THE AUBURN BEAT: Auburn is examining whether any NCAA rules were broken during Saturday’s “Big Cat” recruiting weekend.
Archive | May, 2009
Auburn’s ‘extreme recruiting’ violations?
UPDATE: Has the video on Rivals.com been edited? According to fans who have viewed the original video and the video now on the Rivals site, it has. Here is a Rivals national board thread with further discussion. If anyone doubted how close some of these “reporters” and sites were to the teams they allegedly cover—this [...]
UPDATE: SEC favors signee cap of 30
Chris Low of ESPN reports a consensus seems to have developed for the SEC to support capping football signees at 30. On the subject of over-signing, JCCW posted this insulting rant today: “Sorry, but I can’t not say this: This, Alabama fans and bloggers, is how you deal with the news that your coach is [...]
Saban on minority coaches & the NCAA
Alabama Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban has an interesting take on how to help improve the number of minority coaches in college football. According to the Rap Sheet Saban had this to say, “I think we should be doing more to develop minority coaches in our game. I think that’s one of the ways you [...]
Thursday Crimson Tide links
I’ve been trying to find something interesting in the SEC meetings; however, other than the drama between Lane Kiffin and the other coaches, this year seems boring. To be honest, Kiffin has become such a joke, even the Steve Spurrier confrontation was anticlimactic. SEC considers signing limit Todd over at Roll Bama Roll examines the [...]
Charley Hannah to be inducted into ASHoF
Here is a release from the University on former Alabama player Charley Hannah’s induction into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. Ticket information is at the bottom of the release. TUSCALOOSA — Former University of Alabama and NFL standout Charley Hannah will be one of 10 people inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame [...]
Is Bama Baseball Keeping Up?
By Intheknow72 For a myriad of reasons, I have not been able to make it to Tuscaloosa to an Alabama baseball game in a couple of years. However, if you haven’t ever had the pleasure, it’s a great experience on a warm spring afternoon. When I was in school it was a great reason to [...]
AP baseball tournament preview
Texas is stop seed; The Big 12 — Baylor, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas and Texas A&M — and Southeastern Conference — Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Mississippi, South Carolina and Vanderbilt — each received eight berths. (entire report below) Powered by Mochila
Shane: SEC Football Spring Preview
By Shane from Centerpoint It’s Sunday, May 24th 2009, somewhere around 100 days prior to the actual beginning of the college football season. This is the time of the year when I would normally be waxing poetic in the middle of some story about my summer vacation down on the Emerald Coast. However, a far [...]
Columnists need to know stuff
Columnists writing for a newspaper really should know what they are writing about before vomiting up words to fill the allotted column inches. Case in point: Phil Paramore in the Dothan Eagle. Paramore begins by writing about hapless University of Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin, but eventually he shifts focus to Alabama and its wait on [...]
Bear Bryant & the Spread
Smart Football has an informative post up examining an offensive play run by Alabama Crimson Tide legend Paul W. “Bear” Bryant with the shovel option play run in the spread by Florida Gator coach Urban Meyer. The analysis comes complete with some video. (H/T Blutarsky)
News & Notes: Memorial Day Weekend edition
I’m either really ready for football season to start, or the Benadryl is really kicking in because I almost titled this post News & Notes: Labor Day Weekend Edition. On to the news and notes for this morning (I’ll likely add a few posts throughout the weekend if anything important breaks.) First game on ABC [...]
Report: Tide offers Ayers
AJC: Ryan Ayers, a 5-foot-10, 175-pound junior, continues to rack up the offers. Alabama’s comes two days after South Carolina jumped in during a metro-area sweep in which it has concentrated on bolstering its future secondary. Alabama is staying busy in Georgia this recruiting season. Ayers is a cornerback with 4.44 speed, according to Rivals.
Regions raises new capital
For those following local banking news, Regions Financial Corp said it raised new capital. According to this report from Reuters (see story embedded below), “Regions, a Birmingham, Alabama lender operating mainly in the southeast, said it sold $1.85 billion of common stock and preferred shares convertible into common stock. It also said it will exchange [...]
Alabama’s 12 recruit of the 2010 class
Defensive End/Linebacker Craig Sanders of Ariton, Alabama committed to the Alabama Crimson Tide Tuesday; he was the 12th commitment of the 2010 class. Ariton is 6’4″, 230 lbs, 4.6 in the 40, and rated a four star prospect by Scout and Rivals. Scout lists athleticism, intensity/effort and toughness as strengths. Size and techniques/moves as weaknesses. [...]
Venomous, vitriolic, vulgar
This passes for civil discourse in Michigan? Name calling and vulgarity are the only weapons in the arsenal of bankrupt ideas. Here are a few choice samples from MGoBlog and Michigan visitors to this site (I’ve left the lame insults such as bubba, doofus and moron out): • Your Stupid, Stupid Minds •an Alabama blog [...]
Andre Smith makes ANOTHER mistake
Former Alabama Crimson Tide lineman Andre Smith is back with that incompetent agent who messed up his NFL Combine and Pro Day. According to Pro Football Talk, “Cincinnati Bengals rookie offensive tackle Andre Smith has rehired Alvin Keels as his agent, a league source told us tonight.” Firing Keels was the smartest thing Smith did [...]
Michigan fans cannot think logically
Michigan fans cannot think logically, but you knew that already! Screwing innocent student-athletes out of their scholarships is wrong. It is wrong! These innocent scholars signed with Michigan under the impression they would get a shot at four years of higher education at one of the finest universities in the world. What they got in [...]
ESPNU gets expanded distribution
ESPN’s new contract with the SEC means conference football games on several of the networks channels including ESPNU. Until today, ESPNU was not available on Comcast, and required a premium sports package on DirecTV. That has all changed as ESPNU will now be available in DirecTV’s Choice package, and will be available “on a majority [...]
Tide players earn SEC honors
The Alabama Crimson Tide placed five players on the All-SEC team and right fielder Kent Matthes was named the SEC Player of the Year by the coaches. The official releases are below for you baseball fans. Kent Matthes Named SEC Player of the Year TUSCALOOSA – Alabama right fielder Kent Matthes was voted the 2009 [...]
Shane: Spurrier or Meyer?
Who’s the best coach – Spurrier or Meyer? By Shane from Centerpoint Legendary football coach Steve Spurrier has always been one of the best at using the media to influence the public’s perception of an opposing coach. During a recent live radio interview with renowned sports talk-show host Paul Finebaum, Spurrier opened up a nasty [...]
Where is the outrage over at MGoBlog?
Last year Brian of MGoBlog ranted to Alabama fans about the evils of culling college football players. In his own words, “The NCAA limit is there because the NCAA would like you to not kick kids off the f***ing team, but for various reasons the rule’s pretty easy to skate around.” Where is the outrage [...]
Prothro gets coaching job
CBS 42 reports that former Alabama Crimson Tide star receiver Tyrone Prothro landed a coaching job with the Birmingham Wildfire. “We’re thrilled to add someone like Tyrone to our staff,†Wildfire coach Mike Clements was quoted as saying. “I can’t think of anyone who better connect with the receivers we have on our team.†Prothro’s [...]
Another weekend recruiting note
SouthernPigskin.com published an interview with South Carolina recruiting coordinator Shane Beamer. In it you’ll find information on recruiting in the SEC and working for Steve Spurrier. This is the question and answer that should be of most interest to Alabama fans: Q. Outside of Steve Spurrier, which head coach is the best recruiter in the [...]
Recruiting forecast: state down in 2010
The chatter from earlier this year seems to be accurate—the state of Alabama will see a lower level of talent in the 2010 recruiting class than in previous years. The experts at Rivals.com (FREE) provided some interesting comments on recruiting this year (both nationally and of local interest). Three of the five analysts questioned answered [...]
The fall of Steve Spurrier
“We find that princes who have thought more of their pleasures than of arms have lost their states.†—Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli penned the most useful book ever; The Prince provides wonderful details for management that still apply today. Reading through it gives us the chance to understand what we should do to [...]
PROOF: Auburn fans suffer mental illness
Auburn fans could be members of the Peter Pinguid Society with all the conspiracy theories and lies they spread about rivals. To wit, on Thursday and Friday the Alabama Department of Revenue raided car dealerships in Fort Payne, Gadsden and Anniston. What is a Peter Pinguid member to do? Connect the raid to Alabama. According [...]
Tide’s Prince Hall transfers
The final word on Alabama Crimson Tide linebacker Prince Hall comes this afternoon from UA’s official release: TUSCALOOSA — Alabama head coach Nick Saban announced Friday that linebacker Prince Hall will transfer to Central Washington. “Prince Hall has decided to transfer to Central Washington for his senior season,†Saban said. “We wish him the best [...]
Report: Tide LB leaving team
According to the Tuscaloosa News, “Alabama sophomore linebacker Jennings Hester plans to go on medical scholarship and end his football career.” That makes two Crimson Tide players leaving the team in the last month. Kicker Corey Smith transferred to West Virginia following a disappointing season in Tuscaloosa. Smith said he wanted to be closer to [...]
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 [...]