TomRollTideRitter

re: What was wrong with the 2019 Alabama football team?

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 4/23/24 at 10:19 pm

Same as every team during Pete Golding’s tenure, they couldn’t buy a stop during big games. Even in the 2020 season, the defense was liability. See Ole Miss and Florida....

re: Since 1992 start of divisions who are the 2nd to 5th best football coaches? Saban easy #1

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 4/21/24 at 11:38 am

[quote] I would rank spurier behind kirby and meyer. Sure he was innovative and won a title but if coming close is a feature richt and Fulmer should be higher[/quote] I don’t think it’s comparable. It was a lot harder to win a national title from the SEC in Spurrier’s time than in Kirby’s time....

SEC Rant

re: NBA Media Rights Likely Headed for Open Market Next Week

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 4/19/24 at 1:15 pm

[quote]The NBA is looking to double the $24 billion[/quote] [quote]Still, regular-season viewership plateaued this year among standard cable and broadcast networks. Across ABC, ESPN and TNT, the average televised audience of 1.56 million [/quote] This is over $30K per average viewer. I strug...

re: UFL is surprisingly entertaining

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 4/13/24 at 10:29 pm

[quote]the main thing they do better is, there is a chip inside the ball, so it marks where the ball is at on plays, so there is no question if a first down was made, or if they crossed the goal line. this means the refs dont have to guess where to spot the ball or just use their own bias to put the...

re: Merril Hoge sees Drake Maye as “the kind of player that will get you fired”

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 4/8/24 at 9:52 pm

[quote]There's a ton of RPO, which nobody is going to RPO themselves to a Super Bowl in our league. ... You gotta push the ball down the field.[/quote] This is a dated take. 30/34 Mahomes completions in the Super Bowl were under 10 yards. Brock Purdy wasn’t firing the ball down the field eithe...

re: Members Of Hockey Based Groups From Atlanta and Houston Meeting With NHL

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 4/8/24 at 9:27 pm

Is there any way to finagle this into the Predators not getting the second TV slot during the postseason?...

re: Minimum wage battle is going to destroy small businesses!

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 4/2/24 at 2:38 pm

[quote]That's your opinion, and the market will decide if your opinion is correct. We don't need the government saying all types of work are worth whatever arbitrary number they pick off the dart board.[/quote] The government has arbitrarily decided economic winners and losers for my whole lifet...

O-T Lounge

re: Get in here long time Bama basketball fans

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 4/1/24 at 1:50 pm

[quote]Did George come back?[/quote] I don’t think so. When he was axed in the past, he came back as TripleDaves before SoG was reinstated ...

re: Final Four Moneyline Parlay

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 4/1/24 at 12:11 pm

[quote]Can’t recall a final four/semifinals in any sport with such prohibitive favorites.[/quote] The 2018 college football playoff has to be up there. As does 2021 CFP....

re: Napoleon is basically anti-French propaganda

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 3/31/24 at 1:27 pm

[quote]The depiction of the man presented in the movie is a complete fabrication.[/quote] It’s a fitting tribute to Napoleon for elites to embarrass themselves trying to attacking Napoleon....

Movie/TV Board

re: Get in here long time Bama basketball fans

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 3/30/24 at 11:58 pm

[quote]I honestly feel like Grant's and Avery's tenures both contributed to this. Grant laid a foundation of playing to a standard and holding to a standard on and off the court. He would not hesitate to sit a player for off court issues even if it meant we likely would not win. Then Avery came in,...

re: Get in here long time Bama basketball fans

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 3/30/24 at 11:41 pm

[quote]Bryant91092[/quote] Great longtime poster in the basketball thread. Should have made my cut, but I’m drunk as hell....

Get in here long time Bama basketball fans

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 3/30/24 at 11:39 pm

All you MFs deserve this. I believe I started the first basketball recruiting thread on this site, and I was surprised by how good the response was. This board has always had great basketball support. Even when watching Anthony Grant’s teams unable to score in the half court or buckling up for Av...