the end of the year they were one of the best teams in the country. Hard to say in football though whether a team has really improved that much over the year or just were inconsistent and happened to have better games towards the end of the year. But they looked pretty good by the end.
They were a good team, but "best team in the country at the end of the year" sounds like something Yancy or Spirit Ben would have trotted. Down the stretch, they beat ULM, an LSU team that finished 3-5 in the SEC, and a team coached by Sylvester Croom. The did beat a Texas Tech team that had only a few weeks before been looking at going to the BCS Championship Game. Those guys wanted to be anywhere but the damn Cotton Bowl.
I went back and looked and I apparently got suckered some by the hype and a lousy memory. The did play a good Alabama team close but also squeaked by a bad Arkansas team late in the year and lost to a mediocre USCe team. The only decent team they played while finishing the season on a 6 game winning streak was Texas Tech.
So what you’re saying is, if they hadn’t have lost the games that they lost then the season might have been completely different. That’s quite insightful. I’m so glad you decided to share it here.
While there are some similarities, there is one HUGE difference. Colin Kaepernick was adopted at 6 weeks old. His adoptive parents had no idea he would be able to go on to the NFL. The Tuohys may have just wanted a 5 star Olineman for their school of choice, but there was at least a reasonable suspicion he may be able to go to the NFL.
You are who you are. That was the same team that lost to Vandy, Wake Forest, and South Carolina. They deserve credit for beating Florida, but were we calling A&M "perhaps the best team in the country at the end of the year" when they beat Bama a couple of seasons back? And just about anyone in that 8-4 range in the SEC would've beaten Texas Tech.
Ole Miss has never been the best team in the country, not even for a week.
Kaepernick was adopted at 5 weeks old. He wasn't exploited for his football talent.
they certainly didn't attend his wedding that was held not long ago.
The 'tune-up' game that they won by (checks notes) 2 pts? mmmkay
