NewportTiger

Serious question: Why is being short such a bad thing in baseball? Would think the strike zone is smaller, right? I assume it's bc a SS needs longer arms to get to more balls.

Football

Sorry if Germans, but when is Stanny supposed to be back?

Think Benefield will be it. Thank God. Nothing worse than awful safety play with people like M. Burns and Sage constantly letting running backs scamper for 70 yard TDs and blowing tackles left and right. Miss the days of Jamal Adams blazing past the LOS and getting multiple TFLs. Haulcy was breath of fresh air last after several terrible ones w safety play.

I'll take Lyn any day of the week.

As of 6:40 CST 90% of Ranters like it. Sorry...

Holy crap, already using his left hand for layups!

My take is that CLK sees a vacuum and he's working furiously to fill it. That vacuum was created when Saban left. What CLK is trying to do is what Saban did at the beginning at Bama, which is work furiously simultaneously on 1. Recruiting like hell and 2. Being successful on the field. Saban kept doing those two things and they built on each other. Be successful on field, attract better players. Be even more successful, attract even better players. Which ultimately led to getting guys like Bryce Young out of SoCal and Devonta Smith from Louisiana.

I think CLK sees the opportunity to do this here and has a vision that in a few years, we'll be getting not only top five stars from all over America, but also the top portal talent. Obviously, the part 2 (success on field) remains to be seen, but I think he/we have a decent chance at pulling it off.

Thought he was amazing in '24 season. Broke a ton of runs. This season he seemed to make bad, quick decisions on where to run which too often resulted in him getting stuffed for loss or 1-2 yd gain. Who knows. Maybe injury related. Berry was better at pausing a bit, looking for hole then blowing through it.

There isn't one thread on Leavitt up now bc of the D. Williams smoke. Are we to assume that the Leavitt ship has sailed?