The red and white caps came home from T-Town for some barbecue at Jim and Nicks singing the blues, sorely disappointed and wondering what happened to new head God Nick Saban’s debut season.

Alabama laid down against Louisiana-Monroe and now must look themselves in the mirror at a 6-5 season going into next week’s corporate bowl down in Auburn.

My question of the day is this, and it’s as much about politics and society as it is about football. Is it possible to run an old fashioned but honest disciplinary regime in modern football and win?

Big time football players like fancy cars and pretty girls and something good to smoke as much as the next twenty something struggling to advance in Bush’s America.

Can you keep a group like that together simply with prayer, a lot of running, early to bed orders and strict academic rules?

Hey, at least the bookies love it. They must know Saban will not break the rules to beat the line. A clean coach is good for the bottom line, unless you like bettin’ FOR your team.

Perhaps it’s time to employ the old Saints-Ain’ts betting strategy. Always bet against them…

Personality Pattern Hurt Alabama in Loss to Louisiana-Monroe

Maybe LSU has the answer, down in Baton Rouge, where a quarter of New Orleans’ former population now parties…

Top-Ranked Tigers Squeeze Past Ole Miss

Time Out
by Paul Jordon

LSU vs. somebody from the East is the scenario for the SEC title game after last week’s SEC football action.

When Week 10 began, eight teams were still in the hunt for the SEC title, five in the Eastern Division, three in the West.

But when both Alabama and Auburn posted losses, it left LSU all alone at the top of the Western Division – just as Ohio State’s loss left a void in the national No. 1 slot, which the Bengal Tigers were also all too pleased to fill.
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