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 [...]
Archive | December, 2007
Tuberville: UA and UGA cheat
Auburn’s coach Tommy Tuberville smarting from the ass-beating delivered by Marc Richt the last two seasons, and alarmed at the decline of Auburn’s recruiting in 2008 fired a salvo at UGA and UA via the Huntsville Times. We work hard at recruiting. We’ve got good recruiters. We know who we want to recruit. Some we’re [...]
Merry Christmas
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 [...]
Friday links
Transitioning to basketball would be easier if it were possible to get excited about Alabama’s basketball team. Last year, everyone’s hopes were on the rise, only to be dashed upon the rocks of inconsistency and the cliffs of poor performance. How can we expect anything better this year? We can’t. So why even bother paying [...]
Moving on up…
..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 [...]
Hunter Ford’s latest commentary
If steroids make you strong, then what’s so bad about them? By Hunter Ford Children sometimes say the most profound things and ask the toughest questions don’t they? Recently my eight-year-old son asked me a question about baseball player Barry Bonds and the use of steroids. The steroid scandal is one reason I don’t care [...]
Video: Namath graduation
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
Monday recruiting and other musings
The Alabama-Mississppi All-Star game is tonight. No live television according to the AHSAA website. You can watch the game live no the Internet and rebroadcasts on television: LIVE TV: Streamed on www.al.com 
TV REPLAYS: 
Dec. 20 on CSS at 7 p.m. (CST); 
Dec. 21 on MediaCom Cable Systems’ On Demand (not pay for view); 
Dec. [...]
What a week
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 [...]
Sub par pro football won’t excite area fans
By Hunter Ford I’ve got a great idea! Birmingham should get a pro football team…no two pro teams…comprised of washed up players that nobody remembers, and coaches that nobody ever knew in the first place. These teams can play at Legion Field, where nobody wants to go and later they can play in a 52,000 [...]
It is that other season—recruiting season
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 [...]
Tuberville loses civil war
Is Tommy Tuberville ever going to leave Auburn? Probably not until he is fired. Despite Jimmy Sexton’s best efforts to get Tuberville fired this season, it didn’t happen and most likely won’t for another couple of years. However, the fiasco engineered by Tuberville and his agent won’t ease tensions in a rapidly dividing Auburn family. [...]
Evel’s death resurrects good memories
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. [...]
BCS meltdown
The nightmare has arrived. Look what parity hath wrought. In a year where no team has looked worthy of a national title, no team is worthy of a national title. Unfortunately the suits at FOX, owner of TV rights for the BCS, will insist on playing anyway. So, the pollsters and computers will render an [...]
Bob Stoops leads entire state of Oklahoma “Up In Smoke”
It’s been a week since Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops made his idiotic statements to The Tulsa World about the [...]