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I’m working on something to highlight the new old relationship Alabama football is once again starting up. Until then, enjoy this video showing the new feature for NCAA Football 2009, the ability to play a game with mascots.
It also depicts the greatest rivalry known to man: Rams vs. The Irish. It’s a bloody legacy, once that goes back to the days of St. Patrick casting the snakes rams into the water. Enjoy.
I don’t have anything specific planned for today, so I figured I do the standard blog link dump.
Alabama baseball won a series in Athens, Georgia, thus securing a 5 seed in the SEC tournament in Hoover. While it is nice to have the tournament in Alabama, the 8pm start time may be of slight concern for ticket vendors considering it is on a week night. The good news is that Alabama scored 17 and 16 runs respectively in their two victories against the Bulldogs.
Alabama fans are getting their (our) crack back. Yes, Coca-Cola is coming back to Bryant-Denny Stadium for the next 10 years. Pepsi got the overall campus contract, but it appears that Coke got the athletics deal, which means you’ll still see plenty of both around Tuscaloosa.
For those of you who drink Coke because Coach Bryant liked it, then this should be a happy day for you. Personally, I’m happy, but that’s mostly due to the fact that I prefer Coke over Pepsi 9 times out of 10. There are rumors of some big set-up for the stadium come game time, but who knows what will actually happen.
Via The Capstone Report, it looks as though Tim Allen has interviewed for a position at Alabama. Sadly, it isn’t this guy, so my interested on this topic dropped ever so slightly. He used to work at Minnesota under the Mason coaching staff, which might depress those of us who had to endure that awful Music City Bowl.
Finally, go give the gentlemen from Roll Bama Roll a big pat on the back for their recent book deal. The book should be reaching book shelves in Alabama sometime this summer (I think), so get your Barnes and Noble discount cards ready, because goodness knows I am. Todd, Nico, and OTS work very hard, and I’m sure this thing will take off since they’ve shown themselves to be great writers time and time again.
Imagine it being like this, but replace the wizard gear with script A’s and elephant logos.
Because the guy is crazy nuts about football, which actually fits pretty well in this state. Here’s an old story from his Dolphin days:
Miami Dolphins coach Nick Saban planned to wait out Hurricane Wilma by watching game film at work. His wife said no.Nick Saban, coaching against the Bucs on Oct. 16, rode out Hurricane Wilma at home. Now he and the Dolphins must get ready for the Saints in Baton Rouge, La., Sunday.“I tried to escape yesterday before the wind started blowing so I could come here where we had a generator and watch film and work during the storm,” Saban said Tuesday at the team’s complex. “And Terry politely said, `If you leave the house now, I’m calling the cops and telling them to arrest you.’
“So that was basically the end of that.”
Is it Pete Carroll braves the back alleys at night awesome? No, but it is still cool if you’re an Alabama fan.
In a unsurprising turn of events, Ryan Perrilloux is heading to Jacksonville State. What is a little bit surprising is the fact that Crowe now has permission to talk to two more players (AL.com):
Perrilloux also said that he had been in contact with two other high-profile players who were interested in transferring to JSU: UTEP wide receiver Fred Rouse and Clemson running back Ramon “Ray Ray” McElrathbey.
Crowe said he had received releases that would enable him to talk with both players and that he would do his “due diligence” to investigate both.
Seriously Jack, you’re willing to put all of your eggs with these 3 in order to save your job? I know there are rumblings of you being on the hot seat, but I’m not sure how two of these guys will work out for your locker room.
I am also curious about Crowe being the only coach with permission to speak to all three recruits. It makes you wonder.
If you win, you get 3 new recruits! If I win, You’ll only get a smaller silver fiddle, and I guess I’ll kill one of you… *points at Cocky the mascot*
To be fair, I’ve never heard anything about McElrathbey being a trouble maker, but I have heard plenty about Fred Rouse…
Rouse began his career at Florida State but left the Seminoles after he and a teammate were charged in a burglary of another former teammate.
UTEP Coach Mike Price told the El Paso Times in March that “Fred will not be coming back for personal reasons and most likely will be going back to (his home) Florida. . . . Fred tried hard to make it work. It’s unfortunate that he’s not going to play for the Miners next year.”
Good luck with all of that Jack.
No, because he’d actually have to be you know…. involved somehow to actually be worth mentioning in a political race and not a man that brought that town out of the sports doldrums. From 2007:
Is it old news? Well yeah, but I just recently found this stupid video, and did a little research (plus I was lacking a topic of the day). This video was brought to you by the same campaign that sported these political signs. THE QUAD:
Howdy! I hope everyone is having a great day.
Today we bring you the first ever Fan Post, a series that should hopefully keep the summers months from seeming so dull. Our first guest blogger hails from Australia, a place not known for college football, but it’s pretty cool to get a post from way over there. I also did not know there was a town in Australia called “Traralgon”.
If you would like to submit a fan post, e-mail me at TideDruid@gmail.com
Enjoy “The Great Auburn What If…”
There are moments throughout history when a simple decision to change policy would have made an unbelievable difference.
An example that comes to mind is Napolean’s foolish decision to make war on Russia during the winter time. Or Abraham Lincoln’s decision to run for president.
One day while I was reading through the history of the SEC, I noticed that Georgia Tech left the SEC in 1964 and joined the ACC in 1978. And at first I scratched my head and asked myself why? Why would Georgia Tech ever want to leave the prestige of the SEC and end up in the ACC? I put that question in the back of my head and occasionally thought about the positives for a few days….
Eventually it started to make some sense.
To begin with, It allowed Georgia Tech the opportunity to reinvent its image by seperating Georgia Tech from several hated rivalries, (including Auburn and Alabama.) It also seperated Georgia Tech and Georgia from directly competing against each other in the same conference (which greatly diminished a very venomous feud). And without all that hate to focus on Georgia Tech could go on with their lives and try to do something different (and maybe more positive).
For several years, Georgia Tech was out in the cold and wandering aimlessly. But while wandering through the wilderness, Georgia Tech found an identity that wasnt partially defined (or obscured) by the successes of the University of Georgia. These days, they recruit from the platform of the ACC, they are known more for their acadamia and less for their feuds with other schools. And once and for all they have escaped the stigma of being viewed as UGA’s little brother.
What if Auburn would have made the same choice to leave the SEC and eventually joined the ACC? Personally, I think Auburn would have more sucess to show for it…. What do you guys think? Would Auburn be a different program? And what do you think the difference would be?
tmc1
Traralgon, vic. AU
If you haven’t heard it by now, Orson Swindle from Everyday Should Be Saturday has started up a rivalry based fund raiser for a few different charities.
The rules are simple:
1) Make a donation online to the American Red Cross, CARE, or the International Rescue Committee.
2) Email the donation confirmation to kevin@fanblogs.com and state your team affiliation by 8pm EDT on Wednesday, May 14th.
3) Results will be displayed at Every Day Should Be Saturday and Fanblogs throughout the week, with the final results shown by Thursday, May 15th.
4) The winning school will have its colors displayed at EDSBS and logo/mascot shown on every page at Fanblogs.
Speaking of “The Todd” from Roll Bama Roll, he too wants you to donate if you can. Please do it, because well…. I just want reasons to post this picture:
The Todd will totally high five a donation
I have already donated $30 (big college grad money from the new college grad!), which means I have donated about 23% of the $130 given by Alabama fans as of the evening of May 12th. We’re tied with Auburn, and Michigan is ahead with a big time $1,000 (did one older guy donate this all at once or something?). If you can afford it, give it a try as it is a worthy cause to help those affected by natural disasters in Oklahoma, Georgia, and Burma.
Want another reason to donate? Well, I know my donation to the International Rescue Committee is tax deductible come April 15, 2009 (Itemized Deductions! WHAT WHAT!!!…….. depending on your A.G.I.), so I’ll assume that the Red Cross and CARE are as well. Donate if you can!
BTW, if Todd doesn’t like “The Todd” references, I’ll avoid them in the future.
Does anybody remember “Clarissa Explains It All” or “Sabrina the Teenage Witch”? I must admit that I never watched Sabrina, but I did catch a few episodes of Clarissa as a small kid, both staring Melissa Joan Hart.
Anyways, somebody showed this to me and I thought it was somewhat interesting. if you’re from the Wiregrass area, you’ll appreciate this:
Sorry, those Fulmer Cup terms start to become a part of your vocab if you’re an SEC fan (it’s 1 point BTW).
Walk-On A.J. Walker was arrested for public intoxication (AL.com) the other night, and is currently being held for $300 bail. The 19 year old was arrested by UA police, and not much else is really being said.
I for one hate having players arrested, but I don’t think everyone needs to get up in arms about a public intoxication. Is it a dumb move on his part? Yes, but it’s not like he mugged two guys or anything (we’ve already experienced that). Besides, I’m sure he’ll benefit as a person from this somehow…
It worked out extremely well for this guy…… whoever he was is
