From: jasmith@admin1.memst.edu (John)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.college
Subject: Miami #1, because we're Floridians.
Date: 5 Jan 93 11:18:05 -0600
Organization: Memphis State University
Summary: Miami #1, because we're Floridians.
Reply-To: Miami #1, because we're Floridians.
Keywords: Alabama

  A Miami Fan, "Torretta only had a bad day we still should be number 1."
           "Hey, we could have beat them." 

            YEAH, RIGHT!

In article <1iaa3pINNfjq@haydn.crhc.uiuc.edu> Timothy Tsai writes:
>anthony@panzer.b17b.ingr.com (Anthony Shipman) writes:
>>In article <aggie-040193111418@wealthy.ocean.fsu.edu>, I R A Aggie writes:
>>
>>|> I know the first one in the 3rd quarter led to a TD. What's a defense to
>>|> do? your offense just *gives* the ball to the other guys inside the your
>>|> own 30 yard line. 
>>
>>I know you're joking here, but some unbelievers have tried to pretend those
>>turnovers by the Canes were bad luck. I'm sorry, but interceptions like that 
>>are SKILL, dammit. Not to mention running down a wide-open receiver and taking
>>the ball from him.
>
>Even though Alabama played great defense, IMHO, the main reason for those
>interceptions was Torretta.  It was a combination of good defense and bad
>offense.

Absolutely.  Torretta is not a lousy quarterback, but he played a lousy
game.  He was rattled, frustrated, overwhelmed, and in a "blur".  For
THAT you have to give credit to the Crimson Tide defense.  Copeland and
Curry didn't make any big headlines Friday night, but they played an
integral role in getting into Torretta's head, and making him make mistakes.
-- 
Mark Bacchus
bacchus@bnr.ca

This is a reply concerning all the Miami fans trying to make excuses for there
team.  The above is an example of some Miami fans and their excuses, and 
a great Alabama fan setting them straight on some of the facts. 

I'm sitting here listening to all this crap.  Miami got their little fannies
kicked all over the field.  Offensively, defensively and on special teams.
Don't start telling us about Torretta had a bad game, and all that bullsh*t.
Torretta didn't deserve the Heisman in the first place.  And if he did why isn't
he going to be the first person in the draft?  Or better yet, why isn't he
going to be the first quarterback taken?  I think the guy from Washington State
is the best college football player in the nation.  He's at least the best
quarterback.  Why did Miami lose?  Well, let me count the reasons.

   1.  A far superior defensive that presented itself in such a way that
       Torretta could figure out what was going on.  If you recall I think he
       called a timeout on the first series of plays for Miami, because Alabama
       had 12 men on the line.  He also used his timeouts up before the end of
       the half.  That's just the first of Torretta's problems.  The second 
       problem was that the Alabama secondary had blanket cover on the recievers
       and Torretta didn't have anyone to throw the ball to.  And this helped 
       cause another problem for Torretta, no time to pass the ball.  Alabama
       getting so much pressure on Torretta that he barely had time to get rid
       of the ball.  All this defensive line pressure and great coverage of the
       Miami recievers lead to flustration and confusion.  Torretta didn't 
       know what to do and started forcing the ball in places that he would 
       normally throw the ball.  And when the pressure was real heavy he 
       couldn't keep track of all the defensive backs, and this is when he'd
       get intercepted.  Torretta didn't have a bad day.  He just played a good
       defense.  A bad day would have been if Torretta would have had time in 
       the pocket to throw the ball and his recievers were wide open and he 
       couldn't hit them.

   2.  Alabama out muscled Miami on the line.  As I recall Jon Stevenson saying
       on TV last night about the game, We just played our game and out 
       muscled Miami on the ground.  We thought they were really overrated and
       knew we could get a ground game going on there defense.  (No this is
       not exact words but this is to the effect of what he said as close as I
       could recall.)  Alabama's offensive line blew the Huricanes off the ball
       and opened holes for there running backs.  And the backs got lose on the
       Miami secondary quite frequently.  The only time Miami even looked a 
       match for the offensive line was when they were in goal line defensive,
       and yes it hard to run when you have 7 men blocking on 12.

   3.  Alabama beat Miami at there own game.  What game is this?  The game that
       Miami likes playing trash talking.  I'll give the Huricanes credit here,
       because this is an effective tool to flustrate teams.  True, Alabama 
       didn't talk any trash to Miami, but they didn't the thing that really 
       gets a trash talking team.  They refused to acknowledge the presents of 
       the Miami players.  I saw on a couple occasions where there be some Miami
       player trying to talk some trash to an Alabama players and he'd just 
       turn around and walk back to the huddle without saying anything.
       What is this?  CLASS.  Something Miami don't know anything about.

   4.  Hussle.  Alabama out hussled Miami.  This is easy to see.  Just look 
       at the play Torretta connected on the bomb, and it looked like a 
       touchdown.  The reciever was run down by Teague and stripped of the ball.
       I remember laughing so hard after that play.  I think I laughed for 
       three or four plays after that.  I just couldn't stop laughing.

       All I here are these people from Florida crying all the time about 
       something.  Face it your team had a good season, but they got there 
       butt kicked by Alabama.  And no matter how many times they wanted to 
       play Alabama is just the best team.  And you should be happy that
       Alabama didn't unleash Palmer on your defense.  As I recall they 
       beat Miami up so good they didn't even need to use Palmer.  And 
       they showed a little mercy on Miami.  If they had have had Palmer
       in they might have scored two more touchdowns.