Reed and Jobe shine in Super Bowl win, and the №1 recruit has zeroed in on ‘Bama
It was a masterclass by the Seattle Seahawks, and two Tide defenders helped key the win.
Reed and Jobe shine in Super Bowl win, and the №1 recruit has zeroed in on ‘Bama
It was a masterclass by the Seattle Seahawks, and two Tide defenders helped key the win.
God, I miss this kind of interior lineman.
Rejoice, for this is the day that we Gump…even if it’s Monday, and I really don’t wanna.
We’ve written about Cig Ball extensively, where modern roster construction seems to be a matter of finding starters in the portal, while signing quality kids out of high school to identify contributors and depth pieces.
Kirby and Saban have said for months that has to be the case; you need the quality recruits for the occasionally instant starter and two-deep player. But your smart money for starters is better spent on the Portal and keeping your contributors. Seems like CBS finally got around to seeing what is in front of our eyes, specifically highlighting the Tide’s wide receiving room:
So in its totality, the Crimson Tide added a pair of receivers with elite speed and another with elite production in the Peach State. Again, at very little cost in the age of NIL and revenue share.
What’s not to like, seriously? I am listening. This is a safe place.
With all of that being said, Alabama doubled the amount of bodies in the receiver room heading into the 2026 season with the return of MJ Chirgwin as well.
You don’t have to like the additions or the schools across the country have to go about filling out the 105 scholarship roster, but this is the world we live in.
Alabama softball opened its season this week, and there were a bit more soupcans and tasty cupcakes than usual in its preseason fare. That the Tide wrecked bad teams wasn’t the story.
How they did so was the story: piss missiles over the fence. Eighteen dingers in all.
I fully acknowledge the competition was lacking, but last season — the last few seasons — the Tide wasn’t shelling its non-con opponents like this.
Will it hold up? Of course not. But has Murph finally found some power, and will Alabama hit their fair share this season? That is an open question, and I’d love for it to be the case.
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There’s a reason I’m the #BOG-in-chief…to combat the #FOGs. This legitimately made me shake my head this morning.
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I covered his recruiting for almost two years, and repeatedly said the Mr. Basketball for the state of Wisconsin was my favorite signee of the entire class. Wanna’ know why?
A year ago, when we first wrote of him, he was then a marginal 4-star player at the time. However, after Alabama became one of the first elite programs to really put on a full-court press for his services, he started seeing a rise in his rankings.
That early buy-in was rewarded too, as Allen was one of the Tide’s first commits, signing on last September.
And as his senior year blossomed, and Allen’s prodigious scoring talents began to mature, those ratings would prove not be merely a “Bama Bump,” but honest evaluations of his skills as a scorer. En route to being named Wisconsin’s Gatorade Player of the year, Allen would go on to average 34.2 PPG, while shooting 58% from the floor, and notching 5.8 assists and 8.6 rebounds per night. He’s a very solid FT shooter (78%), and does a great job drawing contact and getting to the line.
He was the №14 wing in the country, a four-star talent, and the №60 overall prospect by the time the Tide signed him (and he was never that low anyway, as he checked in as an ESPN 200 player). Not exactly plucking Josh Jacobs out of Tulsa, is it?
Sigh. I guess I have to be the ball knower around these parts, I reckon. #BOG
But, the larger point here is not to throw shade; it is that Alabama cannot take itself seriously as an emergent basketball school when the fandom can’t even recognize that a blue-chip four-star wasn’t a diamond in the rough.
The SEC made its fat bank this year, buoyed by an NCAA-record 14 teams in the NCAA tournament, among other achievements. And, for the first time, the Cracker Barrel Belt paid out a billion dollars.
The $72.4 million per school average is approximately $18.6 million above the 2023–24 average of $53.8 million per school for members with full year participation.
The total for the 14 schools receiving a full revenue share is comprised of revenue generated from television agreements, post-season bowl games, the College Football Playoff, the SEC Football Championship Game, the SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament, and NCAA Championships.
We’re never getting rid of that f’n playoff, are we?
Last week we wrote about the №1 recruit in the nation, 5+ star corner, John Meredith. He was at the Tide’s Junior Day and was impressed. So much so, that ‘Bama gained momentum almost immediately, pulling in line with the favorites.
That momentum has grown, as Meredith has now narrowed his list down to just two schools, long-favored Texas A&M…and Alabama. This would be an amazing pickup.
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I am a bit of an FCS and Midmajor supremacist. If you want to watch a better game, on average, than what the Big 10 or ACC slops into your trough, catch the Summit League sometime — the Northern Plains schools. Or, tune into the AAC — God’s redneck version of the old WAC.
But there has been a lingering juggernaut for two decades that somewhat spoil the punch, according to most FCS fans: The North Dakota State Bison. The Cows have been too dominant. So much so, that even fans in Fargo have questioned whether to remain in 1AA. After all, Boise State, Liberty, James Madison, and others have moved up over the last few decades and enjoyed immediate success. Hell, one made the CFP Playoffs this year.
That prompted Moo U to finally act. They’re making the jump this year.
The Bison have been a force at every level in which they’ve competed on the gridiron. The program won eight national championships at the Division II level from 1965 to 1990. NDSU jumped to Division I and the FCS football level in 2004, claiming its first national title at that level in 2011. It was the first of five consecutive FCS national titles for the Bison, who would add to the trophy case in ’17, ’18, ’19, ’21 and ‘24.
Alongside rivals like North Dakota, South Dakota, South Dakota State and this year’s upstart Illinois State, North Dakota State helped make the Missouri Valley Conference one of the most competitive in college football.
And now it’s official
The Bison have agreed to a deal to join the Mountain West Conference, in football only, for the 2026 season. The school is expected to pay nearly $12 million to join the league, and will pay the NCAA another $5 million to the NCAA to move from the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS).
Cool as hell. They’re going to do very well as part of the new Mountain West. And, let me break down what these new conferences are and what they mean. We have to start with the PAC 12. The new one.
- The New P12 will have: Oregon State, Washington State, Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State, Utah State, Texas State, and Gonzaga.
- Gonzaga competes in every sport except football, but that still gives the P12 eight football members, and now they’re eligible for the playoffs. The Group of Six is now a reality.
- Their games will be on Paramount+ and CBS Sports.
But, if you notice, the New P12 guts half of the quality teams from the Mountain West. So to survive, they moved East, into the Texas and Chicago markets. It’s a bit weirder, but they also strengthened basketball at the same time
- The core group of Air Force, Nevada, New Mexico, San Jose State, UNLV, and Wyoming remain.
- Northern Illinois and North Dakota State join for football (and NDSU can win this their first year a la James Madison).
- Grand Canyon University and UC Davis join for other sports, but you can expect UC Davis to eventually move to football one day.
- Their games will be on FOX / CBS Sports
Selfishly, that pleases me, because it almost certainly means that South Dakota State will make the jump soon too. Then that will leave South Dakota as the hegemon in the Summit, and ultimately the FCS.
#GoYotes
Last night, the Crimson Tide added four players to its Super Bowl winners list in a defensive masterpiece orchestrated by the Seattle Seahawks.
Two starters for the Champs are former Tide stalwarts, and both stood out. Jarran Reed utterly collapsed the middle of the Patriots O-line all night, allowing the pass rush to come home, even as they were stoning the Pats’ running game and forcing Drake Maye to throw. And, when he did throw, the physical Josh Jobe was there for Seattle, finishing as the second-leading tackler and second-highest graded DB. Reed was the highest-graded defensive linemen for the Seahawks. Well done, lads.
And, it’s wild to think about, but Robbie the Stache and Jalen Milroe never won a natty in college at Alabama, but now have Super Bowl rings.
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And, finally, your moment of levity…and it’s dark AF. When that punchline hits, it hits like an A-bomb. LOL.
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That’s all for now, you folks have a great morning. Take care.
Row Tahd.
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