With another SEC Media Days in the books, a rather interesting article surfaces today about how all the coaches did. Interestingly, the thought is that Robbie Caldwell stole the show at his first…and likely his last…SEC Media Days. Here are some highlights: 3. Nick Saban (Alabama) – Gave the media exactly what it wanted: juice. [...]
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Why AU didn’t have players at the party
Taking a break from Agentgate and all the TMZ nonsense, allow me to offer a reason why you haven’t heard of any Abarn players at the “agent party for top NFL prospects” in South Beach. Please…please…watch this highlight video of their latest commitment. This is the talent that finds its way down on the Plains: [...]
A Q&A with the Saban film creators
Next month movie history will be made as a documentary on the life and career of Alabama head coach Nick Saban will be released in theaters. The movie, produced by the Memphis-based Flashlight Media Group, depicts the larger than life coach as one of the greatest leaders of our time through the eyes of his [...]
Six positives on the Dareus situation
I often caught myself saying this off-season how refreshing it was to be without controversy. SEC Media Day marks the beginning of the football season, and well, we made it till the day before. However, for those either in depression or elation over the Marcel Dareus story, here are a few bright spots to keep [...]
What will we see at SEC Media Days 2011?
It’s finally here. For all intents and purposes, this week’s SEC Media Days is the beginning of the college football season. Unlike CBS Sports, who doesn’t begin paying college football any attention until three weeks into the season (what’s up with that???), SEC Media Days gets our juices flowing roughly six weeks from the first [...]
South Endzone Update
Just seven weeks away now from the start of the 2010 football season, University of Alabama project manager Thad Turnipseed offers a video tour of the new South Endzone addition to Bryant-Denny at Rolltide.com. There will be no better place to watch or play a football game than Bryant-Denny Stadium. It is a palace fitting [...]
Cary Estes thought Saban was “overrated”
As we head into the weekend, I just thought I’d lead you on a stroll down memory lane. You’re going to enjoy this. The date was August 11, 2007. Know the significance? Bet you Cary Estes, a Birmingham based contributor for MSNBC.com does. See, almost three years ago (1,071 days to be exact, but who’s [...]
Nick Saban Punks LeBron James
If LeBron James has any collegiate eligibility left for football, he shouldn’t expect a scholly offer from Alabama head coach Nick Saban. The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reports an interesting take on the LeBron James situation from Alabama’s National Championship head coach at a recent high school coaching clinic in Huntsville. When talking about leadership, the topic [...]
Why Bobby Johnson retired
Think for a second. You’re Bobby Johnson and it’s July. Whereas visions of hope and football rapture dance in the heads of most every college football fan and coach this time of year, you have to face the hard cold facts that it’s about to happen again. Another season of frustration and futility is at [...]
UT leadership void causes this
This is the gayest thing I’ve ever seen. This, friends, is what you get when your program has no leadership. Thank you Coach Nick Saban.
Edging Ga. Southern, VIP Status, and more gems
With just 55 days left until kick-off, on another sweltering hot day in Alabama, I thought I’d share some gems uncovered while trolling around the sports landscape. Auburn Edged Georgia Southern for player The first comes from the Anniston Star, where we get a peek behind the curtain at Auburn incoming freshman, Ladarious Phillips. He [...]
Yet another source taps Tide as #1
On the Finebaum Radio Network today Dennis Dodd from CBSSports.com joined Lindy’s, Athlon, ESPN.com, and The Sporting News in tapping the Alabama Crimson Tide as his #1 team heading into the 2010 season. Phil Steele now remains as the only prognosticator with Bama in a position other than the top spot. That is, perhaps, unless [...]
Auburn will contend in 2010
Despite an unproven (but trendy) quarterback, a mid-SEC level defense and depth issues all over the field, the fact that Auburn played Alabama close in 2009 and won an emotional New Year’s Day bowl translates to the Tigers being a major contender in the SEC West, certain to vie for a spot in Phoenix next [...]
Lawrence leaves Southern Miss
Remember the name Alonzo Lawrence? Once a sure thing, shooting to the top of everyone’s recruiting board in 2007-2008, the young man who “shut down” Julio Jones in the 2007 Alabama-Mississippi All-Star game has now left his second Division I football program either on his own, or after being asked to leave. Southern Mississippi head [...]
UCLA looks to follow Auburn blueprint
With the NCAA’s 4-year investigation finally complete, the USC we have all come to know and love (sort of) will soon be no more. Lane Kiffin will soon look like Lame Shula, and the once proud Trojans will feel the effect of 20 scholarship losses (reportedly) and a two year bowl ban (again, reportedly). The [...]
It’s official: UAB athletes dumbest in NCAA
The UAB football program has long been a complete joke on the field. Now, the joke follows them off the field as well, and the basketball program is just as funny. The Blazers’ basketball team scored an 825 in the Academic Progress Rate (APR), the second-worst among 343 Division I teams, behind only Chicago State. [...]
Bama wins regional behind gutsy Kilcrease
Good pitching beats good hitting any day, and Monday this proved correct again. Nathan “Peanut” Kilcrease…all 5’6″ of him…shut down the regional host Yellow Jackets in the deciding regional championship game at Russ Chandler Stadium on the campus of Georgia Tech University. Kilcrease threw 107 pitches just two days removed from throwing 99 in a [...]
More Gayness In Auburn?
What started as a simple question has now turned into full-blown quandary. What is going on in Auburn? Will their colors stay orange and blue, or should we expect rainbow uni’s when the Tiggers tee it up against Arkansas State? Following Big Cat Weekend, here’s what one attendee (Ray Drew) had to say: “It was [...]
Bama stays red hot, downs Gators
Alabama sophomore pitcher Adam Morgan added his name to the list of Bama pitchers who went the distance to advance their teams in the 2010 SEC Baseball Tournament, allowing just two runs on six hits by the Gators. Jimmy Nelson became the first on Wednesday, with Nathan Kilcrease basically doing the same pitching 8 1/3 [...]
What really goes on at Big Cat Weekend?
As our trusted and fearless leader Cappy uncovered for us in a brilliant piece about Tim James, a recent article on espn.com may have uncovered the real draw of Big Cat Weekend. In the article, senior linebacker Josh Bynes, put it this way: “What we love the most about Coach Chizik is that he gets [...]
Pitching again key as Bama advances, beats Rebels
Like his teammate and fellow pitcher the day before, Nathan Kilcrease took the Tide into the ninth inning in a second round win over the Ole Miss Rebels. A day earlier Jimmy Nelson pitched a complete game to ice Abarn and send them to the loser’s bracket. On Thursday, the Phenix City, Alabama native would [...]
Bama stays hot; finishes Auburn in SEC opener
Bama pitcher Jimmy Nelson racked seven strikeouts to tame the Tigers in the first game of the 2010 SEC Baseball Tournament in front of an overflow crowd at Regions Park today. The Tigers took an early 1-0 lead but could muster no more as Nelson pitched his third straight complete game. A 3 run 9th [...]
Why WAS Aycock not welcome in “The Fambly”?
Apparently there is an Abarn player not welcome in the Awbuhn Fambly…but the bigger story here appears to be the predictable lack of investigation into the real story. We often point out here at capstonereport.com the biased coverage Abarn appears to receive around the state, with Auburn beat writers at state newspapers spinning, not covering. [...]
ITK Answers the Roundtable Questions
My thanks to Cappy for inviting me to answer this week’s questions. Agree or disagree, here is my take: What do you think of SEC Commissioner Mike Slive? I believe that Commissioner Slive has done a remarkable job. Picking up the pieces from his obviously biased and corrupt predecessor, Slive has restored dignity to the [...]
Jeff Foxworthy speaks about UAB
Okay…not really. But if he did, in true, old fashion Jeff Foxworthy form, this is what he might say: “If your football team owns one lonely win over Southern Miss, a team that Bama (in one of its worst seasons in history) once attempted only five passes against in a comfortable two-touchdown victory…you might have [...]
Tennessee benefits most from agent scandal
My illustration above best tells the story of the headline, but allow me to go a little further. While Bryce Brown’s “hold out” continues to hold the University of Tennessee hostage, and in the wake of UT’s moonshine brawl at a Knoxville bar and subsequent revelation of football player “VIP status” there and possibly other [...]