(I originally wrote this article five months ago but feel that it is just as relevant today).

First off we must define the level of success. Is success an eight-win season? Or, is success a 14-0 season? For Crimson Tide fans it is always some where around a championship title (1999 was the last Title the Tide held in there grasps).

Does this mean that a 12-2, 2008 season was not successful? Absolutely not! Whenever a team can go undefeated in the regular season it is successful. But, when a team does that and loses the conference championship, it certainly makes it bittersweet.

In my opinion, a successful season consists of 10 or more wins. A season I can live with is nine wins and a season were I become ambival...

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