Bammer should have played for the National Title…

According to Bama fan journalist Cecil Hurt of the Tuscaloosa News

CECIL HURT: BCS title game matchup changes perception of this year's season



Think about this way. At one point in the month of November, Alabama may very well have been in control of its own national championship destiny. This team collapsed down the stretch. But no one (myself included) really grasped at the time just what a collapse it really was. But consider that, when Javier Arenas made that portentous punt return in the fourth quarter of the LSU game (one that now echoes like Freddie Milons' punt return against UCLA in 2000, the high-water mark of that doomed season), Alabama was poised to beat LSU (as Les Miles tried to give the game away for the 11^th time).
Now, that didn't happen and everything that follows is the idlest speculation. But what if Alabama had held on? What if it had a little more confidence - and, just for the sake of argument, five unsuspended players ? going to Mississippi State? Because if Alabama had beaten LSU, its path to the BCS title game might well have been MSU, Louisiana-Monroe, Auburn and a rematch with a Tennessee team that it hammered in October. The losses to Georgia (which, under the Les Miles "undefeated in regulation" theory, didn't count anyway) and Florida State wouldn't have mattered.

Now, that stretch proved far too arduous for Alabama, which didn't beat MSU, or UL-M, or Auburn. That's not the point. The point is that Alabama really didn't need to be a whole lot better to be in position to play for the BCS title. Somewhat better? Sure. Somewhat tougher? Absolutely. But not incalculably better, by any means.

That's how crazy this college season really was. Alabama wasn't championship material, but it was actually still on the road to the Promised Land until the final two minutes of a game in early November. Certainly, no one ever thought that would be the case. No one even knew it was the case when it was happening. But it was the case.

It just doesn't get much more delusional than that from a homer unbiased journalist. No journalist should ever us fan-logic in an actual news story, how many other fan bases would discuss how a .500 team almost won the National Title?

The problem is that Bammers actually believe this. Their team loses to LAMo and is playing in Shreveport for the second year in a row, and the journalist they bought is mentioning them in the same sentence with NC. But hey, you got to keep your donors happy right?