Capstone Report

The season finally ends. Hallelujah. I can’t wait. The season was substantially disappointing, but some positive momentum heading into the new year can be achieved with a win. Here are a few previews and links: Saban’s “said more” at his press conference than he thought, according to Cecil Hurt. Hurt examines the learning experience for [...]

Merry Christmas from Capstonereport.com Best holiday wishes to everyone Media bias It wouldn’t be a holiday without a media smear. And AOL’s fanhouse is the offender this time reporting on the Saban’s accident, but then throwing this comment in for good measure: Reports say it was a downed tree so we can shoot down those [...]

..in the recruiting rankings. Georgia standout receiver Chris Jackson committed to Alabama Tuesday morning. The former Georgia Tech commitment reversed to Alabama following the coaching turmoil in Atlanta. Jackson has impressive numbers. He’s rated a four-star by Scout.com and a three-star by Rivals.com Moreover, Jackson graduates high school this month, and will enroll in college [...]

Forty-Two years after he left Alabama to pursue a professional football career, NFL legend and Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Namath is now a college graduate. VIDEO by AP

MLB sees the Mitchell Report, another coach bolts from the NFL and recruiting began big push prior to entering the dead period. I really don’t want to even talk about the baseball mess. So, let’s focus on good news. Six Alabama players earned their degrees from the Capstone. According to UA: (UA)TUSCALOOSA—The University of Alabama [...]

While Tommy Tuberville wasted time hunting ducks, Nick Saban spent time recruiting. Of course Auburn apologists like to point out Tuberville has good classes. Of course the secret to Tuberville’s good classes are his innate ability to sign numerous players who never qualify. At the present time, one of Tuberville’s best commitments for this class [...]

By Hunter Ford The death of Evel Knievel last week resurrected some precious childhood memories for me. If you, like me, were a child of the 1970s you could never forget the legendary motorcycle jumps and crashes that made Knievel famous. It was an era of larger-than-life folk heroes. In Alabama we had Bear Bryant. [...]

Tuberville in talks with LSU? Auburn has decided to play tough with Tommy Tuberville, if reports from al.com and trackemtigers.com are accurate. According to both of those outlets, Auburn has offered Tuberville a two-year extension; however, Tuberville would only earn a $200,000 raise next year as stipulated currently in his contract. Unless something is missing [...]

A jury handed down a $5 million verdict against the NCAA. The jury found Ray Keller was injured by the NCAA—Keller alleged defamation and invasion of privacy, and the jury found in his favor. From the Birmingham News: “This is a landmark case in many instances,” said Archie Lamb, Keller’s Birmingham-based attorney. “What the NCAA [...]

John Feinstein wrote a scathing hatchet job on Nick Saban. Why? The somewhat baffling reasoning essentially boiled down to Saban is a big meanie to the media. Screw the media. Feinstein’s whine-fest on Paul Finebaum’s radio program was insightful into what is wrong with the media. Namely, they are crybabies who demand special treatment, and [...]

Another season is gone. Another missed opportunity for excellence. This season should have been substantially better, but the malaise hanging over the Alabama program is more substantial than the malaise days of Jimmy Carter. This Alabama team underachieved not just because of lack of talent, but because a lack of character. Given time it will [...]

If using historical examples to illustrate a minor point is a crime, then most preachers and politicians I know would be in jail. Of course, the media knows Nick Saban was not equating losing football games to those historical events—but with sophistic dexterity media pundits (both national and local) are reporting Saban’s remarks on the [...]

“You all are putting winning before doing it right…You are putting winning a championship and winning games before getting people to do the right thing and being a champion. And that is wrong…” A dramatic exchange about halfway into the press conference resulted in a profound glimpse into Nick Saban’s problems with the Alabama program, [...]

Nick Saban spoke to the press Wednesday afternoon. He talked about while the team practiced inside, but it shouldn’t make a difference because the team should be focused and intense on the team goals, and to finish the season “the way we would like…” Very revealing comments during the press conference about formations, personnel, etc. [...]

Nick Saban talks about rebuilding being a process. While the process is underway you have to take the good and the bad. The loss was obviously bad, but at least the season is nearing an end, and the important recruiting efforts are bearing fruit. On Wednesday, Alabama filled a major need at linebacker with the [...]