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I guess w'ell just have to make due with the back to back Top 3 recruitng classes from 2025 and 2026 before the wheels inevitably fall off

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Shug Jordan and Bear Bryant.

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Bear Bryant - never met but an obvious legend. Enlisted and served in WW2 in the Navy rising to the rank of Luietenant Commander

Shug Jordan - A gentlemen and a badass. Served in 4 different theaters in WW2 and was wounded by German shrapnel during the invasion of Utah Beach in WW2. Rose to the rank of Major

Louisiana

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Alabama

Two of the scariest audios from a tornado came from the Tuscaloosa tornado and the Joplin tornado respectively.

The audio from the video of the group of people who hunkered down in the storage area of a convenience store that got hit by the edge of the Joplin tornado is hard to listen to. Everyone survived but the sounds of the roar and day turning into night outside was intense.

The other was a group of UA students who peaked outside their apartment in Tuscaloosa seeing the E4 heading directly at them and they're all huddled together and again...the roar of the tornado and the shouts. They ended up safely buried up under a stairwell that held up a flipped over SUV and most of the apartmrnt building they were in from collapsing down on them and crushing them.

Made the mistake of going down the rabbit hole of a couple of heavily video documented natural disasters recently and my algorithm is flooded with them (no pun intended)...

What video documented natural disaster fascinates or horrifies you the most? For me it's probably the 2011 Japanese tsunami. The videos from that event are absolutely mind blowing. What made this tsunami so scary was how quickly and stealthily the sea level rose without it being obvious until it was too late. Then once the sea level topped the sea protective sea walls in many of the harbors the massive surge with even higher waves on top followed sending a massive powerful raging river of water well inland sweeping homes, large buildings, huge ships, and mountains of debris raging throughout the city. Can't imagine how horrifying it would have been first and most obviously to the unfortunate people caught up and swept away and then to the survivors who watched their city being totally destroyed knowing their homes and businesses were being destroyed and knowing many of their family members and friends were being killed. Can't imagine some of the horrible things survivors saw in the immediate aftermath of that disaster.

On a personal level, I didn't lose any property or loved ones in either the April 27th, 2011 Super Outbreak or Hurricane Katrina like some of you on TD did but I did have family and friends who lived in both those areas when those two disasters occurred. My father lived near Lake Tuscaloosa during the 2011 Super Outbreak and although he and I weren't personally affected he did an impromptu ride along to relieve a firefighter/first responder whose wife was going into labor a couple of days after the Tuscaloosa tornado and actually helped carry 3 dead bodies out of one of the hard hit neighborhoods off 15th street. He wasn't ready for that obviously and broke down in tears heading home that night. I went up to Tuscaloosa a few days to donate some supplies and was shocked by the level of damage I saw.

My brother and SIL lived near Destrehan during Katrina and fortunately only had minor damage and no flooding where they were. They left and went to stay with family in Florida during the hurricane so they didn't experience the storm itself. My brother met my dad in Alabama and the surreal part was them having to detour way out of the normal way back from Tuscaloosa to the Destrahan area via Jackson, MS and I-55 instead of the normal route down I-59 via Hattiesburg due to I-10 being impassable in New Orleans and them carrying weapons in case of any potential looting in my brother's neighborhood. The surreal part was remembering what my brother told me only a few months earlier when we had stopped at a Rouses between New Orleans and Metairie on the way home from the French Quarter Festival that day. I asked him what that area would look like if/when "the big one" hit and he said the parking lot we were in that day would be under several feet of water and it wasn't a matter of if that would happen but when. It still gives me chills knowing that it actually happened only a few months later.

P.S. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was far deadlier and is the deadliest natural disaster ever documented but there aren't nearly as many videos of that disaster as there are of the 2011 Japanese tsunami.

OU was ranked in the Top 10 in the polls earlier in the year so they obviously have a lot of good players but they're having one of the biggest flips from the regular season to postseason of any college baseball team I've ever seen.

They rallied big time to take down Georgia Tech in their regional and they've beaten the doors off of two very good teams (Kansas and Alabama) and one elite team (Georgia) on the way to the CWS final.

OU is having the most unlikely red hot postseason run of any team ever other than maybe that Fresno State team that ended up winning it all several years ago.

Just throwing it out there but I propose a gentleman's agreement that your team must either win a cumulative total of at least 30% of their conference games in the Big 3 sport or at least 40% of your conference games in at least one Big 3 sport before starting threads trolling other conference teams.

Many things require minimum standards. This doesn't meet any:

Football - 3-5 (37.5%)
Baseball - 10-22 (31.3%)
Basketball - 3-16 (15.8%)

Cumulative conference record:

16-43 (27.1%)

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I don’t mind this UGA team. I think they’re better than previous UGA teams and certainly not like the Tenn teams.

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Me neither. This year's UGA team reminds me of the 1997 Alabama and LSU teams that both had a bunch of great hitters and a couple of big time home run hitters. UGA has a little deeper bullpen than both those team.
Those two teams and this year's UGA team hit for average and home runs like crazy but all three do it/did it in a business like manner.

The 1997 Bama and LSU teams were at the tail end of the gorilla ball era. That Alabama team blew past the prevuous seasonal home run record up to that point only to have that same LSU team reset the seasonal record total by about 15 homers that season.

The 1997 Alabama/LSU baseball season was like the 2011 Alabama/LSU football season in reverse. Alabama won the regular season baseball series with LSU that year including a 28-2 win but LSU won the CWS national title game rematch against #1 seed Alabama.

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I do think OU goes in dry on Bama saturday

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Wouldn't surprise me. They're probably the hottest team in the country right now. Took out arguably the best team in the country throughout most of the regular season in the regionals and blew out a good Kansas team in the Super Regional

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Impressive.

Not golf, but it’s something

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Yep. As someone who had a family member who played golf om scholarship at Alabama and has friends who did the same at both Auburn and Alabama I keep up with college golf.

Auburn men's golf is on an impressive run with 2 national titles over the last 3 years.

The Alabama men's golf team had a similarly impressive 3 year run from 2012-2014 finishing 2nd in 2012 before winning back to back national titles in 2013 and 2014 respectively