Cecil Hurt -- The Battle Against Complacency

[Catch Prothro]

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Nick Saban seemed torn on Saturday night.

Seven games into the 2011 season, Saban would like to be pleased with the way his University of Alabama football team has played.

Truth be told, he is pleased. He would especially like for Crimson Tide fans and followers to be pleased, too, and appreciate performances like the one UA executed in Oxford, handing out the worst beating administered in the Alabama-Ole Miss series since 1931. He would like for a 52-7 victory on the road in Southeastern Conference play to actually excite someone.

The problem, though, is the bar has been set so high for Alabama football there was as much focus on the handful of things the Crimson Tide did wrong as the multitudinous things it did right.

At one point in his postgame press conference, Saban was asked how good he thought Alabama could be "when it played a full 60 minutes."

Rankled, Saban replied "I thought we played 60 minutes today but I guess if you took away the 30 seconds it took to make one play, then we didn't."

[Old Tider]

There's a lot of pressure when you have to win every game and win big. Vandy players and fans must have a more relaxed life.

[ricky023]

Well we all fans included get caught up in the world of champions. I remember when CNS first came the matter of getting us up righted was over. I was just waiting for the NCG we would play in. Seeing all the Pride come back. Now, I see that to much Pride can as was said overlook how great they play. Even though we love how they win games, that's why a meltdown could be so easy "if God forbid" we lost to LSU or even Tenn. JMHO! RTR!

[Chechem]

The worst example of complacency by Alabama, that I recall, followed the 63-14 win against USM in 1969 and that exciting 33-32 win against Ole Miss.  Alabama was 3-0 and had the golden horseshoe in hand.  A writer penned a big article in the B'ham News that week stating, "This Alabama Team will Win the National Championship." 

The next week Vanderbilt beat Alabama 14-10 in front of 34,000 fans (mostly from Alabama, it seemed).  The Bama team just didn't show up.  I was crushed. 

[ricky023]

The worst example of complacency by Alabama, that I recall, followed the 63-14 win against USM in 1969 and that exciting 33-32 win against Ole Miss.  Alabama was 3-0 and had the golden horseshoe in hand.  A writer penned a big article in the B'ham News that week stating, "This Alabama Team will Win the National Championship." 

The next week Vanderbilt beat Alabama 14-10 in front of 34,000 fans (mostly from Alabama, it seemed).  The Bama team just didn't show up.  I was crushed. 

This is exactly why we have to do one game at a time. Going to LSU stuff before the game week is not good. We can always have that one off game and it would kill us whether Tenn or LSU. RTR!

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