Govt Tide

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What is weird to me is how much Louisiana folks bag on their own state on here

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As a recent transplant to Louisiana nearly a year ago, I give Louisianans credit for recognizing the obvious. This state has great food and decent people but the state itself is a train wreck.

Louisiana's government and state laws make Alabama look highly sophisticated by comparison. Auto insurance rates in Louisiana, for example, are an embarrassment. Most expensive in the country and nearly double the state with the 3rd highest rates

Looks like Alabama was the only SEC basketball team not to get embarrassed by Michigan this season. Lost by only 13 points and actually led at halftime. The other two SEC teams...not so much

Auburn lost by 30
Tennessee currently losing by 27

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They just got blown out by almost 30 in basketball this week

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So now 2017 is more recent than 2020 and a 13 point loss is nearly 30? That's some wild math even by today's common core math standards...lol

Updated 3/28/26:

Football:

LSU - 8-5 record with yet another loss in a meaningless bowl game

Alabama - 11-4 with a CFP win

Basketball:

LSU - 3-16 conference record - last place finish in the SEC

Alabama - finished 2nd in the SEC regular season race and made 5th trip to the Sweet 16 in the last 6 seasons

Baseball:

Alabama - bottom dwellar program sits at 21-7 overall and 5-3 in the SEC

LSU - 19-10 overall and 3-5 in the SEC

How bad must things be going to be getting punked in the only Big 3 sport you're competitive in?

Only Houston and Arkansas have as many Sweet 16 appearances the past 6 seasons.

Houston has made it to 7 straight Sweet 16s btw

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This is why it pissed me off to hear the talking heads dog on Arkansas when Cal came to Fayetteville. Like we were a scrub team who didn’t just have back to back elite 8 runs

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I wouldn't sweat it too much. Sports media isn't really any better than the "fake news" media in general when it comes to pushing certain narratives.

Anyone who follows college basketball closely realizes Arkansas is among the Top 25 basketball programs all time in nearly every metric. Yes it does get old when the media overlooks the fact that the team your coach left one of the blueblood programs for literally just went to two Elite 8s just prior to the hiring but that's the media doing what the media does.

The media was even worse with Alabama football when we hired Saban. You would have thought Saban was leaving the greatest NFL dynasty ever for the equivalent of Tulane or Southern Miss football the way the media described the move. Nevermind the fact that every football coach with a pulse that ever coached at Alabama more than 3 seasons has had at least one 10 win season coaching there. There were many butthurt sports commentators at the time of the Saban hire actually trying to make the argument that Alabama was no better than an 8-4 program at the time and that Saban would be fortunate to win one national title at Alabama. Yet Saban goes on to win 11 or more games in 15 of his 17 seasons in Tuscaloosa not to mention 6 national titles, 9 SEC titles, and 3 national runner up (#2) finishes in his last 15 seasons there. Yet some of the same doubters in the media when Saban was hired have never acknowledged how wrong they got it.

Ironically, Alabama basketball...like Arkansas basketball...is also going for its 5th Sweet 16 in the last 6 seasons. Going to be a tough task without Hollaway against a very good Texas Tech team that's very good defensively and is also very efficient on offense.

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If Alabama would have waited 2 years for statehood (after Spain surrendered Florida) all of West Florida to the Apalachicola River would most likely be in Alabama today

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The Alabama/Florida border was originally proposed to run basically north south along the Chattahoochie River straight down from the Alabama/Georgia border but that was too much of a compromise (and rightly so) for Florida to agree to.

The final compromised proposal came very close to hapoening but for Alabama's shortsightedness in the mid to late 1800s. The final proposal was for the border to run north/south basically along the Santa Rosa and Okaloosa County line down to the beach which would have given Escambia and Santa Rosa counties to Alabama.

That move would have resulted in roughly 503,000 more Alabama residents (as of 2023) and cost Alabama a ton of tourism revenue not to mention a prestigious Air Force base. Granted, the stretch of beach from Pensacola Beach to Navarre Beach would be a solid wall of several miles of high rise concrete condos and hotels instead of the mostly pristine and preserved stretch of Beach it is today.

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Imagine relishing the loss of a job for someone you don’t even know. Be better.

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Agreed. Low blow and sh###y move idle. No need to go there

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Alabama has a winning record against LSU in basketball AND baseball, too.

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It's even worse than that. Ever since Alabama football broke the LSU football program and fanbase in the 2011 national championship game in in early January 2012, LSU has managed an embarrassingly poor 11-31 combined record against Alabama
In football and basketball since.

A 56 year old LSU fan has witnessed nearly twice as many Alabama national championships in football (9) as LSU home wins over Alabama in Tiger Stadium (5).

LSU football wins over Alabama are almost as rare in Baton Rouge as honest competent politicians

I'm not crazy about Nate's pot stirring and I do get annoyed even as an Alabama fan with his 4 to 5 coach's appeals and challenges every game but other than that he's just a good coach with an unorthodox 3 pt and layup with minimal to no defense or bust style. Nothing more, nothing less.

He's obviously doesn't mind him and his program taking the heat and being the bad guy by challenging the hypocrisy of the NCAA allowing players that have played professionally in Europe for 5 and 6 years to be college eligible players while barring players that have played 2 years of professional basketball exclusively in the G league.

I think allowing eligibility to players who have played professionally even if only the G league is bull#### and Bediako should be denied further eligibility based on that but so should foreign players who have played professionally overseas. From that standpoint, I have no problem with a coach (Nate in this case) challenging the hypocrisy of it all regardless of whether the challenge gets shot down.