They said it could never be done: Finish dead last in the newly formed 14-team SEC in both football and basketball, back-to-back in the same season. Now it appears the Tigers are going for the hat trick. Auburn baseball appears to be as dismal as Auburn football and basketball. Fresh off a Tuesday night loss [...]
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REVIEW: Birmingham sports talk radio…A barren wasteland with an oasis or two
Birmingham, Alabama is the most crazed college sports city in the nation. Clay Travis is an attention seeker of Jimmy “the Mouth of the South” Hart proportions, but sometimes even a blind narcissistic squirrel finds a nut. Recently his website conducted a compelling study on the most passionate college sports towns in the country. The [...]
What’s next for Bama hoops?
Last night’s 58-57 loss in the NIT closed another painful chapter in Alabama basketball history. Ironically, it’d be the second year in a row that the Tide’s season was ended in the post-season by that score. (Creighton last year in the NCAA’s, Maryland this year in the NIT). The mood among the Alabama fanbase in [...]
Anthony Grant a Minnesota Golden Gopher?
Can you imagine, even for a second, the University of Alabama firing its head basketball coach after he led the Tide into the second round of the NCAA Tournament? Or got them into the big dance every other year? That’s exactly what happened at the University of Minnesota, as the Golden Gophers let their head [...]
Is Harvey Updyke’s sentence too harsh? The answer is in your Sunday Cup of Coffee: 3/24/13
What a difference a week makes. This time last week we couldn’t rest worrying about what would happen to the murderer of Auburn’s beloved Toomer’s Corner trees. Now, 7 days later, we know his fate. The two year long saga with Harvey Updyke is finally over over. Updyke was sentenced to six-months jail time, and [...]
BREAKING: Mal Moore resigns as UA Athletics Director
The University of Alabama is reporting that Mal Moore will resign as the Director of Athletics at the University “due to factors related to his health.” Coach Moore’s health has deteriorated in recent years, though the true Bama man has served as a walking legacy to Alabama athletics. The most recent stint has been pulmonary [...]
Survive and Advance: Huskies drown in Bama’s Tide
In a stunning display of dominance, the Alabama Crimson Tide took Northeastern to task last night in Coleman Coliseum in front of hundreds of rabid Crimson Tide basketball fans. With the season on the line, Bama responded in powerful fashion, thumping the Huskies 62-43 to advance to play Stanford, who edged Stephen F. Austin 58-57 [...]
Your Sunday Cup of Coffee: 3/17/13
Bama football took to the practice fields yesterday as spring practice began. The 2013 season kicks off against the Hokies in 157 days. There were storylines introduced all over the field, including some experimentation of moving a few offensive players to the defensive side of the ball (Christion Jones got a look at cornerback, for [...]
What’s next for Bama Basketball? Here’s a hint…
Tonight at 9:00pm on ESPNU, be sure to tune in to see who the Alabama Crimson Tide will be playing in the first round of the NIT, and if Andrew Steele will have the opportunity for another home game if the Tide plays host. Don’t bother tuning in to that boring show tomorrow night, where [...]
Building a stronger SEC: How the SEC Network will increase the distance between SEC football and everyone else
The gulf between SEC football and everyone is about to get larger, as the SEC prepares to announce details of its new cable SEC network. Pat Forde of Yahoo broke news that the SEC will announce details of this revenue bonanza in April. What separates SEC football from the rest of college football? Yes, the [...]
Proof of “The Process”: Arizona Cardinals re-sign Rashaad Johnson
Rashaad Johnson should have his own plaque in the University of Alabama football complex. And under his picture should appear the words, “If you’ll do what Nick Saban says, this could be you.” Johnson was on the front end of the current runaway freight train of success in Tuscaloosa, mowing everything and everyone down in [...]
Ten Most Powerful People in the SEC
Who influenced the SEC the most in the last year? This list is about not only power to shape things, but the influence to shape opinions of SEC fans, which in turn helps shape the conference. Here is our list of the ten most powerful people in the Southeastern Conference. 10. Tim Brando (follow on [...]
Your Sunday cup of coffee: 3/10/13
As we wake up this Sunday morning, much is brewing, but none funnier than Auburn athletics. With yesterday’s loss at Mississippi State, Auburn has successfully finished dead last in the SEC in football and basketball in the same year. Auburn Athletics Director Jay Jacobs must be proud. Kevin Scarbinsky writes that the top man in [...]
Alabama Football: Will Katherine Webb distract A.J. McCarron?
A.J. McCarron’s girlfriend Katherine Webb poses in lingerie for Vanity Fair magazine
PROOF: Tennessee fans are crybabies
The University of Tennessee gets its butt kicked on the gridiron. In true Tennessee fashion, instead of acting like a man, Volunteers cry like a silly little baby. It has been a tradition since Phil Fulmer. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that an Alabama alumni group that has met on campus in Knoxville since the [...]
Fandemonium: Getting to know the fans of the SEC
Earlier this week we concluded our three-week journey through the Southeastern Conference football family with a look at every fanbase in the SEC. We hope you enjoyed it. If you missed any here are some highlights: We found out that Arkansas fans are a passionate group of pigs. Hey, you have to respect a program [...]
As another Tide team fails, Wimp Sanderson’s legacy still firmly in place in Tuscaloosa
Basketball at Alabama has always played second fiddle to football. The same could be said at almost every other school in the Southeastern Conference, but somehow at other places success has found the program. Not at Alabama. Not since the days of legendary head coach Wimp Sanderson anyway, and it ain’t getting better any time [...]
FAN REVIEW: Arkansas––A passionate group of pigs
We’re wrapping up a three-week journey examining the fanbases of each of the fourteen SEC schools. Friday was Florida. Today we shed our dignity, put on our hog hats and cross the Mississippi into Arkansas. There are some funny mascots out there. There’s the Spiders. The Boilermakers. The Cornhuskers…literally a mascot of a farmer who [...]
Alabama Basketball: Tide surrenders second half lead and falls to Florida
Alabama basketball fans are asking: ‘Are we better off today than we were four years ago?’
RECRUITING: The secret of Auburn’s and Gene Chizik’s recruiting failures
Under former Auburn football coach Gene Chizik, the Auburn Tigers landed recruiting classes ranked seventh in 2011 and fourth in 2010, according to Rivals national team rankings. However, the highly rated classes were mostly failures. Fans wondered why. Now, Gene Chizik has answered the question. “Eighty-five percent of the guys that come into and report [...]
Hilarious new video surfaces of Auburn preparation
Barners will be barners. I ran across a hilarious video this morning illustrating more of the bush-league tactics of our little brothers. Every good cult needs a propaganda video to convince the brethren that they are on the right path. This one, released by the Auburn Athletic Department…not a fan, mind you…is simply entitled, “February [...]
FAN REVIEW: Florida—nouveau riche or dotcom boom to bust?
We’re on a three week journey examining the fanbases of each of the fourteen SEC schools. Yesterday was Ole Miss. Today we put on our jorts and head to Gainesville. The University of Florida is most known for producing two of the hottest sportscasters in the history of the world. Erin Andrews and Jenn Brown [...]
FAN REVIEW––Ole Miss: A culture of supremacy
We’re on a three week journey examining the fanbases of each of the fourteen SEC schools. Yesterday we dared to wander into the world of the LSU fan. Today we get out our fine china and head to Oxford. Ole Miss football has a rich tradition. Talk about football at Ole Miss someone automatically mentions [...]
FAN REVIEW: Alcohol culture makes LSU fans vile
We’re on a three week journey examining the fanbases of each of the fourteen SEC schools. Yesterday was Mississippi State. Today we lather up in anti-bacterial soap and head to the Red Stick. LSU fans are notorious for their boorish behavior at football games. Fans of rival schools have been hospitalized after using a portable [...]
FAN REVIEW: Mississippi State––Cowbells, and that’s about it
We’re on a three week journey examining the fanbases of each of the fourteen SEC schools. Our last visit was with Missouri. Today we travel 80 miles west to Starkville for a look at the really sad Mississippi State Bulldog fan. What if your entire state of existence as a football program could be summed [...]
FAN REVIEW: Missouri fans have much to learn about life in the SEC
We’re on a three week journey examining the fanbases of each of the fourteen SEC schools. Wednesday was Kentucky. Today we visit the greenest member of the conference, Missouri. Life in SEC football is nasty, brutish and short. Just ask Vanderbilt. It is a merciless gauntlet of brutality on and off the gridiron. Missouri’s first [...]
FAN REVIEW: Kentucky Fans––Pretty women, ugly football
We’re on a three week journey examining the fanbases of each of the fourteen SEC schools. Yesterday was Georgia. Today we visit the Commonwealth, taking a look at Kentucky. If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life Never make a pretty woman your wife So for my personal point of view Get [...]
FAN REVIEW: Auburn Fans––A cult of personality
We’re on a three week journey examining the fanbases of each of the fourteen SEC schools. Last Friday was Vanderbilt; we begin the new week by taking a look at our cultish little brother. Life on earth did not begin before 1982. Just ask any Auburn fan and they’ll tell you. Whatever the history books [...]
FAN REVIEW: Vanderbilt fans are model for all SEC football fans
We’re on a three-week journey examining the fanbases of each of the fourteen SEC schools. Yesterday was South Carolina; today we’ll stay in the SEC East and head to Nashville. Vanderbilt fans are an example of everything right in college football. Commodore fans persevered through 123 seasons of football in what was mostly a losing [...]
The death of a friend: The passing of Mal Moore
At the ripe young age of 73, Mal Moore’s passing at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina seems like more than the passing of a former coach, player or University dignitary. To Alabama fans, Coach Moore felt like a friend. He had a transparency about him that was endearing. A true southern gentleman, [...]