Robot Santa

Just the usual I'm sure. I have no idea if this is NBA style load management or the most injury prone roster in history, but it's not great either way.

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Since the NCAA has already allowed professionals to play – virtually every team we’ve played this year has a former professional player on their roster – you tell me how I’m supposed to tell Charles and the team that we’re not gonna support them when he’s been deemed legally eligible to play.”

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Yup. They've created a system where NCAA basketball is on the same level as any other non-NBA professional league, but none of those leagues give a shite where you were playing last season when signing players. It's fricking stupid, but the NCAA made this bed.

Who is the kid playing LT in that clip? He laid down a better block on a WR screen than I've seen from anyone in an Alabama uniform in years.

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If money is as big of an issue, is a private equity deal on the table?

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The day Alabama brings private equity into the equation is the day I cease being a fan or publicly associating with the university in any way. That's a bright red line for me.

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What American kid is Chuck taking an opportunity from on Jan 22, 2026 through the end of the Spring semester?

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None. We have a scholarship available and he'd only be here until the end of this season. The point is more that if we allow this to become the norm you're going to have a ton of coaches giving away a ton of scholarships to 22 year old European players who have been playing professionally for 5 years.

No idea if he's actually any good, but we really needed someone with significant P4 starting experience somewhere on the OL. Going into the season with 3+ first time starters was probably not going to end well.

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Congress to fix all this shite.

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Imagine worrying about this in the year 2026.

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If there is a college athletics program primed to be the last one to ever get fricked by a dying NCAA, it's Alabama basketball. You know it, I know it, and the American people know it.

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300% tariffs on Canada

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We're going to be doing so much winning, and Canada is going to pay for it!*



*don't look up who pays import tariffs.

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Followed up by the retarded poster saying “Don't hate me bc I think differently.” At that point, you’re trolling.

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Give me attention! You're just a hater if you think my attention seeking is pathetic and annoying!

Well I'm not saying those things are unique to the current time and place. I'm saying that greed and a hunger for fame and power have historically been considered moral failings, and are now considered aspirational by a significant segment of the population. Truly, I think if you had the entire football team watch the movie Wall Street you'd end up with at least 20 of them thinking Gordon Gekko is the hero. And I don't necessarily blame them for that when they've been conditioned by the world they live in to view success as the accumulation of wealth and the path to that success as self aggrandizement and attention seeking thanks to social media and influencer culture. Throw in plenty of even greedier shithead cousins/brothers/uncles/fathers acting as "agents" and here we are.

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People love to blame the players

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No one is holding a gun to their heads and making literally thousands of them transfer every year in a quest for more money.

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The unlimited amounts of greed

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Is a broad problem that goes a lot deeper and ruins a lot more than college football. There is a general theme of aggressive selfishness that exists like a cancerous tumor at the heart of American society. Greed and fricking over other people for personal gain are considered virtues in this country. And that applies to the players as well as TV executives, school administrators, the NCAA, or whoever else. We all have a role to play in this bullshite. Even the fans who, despite all our complaining, will support all of it as long as it benefits our favorite team.

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I’m still holding out hope that he’ll want to leave a legacy at Bama that is significantly bigger than anything he could do elsewhere, and that he can bring home a ‘ship before leaving the program.

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He turned down Kentucky. He didn't do that without calling his buddy Pitino, who is pretty open about the fact that leaving Kentucky is one of his biggest regrets, to talk about the job. I'm pretty confident that any coach who turns down Kentucky is satisfied that they can compete for a title just as well at their current job.

The NBA obviously is a different matter. He's not an NBA guy though and NBA franchises are as likely to hire an NBA guy with little if any coaching experience than a college guy with decades of it.

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40% of the players who entered the transfer portal are still available.

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I'd like to see the numbers on how many of these have already earned a degree. I'm sure it's a lot less than 100%.

Looks better than you'd expect from a guy previously committed to an FCS program.