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Anybody who follows college football knows the name Beano Cook. Before Lee Corso and the crew of College Game Day, Beano Cook was one of the first college football analyst on ESPN. Beano was a huge Notre Dame fan, but he also was a huge college football fan. Cook said once: “On Sundays they play […]

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One thing that Alabama head coach Nick Saban is trying to avoid with his team is the thought that all the Tide is doing at this point is playing out the string the rest of the season as some experts like ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit seem to think. Herbstreit says at this point, the Tide’s biggest […]

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Former head football coach at the United States Air Force Academy from 1984 to 2006, Fisher DeBerry racked up the most wins and highest winning percentage (.608) in Air Force football history. His best year was 1985, when Air Force finished #8 in the AP with a 12-1 record. He duplicated that record in 1998, […]

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Post season nominations keep coming in for the Alabama football team, earlier last week it was announced that several Tide players were up for the Lombardi Award and today, Mark Barron and Dre Kirkpatrick were named two of the 15 semifinalists for the Jim Thorpe Award. The Jim Thorpe Award is given annually to the […]

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Oct
12

Simply A”Maze”ing!

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Marquis Maze has been showing up every week in a big way. On the season, he is the leading receiver for Alabama with 31 catches / 355 yards receiving and 504 yards on the return game. He has filled in the void left by the parting of Julio Jones to the NFL quite nicely. Week […]

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It’s hard to believe, but after this weekend, a fourth of the college football regular season will be over. As fans see the weaknesses of their teams, and the players who will be leaving after this season, it’s already time to figure out which high school stars can replace seniors and fill in the talent […]

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Sep
13

Where’s the Defense in the SEC?

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After watching two weeks of college football one thing is certain: The defense that is being played out there is terrible. How do you explain scores like this over the weekend: 41-35, 45-42, 35-31. Even the Iowa/Iowa State game got into the 40’s. I looked up NCAA defensive stats this morning and found only two […]

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Sep
07

Penn State Sends Letter to Tide Fans

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In a very classy move, Steve Sampsell who is the director of college relations at Penn State, sent a very classy letter to UA’s student newspaper the Crimson White welcoming Alabama fans and students to their campus this weekend for the game against the Nittany Lions. Sampsell was very complimentary of how he and Penn […]

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I was not even born yet, but my dad loves to talk about this era of Alabama football. It was 1960’s Alabama football.  He even has old year books of Alabama from that era.  He can tell story after story about those days.  This video below is right up his alley  With 3 official national […]

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Gene Chizik should have kept his mouth shut. (Not that it mattered anyway!) He butted heads with the NCAA & Enforcement Officer Roe Lach in a meeting this summer over the investigation into Cam Newton. The NCAA’a response? ” You’ll know when we’re finished. And we’re not finished.” Now the juice is starting to flow. […]

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