You’ve already started to hear the familiar, yet forlorn refrain from Auburn fans that “Alabama is cheating!” Why are you hearing it? Because Saban is making recruiting difficult for the folks on the Plains. Alabama landed three recruits since Friday including offensive lineman Tyler Love, receiver Melvin Ray and Athlete Burton Scott. Scott’s commitment led [...]
Archive | July, 2007
Rush Propst: Love God
Rush Propst has a wife and family, a secret family (alleged) and now we find out he has had at least two girlfriends (allegedly) at Hoover High School. Damn. Forget football, Rush wins at life. I find it difficult enough to have a girlfriend and a career, but Rush is able to balance the demands [...]
Saturday thoughts: After Media Days
It was fun hosting the Crimson and White Roundtable Friday. The variety of responses illustrates the depth of passion and differences amongst Alabama fans. Thanks for allowing me the privilege of hosting the roundtable. Friday was a great day. SEC Media Days closed, and Alabama landed an offensive line commitment. On Friday Saban landed Mountain [...]
C&W Roundtable #6
This week’s Crimson & White Roundtable takes on the topic of misconceptions about Alabama and its fans. It comes at a time when some local and national media have taken shots at Tide fans present at SEC Media Days. There are many stereotypes about Crimson Tide fans, so this is our chance to correct the [...]
A few Saban stories for your consideration
What are newspapers saying about Nick Saban? Here are a couple of samples in their entirety: First up, a writer tells us that Saban is expected to create a massive Tide at Alabama. He has to win and win quickly because the expecations are high. It is interesting to see how the Media Days crowd [...]
Longshore blasts Alabama
John Longshore on Paul Finebaum’s Radio Show displayed everything wrong with the media—arrogance. Longshore was outraged Alabama fans wanted to see Nick Saban, and had the audacity to show up outside the Wynfrey Hotel in Hoover, site of the SEC Media Days. Longshore said fans should seek autographs at the Fan Day set for August [...]
Media Days: Saban items
Punishment of arrested players will remain private Saban quotes Outside look at Bama Video from SEC Media Days from Tidesports:
Auburn fans celebrate win in Hoover
Auburn fanatics within the Hoover community have claimed what they feel is a victory against Alabama with the ouster of Richard Bishop as principal of Hoover High School. Why would Auburn fans take such joy over the dismissal of a high school prinicipal? Sour grapes. Petulant Auburn fans spoiled with recruiting success while the Tide [...]
SEC Media Days: Day 1 roundup
Here are a few interesting links from Day 1: Arkansas Darren McFadden is a humble person. That is refreshing amongst the super-fueled egos of the day. McFadden is a great player and with him in the backfield, everyone in the SEC facing Arkansas should be worried. Another interesting item regarding Arkansas, the soap opera from [...]
River City Shootout officially a sellout
We knew it was a sellout, but now it is official.  JACKSONVILLE – After expanding the stadium to maximum capacity last week for the Florida State versus Alabama game, the Gator Bowl Association announced today that the River City Showdown on Saturday, September 29, is a sellout with an expected crowd of over 85,000. “The [...]
MEDIA DAYS: Blowhards descend on B’ham
The SEC’s annual Media Days begins soon, and the only thing which comes to mind is the blowhard coaches that will highlight the event. Some are mildly entertaining, some are boring and some are insufferable—the rest are about as interesting as the Baptist minister where I grew up going to church, dry as dust. Nonetheless, [...]
Fan Day set, Media Days begins
Fan Day at UA is set for Aug. 5 at 4:30 p.m., according to Paul Gattis. As SEC Media Days begins in Birmingham, Kevin Scarbinsky shares a bit of a warning courtesy of Nick Saban: “We all have to compete against each other,” Saban told me last month. “But the more we try to hurt [...]
AAFL info
Since Auburn fans and Auburn sportswriters are upset by the AAFL, I thought it my duty to spread the press release information about its Alabama tryouts. I remain skeptical about the league’s chances; however, I really like how it upsets the folks on the Plains.
DEAL CLOSE ON BAMA-DUKE GAME
A deal may be close to play the 2010 Alabama-Duke game at the Georiga Dome. The Atlanta Sports Council will hold a conference call July 31 about holding the game in Atlanta. According to Tony Barnhart, the Atlanta Sports Council is also close to a deal for FSU to host a non-conference game in 2008 [...]
Review: Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows
I bought my copy of Harry Potter #7 on Saturday morning at 8 a.m. I completed the book by 10 p.m. the same day. It was a rewarding read, heavily reminiscent of Tolkein’s Return of the King. The parallels between Potter and The Lord of the Rings have always been there; however, the similarities were [...]
Steelers promote former Tide player
A press release issued by the Pittsburgh Steelers said John Mitchell was named assistant head coach of the Steelers. Mitchell was an All-America defensive end for Alabama, Mitchell was the first African-American to play for the Crimson Tide. He began his coaching career at Alabama under Paul “Bear” Bryant and then went on to coach [...]
Media Days Week
Conferences around the country and most importantly in the south will hold the annual preseason ritual known as media days. This week the SWAC and SEC will hold Media Days in Birmingham. In case you haven’t heard the schedule: Wednesday features Arkansas with Houston Nutt and Heisman hopeful Darren McFadden with South Carolina and Steve [...]
The C&W Roundtable and other thoughts
The weekly Crimson & White Roundtable is up on Journalism Is For Rockstars. This week roundtable considers three questions: 1.Where was the weirdest place you ever saw Alabama merchandise. It can be on sale, randomly laying around or being actively worn. 2. Did Chris Capps really deserve the heaps of scorn from last season? Why [...]
Gator Bowl adds seats for FSU-Bama game
JACKSONVILLE—Due to high demand for tickets to the River City Showdown on Saturday, September 29, the Gator Bowl Association will add more than 5,800 temporary seats at Jacksonville Municipal Stadium. The additional tickets will be split evenly between the participating schools. These tickets will only be available through the University of Alabama and Florida State [...]
Six Alabama Players Named to All-SEC team
Simeon Castille, Andre Smith, Antoine Caldwell, Prince Hall, Wallace Gilberry and Jamie Christensen were selected to the preseason All-SEC Coaches team. LSU and Arkansas lead with double figure selections Pos. Name School Ht. Wt. Cl. Hometown FIRST-TEAM ALL-SEC — OFFENSE TE Jacob Tamme Kentucky 6-5 240 Sr. Danville, Ky. OL Will Arnold LSU 6-4 319 [...]
Auburn reports 13 rule violations
Auburn fans, especially those on talk radio, have sanctimonoiously rebuked Alabama and Nick Saban for the minor violations the University reported. Thanks to the Mobile Press-Register we now know Auburn reported 13 minor violations in the last year, with three of these being from the football program. The big laugh from the story was Auburn’s [...]
How will Saban handle the arrests?
WVUA interivewed LSU beat writer Glen Guilbeau about Nick Saban’s discipline while coaching at LSU. According to Guilbeau, Saban established himself as strong disciplinarian in 2002 when he disciplined a starter during the middle of the season. Guilbeau also indicated Saban wasn’t always forthcoming with information about players who got into trouble—imagine that, Saban not [...]
John Parker Wilson one of league’s best
Mr. College Football, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Tony Barnhart, ranked the top SEC quarterbacks in a blog post. His list of the TOP SEC QB’s included Alabama’s J.P. Wilson: 1. Andre Woodson, Sr., Kentucky 2. Erik Ainge, Sr., Tennessee 3. Matthew Stafford, Soph., Georgia 4. Tim Tebow, Soph., Florida 5. John Parker Wilson, Jr., Alabama Advertisement: [...]
Saban’s first crisis
What could have been a minor incident has spiraled into a major crisis for the Alabama football program—three players arrested following a scuffle outside a Strip Bar. (And who could now doubt Dr. Witt’s wisdom in cleaning the Strip?) According to the Tuscaloosa News, Brandon Fanney, 21, was charged with disorderly conduct. His arrest follows [...]
SEC Athletic Department Budgets
UPDATE: The Clarion Ledger story is no longer available online, so the Capstone Report contacted every SEC athletic department and created a new story and a new graph on the 2008-2009 SEC athletic department budgets. Everyone knows college athletics is big business. Just how big changes with every tv contract. The Clarion Ledger provided a [...]
Best Iron Bowls Ever
Hunter Ford has a new column. Here it is. Enjoy. Poetic justice and the Super Six Iron Bowls By Hunter Ford Poetic justice is great isn’t it? In keeping with the theme of yearning for college football season to begin, I will replay the best Iron Bowls ever. But first things first, I made a [...]
Academic integrity? The NCAA? What a joke!
We’ve always known the NCAA was hypocritical. And the Oklahoma punishment just proved it again. But the biggest hypocritical act was reported in Thursday’s Press-Register: the NCAA Clearinghouse approved Ryan Williams transcript. You know, the guy who had 10 grades changed. I’m sorry. But if his grades are as good as Tommy Tuberville said: “He [...]
Crimson & White Roundtable #4
This week’s Crimson & White Roundtable is hosted by Eight In The Box. The roundtable’s question this week: 1. Why do you think the Tide offense had trouble scoring touchdowns inside the red zone the last few seasons? 2. Do you think the Tide’s red zone offense will be improved this season and why? 3.Who [...]
Nick Saban the philosopher
Nick Saban made another public appearance this week. I think that is some kind of record for the reclusive coach. On Thursday, he spoke to high school coaches in Huntsville at the annual All-Star Sports Week. During the speech, Saban turned philosophical and shared some thoughts on human nature, according to the Huntsville Times. “But [...]
MemphisTider on the airwaves
Memphis Tider said on his website that he would be appearing on ESPN730 AM Friday morning at around 5:40 P.M. NOTE: The time is 5:40 p.m. Accprding to the blog:I’m sure I’ll talk a bit about the Tide, and my guitar player and I will play an acoustic song and tell a bit about the [...]
Hoover braces for baseball tournament without Bama
As the Southeastern Conference baseball tournament begins, Hoover businesses are getting ready to feel, well, not much of anything. Since [...]