When your football program has fallen behind others in your state, division, league, and heck…everybody else, you start seeing signs. Indicators begin to pop up that there is cause for concern. This weekend a recruit visiting the loveliest village on the plains shares one of those signs with us. He tweeted this picture out for [...]
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This is why we love Alabama football
We’re now some 83 days away from the 2013 college football season. Riding back-to-back National Championship seasons, with three BCS National Championship trophies total added to our illustrious collection in a span of just four years, Alabama fans have much to be happy about. But like any Auburn fan will tell you (because they have [...]
Golf: Bama men bringing a National Championship to the Capstone proves it can still be done
The Alabama Crimson Tide’s latest National Championship is unique in that it’s their first in the sport of achievement: men’s golf. The Tide’s defeat of Illinois over the weekend in what some termed as the “Gordon Gee Cup” (Big Ten vs. SEC) saw Bama add a crown in an area it had never enjoyed…proving these [...]
Has Gordon Gee’s bow tie cut off the oxygen to his brain? The answer is in your Sunday Cup of Coffee
So you’re Alabama’s baseball coach, Mitch Gaspard. You’re in Tallahassee at the NCAA regional. Fresh off the bone-headed move of overpitching your starter against No. 2 LSU in the SEC Tournament, you’ve made your way into a regional where your team has underachieved, to say the least. You tank the first game against Troy on [...]
Alabama baseball: Tide headed to Tallahassee for NCAA regional
Following an inspirational showing in the SEC baseball tournament, the Alabama baseball team now knows its fate in the upcoming NCAA regionals. Alabama is the #2 seed facing Troy in the Tallahassee regional. Host Florida State will play South Georgia’s Savannah State. The Tide is slated for play this Friday at 11:00am in the double-elimination [...]
Is Notre Dame the latest to be processed? The answer is in your Sunday Cup of Coffee
There’s a term that has come to be affectionately known amoung Tide faithful as the earmark of the effect Nick Saban has had on college football. That term? Processed. The term was birthed when Alabama head coach Nick Saban preached the importance of “the process” upon his arrival at Alabama. That you have to go [...]
Tide baseball, softball fall 3-2 in puzzling, heartbreaking fashion
Two games, two sports, one score. The Alabama baseball team fell in heartbreaking fashion to LSU. Despite a 2-1 lead, Mike Oczypok, the true freshman, walk-on Bama pitcher, came within one out…heck, one strike…of sinking the No. 2 team in America. But it was not to be. With two outs, following yet another Bama double [...]
What will Paul Finebaum’s move mean to Alabama, Auburn?
One has to wonder what the Alabama – Auburn rivalry would have been over the last 30 years without Paul Finebaum. News broke Tuesday that Finebaum’s silence would soon cease, as the ultra successful talk show host will soon join ESPN. The marriage will include a new show broadcast from Charlotte, North Carolina, a television [...]
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 SEC’s perceived dominance being “a lot of propaganda that gets fed out to you.” His argument was this: The top half of a league isn’t what determines its strength, but instead it’s how well the [...]
Does Bama baseball need a new stadium? The answer is in your Sunday Cup of Coffee.
Among Tide fans, one of the most popular debates these days has to do with Bama baseball. Not on-the-field play, though Alabama’s season hasn’t finished with the promise with which it started. Instead, talk among Bama faithful is in the stands. As in, literally up in the stands…where they’re sitting. If you want to spark [...]
An Urban Meyer vs. Nick Saban rematch?
Jerry Palm of cbssports.com has said it. Alabama will return to the BCS National Championship game next season in a match-up with Ohio State. If it happens, it would mean a rematch between Nick Saban and the man he sent to the emergency room shortly after his 2009 thrashing in the SEC Championship Game. The [...]
Which current Auburn player has ever scored against Bama? The answer is in your Sunday Cup of Coffee
We all know that Auburn fans are a little dense. They’re Koolaid drinkers eager to lap up whatever the soup du jour Auburn spinmeisters serve up. But in recently talking with a friend of mine, who happens to be of that persuasion, it was fun to experience the revelation come over him that there isn’t [...]
RECRUITING: Alabama adds top Texas linebacker to an already promising 2014 class
The rich keep getting richer, as Alabama head coach Nick Saban continues to find top talent across the land not afraid to compete with the best. Friday blue-chip linebacker Zach Whitley of Galena Park-North Shore, Texas committed to coach Saban. The 6-2½, 220-pound Whitley is considered one of the nation’s top linebackers for the 2014 [...]
Auburn’s Jay Jacobs says take his word for it, NCAA says they’re clean
The NCAA has not publicly cleared Auburn or commented on Auburn’s myriad of speculative infractions, but Auburn Athletic’s Director Jay Jacobs wants you to know that they have. Thanks Jay. As the cloud continues to hover over Lee County, Jay wants you to know that the NCAA is “satisfied” with Auburn’s defense in the latest [...]
Inside the Reuben Foster you thought you knew
Football is a man’s game played by boys. Sometimes we forget that the players we cheer for on Saturday are kids. Mere kids. Kids in how they think, how they act, and how they process what’s taking place around them. Such is the case with Reuben Foster. Has there ever been a player whose recruitment [...]
How could Barrett Jones be picked so low in this year’s draft? The answer is in your Sunday Cup Of Coffee
With the 2013 NFL Draft now in the rearview mirror, Bama managed to have nine players drafted, a modern day Alabama record. Of course you know about Dee Milliner, Chance Warmack and DJ Fluker going in order in the 1st round, 9th, 10th and 11th, and Eddie Lacy going in the 2nd round to Green [...]
Eddie Lacy a Green Bay Packer
Friday Eddie Lacy became the 61st pick in 2013 NFL draft, going late in the 2nd round to the Green Bay Packers. Amazingly, the Offensive MVP of the 2013 Discover BCS National Championships Game was the third runnng back taken in the 2nd round, behind Michigan State’s Le’Veon Bell and Wisconsin’s Montee Ball. And the [...]
NFL DRAFT: History made as Milliner, Warmack, Fluker all go in the 1st Round
Last night’s NFL draft saw Alabama make history, as the two-time defending national champions became the first college team to produce three consecutive first-round picks since the common draft started in 1967. Dee Milliner, Chance Warmack and DJ Fluker became the 12th, 13th and 14th players to go in the 1st Round of the NFL [...]
NFL DRAFT: More Tiders prepare to be taken in the 1st round
It’s become a regular occurance. Every April former Alabama players are following Nick Saban’s path to the NFL. The plan is simple: Come to Alabama, play 3 or 4 years…your choice. Follow the process, win hardware the right way, then go make big money in the NFL and change your life. As Alabama head coach [...]
PHOTO: The trees are gone…officially
The Toomer’s Corner trees have officially been removed. They are gone, but they will forever live in our hearts. The photo above shows fans encircled at the site, singing, praying, chanting…doing something. May we never, ever forget how beautiful those oaks were with, or without toilet paper draped in their branches. And even though Auburn [...]
Trevor Lacey granted release from UA
According to UA Media Relations, Alabama sophomore guard Trevor Lacey has decided to transfer from the men’s basketball program and has been granted his release. The announcement from Crimson Tide head coach Anthony Grant came today. “I enjoyed having the opportunity to coach Trevor for the two years he was here,” Grant said. “We certainly [...]
Rolondo McClain: A man in need of a fully developed prefrontal cortex
With news of Sunday’s arrest of former Alabama and current Baltimore Raven’s linebacker Rolondo McClain, the former All-American and Butkus and Lambert award winner faces an uncertain future. McCLain was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest over an incident that allegedly took place in a Decatur, Alabama area sports park. According to [...]
Virginia Tech running back arrested on felony charge
Following a felony malicious wounding charge following a weekend fight in Blacksburg, Virginia Tech running back Michael Holmes has been automatically suspended from the football team, per university policy. This just hours after leading the Hokies in rushing in their annual spring game. Holmes, 19, was arrested after police were called to a fight at [...]
What does Bama’s low A-Day attendance mean? The answer is in your Sunday Cup of Coffee.
Well, another A-Day is in the books, and another game where “we have more questions than answers” will be analyzed to the point of ridiculous speculation. I can’t remember an A-Day where I came away feeling good. Afterall, you’ve heard the cliches: If the offense scores a lot of points, does it mean we have [...]
A-Day 2013: What to watch for
Whether you’re watching today’s Golden Flake Spring A-Day Game inside Bryant-Denny Stadium or live on ESPN2, there will be several storylines worth the attention. Quarterback No, AJ Mccarron’s job isn’t in danger. But how have back-ups Phillip Ely and Blake Sims developed? Is Sims more than a clock killer at the end of a blow-out, [...]
Auburn prepares to say goodbye to the trees
Well, this is it. The final hoorah. Tomorrow, after Auburn fans witness what they hope is the beginning of the resurrection of Auburn football in their spring game, they will gather around the Toomer’s Oaks one last time. Traditions are what make college football great. But they are often stupid as well. Traditions like cowbells. [...]
Freshman running back Derrick Henry to miss A-Day
Runningback Derrick Henry suffered a fractured fibula in Saturday’s scrimmage that required surgery this morning. The early enrollee had been having an impressive spring, but the injury will sideline him from the rest of spring practice, including Saturday’s A-Day game. “Derrick Henry suffered a fractured fibula in Saturday’s scrimmage and had successful surgery this morning [...]
Crimson Tide goes to the White House…again
Though Bama’s third trip to the White House in four years was later overshadowed by the explosions at the Boston Marathon, the team once again met the Commander In Chief for an in-person congratulations on winning it all. President Barack Obama joked that he thought about adding some cots to the White House for the [...]
Gone Gueye: Bama’s big center to transfer
Bama’s 7-foot center Moussa Gueye will not return for his senior season at Alabama, citing style of play as the reason for his decision to transfer. A native of Dakar, Senegal, Gueye came to Alabama two years ago from Lake Land College in Matoon, Illinois. A knee injury before the 2011-12 season sidelined him for [...]
Texas A&M and Johnny Football caving under the pressure? The answer is in your Sunday Cup of Coffee
Texas A&M’s mighty might QB is showing signs of buckling under pressure. The little hero that could, who tiptoed into the hearts of Aggie fans last year with his amazing backyard football skills looked like he was immune to such a thing. But not now. Now the boy wonder appears to be folding like a [...]