If Mcoy is in there we may have pissed the game away in the 1st quarter...luckily the frosh was in a whirlwind and could not take advantage of our mistakes. Alabama got away from what brought us here in the 1st quarter and it was looking bad. It is real hard for anyone to have an answer for a O-Line and the 2 backs we put out there. Richardson starts at 90% of all schools as a true freshman. We may not get back here next year (more than likely won't for awhile) but man it feels good to be in the mix again. Nothin like sitting in Tuscaloosa watching us go 6 and 6 year in and year out...tide fans were dying man.
Something seems strange to me with the Mccoy injury. Not sure what lol just seems strange to me. How much outside influence was there? Could he have possibly played? I don't know. The hit didn't look all that bad, x rays negative no structual damage, and he said he didn't feel pain just dead arm feeling. Sounds nothing more than a stinger to me. ???????? i'm just saying.... I know you have millions waiting for you but hike up your skirt and play the 2nd half. I think the hit and initial feeling scared him out of there. Dollar bills started flashing through his mind.
Kinda hard to throw a ball when your arm is numb, no? And I have a feeling that McCoy was willing to go back into the game, but Daddy McCoy went back to the locker room and talked to him about his future. I am 99.9% sure that if given the chance, McCoy would have went into the game.
I am also sure Sam Bradford went through his head...Who knows, he has heart, but at what point does your love for your school (that makes millions off you but cannot even give you a jersey with your own number on it) out weigh your well being and financial future.
I would imagine if you had an injury bad enough to knock you out of the Championship Game it would be hard to grab your shoulder pads and hang on to them or clap your hands applauding your team like he was. Without a sling or ice on the severely injured shoulder to boot!
Holding shoulder pad and clapping hands =/= throwing a football accurately 20 yards downfield before getting hit by a 300lb defensive lineman
a big assumption........ at least texas can go around whining for the next 8 months about how they lost without their star...
Um, not really. How is saying that the game would have been much different with McCoy making a "big assumption"? I did not say that "if McCoy plays, Texas wins". With McCoy out, it completely changed both Texas and Bama's gameplans. How does that not make the game different than if McCoy had played?
your statement reads like "the outcome would have been much different"... either way, texas has their excuse... we've got our trophy and the #1 rank... all else is assumption at this point... eta - for what its worth, ingram was injured also... so our "star" wasn't playing to his potential either... call it even...
I'm sorry, but they aren't even close to being even. And the outcome would have more than likely been different with McCoy playing the entire game. Not saying Texas would have won, but the outcome of the game would have definitely been different. The game was a testament to Bama's team. Colt McCoy was Texas's offense. He was their leading rusher this year. Without him, the Texas offense is nothing, as seen last night. If Bama had lost Ingram, Richardson is more than capable of taking over his role. If McElroy had been injured, Bama could have still ran down Texas's throat. The defenses were pretty evenly matched in this game.
+1. No one is taking anything away from Alabama. They're National Champs and 25 years from now there won't be too many people that remember that McCoy went down early. BUT, the Ingram v. McCoy injury comparison is just absurd. How many yards did McCoy account for and how many plays did he play before and after his injury on the FIRST drive? Now, how many yards did Ingram account for and how many plays did he play before and after his injury?
richardson is a freshman... he's nowhere near the quality of ingram at this point in his career, if you don't see that, well.........
Semi hypothetical question.... If it was determined that with the "injury" he sustained there was no chance of causing any damage to his shoulder and was just going to be uncomfortable, should he have gone back in? I mean even if he got hit by a 300lb. lineman and there wasn't a chance of any bad effect on the injured arm should he have been in there?
texas lost, get over it... its been the same story all season... teams run with bama for part of the game and eventually the defense takes over and wins the game... having colt in there may have changed the dynamic of defenses called, but that don't mean much when you've got a great coach on the sidelines making adjustments... the coaching staff on the bama sideline is what put them in the game in the first place and kept texas from winning...
What does this even mean? "Semi hypothetical"? In this "semi hypothetical" question, I guess the coaches believed that a 100% true freshman was better option than a 75% Colt McCoy. Do you really believe that it was all McCoy's decision to whether or not he would play or not?
Ingram was cramping. Come on, you are better than this. I was pulling for Texas last night, but I'm not a Texas fan. I'm just posting on the observations I made as an unbiased observer.
I hated to see McCoy go down. He is a great guy and deserved to play his final game. I think he and his family simply made a business decision. I can't say I would do differently. Texas' defense impressed the hell out of me. They absolutely shut down the bama receivers and put McElroy on his ass almost every time he tried to drop back. At the end of the day Texas was too one dimensional and Bama capitalized.
