TideSwamper

“Man, I just have so little interest in watching this basketball team. There is no player I just really like and want to root for”

I like watching Amari Allen…when able to play.

“Conecuh sausage and Fame records”

The Hall family of FAME is more interested in helping young girls have a safe place than getting involved in college sports. But it would be huge to get them to have a week long music festival either at the ranch or at the Alabama Music Hall of Fame as a NIL fund raiser (If legal). The University could make a large donation to the girls ranch. They could have former FAME and current recording artist perform.

Where is Josh Jobe? I have not seen him in the game tonight? He’s not on the injury report.

“If had to guess, I’d expect a pretty sloppy game tonight. Hope we’re up for the challenge”

Yeah I’m expecting a 2:45-3:00 hour game with 50 plus fouls. I pray that is not the case.

Regarding the net positve/negative of transfers. Looking at it a different way would be that the incoming players are a better fit than what we lost. For example, the defensive line players that are coming in are much bigger and should take up space and occupy more than one offensive lineman. Hopefully the linebackers will be better at penetrating and creating negative plays or minimal yards gained. If the secondary lives up to their “potential” then this will be a net positive due to the unfavorable down and distance the opponent will be facing.
Same type of hope for Bama’s offensive line.
This is what I’m hoping for.

Quote: Here are just a few things that have changed in the short 4 years since Bryce was a first year starter:

1) the number of teams with a 20mm roster has increased somewhere between 500% and infinity/undefined (don’t think there was even a single 20mm roster in Bryce’s day, but maybe 1 or 2)

2) the price tag on individual positions, especially experienced QBs, has increased 300+%

3) the depth at Bama and every other top P4 team has gotten significantly more shallow. 2 and 3 deeps aren’t what they used to be for Bama, UGA, OSU, etc.

4) zero of the 8 teams who made the semis in the past 2 years had 1st year starters at QB

5) 3 of the 4 teams that made the semis this year have never made the semis ever before…2 of the 4 had never even made a playoff before. This wasn’t the case in Bryce’s day when the same 5-6 teams were cycling through the playoffs year after year with 1 outlier from time to time.

6) the team favored by over a TD to win the NC this year was the “losing-est” team in the history of college football prior to their current coach arriving 2 years ago. That kind of turnaround would never have been possible even just 4 years ago.

7) last years NC lost 2 games including a home game to an unranked 7-5 rival before tearing through the playoff field. This year a team playing for the NC was assumed by Vegas to not even make the expanded 12 team playoff before edging out ND who had -1600 odds to make it prior to the announcement. They have losses to SMU and Louisville. 4 years ago, both of those teams would have been laughed at in terms of winning a NC.


So you’re saying we have a chance?

And stop with the lazy fouls!

Quote: The chair is against the wall. John has a long mustache


Wounds my heart with a monotonous langour.

I’ll jump in on this first quarterback thing. The very first one I remember was Scott Hunter. I had heard of Namath and Stabler and Sloan, but did not see them at Alabama. I was born when Namath was the quarterback. But I heard as much about Harry Gilmer from my dad as I had Namath and Stabler. I remember going into the 1971 season my dad not being too excited. The previous year having ended with a loss to the Bugs and tying Oklahoma in the Bluebonnet Bowl. What a decade the 70s turned out to be! From the fifth grade all the way through my freshman year in college, I had bragging rights against all of our rivals.

It’s a simple shooting drill, but it helps with people that are pushing the ball.
You sit them in a chair underneath the basket where they have to shoot straight up and flip their wrist downward in order for it to fall over the rim.
Learned that from Don Meyer.