Click here for linkThe AP released its preseason poll for the 2012 football season, and there at #2 sits the Crimson Tide of Alabama. Last month the coaches voted Bama #3, though if figured in the post-Tyrann Mathieu era the Tide may have faired even better.
But stop for a moment and let this sink in. 2012′s season will mark the fifth year in a row that Alabama has been a national title contender.
Not since the 1970′s has the Alabama program been in this good a shape. Bama has enjoyed success since then, but not the kind of “sustained success” that makes teams see you on their schedule and pencil in a loss.
It’s the kind of success that makes the Tim Brandos of the world hate saying your name on the air as you stick it to them year in and year out and make them have to like it.
It’s the kind of success that makes your rivals’ fans sound like blithering idiots when jockeying their average team’s accomplishments against yours.
Sustained success. Not a flash-in-the-pan, great season amid a career of 7-5′s. But sustained…you-hate-playing-us-because-we’re-going-to-beat-you-down…success.
So how did Alabama head coach Nick Saban get Alabama here? Simple. He had a plan. ...
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