Woodrow Wilson

So what? A 20 year old in a red jersey can run with a football faster than a 20 year old in a blue jersey; that is important why?

A partial infamous and shameful list of Bama's most "passionate" alumni/fans such as: Harvey Updyke, Connor Bruce Croll, MICHELLE PRITCHETT, Adrian Laroza Briskey, Shorty Price, John Phillips and Brian Downing Jermaine Burton, Darwin Holt and Tommy Lewis et al... Very embarrassing list to be sure like no other school in America. Victims of too much bama. Indeed, it is so sad that the very esteem dimwitted bama zealots crave is taken away by their actions.

Contrived bs.

If Saban is the GOAT then it is because he coached at the last football factory in America. At UAT Saban had an unlimited and unsurpassed budget for overall payroll, NIL, recruiting, gold-plated facilities and most importantly no pushback from the admissions office or the Bama administration. Bama football is only very vaguely associated with the University of Alabama and for all intents and purposes it is a totally autonomous organization. How would have Saban done at GA Tech, Purdue, NC State, Vanderbilt or any football program with any integrity or admissions requirements? The point is, the drive-thru window guy at McDonald's could win 9-10 games every year at Bama.

While more than delighted with this year's team, I was thinking about a potential roster for next year.

Guards (5): Pettiford, Jones, freshmen; Magwood and Walker and hopefully Bashir transfer from Monmouth U.

Forward (4): CBM, Howard, Bashir (JUCO) and freshman Williams-Adams

Center (2): Scott and hopefully a top transfer portal center

That's eleven with two scholarships TBD.

Thoughts?

Those were irrigation sprinklers used to water the field. UGA zealots remember high pressure water canons used to intentionally hurt, maim or murder their fans who were destroying Jordan Hare stadium landscaping and the playing field.

Proof that it is difficult to have someone understand something when their self-esteem, self-worth and identity depends on them not understanding it. Reasonable people laugh at bama zealots.

Tonight the police particularly in Alabama and throughout the rural South are on high alert for domestic abuse calls al they always are anytime bama loses a football game. Why is that?...

Let’s just say what most people think about the University of Alabama. Its football pursuits justify its identity with an uneducated backward white population and a symbolic link to the Lost Cause they hold so dear. Much in the same way as D.W. Griffith’s movie The Birth of a Nation encouraged the worst elements of southern society a hundred years ago; Bama football still encourages a similar backward behavior from a large segment of its fan base today. The Crimson Tide football team is an outlet for their lunatic fringe fans and gives them a venue to be recognized.

Bama fans overestimate the “esteem” of being the last college football factory and unwittingly rob themselves of the very reverence they crave by their boorish and obsessive behavior. They defend the indefensible and deny the undeniable. Their unhealthy emotional stake in Bama football substitutes for their own lack of personal acknowledgement and respect. Hence the ludicrous and totally unmerited claim of several Bama national football championships. They have become avatars of the worst behavior and bear witness to a complicated legacy of an earlier segregated society.

The question is: has Chronic Encephalopathy (CTE) not only affected ex-football players but also metaphorically speaking an entire university and its fan base? These other football victims are driven by extreme emotion and delusions to commit unconscionable often violent actions (Harvey Updyke, Michelle Pritchett, John Phillips, Brian Downing, Shorty Price and many others). Even Nick Saban contributes to the lunacy by comparing losing a football game to the Pearl Harbor and 911 tragedies when thousands of Americans lost their lives.

Similar to the victims of CTE, the University of Alabama’s misplaced priorities of gold-plated football fluff over economic substance harms the state’s citizens with the false bravado of football. History reveals that the holy crusade of Bama football acts as an impediment to social and economic progress. It is well known that when a university simply reflects the attitudes of its football fans it is no longer a university in the true meaning of the word.

Football has stalled the University of Alabama’s transformation into a modern university with intellectual, aesthetic or humanistic concerns. The reality is that the NCAA would actually do the University of Alabama a favor by handing down the Death Penalty for its football team. Then perhaps finally its faculty, alumni and students might appreciate the scholarship and learning that mark a university with intellectual fiber and integrity.

Until then “roll tide” is the shameful apology for those either naive or without individual self-respect.

Bama being bama.