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Soccer in the 90s/early 2000s was cool
True. The 1994 World Cup was the first one I paid fairly close attention to and got into while taking summer school classes at Bama. Had a professor for one class who was German. Young guy was out of cental casting for a stereotypical German guy with small lens glasses wearing leiderhosen (sp?). Guy would literally cut classes 45 minutes short to get back to his place to watch Germany in the World Cup
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They made it gay with all of the scarfs
...and in America it slowly became the sport of metropolitan soy boy progressives that hate mainstream anything
The bolded is scary accurate. unfortunately. Worked for several years in Mobile, AL with a colleague who was like this. He's a Mobile (AL) native who went to and graduated from Auburn. I and a handful of others got along great with him around the office but he was one of the super progressive types that always had NPR playing in the background and at the time was always bashing W Bush. Worked with him up thru most of Trump's first term and it was constant Trump bashing.
Back on topic sportwise, he was one of the types of fans that didn't dislike college football or dislike college sports in general but treated them like they were very unsophisticated sports and beneath Premier League soccer which he followed with a passion. It was almost as if he associated college football (and even the NFL to a large extent) with middle America conservative politics and because of his fondness for Europe/the EU he prefers their politics and brand of football. I admire his passion at least
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Alabama becomes the first school ever to...
Posted by Govt Tide on 6/8/26 at 1:16 pm
...make the college football playoff, the men's and women's NCAA basketball tournament, and the men's and women's College World Series in the same calender school year
re: Alabama gets blown out in Home Opener vs Wazzu
Posted by Govt Tide on 6/8/26 at 12:14 pm to RoscoeHarper
If TD ever comes up with a HOF for threads that don't age well this one's a sure fire first ballot hall of famer ??
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They should have just put the program down when their own HC got busted for betting…against them
Good thing it wasn't
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If everything holds as it appears, one entire side of the bracket in omaha will be SEC teams. Ole Miss has to be happy with their side of the bracket right now.
Worked out really nicely for Ole Miss. UNC is really good but they aren't necessarily an offensive juggernaut. They're certainly beatable. Win that game and you face a team playing in its first ever CWS.
Alabama is catching a break in their first CWS game (assuming they finish off St Johns). Kansas is good and OU at the moment is as hot as any team in the country but both are beatable. I don't think Alabama would have had the bats or pitching to keep up with Georgia Tech had they made to Omaha.
I don't have much confidence against the UGA/Texas winner if Alabama is somehow able to get past OU in their first game. Texas pitching shut us down in our regular season series and their bats are heating up to to go along with their pitching. Even less confidence against Georgia who I don't think we can keep up with
re: Some perspective on Pat Murphy
Posted by Govt Tide on 6/2/26 at 11:41 am to Vulcan Materials
Alabama softball is more like a slightly more clutch version of Florida State baseball.
FSU - 24 CWS appearances with 0 titles
Alabama - 16 WCWS appearances with 1 title
Alabama softball has historically underachieved when it gets to OKC but it's hard to criticize Murphy too much. 16 WCWS appearances in 28 seasons and having one of the top 7 or 8 softball programs in the country this century is nothing to sneeze at
FSU - 24 CWS appearances with 0 titles
Alabama - 16 WCWS appearances with 1 title
Alabama softball has historically underachieved when it gets to OKC but it's hard to criticize Murphy too much. 16 WCWS appearances in 28 seasons and having one of the top 7 or 8 softball programs in the country this century is nothing to sneeze at
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My dad is an Alabama football fan. He couldn’t tell you the first thing that is going on in any of their other sports, even basketball. It’s one of the things that makes their sidewalk fan base so irritating.
We call them FOGs...football only gumps. They go on Alabama message boards and complain when the men's basketball team is getting too much attention or when actual alums or even non alums who care about multiple sports talk about investing in facility upgrades for non-football sports. Annoying fans to say the least.
On a side note, sports broadcasters and commentators can be annoying when it comes to Alabama football too. It seems as if every crew that calls an Alabama home basketball, baseball, or softball game feels obligated to mention how they don't just play football at Alabama. Nevermind the fact that Alabama men's basketball has been ranked among the Top 40 among all D1 programs in average attendance for nearly ever season in the last 50 years yet they act like nobody cares about basketball
re: Record breaker in Auburn!
Posted by Govt Tide on 6/2/26 at 8:21 am to PrattvilleTiger
TV showed a lot of Plainsman Park last night. Auburn did a great job with the latest renovations to that stadium. Looks like seating was beefed up and the concourse/concession areas look like the two nicest minor league ballparks in the state (Regions Field in Bham and Riverwalk Stadium in Mtgy). It always felt like Auburn's baseball stadium was oddly shoehorned in b/w the football stadium and surrounded buildings but with the latest renovations it gives it a nice amphitheater feel
I get what you're saying and would love for the crowd and atmosphere to be more like it is at LSU, Miss State, and Ole Miss during a regional but as you know whether a team/place hosts or not is determined by the season a team has more than potential attendance or lack thereof.
LSU, Ole Miss, and Miss State are much more established baseball programs with a lot more recent success so it's going to take more success at Alabama to begin to get closer to the size crowds at the aforementioned schools.
Having said all that, it'll be packed for the super regional next weekend
LSU, Ole Miss, and Miss State are much more established baseball programs with a lot more recent success so it's going to take more success at Alabama to begin to get closer to the size crowds at the aforementioned schools.
Having said all that, it'll be packed for the super regional next weekend
re: Average Home Values for SEC Towns
Posted by Govt Tide on 5/26/26 at 9:34 pm to AUTiger789
Because Tuscaloosa has a diverse range of neighborhoods—including bustling student-housing areas near the University of Alabama and luxury districts—prices vary drastically by location.
Median Prices by Area/Zip Code:
University Area (35401):
$499,900
Northport / Lake Tuscaloosa Area
(35473): $329,900
Central/Eastern Tuscaloosa (35404):
$259,000
Southern Tuscaloosa (35405):
$259,900
This is how Zillow breaks down prices in rhe Tuscaloosa area. I realize there's a difference between home value and average price but how does the average home value in an area where average sales prices across the area range from $499k to a low of roughly $260k add up to an average home value of only $231k?
Median Prices by Area/Zip Code:
University Area (35401):
$499,900
Northport / Lake Tuscaloosa Area
(35473): $329,900
Central/Eastern Tuscaloosa (35404):
$259,000
Southern Tuscaloosa (35405):
$259,900
This is how Zillow breaks down prices in rhe Tuscaloosa area. I realize there's a difference between home value and average price but how does the average home value in an area where average sales prices across the area range from $499k to a low of roughly $260k add up to an average home value of only $231k?
Fans of every major college football or basketball program can probably point to instances of seeing "fans" of their team in random far away areas wearing a hat or t-shirt with their team's logo on it especially when their team has had a dominant or near dominant run recently.
The most random place I've seen someone wearing a Bama hat or shirt was a teenager wearing a Bama hat in Rock Springs, Wyoming of all places in the late 90s.
I wouldn't have been suprised to see Bama gear in Jackson Hole, WY or Yellowstone given that there were a handful of fellow Bama and Auburn co-eds I knew that worked out there during the summer at the time . Didn't expect to see a teenager in a small non-tourist area on the other side of the state Bammered up though
The most random place I've seen someone wearing a Bama hat or shirt was a teenager wearing a Bama hat in Rock Springs, Wyoming of all places in the late 90s.
I wouldn't have been suprised to see Bama gear in Jackson Hole, WY or Yellowstone given that there were a handful of fellow Bama and Auburn co-eds I knew that worked out there during the summer at the time . Didn't expect to see a teenager in a small non-tourist area on the other side of the state Bammered up though
LSU went 15-43 in conference play in the Big 3 sports this year
Posted by Govt Tide on 5/25/26 at 1:37 pm
That might be an all time record low win total among SEC teams in a school year. If it's not a record it's flirting with one
....as a Top 8 overall seed and regional host in the NCAA baseball tournament
We'll try harder in our next home opener....
re: SI: New NCAA eligibility requirements could impact recently-committed EuroLeague players
Posted by Govt Tide on 5/23/26 at 1:33 pm to captdalton
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I have repeatedly said the system is broken. I didn’t agree with Oats trying to bring back Bediako, and in hindsight it looks like an even worse idea.
I didn't agree with Oates bringing back Bediako either but it was disingenous of critics to act like he was the first coach to bring on a G league player or a pro or semi-pro Euro player.
The fact that critics pretended to not see Oate's point of essentially forcing a ruling on a G league player with a year of college eligibility left when other teams have been signing G league players and pro/semi pro Euro players fo NIL deals left and right was laughably hypocritical.
I didn't think Oates bringing Bediako back was worth the heat that doing so was going to bring himself and the program but at least it showed how ridiculously arbitrary the NCAA's eligibility rules are when it comes to how some G League and pro/semi-pro Euros are apparently ok while some players being eligible to play under very circumstances aren't.
If Will Wade is able to get his Euro league pros eligible it'll be hilarious seeing how the NCAA justifies it. I don't blame Wade and LSU for trying though given how Euro pros seem to get a pass from the NCAA
re: High School Senior Recognition Day at Church - SEC Schools They Will Be Attending
Posted by Govt Tide on 5/18/26 at 5:55 am to nicholastiger
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Bama gets a lot of La kids
Yes. My nephew who graduated from high school in the Mandeville/Covington area just finished his sophomore year at Bama. I remember being surprised at how many of his classmates were going to Bama as well.
I moved to the Mandeville/Covington area a year ago and a few of my clients and an LSU grad co-worker raved about how nice the Bama campus tour was even though a couple of the students ultimately decided to go elsewhere. It seems like most of the kids in that area who go out of state go to either Ole Miss, Bama, or MSU.
Southern Miss is another popular out of state option for a lot of kids in that area it seems likely due to proximity
re: The OU Rock Creek Entertainment District ($1B) breaks ground 12 May
Posted by Govt Tide on 5/10/26 at 8:25 am to JeffLebowski
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Great concept and hope it works well for yall! Very sincerely! If there’s one thing Norman can use to go along with OU’s storied sports traditions, it’s better entertainment options. Again, congrats!
My nephew with his girlfriend who is from OKC went to the OU/Bama playoff game in Norman and had a good time but said he was suprised how there were almost no bars outside of 3 or 4 restaurants that happened to have a decent bat inside.
That new project looks really nice. I love projects like this. Only thing I don't like is the arena capacity. Ideally would be perfect if there was a way for arena capacity to be closer to 12,000.
Dems/Deep State tripling down on gender war
Posted by Govt Tide on 5/7/26 at 7:33 am
Anyone noticing their algorithm feeding them a non stop relentless barrage of feminist misandrist rage bait?
Seems like once the calender flipped to 2026 my FB feed is literally 75% feminist rage bait about how 97% of women have been raped of SA'd by a man at some point in their lives. The hunting down and murdering of women is apparently reaching crisis levels all of a sudden too with dozens of women being murdered by men every minute of every day according to feminist.
Funny how traditional racism is no longer nearly as big of a crisis as the millions of women apparently being raped, SA'd, and murdered by raving hordes of exclusively "white men" in this country.
The latest outrage making the rounds is about the "62,000,000 male members" of an online group that teaches men how to drug and rape their wives and girlfriends. Nevermind the fact that it was actually 62 million views of a porn website that included a link to the lone subgroup (out of a few dozen subgroups on the site) that had roughly 1,000 members (as opposed to 62,000,000 members) promoting this sick behavior. Apparently pointing out the fact that there are actually only 1,000 male members (as opposed to 62,000,000 male members) of said group while openly condemning not only the behavior being promoted by this subgroup but the existence of the group itself means isn't enough. Apparently taking issue with 61,999,000 innocent men being falsely accused of such horrible behavior means you hate women and want to see them drugged and sexually assaulted. After all, nearly 1 and 3 American men being falsely accused of being members of this group isn't a big deal as long as it "starts a conversation"
Seems like once the calender flipped to 2026 my FB feed is literally 75% feminist rage bait about how 97% of women have been raped of SA'd by a man at some point in their lives. The hunting down and murdering of women is apparently reaching crisis levels all of a sudden too with dozens of women being murdered by men every minute of every day according to feminist.
Funny how traditional racism is no longer nearly as big of a crisis as the millions of women apparently being raped, SA'd, and murdered by raving hordes of exclusively "white men" in this country.
The latest outrage making the rounds is about the "62,000,000 male members" of an online group that teaches men how to drug and rape their wives and girlfriends. Nevermind the fact that it was actually 62 million views of a porn website that included a link to the lone subgroup (out of a few dozen subgroups on the site) that had roughly 1,000 members (as opposed to 62,000,000 members) promoting this sick behavior. Apparently pointing out the fact that there are actually only 1,000 male members (as opposed to 62,000,000 male members) of said group while openly condemning not only the behavior being promoted by this subgroup but the existence of the group itself means isn't enough. Apparently taking issue with 61,999,000 innocent men being falsely accused of such horrible behavior means you hate women and want to see them drugged and sexually assaulted. After all, nearly 1 and 3 American men being falsely accused of being members of this group isn't a big deal as long as it "starts a conversation"
re: Texas has way too many transplants from outside the region
Posted by Govt Tide on 5/7/26 at 6:12 am to Bert Macklin FBI
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My FIL lives in Austin and it drives him nuts. He says the tech idiots from California made their state unlivable and now they moved to Austin and keep voting for the same shite that ruined where they came from.
Texas has remained suprisingky solid red despite the huge influx from California and other blue states but I'm afraid it's of when and not if it eventually turns purple then blue ala Colorado and Virginia.
The scary part is that we were a Kamala win away from 4 more years of "saving democracy"...i.e. letting countless more illegals from 3rd world countries flood into Texas to turn it blue thus ensuring perpetual one party rule for the rest of our collective lifetimes.
SEC city populations (2025)
Posted by Govt Tide on 4/27/26 at 6:13 am
2025 population for all 16 SEC cities. Number in parentheses denotes where each city ranks within their respective state:
1) Austin (5) - 1,000,511
2) Nashville (1) - 708,772
3) Lexington (2) - 331,139
4) Baton Rouge (2) - 219,565
5) Knoxville (3) - 200,595
6) Gainesville (14) - 150,331
7) Columbia, SC (2) - 146,933
8) Columbia, MO (4) - 132,046
9) Norman (3) - 131,717
10) College Station (30) - 129,834
11) Athens (6) - 129,054
12) Tuscaloosa (5) - 116,465
13) Fayetteville (2) - 105,221
14) Auburn (7) - 85,429
15) Oxford (11) - 27,124
16) Starkville (15) - 25,880
1) Austin (5) - 1,000,511
2) Nashville (1) - 708,772
3) Lexington (2) - 331,139
4) Baton Rouge (2) - 219,565
5) Knoxville (3) - 200,595
6) Gainesville (14) - 150,331
7) Columbia, SC (2) - 146,933
8) Columbia, MO (4) - 132,046
9) Norman (3) - 131,717
10) College Station (30) - 129,834
11) Athens (6) - 129,054
12) Tuscaloosa (5) - 116,465
13) Fayetteville (2) - 105,221
14) Auburn (7) - 85,429
15) Oxford (11) - 27,124
16) Starkville (15) - 25,880
Every SEC state has at least 4 cities on the list except for Louisiana and Mississippi which have 1 and 0 cities respectively...lol
Alabama has 5 cities on the list:
#25 - Hoover
#85 - Huntsville
#130 - Decatur
#182 - Daphne
#190 - Dothan
Several head scratchers on both the national ranking and state ranking lists though.
Nashville at #228? How on earth does Fairhope not make a list of the 13 highest ranked cities in Alabama...but Gadsden and Anniston somehow do?
Alabama has 5 cities on the list:
#25 - Hoover
#85 - Huntsville
#130 - Decatur
#182 - Daphne
#190 - Dothan
Several head scratchers on both the national ranking and state ranking lists though.
Nashville at #228? How on earth does Fairhope not make a list of the 13 highest ranked cities in Alabama...but Gadsden and Anniston somehow do?
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