Alabama vs Auburn 1982

[Shadowlight]

I believe this was Bear Bryant's last season coaching and Bama ended up the season losing three in a row including this backyard battle. But I just watched this game on ESPN Classics and I could not believe my eyes. Auburn's D had a lot of white guys including defensive backs and an all American LB Gregg Carr.. Alabama also had a similar amount of white guys on both sides of the ball. This was Bo Jackson's freshman season but Bama featured a terrific white half back Paul Carruth (who also returned kick offs) and 4.2 40 ( yep he was THAT FAST) guy in WR Joey Jones who hauled in a spectacular TD catch in the first half. Here we are 35 years later and you can almost taste the bitter reality that the white athlete is near death or in a coma. Back then watching sports was a delight. Today it is like visiting the dentist.

 

[Carolina Speed]

I believe this was Bear Bryant's last season coaching and Bama ended up the season losing three in a row including this backyard battle. But I just watched this game on ESPN Classics and I could not believe my eyes. Auburn's D had a lot of white guys including defensive backs and an all American LB Gregg Carr.. Alabama also had a similar amount of white guys on both sides of the ball. This was Bo Jackson's freshman season but Bama featured a terrific white half back Paul Carruth (who also returned kick offs) and 4.2 40 ( yep he was THAT FAST) guy in WR Joey Jones who hauled in a spectacular TD catch in the first half. Here we are 35 years later and you can almost taste the bitter reality that the white athlete is near death or in a coma. Back then watching sports was a delight. Today it is like visiting the dentist.

On a side note, all three of the players you mentioned have went on to respectable professional careers. Carr went on to medical school after 5 years with Pittsburgh and is an orthopedic surgeon in Birmingham, AL. Carruth, played for Green Bay, is an oil executive and Jones is or was, I think he's the head coach at South Alabama. Thanks for bringing back memories Shadowlight.

 

[Average American]

I read a book a while back (Unbeatable), it chronicled the 1988 Notre Dame national championship football team.. I'm kinda paraphrasing here, but in it they quoted a Notre Dame recruiter who stated they were looking at Miami's success as the new standard for recruiting around that era.

Howard Schnellenberger had taken a nothing Miami program and turned it into powerhouse by mid-8os. To his credit, Schnellenberger saw a blind spot in the Caste 1.0 of his era. Which was that inner-city Black kids weren't being comprehensively recruited, so he went in to the local 'hood & signed them. He created a new paradigm that others were rushing to duplicate.
The pendulum swung to the Schnellenberger recruiting model, and has basically stayed there for 30 years now (ie- fast Black athletes have the highest potential, even if relatively undeveloped).
I feel like Belichick has identified a blind spot in the modern NFL caste, which is why he's found & been successful with overlooked White players. Strangely, no one else in the NFL seems to be mimicking him. And because of a cult-Marxist political climate, Belichick may not be able to explain New Englands' success in countercultural racial terms, like Schnellenberger was able to freely discuss his success in countercultural racial terms of his era (?)
College football needs a Schnellenberger-like visionary who can swing the pendulum away from a hysterical favoritism toward Caste model of recruiting, to a color-blind meritocratic program. The program will be very good, and probably racially 50/50.. instead of some college programs, and current NFL which is basically 66% Black.
Just like the Black players & quarterbacks who were (once upon a time) unfairly passed over, that's what's happening now to a % of White players in the contemporary caste.

 

[Leonardfan]

I read a book a while back (Unbeatable), it chronicled the 1988 Notre Dame national championship football team.. I'm kinda paraphrasing here, but in it they quoted a Notre Dame recruiter who stated they were looking at Miami's success as the new standard for recruiting around that era.

Howard Schnellenberger had taken a nothing Miami program and turned it into powerhouse by mid-8os. To his credit, Schnellenberger saw a blind spot in the Caste 1.0 of his era. Which was that inner-city Black kids weren't being comprehensively recruited, so he went in to the local 'hood & signed them. He created a new paradigm that others were rushing to duplicate.
The pendulum swung to the Schnellenberger recruiting model, and has basically stayed there for 30 years now (ie- fast Black athletes have the highest potential, even if relatively undeveloped).
I feel like Belichick has identified a blind spot in the modern NFL caste, which is why he's found & been successful with overlooked White players. Strangely, no one else in the NFL seems to be mimicking him. And because of a cult-Marxist political climate, Belichick may not be able to explain New Englands' success in countercultural racial terms, like Schnellenberger was able to freely discuss his success in countercultural racial terms of his era (?)
College football needs a Schnellenberger-like visionary who can swing the pendulum away from a hysterical favoritism toward Caste model of recruiting, to a color-blind meritocratic program. The program will be very good, and probably racially 50/50.. instead of some college programs, and current NFL which is basically 66% Black.
Just like the Black players & quarterbacks who were (once upon a time) unfairly passed over, that's what's happening now to a % of White players in the contemporary caste.

I did not know that he was the reason for the rampant negrophilia in college recruiting and destroying the game. Thanks for the info AA!

 

[Heretic]

I believe this was Bear Bryant's last season coaching and Bama ended up the season losing three in a row including this backyard battle. But I just watched this game on ESPN Classics and I could not believe my eyes. Auburn's D had a lot of white guys including defensive backs and an all American LB Gregg Carr.. Alabama also had a similar amount of white guys on both sides of the ball. This was Bo Jackson's freshman season but Bama featured a terrific white half back Paul Carruth (who also returned kick offs) and 4.2 40 ( yep he was THAT FAST) guy in WR Joey Jones who hauled in a spectacular TD catch in the first half. Here we are 35 years later and you can almost taste the bitter reality that the white athlete is near death or in a coma. Back then watching sports was a delight. Today it is like visiting the dentist.

Yep, as I've stated in several posts throughout different threads on this site, the early 80's was really the last remaining vestiges of America 1.0. It went downhill fast after that, like a freight train. By the mid-late 80's the NFL was pure Castean and so was everything else. Viewing old sports clips, movies, music, etc. will showcase the same thing. To give you some really tangential perspective, 1982 was the last year of the Lawrence Welk show...and by 1988 the gangsta rap album "Straight Outta Compton" was released by N.W.A.

 

[Don Wassall]

Some excellent observations in this thread. The fight went out of White Americans in the mid-70s, symbolized by the rise of disco and general decadence. Drugs, porn, and "free sex" were marketed as the new norms and were embraced by a lot of Whites. Many White athletes of that era were flaky as hell.

I agree that the early '80s were when the last embers of America 1.0 were extinguished. I remember thinking how bad the '80s were at the time, but they seem quaint now. But it's all a matter of degree. The U.S. has been directed on a certain course for a long time through gradualism. Maybe at long last the tide will begin to turn under Trump's leadership.

 

[Shadowlight]

In 1977 I was rooting hard for Dr. J and the 76ers to beat Bill Walton and the Trailblazers. In the mid 70's I despised the Whitish Celtics led by Dave Cowens and John Havlicek. I was in my late teens by the late 70's.. I even rooted for John Carlos the USA sprinter at the 1968 Olympics although I don't think I was happy about the black power salute.Somewhere between 1977 and 1978 I switched allegiances and slowly but surely started rooting for certain white athletes. Before that all my favorite baseball players were black and in basketball and football more of a mixture. Why did I change my attitudes? There was something cultural going on and remember ESPN started in 1979 and they may have played a big role in the new white/black dynamic that emerged.. I think the Larry Bird phenomena clinched it for me. He was beyond pale white but he fitted in well with black players because he played the game the right way and set up his teammates all the time. He was not a pretty boy or a selfish egomaniac. He was just a regular kind of goofy looking guy who hit the big time. And he became a threat to blacks despite those nice qualities.( As I am posting this Jordy just made a great catch Janis had a nice end around run alright!! ) Anyway the boys from the hood started lining up for the Lakers and a lot of regular white folk started rooting for Bird and the Celtics. I have pretty much not looked back since then.