Not to be outdone by UT in recruiting……..

No, I could not type that with a straight face.

Anyway, BAMA also picked up their fourth commitment for the 2009 class. QB AJ McCarron, ranked as one of the top ten QB’s in the nation, chose BAMA over Georgia, Miami, and Oklahoma. This comes as a surprise to exactly no one. I remember first seeing his highlight films a little over a year ago and thinking that BAMA had to have this kid. Then I learned that those were clips from his sophomore year. Kid has a cannon. Three of his teammates signed with Alabama this past February.

Here’s some Youtubery from his junior year…

Perriloux……..out………..again

LSU, for the fourth? time, has kicked the self proclaimed “Next 60-million-dollar Man” off the team. Anyone surprised? Anyone?

Some Bama notes……

Tight end/offensive tackle Charles Hoke has been placed on medical scholarship. See, Brian Cook, if you’d have just waited….

Alonzo Gee has put his name in for the NBA draft. He, like Hendrix and Steele, hasn’t signed with an agent, so he can possibly return to the Tide next season if he doesn’t like his draft status.

Who will be CBS’ other love interest this season?

The affection that Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson share for Tim Tebow has been well documented…

Without a doubt we can expect more of the same in 2008. But to try to seem as non-partisan as possible, they always have another player about whom they gush uncomfortably (at least to the viewer). Last year it was one Jacob Hester. You might remember him from such coach-saving games as LSU-Florida and LSU-Auburn.

Football futures

While we here at TSIB do not condone gambling (that was for the auditor) we (read: I) thought it might be interesting to see what Vegas (Warning: links to a gambling website) thought of the chances our respective teams had of winning the 2009 BCS title. Here’s what they got for the SEC teams….

Alabama  40/1
Tennessee  100/1
Arkansas  100/1
Florida  6/1
Georgia  6/1
Kentucky  100/1
LSU  12/1
South Carolina  100/1

The rest of the SEC is part of the field at 25/1.

USC has the best odds at 3/1. Oklahoma and The OSU are with Florida and UGA @ 6/1. Vol fans, they even have Notre Dame at 55/1.

 

Who says sequals are never as good as the original

Remember this beauty? Well, as you know, aliens don’t give up that easy…

(Big top of the old hat to Memphis Tider)

Message board Post of the Week

The football season is over four months away and spring practice for the majority of the teams will be over by this weekend. We are assuredly heading into the sloooooow time for football fans (and blogs). Many take refuge on message boards to at least give them a small taste of pigskin. These message boards can also provide a good source of entertainment, and also can make you feel a lot better about your intellect and command of the English language. So therefore we present our newest feature: The Message Board Post of the Week.

I fully expect these to get crazier and crazier as the college football message board equivalent to cabin fever intensifies as we move into summer.

Our first MBPW comes from Ghostzilla on DAWGVENT about Phil Fulmer and it’s classic message board smack. It has it all. Misspellings, incorrect grammar, tired pet names for a rival coach and team, strange math, irrational predictions, and the all important Hitler comparison. Bravo, good sir!

Wow,how the man is still coaching much less still alive is beyond me.

You’d think some Bama jihadist would have killed him by now.

And I’m only half kidding as Phillipotomus must feel the same way for not going to the SEC Media Days back in ‘04.

He is literally on his 9th live, CMR and UGA have been his saving grace. We saved him in ‘04 and how they won that game still is beyond me.

his comeback was complete in many a Vowels eyes with their big win after our 5 TO’s in the 2nd half of the ‘06 Debacle!

And his fat@ss was on the ropes again in ‘07 yet we just rolled over in that game!

THIS WILL NOT AND CANNOT HAPPEN AGAIN!!!

There aren’t 7 guys on that team who’d start for us, and take away the 3 OL and Berry and there really aren’t 4!!! We are bigger,faster,more exp and better coached!

We have the off week this year and CMR hates him referring to him as that man!

We will destroy him by 35+ and then he’ll be gone!

He had a crappy Recruiting class, for the 2nd time in 3 years andreally 3rd in 5! The ‘05 class was #1 by many but 7 never made it in(one must think they were dumber then Cavemen not to get into UTK?) and another 8 have been kicked off due to drug dealing, fights andbeing basic menaces to society! This from a school who took a known rapist in with open arms! A school who has had not one but two murderers start for them the last decade! One Little was actually honered after killing a mother and a child!

No sir, The rightious and all that is good is on the side of the Mighty ‘G’ and CMR! While Heavy P and the Convicts have had their day and the evil urnge empire is about done! Kind of like Nazi Germany under Hitler……its time CMR has his Normandy where we slaughter the Vowels in Athens and put the final nail in their coffin!

AND finally after 15 years of rapre,murder,lies and everything else imaginable the Heathen Huns from the Hills of Hell will finally be destroyed!

But I do give Ghostzilla credit for the Heathen Huns line. That is something that will most definitely go into the repertoire.

For no reason in particular…

Joel at RTT is asking for submissions for your favorite Alabama-UTK games. Here are a few of mine that can be found on YouTube…

2007

2005

1990

And one for the old-timers…

1966

 

Jimmy Johns to redshirt?

A suprising comment from former running back-turned linebacker in today’s Sunday’s Huntsville Times..

Linebacker Jimmy Johns said after Saturday’s A-Day spring game that sitting out next season as a redshirt is a possibility.

Johns has not redshirted yet in his Alabama career.

“That’s something me and Coach (Nick) Saban still have to talk about,” Johns said. “I still have a redshirt left. If they don’t think I’m an everydown backer, maybe I do want to take a redshirt. I’ve always wanted to just play and wanted to win.”

Very rarely (I can’t recall one) do you see a healthy player going into his senior season take a redshirt year. The depth at linebacker for next year will already be paper thin, probably having to rely on at least two true freshmen for significant PT. And that’s with Johns. I’m sure there will be more to come out in a few days.

One bit of housecleaning to get out of the way…

The winner of the First Annual TSIB Bracket Challenge was………..me. Yay, me! Sure, it’s a week late, but I was in Orlando last week and was not about to pay $10 a day for internet access, and since none of the other contributors here won, there was no post about it.

Here’s the Top Ten w/ some notables…

1. Yours Truly
2. Tie: Double Dawgs & UTRocks
4. Capstone King
5. Staci (Gobble Thunder’s better half)
6. Tide Druid
7. Gobble Thunder
8. TideFanInTn
9. BelligerentMe
10. Uncle Rico
12. Vols To The Wall
17. Ghost of Neyland
18. Boomtown Madman
25. Lawvol

That means I won both the TSIB Bowl Challenge and Bracket Challenge, so from now on when I speak of anything regarding sports, you should take it as gospel.

 

Mickey Mouse totally pwn3d me

Well, the Crimson Family just got back from a seven day trip to Disney World, and I need a vacation. I swear we walked the equivalent of the Appalachian Trail while carrying what had to be an eighty-five pound backpack and pushing a Disney-issue double stroller loaded with a five and one-year-old. And somehow I still managed to gain a few pounds. It’s true, Disney is a magical place!

This was my first Disney experience, and going anywhere with two small kids is always an adventure, especially when it rains the first two days (cases of athlete’s foot rose exponentially in Orlando last Saturday and Sunday) you are there. But despite the work, the rain, and my feet and knees’ nearly successful revolt and secession from my body on the third day, we had a grand old time, and my daughter met all of her favorite characters from the movies and cartoons she loves, which made all of it worthwhile. Crimson Son, AKA Bear Jr., was just along for the ride. Yet, he did often get this look of “why are these mute, big-headed creatures constantly coming up to me and rubbing my head?”

And as you always learn more from the first trip to a place than the subsequent trips, I thought I’d let you, the good readers of this blog, know all the learnin’ that I brought back from Orlando…

Auburn: The illegal steroid distribution center of the world

Or at least it was in the early 80’s. I guess Melick wanted to let an Auburn coach clear the air after this article was posted on SI.com last month. Color me totally convinced Melick. And sarcastic. I wonder if Bo knows roids….

Also,

LSU suspends redshirt freshman linebacker. You’ll get no snarky comment from this Bama fan….

Paige Davis’ Goodies

I know she’s not exactly the quality of our typical Goodies post, but what can I say, I have a thing for her.

A Louisiana radio station is reporting that recently unsuspended Ryan Perrilloux is still very much in the doghouse after an “incident” at a local restaurant and will not take part in any of the spring practices. Eateries in and around Baton Rouge, you have been warned. The next $60 million man waits for no table…

Young ‘un Rolando McClain will have to step into a leadership role this season for the Tide.  And he’s either up to or down to 243lb, depending on which paper you read….

Who’s left for Florida to hand the ball off to? Percy Harbin Harvin will miss the rest of spring and may be looking at surgery to repair an injured heel…

Alabama comes in at #7 in clothing sales…

And finally, here is what the stands looked like at Auburn spring game…

HT: The Wiz