Govt Tide

The Bama/LSU hatred as a whole is almost entirely one way (LSU fans towards Bama) but neither I nor any other Bama fans I know have any beef with LSU or LSU fans.

I've always had a healthy respect for LSU and LSU fans despite the hostility from LSU fans towards us. I never drop facts like the OP in much the same way a kind hearted good natured person who has dirt on someone antagonizing them but bites their tongue and doesn't share it in public because they don't want to be mean and embarrass someone in front of others. Kinda like a drunk out of shape guy bowing up, getting in the face of, and shoving an MMA fighter who is minding his own business and doesn't want to embarrass the guy in front of his friends but decides to let the him off easy with some embarrassing truth instead of using unnecessary force. No need to overreact when you can silence the guy with a truth bomb instead

LSU fans born in 1970 have witnessed only 5 home wins over Alabama in the 28 games the two teams have played in Tiger Stadium over that period.

To put that in perspective, Auburn...a true rival of Alabama in head to head competition...has won twice as many home wins over Alabama (10) in only 18 games the two teams have played in Jordan Hare Stadium over a much shorter time period.

My 17 year old nephew has witnessed more Alabama football wins over LSU in Baton Rouge than a 55 year old LSU fan has witnessed over Alabama over each other's respective lifespans

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What the frick would Bama know about how to act when you've been there In baseball?

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Why so cranky?....lol

I think he was saying to act like you've been there in...as in been there in one of the big three sports (football, men's basketball, or baseball).

Alabama baseball has been awful to mediocre at best the past 10 years...i.e. a little better than LSU men's basketball over the same time period.

Alabama fans will have to settle with having Top 10 and Top 20 programs respectively in the only two college sports (football and men's basketball) that the majority of sports fans pay any attention to. We'll leave college baseball to you guys.

P.S. 4,400...which is probably close to the average attendance for LSU men's basketball home games against non-conference opponents this season...isn't bad attendance for the mid February home opener of a bottom dwelling baseball program

Alabama is hurt in research based rankings like these because unlike most university systems who have their research metrics under one main university Alabama's is divided up between the 3 universities in the system. I suspect LSU's numbers are set up the same way.

The University of Alabama School of Medicine is entirely under the UAB campus (#137 in the rankings) and most of the engineering research is under the the UAH (#434 in the rankings) campus. If UA system was set up to where the main research offices were based at the main campus while maintaining a lot of the medical and engineering research at the UAB and UAH campuses then "The University of Alabama" would be ranked somewhere in the #100 to #120 school on the list.

UAB - #137
UAH - #434

Considering the fact that a lot of the undergraduate medical/engineering students at UA's main campus are tied in with the medical school on the B'ham campus and engineering students tied in with the UAH campus it's semantics. UA's main campus students in those majors are directly tied into the respective medical and engineering research whose research offices happen to be based on the Birmingham and Hunstsville campuses

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Just placed the last of the Amazon orders for snow bibs, sleds and other gear as it appears we are getting another snowpocalypse here in Little Rock.

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Central Alabama is warm nose central on most of the models which spares the I-65 corridor between Montgomery and just south of B'hame from a really bad ice storm.

You might be able to skate on I-20 between B'ham and Atlanta and I-59 between B'ham and Ft Payne not to mention I-20 between Shreveport and Jackson, MS if even half of the 1.00-2.50 inches of freezing rain totals being modeled end up verifying.

Euro and GFS both now showing between 8" inches of snow around Huntsville to around 16" in Nashville with some 20" totals in between in southern middle Tennessee.

The entire state of Tennessee with 10+ inches modeled on the Euro

What Cignetti has done at IU in his first two seasons is very very impressive but being "the daddy" means that next season IU for the first time ever in football will be getting everyone's best shot every game.

With the possible exception of SMU, IU played the weakest regular season schedule a playoff team has ever played last season and this year's schedule while significantly more difficult still has room to be considerably more difficult in years you get a tough schedule draw.

This year's IU team is legit and has earned the #1 seed but your team will be in unfamiliar territory being "the hunted" team in every game next year and you'll be going thru next season minus a Heisman winning qb and #1 overall draft pick.

Assuming you don't get another cakewalk schedule like you did last year, we'll see how you handle being "the daddy" for the first time next season

Truth is there's no ideal way for a coach in that situation to handle it. It's comes down to the degree of how poorly a coach who is leaving handles a situation.

Kiffin could have handled it the same way Saban did when he left the Dolphins. Saban brushed off questions for a solid month and at one point flatly denied interest in leaving the Dolphins for Alabama and did so to coach out the remainder of the Dolphin's regular season which he
did.

Saban caught absolute hell from the
national media, Miami area media,
and a lot of rival SEC fans saying what a scumbag and snake he was for "quitting" on the Dolphins despite coaching out the entire regular season schedule. His only mistake was lying the one time when he flatly denied interest in the Bama job about a week or so before being introduced as the new Bama coach.

The media was pissed at Saban because they had spent over a month laughing at Alabama administrators, Bama AD Mal Moore, and Bama fans and mocking them as delusional for thinking they had a chance in hell at luring Saban away from the Dolphins. Saban made the media look like fools when Alabama fans turned out to the right. Instead of humbly admitting they got it wrong the media doubled down on attacking Saban, the Alabama administration, and Alabama fans.

Ideally, Lane could have let it be known to LSU officials that he would leave OM at the end of OM's playoff run and insisted that LSU keep everything on the down low until after OM's playoff run was over. Lane and LSU both could have avoided a lot of criticism handling it that way instead of announcing and making the move when they did.

It is funny looking back at how much the money has changed in college football the last 20 years. Everyone thought Alabama had lost their fricking minds when they offered Saban an 8 year, $32 million dollar guaranteed contract. LSU will end up paying Lane the equivalent of Saban's entire initial 8 year Alabama contract by the midway point of Lane's 3rd season at LSU.

It sucks because this Vandy team is legitimately very good and if this year didn't have as many 2 loss borderline playoff teams as it does Vandy would already be in. This 10-2 Vandy team would have gotten in last year's playoff for example.

Vandy really needed LSU to hang on and not blow their 4th quarter lead last Saturday. Vandy would have taken OU's playoff spot if OU had
lost last Saturday

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The timing is awful

Ole Miss should be celebrating their best ever season and instead they are dealing with this crap

I don't blame LSU, Florida or Lane. I blame the NCAA, they have really screwed up college athletics with bad decisions over the past few decades

They should get rid of the December signing day so the timeline is a little better than what we have now

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True. You can't blame other teams trying to poach him.

You're right about the NCAA too. They absolutely suck. For decades they've
been a smug elitist, hypocritical, and laughably tone deaf organization with a Big Ten/East Coast dominated administration. They hypocritically preach about amateurism and academics while putting money and more money above the good of the sport. When the SEC started becoming the dominant football conference in the 90s they went heavy handed on SEC programs and were critical of SEC academic standards while allowing a couple of prominent Big Ten and ACC football/basketball programs to skate on academic fraud. The cherry on top was their years long resistance to all the NIL type reform attempts that would have provided a more
manageable NIL system instead of the put of control free for all system we now have. They're the ultimate "private" sector example of the kind of corruption and ineptitude that "big government" is famous for.

Case in point is the December signing period that you pointed out which is one of the dumbest ideas they've come up with. Yeh, let's move signing day to a time that inteferes and distracts from our biggest sport's national championship playoff and bowl season and completely destroys the recruiting of teams that lose their head coach and even compromises the rosters of teams in the middle of a playoff run and in the middle of bowl preparations.

Ole Miss fans deserve better than having a potentially historic season ruined

Yep. Not that it really matters but Auburn and Alabama finished last season ranked #1 and #2 respectively in the final Ken Pom rankings after the NCAA tournament last season

I've never seen two teams from the same state finish #1 and #2 in the rpi rankings although I'm sure it's probably happened before