GoodTalkRuss

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I think going to that game takes the shine off going to the actual game and I don't want that. So I'm not going. I fully realize nobody cares.

I'd rather them do this with Tennessee than Auburn. Feels wrong, not even sure why.

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Feels 100 % wrong, understandable, but wrong. There are probably only 2 or 3 exhibition games that Alabama or Auburn can make where

a) They can charge above premium prices
2) :lol: They can sell out a 17,000 seat arena

I would venture to guess for Alabama those games would be Duke (because it's Duke), UConn because they have ruined all of our best seasons ever in basketball and Auburn because they are just the worst. Im sure Duke and UConn get invitations from everyone in the country so they were off the board. This game kind of tells you how desperate everyone is in the NIL era. It's gross and should never happen. Not only are we taking the shine off the real IBOBs, but we are bedding up with them to reach a common goal out of borderline desperation... I hate it.

I have no doubt they are serious about basketball and I respect that. I guess I was just naive and kind of viewed BYU as pretty strict fundamentalists and getting down in the weeds in bidding wars wouldn't be their jam. All that said, does it really break their code? I suppose it really doesn't, it just somehow feels morally conflicting.

Sandkhan and Diego made valid points though.

BYU flexing their endless cache of money all over the basketball world is not something I saw coming 5 years ago. Lesson learned.

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It’s inexperienced but man is it talented. Gonna need a couple of young guys to step up and be ready but man if they do…watch out

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Samuels skills look like they translate, his game looked nice in those clips.

Didn't see Fielder at all in that video, anything going on with him?

Agreed, Palmer was fearless. Crossing routes, no problem. Tight center line gaps on punt returns he hit at full speed. That's a unique difference between he and Williams. Palmer didn't take big hits. Williams is super crafty but has a tendency to get wrecked at the very end. Honestly that's what makes me respect Williams. He catches a lot of flack for having bad hands and occasional alligator arms, but he will take some monster shots in between all those moves.

Palmer was just different, obviously he had some college drinking issues, but he was forgiven a lot, not just because he was good, but because he was quiet assassin who came from a pretty rough background. As Alabama fans we wanted to see him make it out.

I thought Alabama may have a Palmer clone in Milons, but it was just too steep of a comparison.

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Discord is saying it’s Ole Miss. Gotta be honest I don’t like playing an SEC team in our exhibition.

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That would be pretty lame

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Samuels (if healthy)

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I have been a little removed from the updates this summer...Are we already reaching for our preseason injury quota?

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Not saying it isn't bull shite, but Arkansas has been getting the same treatment by having to come to us. This next season will be their 7th trip to T-Town since 2019-2020. We've been to Fayetteville three times in that span.

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Fortunately we have won the last 2 in Fayetteville which is nice. I had taken for granted that Bama has won 6 in a row against Arkansas. 5 of those 6 wins, by 4 points or less.

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The the problem is we could build a statue of all of our Heisman winners, and we still wouldn't have a statue of our best players of all time.

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DT best player of all time? I would agree with that answer. Lot of exceptionally good players over the history. Outside of DT, who would you say was more impactful over the course of one season than Henry heisman year or Devonta Smith heisman year. Not saying you are wrong, just curious?

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When I say compelling I mean him personally. He left school early because he couldn't make NIL money as a Canadian and wanted to come back and play for that exact same school without having played in an NBA game. That's so much more sympathetic of a person than some 26 year old European who has played professionally since he was 17 and never had any interest in attending college, for free, in Europe.

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I understand what you are saying and agree with you. I was just stating that we can remove compassion and sympathy from the Bediako case because the NCAA really had created the open door policy for professionals and G-league players to return in the 5 year window. Bediako didn't go before a judge, hat in hand, asking for another shot and special treatment, he asked to be granted the same permissions that the NCAA had already applied to others. Bediako's case was grounded in the fact that he qualified for a return just as much as any other player the NCAA had allowed to come back. For that judge, it should have been a pretty straight forward injunction. He didn't have to like it and could express his opinion that he thought it was bad for everyone, but he still didn't present a logical argument of why he denied it.

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They don’t. The whole “we are taking our ball and going home” deal was as much about separating themselves athletically like they are academically as anything else. It’s like these 1A schools that exist in 10k population counties in Alabama. They mostly exist so their kids can get on the field because they’d get a better education just getting bussed over to the bigger county school.

There is more to it than that. I remember a few girls getting switched to the smaller schools as soon as they showed too much interest in black boys.

I digress, the separation is because they want their nepobabies to get to play college athletics instead of being resigned to club and rec leagues like they would at big state Us that are trying to earnestly compete for championships.

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That's certainly my understanding as well, which in fairness to them, I guess that makes sense.