Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: W Vua FM, Tuscaloosa.
[00:00:14] Speaker B: Welcome into the low tide here on 90.7, the capstone. Nicholas Persley, joined, as always, by Joe shot, Adam Hambright. How are we doing, gentlemen?
[00:00:24] Speaker C: Up pretty good. It's been a while, actually, since our last recording here in the booth, so I'm excited to be back and looking forward to talking about a lot of stuff that happened over the week.
[00:00:34] Speaker A: Yeah, it's the first time in a little bit that we had to skip a week last week, but this time that we've had off, we've had a lot of good outcomes from our sporting events. Haven't had too many disappointing results. So it should be a fun show.
[00:00:53] Speaker B: Yeah, it should be a lot of fun. I believe the last show we had was right before the Super bowl. We obviously missed that week during the Super bowl. Didn't want to have a show during that game, which turned out to be pretty good. Did you guys watch the Nickelodeon version of the super?
[00:01:08] Speaker A: Absolutely not.
[00:01:09] Speaker C: Wow.
I hate her.
[00:01:11] Speaker B: Come on. No, that was fantastic.
[00:01:13] Speaker C: Honestly, it was better than Romo.
[00:01:16] Speaker A: Here's what I'll give you.
[00:01:17] Speaker C: That's what I'll say.
[00:01:21] Speaker A: If you're just a guy that just likes to have fun, like you're not looking for the pure broadcast experience, to Nickelodeon, it looked fun. I'm not that guy. I want my traditional football broadcast, but even the regular broadcast still upset, you know, whoever approved the graphics and either the producer, like, know I'm watching the know. Nickelodeon, every time they score, they have, like, the little slime, right? I don't want that. I want to see them know. I just want to know fan reactions, football reactions. They score in this game, and there's a huge graphic covering the whole screen that says Kansas City touchdown. I'm like, I know. I just watched it. Let me watch the player. Like, you can put that on the little ribbon scoreboard you have. I don't need to see it across the entire screen where you're just showing me a part of the stadium. If I wanted to watch stuff like that, then I would watch the Nickelodeon broadcast. So I was kind of disappointed in that. And then a bunch of people have been upset about Tony Romo in the game, which before everybody was talking about how much they have loved him on the broadcast, and then the game winning touchdown, and he kind of talks over for like a whole two minutes or whatever it was, so now everybody hates him again.
[00:02:38] Speaker B: Truly didn't know how to get out of the way. I feel like that happens with everything, though. People will love something for the longest time and then all of a sudden they'll just turn on it and they just can't stand it.
[00:02:47] Speaker A: They used to like the Chiefs when they were beating the Patriots and now.
[00:02:50] Speaker B: The Chiefs are public enemy number one and it would appear that Mahomes is on the track to goat status anyway. Alabama football News Ryan Grubb is out as the offensive coordinator at Alabama. He is staying in Seattle to take over the Seahawks job.
I feel like this is a really know, forgetting Alabama here for a second for Ryan Grubb. What a fantastic opportunity. You could not ask for anything better. You don't have to move. You get to stay in Seattle and you get to go straight to the.
[00:03:29] Speaker C: A. I think he clearly wanted to be, it seems like really wanted to be in that NFL and that OC role and yeah, like you said, doesn't have to move.
Know, the part of me that is just upset about it is just what he said. I mean, I understand it might be a little rich saying, oh, he should honor what he said as we cheered for Nick Saban for all those years after he said he wasn't going to leave. But yeah, it just seemed like it was really bad timing with him.
I don't know what event it was, but he said, I'm your offensive coordinator, speaking to Alabama fans and then he essentially left like less than 24 hours later. So that's just the part that gets me.
It makes sense for him. I get it. But just maybe don't say you're the OC and then not dip. Yeah.
[00:04:30] Speaker B: I feel like this is kind of one of those perfect storms. I'm sure that he did not really know that couple of days before that. Yeah, Seattle is going to call and you're going to have this wonderful opportunity, but it feels like it was kind of a perfect storm.
So I'll ask you guys this, are you concerned? We'll talk about who's coming in, potentially being promoted as the new offensive coordinator. But does this worry you? Does Ryan Grubb not being the offensive coordinator at like, is that a massive mean?
[00:05:13] Speaker C: I think it's obviously a big loss because of kind of the expectation of what he was going to bring in. I mean, it seemed like he know kind of a really perfect fit. I mean, really dynamic offense at Washington.
[00:05:25] Speaker B: Well, the number one and number two offenses in the country while he was.
[00:05:29] Speaker C: At Washington and developed Michael Pennix from being a really good quarterback at Indiana to now, he's potentially a first round pick. Might go to Seattle in that first.
I'm worried in the sense that I don't know who Alabama could hire that would have been better than what Grub could bring. But at the end of the know, am I super worried that this is going to become like a habit? Maybe, probably not. I mean, Nick Saban dealt with it. He lost coordinators seemingly every season throughout points in his tenure and found replacements and still won. So I think it's a big loss, but maybe not as big as it seems.
[00:06:16] Speaker A: I'm not going to be the Alabama coach.
I shouldn't even have to comment on this. I think I've said this over and over and over again.
Anyway, so that was Nick Saban back before he took the Alabama job, and now it resonates again as Ryan Grubb has taken the offense coordinator job at the Seahawks. So I don't think it's that big of a loss. Obviously, Ryan Grubb has had a couple of good offenses at know. He's been around with Kaylin Dubore at his other stops at Fresno State.
I think he was even at Indiana when Kayla Deborah was the offense coordinator there. Obviously I would have loved to have him as the offense coordinator at Alabama, but it is still Kalen Deborah's offense now. Ryan Grubb has been calling the plays and it seems to me that that was the only guy Kalen Dubore really felt comfortable calling his offense. I would probably be more worried if it came out that he was hiring an offensive coordinator from the outside who we didn't know if he was going to try to change up the system and if Kaylin Dubore would even allow him to, and then you'd have that whole internal struggle between head to coach and offense coordinator with him, allegedly. I don't know if it's beneficial. We kind of discussed a little bit with Nick Sheridan kind of coming up who's going to be calling, is it going to be him? If he's offensive, is it going to be Kalen Dubore?
Does Kalen Dabor feel comfortable letting somebody besides Ryan Grubb calling? I don't know, but I still feel confident with it being Kalen Dubore's offense first and foremost. And if he feels comfortable with somebody calling it or if he's calling himself, I think it's going to be good and I do think it will be an improvement over what has been there the last couple of.
[00:08:05] Speaker B: Not like I'm not super worried. Like you said, Ryan Grubb came in to run Kalyn Deborah's offense, right?
It's not like you're not bringing in somebody new allegedly, who has a completely new offense, a completely different system. And you mentioned how Kaylin Bohr had spoke about how Grubb was the only guy he really trusted to call those plays. It would not shock me in the slightest to see Kaylin Dubore potentially calling the offense. It could be interesting, something that we haven't seen here in a long, long time, but potentially Nick Sheeran being promoted. He was the tight end coach at Washington, came with Deborah to Alabama.
I feel like it's probably a solid choice because you want to promote somebody from within who already knows everybody, who can kind of already knows everybody, already has the system.
You're not having to learn a whole bunch of new stuff. So I feel like it's a pretty solid hire, honestly, if that's where they end up deciding to go.
[00:09:23] Speaker A: I do have like a quick update. They have updated rolltide.com football coaching staff page. Still only three coaches are listed on here. So we still only have on the official Alabama athletics website, that is Kalen Devore's head coach, Freddie Roach as associate head coach and defensive line, and then Robert Gillespie as running back. So even though a bunch of coaches have made the official change on their Twitter profiles with the new, I assume it was athletic marketing that sent them all the matching photos for the profile photos. They still have only updated three people on the actual coaching staff page.
[00:10:06] Speaker B: Yeah, and I feel like that's partly because there's all of this kind of. A lot of things are up in the air at the moment. A lot of people are jumbling around. They probably don't even have the titles all straight.
[00:10:16] Speaker A: Another thing, so, like what we were talking about with, you know, he, he's going to be an offense coordinator in the NFL. And a bunch of people had tied him to the Washington job right after Deborah taking the job that they were saying that he was going to be Washington's first call to be a head coach. And now you're still seeing that trend. I don't think we've been able to really talk about it, but with all these collegiate coaches just going to the NFL. So obviously you have Ryan Grubb. He's taken the same position he would have had at an NFL job, but then a bunch of head coaches taking coordinator jobs at other colleges, or people just going to the NFL because they don't want to deal with college anymore. So like you were saying with all of that going on, nobody really knowing if somebody's going to get offered a coaching job after somebody leaves for an NFL or the NFL is going to offer a job and you don't know if your coaching staff's going to remain intact, so probably pretty smart to keep it under wraps for as long as possible.
[00:11:15] Speaker B: Yeah. One other big part of the story that we haven't touched on yet is that Scott Huff is also expected to go to the Seahawks. Obviously, that was Washington's former offensive line coach who had come with Deborah to Alabama. That is a major probably in my mind, that's a bigger loss than losing grub because you're talking about Scott Huff, who had built the best line in all of college football with the kind of talent that Washington recruits, which I'm not saying is subpar, but it's certainly not to the level of an Alabama, a Michigan, an Ohio state. So that's extremely impressive. And Alabama has struggled for quite some time at the offensive line. So that's what you really hate to.
[00:12:05] Speaker C: Now I will say to the the last offensive line coach Warford came in as the Joe Moore award winning offensive line or finalist.
[00:12:15] Speaker A: I knew Joe was going to bring this up.
[00:12:17] Speaker C: Just saying. I'm just saying. And it didn't exactly create a better offensive mean. Now, I will say that Scott huff, I did have better expectations. Like, he's clearly got an offensive line that was good enough to get to a title game. But yeah, I kind of agree with you, Nikka. That is, I think a bigger loss, especially with what this Alabama team really struggled with last season, was consistency on that offensive line and getting a coach who just coached one of the best offensive lines to come into your program and in theory is going to get better. So I do agree that that's a bigger loss and hopefully, I guess have they made an announcement on who's next up for that position?
[00:13:04] Speaker A: I haven't heard an announcement, but we've kind of seen during these recent coaching hires and searches, you're not really going to get who you expect. So, Kayla, Deborah, he wasn't really mentioned right off the bat. We had said who we had thought. None of us have brought him up. Obviously, people probably let it known that they might be going after certain coaches to kind of help them get their contracts secured at their schools. And then all of a sudden it's like Kaylin Deborah is rumored and then all of a sudden it's like, oh, he's taking the. Then, you know, when you're thinking about who the assistant's coming in, the first couple, like, we kind of knew he was going to at least try to get Ryan Grubb and it looked like he was going to be. But then it was somebody else. But nobody expected Kane Womack from South Alabama to come in. Nobody expected all these other group of five coaches to end up coming on the staff and then only how many. Was it just the two? Was it just Freddie Roach and Gillespie that from the staff? So who knows who it's going to be that comes in. But with the hires, we obviously haven't seen how these coaches are going to do with a full season, but I don't really have any worries about who they're able to bring in as long as it gets done fairly soon, for sure.
[00:14:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Another guy who has not really been mentioned in leaving, it would appear that he's staying. Jamarcus Shepard, who was the wide receiver coach at Washington, obviously a major part of that offense. He had three or four receivers that went from unknown talent, really to NFL level players during their time there.
So it's going to be interesting. There's also been some discussion that Sheridan and Shepard could potentially be co offensive coordinators. Obviously not both calling the plays, but could be very interesting and something that I think you've seen a lot in college football recently, kind of as an effort to try and keep some of these assistants around because it seems like assistants are flying off the shelves. Levsam right. Especially the big d one programs.
[00:15:15] Speaker C: Yeah, that's not really going to be a bad thing. I think if you have the two co offensive coordinators, especially with a guy like Deborah as your head coach, who is an offensive guy, like kind of having three minds go at it instead of maybe just kind of blindly. Not blindly. I mean, Deborah knows what he's doing, but instead of just kind of giving it away to one guy, maybe you can get a little more collaboration and a little more inventive, I think. But you are right.
It could just be a big ploy to keep these guys on your staff for as long as possible. Because when you're listed as an Alabama coach, especially recently under Nick Saban, any position coach was up for grabs. It seemed every least, it seems like at least one was becoming a head coach or coordinator or getting promoted somewhere in the college football world after leaving Alabama. So I think it could be a play and it might be a really good one.
[00:16:13] Speaker B: Yeah. So that'll do it for us here for the first little bit. When we come back, we've got so much to catch up on with Alabama men's basketball. New Jerseys, crazy times.
[00:16:26] Speaker C: Crazy state.
[00:16:29] Speaker B: Crazy times. We'll be back here on 90.7 of WVU AFM 90.7 a division of student media at the University of Alabama. Support us by leaving a review rating or following us on x at WVUA FM. Sports welcome back into the low tide here on 90.7 the Capstone. Nicholas Joe Adam, having fun talking all things Alabama athletics. Just a reminder, in case you didn't already know, you can also stream our show live on the live three, six, five and tune in apps. Just had to let everybody know this shameless plug since I didn't do it in the first half.
We're talking Alabama men's basketball. Joe has been there. Joe, it's been a little bit since we had a show. So you want to get us caught?
[00:17:41] Speaker C: I will.
I'll go back a couple weeks to when Alabama played in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
[00:17:50] Speaker A: Skip that other game. That.
[00:17:52] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, we'll start with this game.
Alabama went down to Baton Rouge, played LSU on the road, I guess two Saturdays ago. Now another back to back early morning wake ups in these games, which is tough, but Alabama got the job done.
It ended up being a pretty comfortable win. It was 100 and 992 was the final, but at halftime it was not looking great. Alabama was up 49 46, but they were getting absolutely torched on the inside by Will Baker of LSU. He had 22 points in the first half. Grant Nelson kind of struggled to guard him inside, which has been a problem not just with Grant Nelson, but with Alabama in general. Just kind of playing these real physical presences on the inside and Baker was able to take advantage. And then second half, Alabama scored 60 points and ended up running away with it.
Baker only had two points in the second half, which was a pretty big reason as to how Alabama was able to extend out this lead.
But yeah, just really solid game. Mark Sears had 23 points to lead the team. Latrell Rite cell with 21. When you have those two guys over 20, good things happen. I mean, Alabama is undefeated after Latrell Ritezel in games where Rites hill scores over ten points.
That's still continued in this one.
[00:19:24] Speaker A: Did you ever think you would say that a team gave up 92 points but you had a comfortable win in college basketball?
[00:19:31] Speaker C: Exactly. Yeah, that's just kind of Alabama this season, really. Defense, as I've written, defense.
[00:19:37] Speaker A: Defense is optional.
[00:19:38] Speaker C: Yeah, it's optional. It's questionable for sure.
But yeah, it was tough in the beginning, all things considered, with Alabama playing LSU on the inside. But second half was just.
There were multiple like nine, 90 runs by Alabama. There was a 100 run late that pushed the lead to 18. Kind of highlighted by right cell and Mark Sears knocking down a couple of shots. So just really good. If you want to watch essentially what Alabama is this year. The second half of this LSU game is a really good example of it because you're scoring 60, but you're letting up 46 and a half. So that's going to be the big question mark on this team down the stretch.
[00:20:28] Speaker A: Yeah, a big thing for that one. In that LSU game, specifically, you talked about how Mark Sears had 23, Latrell Reitzel every time he scored.
What's the exact point total?
[00:20:42] Speaker C: It's over ten.
[00:20:44] Speaker A: Once it gets into double digits, Alabama is undefeated. So he had 21 and ten. And then you have oral and Griffin, who's kind of stepped up lately, he had 16, Aaron Estrada with 15. But then the guy that you don't expect, Nick Pringle, who had his season high, I think it's his Alabama high. I don't know if he scored more when he was at junior college, but he ended up with 17 points, five rebounds, even an assist.
That was his first game back off of suspension. So with a game like that, it really helps out. It's really when you know Mark Sears, he's been consistent all year. It's really who else steps up. So when you have Latrell Wright sold on Rylan Griffin, it's like, okay. And then when Nick Pringle scores 17, that's something that the other team probably didn't account for. Was Nick Pringle having almost 20 points in a game.
Hopefully. I know in that the next game they had against Texas A. M. They played a little bit better defense, but not by.
[00:21:50] Speaker C: Do last kind of point on the LSU game here. Just talked about kind of the switch inside from first second half. Just kind of a quick number to kind of put a bow on. That. Point is the rebounds tied in the first half. Both teams had 18 total rebounds. In the second half, Alabama outrebounded LSU 25 to 13.
So just a huge effort. Latrell Ritezel had. Actually, he did have a double double, had ten rebounds. Seven of them came in that second half. And when a guy like him can go out and get you rebounds, that's a huge plus to this team.
[00:22:25] Speaker B: You know what's crazy to me? Like, crazy point. Okay. Without thinking about it, and you might already know this. Joe, how many shots do you think Alabama took against LSU?
What if I told you they took 81 shots?
[00:22:40] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:22:43] Speaker B: Truly, just everything you got. And here's the crazy part. It was the second time in the last three games that they had had 80 or more shots.
[00:22:52] Speaker A: Good.
[00:22:53] Speaker B: Which is just, it's a big change.
[00:22:56] Speaker A: From what Alabama had been used to basketball wise before. NATO's got.
I was during that LSU game, specifically. I was traveling up to Illinois with adapted and we're talking and, you know, it's always the thing about Alabama shooting so many threes and obviously NATO style either wants it right at the basket or he wants a three pointer and stuff. And, you know, that's, that's his, you know, a part of, you know, him being a math teacher, like, he knows that three points is more than two. So he, he doesn't want to take those shots mid range that are lower percentage. I don't know if you all seen it. Did you all ever watch the 30 for 30 with Loyola Maramount?
[00:23:45] Speaker C: I can't remember they made the final four.
[00:23:48] Speaker A: I don't think they made the final four, but I can't remember the name that it was called. But Loyola Mary Mount, like in the late 80s, early ninety s and stuff. And his literal offensive philosophy there was, the more shots you take, the more shots you make. And they were like the highest scoring team in college basketball. So it's not to that level with Natoes'style.
[00:24:13] Speaker B: Mike Dantoni offensive baseball philosophy yeah.
Like Dion waiters once said, I'd rather go over 30 than over nine because that means I stopped shooting.
[00:24:24] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:24:26] Speaker B: Put up infinite shots.
[00:24:28] Speaker C: Yeah.
Analytics just say if it keeps shooting, one of them is going to go in, I guess.
Was that all we had for LSU?
[00:24:42] Speaker A: It was nice to see that kind of performance on the road, but that.
[00:24:44] Speaker C: Was all it was.
[00:24:45] Speaker A: Yeah. LSU specifically, two games, one in Coleman, one on the road. Both times scored 109 points. Wish the defense would start playing better, but I think at this point of the season, we're kind of just to the point where we're like, let's just see how far the offense can take us.
[00:25:00] Speaker B: Yeah. Most points scored in any two game stretch against LSU in the history of that series. They also made 33 three pointers over two games.
[00:25:12] Speaker C: Yeah. Just tough. Yeah, it's good.
Then, I guess. Moving on here to yesterday, Alabama went on at 11:00 a.m. Again, played Texas.
[00:25:28] Speaker A: A and M. Some students were outside the door at about 02:00 in the morning.
[00:25:32] Speaker C: Yeah, some were. Some were the debut of the new jerseys. I guess we'll start off. I mean, obviously, me and Adam were there. We saw them. Adam got one. Son of a.
I mean, it's. Congrats.
[00:25:46] Speaker A: You could go buy some online for a hundred something bucks and actually have the player name on it.
[00:25:50] Speaker B: No, free luck.
[00:25:52] Speaker C: But anyway, I will ask, did you guys like them?
[00:25:56] Speaker B: What are the thoughts? Okay, here's the thing. I feel like these are very safe. Okay. It feels like this is a very safe jersey, which. Okay, granted, I understand you don't want to do anything too out there.
One day when the Alabama football jersey change comes, eventually, Adam might be ready to fight me. He was about ready to throw hands.
[00:26:20] Speaker A: When I said that the only change to the football jersey I will accept is white football helmets. To go back to, like, the early 70s.
[00:26:29] Speaker B: I'm just saying. Right. Okay. So it feels like this is a very safe choice. It's not anything too out there. Personally, I was hoping for some plaid. I think that could have been pretty wild or at least take a little bit more of a risk. I do like the jerseys. The shorts are awesome. That vintage logo which Nadotes loves and apparently Kayla de bour also very much likes.
[00:26:54] Speaker A: So hopefully on midfield, hopefully we honestly.
[00:26:58] Speaker B: That logo is sick.
Petition to go back to that, but I like the jerseys. They feel safe but solid. Personally, would have liked to seen something a little crazier.
[00:27:14] Speaker C: Yeah. I also think it was interesting that they're like retro jerseys, but Alabama's never. There's no history of this jersey being in Alabama's basketball history.
Like, with the crimson tide on. Like, it's just weird. They've all.
It's very.
[00:27:31] Speaker B: Just the logo on the shorts makes it retro.
[00:27:34] Speaker A: The logo on the shorts is style. Yeah.
The font for the lettering goes back a little bit more how it was in days past, but I liked them.
Like Nick and I like the shorts the best.
I wasn't a huge fan of the crimson tide being above and below the number, but it's big.
You got to have some space.
But, yeah, I probably would not go buy the turtle, even with the player's name on it. So I was glad I was able to get one of the free ones. That just has crimson tide on the front and Alabama on the back, but it'd be nice if they had thrown in some shorts with it, get the whole jersey set.
[00:28:23] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:28:24] Speaker B: But anyway, would have been funny if, in keeping with the retro theme, either go super short shorts or like, the really long, baggy short thousands.
[00:28:34] Speaker A: You all saw Sam Walters at that game. I think he ordered them like, the smallest he could get.
[00:28:39] Speaker C: Yeah, there's a lot out there. But anyway, on the basketball.
On the basketball, the actual game itself, Alabama put in a really good performance, or I should say a good performance, against Texas A and M. They won 100 to 75 by a quarter, as I say, won by a quarter, 25 points. They shot over 50% from the field, 40 essentially 44% from three. Mark Sears 23 points tied Collins Sexton from most 20 point games in a single season. Alabama history with 16. It was also his 8th straight 20 point game for Sears.
That also kind of shows the development, I guess of Alabama basketball since 2016. 17 or 1718, I should say, when Sexton did it because Mark zero scored 20, Latrell Ritezel back with 16, Griffin with 17 and Estrada with eleven. So four of your five starters hit double digits. Grant Nelson had nine on four or five shootings. So a really good put out from the lineup, from that lineup, especially considering a and M out, rebounded Alabama pretty heavily. It was 49 to 38 total rebounds. A and M also got 26 offensive rebounds and the number one offensive rebounding team in the country. So that was kind of expected. And Nate Oates said after the game that he wasn't necessarily so worried with them getting all these offensive rebounds. It was just can they score from those second chances? And a and M really couldn't. I mean, Anderson Garcia. So I was blanking on his first name. Anderson Garcia for a and M got twelve rebounds, only had three points, didn't make a fuel goal. So that was kind of what Alabama's mo was, was we'll let you get the boards, we won't let you score from them.
And that worked to perfection, especially when you're shooting over 50%.
[00:30:35] Speaker A: And I can't remember the exact point of the first half that this was, but I think Texas A and M had a double digit lead in rebounds. It was pretty early, probably before the twelve minute timeout, but they weren't able to get that big lead that they needed withstand in Alabama on slot, on offense and also something that kind of just kind of represented the game. There was one possession where Texas A-M-I think they got three straight offensive rebounds on one possession but didn't score on any of the shots. So just like that and Alabama was able to overcome Doug Shao's probably the best game they've had with him officiating, him and his crew.
And I will tell you, I was nervous going into the game. Know, Texas a m, they had just beaten Tennessee, but then they had lost to Vanderbilt on a buzer beater. And I'm like, of course they have to lose right before playing Alabama to refocus because that's what it seems like everybody does. They lose right before refocus and then give us a fight for our lives. And first half it was kind of, I think, a halftime 13 point lead, but it kind of felt closer. And then as the second half came on, you never really got worried in that second half. Just Alabama, like Nick was saying, just keep shooting this game, they had 18 three pointers made in this 118 of 41.
Latrell. Right. So I think, was he the one that hit the three to get to 100 points?
[00:32:12] Speaker C: That was Davin Cosby. But yeah, Latrell Rizzo did hit, I believe, back to back threes to get it up to 97.
[00:32:20] Speaker A: Yeah, he had had four of eight on three pointers. And then Davin Cosby, he had one. And I guess that was the one to put it at 100, which I loved. I needed that 100 point mark there. There's only been, what was it? One team that's had more 100 point games in a season in SEC history, and that was Kentucky.
[00:32:39] Speaker C: Yeah.
It's also, I believe, under Nate Oates. It's Alabama's 10th SEC or conference game where they've scored 100 points and the rest of the league has, I believe, ten combined. So, yeah, a lot of offensive firepower. Alabama also.
[00:32:56] Speaker B: Wait, so Nate Oats has only had ten conference games where they scored above 100 points?
[00:33:03] Speaker C: Yeah. Well, yeah.
[00:33:05] Speaker B: So for context, this is their 8th 100 point game this year.
And that's the most in college basketball in 30 years, which the 95 96 Kentucky national title team. I'm going to have to go back and do some research.
800 point games in 95. That's pretty insane.
[00:33:30] Speaker A: And another thing for this one that I do want to point out, we kind of mentioned how Sam Walters had had the extra short shorts look at trying to be a little bit like Larry Bird. I guess he was shooting like him. He was kind of that guy, kind of like Nick Pringle in the last game. That kind of. He was that next guy that stepped up and didn't shoot like a lot, but he was four of six, two of four from three, had eleven points, but eight rebounds almost with a double double. And I can't remember who it was, but it might have been Latrell Ricel. He was asked a question in the post game and the first thing he brought up was like, did you see Sam had eight, you know, immediately going to. This guy was a big help in this game.
[00:34:10] Speaker C: Yeah. And he was a lot more physical out there in this or. And one kind of tough layup early. The other thing, too, I wanted to say about this game, which doesn't get talked about enough.
So over the past two seasons, Alabama is 27 and one at home, which is the best record for SEC teams at home over the last two seasons. And just one game against Clemson. It was Clemson of all the teams, too. Right?
But yeah, Alabama is just totally different playing at home versus just on the road consistently. At least just a solid performance from them. They were supposed to beat A and M and they did. Now, beating them by 25 is very impressive, especially an A and M team that has given Alabama, specifically Alabama under Nate Oates Fitz. I believe he was one in three against A and M entering yesterday, with that loan win being the 2022 SEC championship win, or 2023, I guess, SEC championship win over the Aggies. So. Yeah, but a very solid game. This was also a game where if you looked at the shot chart for the game, Alabama's, all of their shots were either inside the paint and near that kind of restricted area arc or behind the three point arc. So this was ball of notes to a t in this one, which is how you win games even if you're out rebounded.
[00:35:44] Speaker B: So I was curious about how many games they'd have to get to. Like what the record was for most games in a season of at least 100 points. It is Loyola Marymount, 1990. How many games do you think they scored over 100 points in? I'll say at least 100 points.
[00:36:02] Speaker C: How many total games?
[00:36:07] Speaker A: Your regular season is going to be about 30. Yeah, a little bit more. Then you're going to have your conference tournament. You're going to have NCAA tournament. I know that they at least made the Sweet 16, I believe, that year.
[00:36:17] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:36:19] Speaker A: But I know that they led the nation in scoring.
[00:36:26] Speaker C: Go ahead.
[00:36:26] Speaker A: I'll say 15.
[00:36:28] Speaker C: I was going to say 15.
I'll go 20.
[00:36:34] Speaker B: Yeah, try 28.
[00:36:35] Speaker A: Oh, God.
[00:36:36] Speaker B: They averaged 122.4 points per game that season.
[00:36:42] Speaker C: I guess we maybe discounted the fact that they were just maybe that much better than their contract.
[00:36:49] Speaker A: Let me pull this up. Unless you already have it, you all can keep talking. But I remember very specifically from their NCAA tournament run. Something I want to pull up.
But yeah, Alabama still had 17 turnovers. They did in this game. So you need to clean up those turnovers. Need to clean up defense.
[00:37:14] Speaker C: They had twelve against a and m. It was twelve turnovers. Well, that's what I'm seeing here, at least.
[00:37:24] Speaker A: Well, this is. Maybe the box score is wrong. The one that I'm looking at had seven.
[00:37:29] Speaker C: I'm just on the stat broadcast thing. Yeah.
[00:37:31] Speaker A: Okay, well, one of them is wrong. Who knows what it is.
[00:37:34] Speaker C: But anyway, a whole lot better. Yeah.
And to be honest, Alabama, if you're not going to play like incredible defense or not incredible, but just good defense consistently. You got to force turnovers and you can't turn the ball over like you don't want to give more defensive opportunities.
[00:37:56] Speaker A: I finally got it.
So first, I'll go through a couple of the games during the season to kind of give you all a sense because you brought up 28 games. So it's like, first win of the season, win 145 to 102.
[00:38:13] Speaker C: That's insane.
Who did they play?
[00:38:16] Speaker A: That was against Nevada. They had lost.
[00:38:20] Speaker C: That was a division one team.
[00:38:23] Speaker A: They had lost week one to number one, UNLV, 102 to 91.
So then here's a game against St. Mary's. You all might know them. Win 150 to 119. A game at LSU, lost in overtime, 148 to 141.
[00:38:41] Speaker C: Okay, Alabama fans, don't fret. This team got how far the Sweet 16 do it.
[00:38:47] Speaker A: Beat San Francisco 157 to 115 the next game.
[00:38:52] Speaker B: 157 points is insane. No overtime, right?
[00:38:56] Speaker A: Not in that one. And then how many shots do you have to take? In the West coast conference tournament played, Gonzaga won 121 to 84. So then they get to the NCAA tournament, and I believe this was the year, if you all watch the documentary, one of their players does pass away like he dies, like on the court.
But anyway, they go to the NCAA tournament and they're trying to win it for him, right? So game one against New Mexico State, they win 111 to 92. Game two against Michigan, they win 149 to 115.
They go to the Sweet 16, they play Alabama.
Lowest scoring game of the season, they won 62 to 60.
[00:39:38] Speaker C: Hang the banner.
[00:39:39] Speaker A: And then the next week they play UNLV. Who would beat them? Week one, they lose 131 to 101.
[00:39:46] Speaker B: Okay, lead eight. And aside, could you imagine how good it felt after they had just come off 100 and what was it? 49 point game to hold them to 62 points?
[00:39:58] Speaker C: Alabama is probably like, we should advance.
[00:40:00] Speaker B: If there was ever a banner to hang, like moral victory banner. I mean, that's it right there.
[00:40:05] Speaker C: You have to your team the opposition's points. More than that, actually.
[00:40:10] Speaker B: Okay, so back onto Alabama and this season.
As fun as this is, let's talk about the NCAA tournament that's upcoming. The committee has been projected as a three seed in the south.
Do we feel like that's fair for Alabama?
Do we like the outlook that we see with that being where they're at?
[00:40:39] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, it seems interesting. It's an interesting thing right now because there are still three weeks and Alabama does still have a couple of really key games that can either boost their seed or drop it.
I'm thinking of Kentucky on the road coming up in a couple. I mean, even Florida is a quad one opportunity on Wednesday here in Tuscaloosa, but it's going to be interesting to see. But yeah, I think that's about where I would expect him to be. I think Joe Leonardi at ESPN has them as the 9th team. So I think they're the top three seed. Like the top of the three seeds right now. I think he has them playing morehead State in the first round. So that's where I'd right about put them. But they do, I mean, if they like, there's a very real chance that this Alabama team, if they can kind of turn it around, can get to a two and probably not a one seed because you already got seven losses.
[00:41:42] Speaker A: But I mean, it really just depends because if they were to win out, like win the SEC tournament and obviously we're in the, and then the SEC tournament, like winning out, you maybe get.
[00:41:51] Speaker C: That one seed, but I mean, you got an opportunity. Sorry to cut you off, Adam, I was just going to say you got an opportunity at Kentucky a week from yesterday that could boost you up essentially a seed if you win. Tennessee comes to town March 2. That's going to realistically decide the SEC, at least it's looking like it.
[00:42:12] Speaker A: And the Florida game this Wednesday just got moved up to a quad one game. So that'll help out now. Really, as long as you stay in that two to three seed, I like it. Right now I'd probably say that is pretty accurate to have him as a three seed. I would like him to play into a two. But as long as you're in the two to three, you're not going to have to play that one seed until a potential elite eight. So we'll see if the team can actually put it together on defense and make that run in the NCAA tournament. But like right now, like you were saying, Leonardi does have Alabama as the first three seed. So the number nine overall seed and the NCAA tournament like selection committee, they had announced that they were the three seed there. So Leonardi's at least close in his prediction. And so the bracket that we would be in, according to Leonardi, Arizona would have the one. Alabama's already played Arizona before if it worked, know, wouldn't have to play them again until that elite lot. I think it'll be a lot better to have a team that you've already played before. You already kind of know kind of what they're about and NATO's can show them like hey, you already lost to them once. Don't let it happen again. The other teams that you got in there is Kansas as the two seed in there and then arch nemesis San Diego State as the four seed.
[00:43:39] Speaker C: Well, starting off Rematch, morehead State, talk about rat poison. You dropped 100 and I think nine on them opening night.
The Eagles are coming back for. They will come back for vengeance. 105, I should say, one by 32.
And I will say, too, that this Alabama team, we're talking tournament long term, kind of what maybe the heights are.
This is a pretty wide open year.
I mean, Yukon's looked really good, but it's hard to repeat as national champs. Purdue just lost today to Ohio State. Yeah.
[00:44:15] Speaker A: Who loses to Ohio State?
[00:44:16] Speaker C: That's such a terrible, brutal.
Know Houston's the other one seed outside of Arizona. Like you.
You know, I think it could be a time for Alabama. If they can get hot and play defense, they could go pretty far. I think.
[00:44:36] Speaker B: Here's the craziest. Okay, if I would have told you, if you're an Ohio state basketball fan for the season and I told you're going to beat Alabama, you're going to beat Purdue, do you think that your head coach would have also got fired in the very same season in between those two wins?
[00:44:52] Speaker A: Yeah, probably not.
[00:44:54] Speaker C: And you would have lost nine of eleven.
[00:44:56] Speaker B: At 1.4 days after you fire your head coach, you beat the number two.
[00:45:00] Speaker A: And I know it's not.
[00:45:01] Speaker C: Wonder who the problem was.
[00:45:02] Speaker A: Tough one. I know it's not like the same exact thing, but it just reminds, and I know it's different because it was in the NBA and the team actually had a winning record. But the firing of the Ohio state coach, it was like, okay, they're not performing well, and then you fire them. And then you beat the number one team, or at least a number one team. Number one. They were still a number one seed. They would have been the number one overall at the time, but they beat them. But when the Milwaukee Bucks, they're like pretty much doubled up their 30 something and 15, fire their coach, hire doc Rivers and then go like one and six, it's like the exact opposite situation.
[00:45:49] Speaker C: Somehow you got worse.
[00:45:51] Speaker A: And then, I don't know if you all saw it, but they had asked him in a press conference and he was like, well, we had a back to back in Utah and Dallas and the altitude, and our players retired. I'm just like, okay, you just need to calm down over here. But they hired Doc Rivers and seems to have gotten worse. They've been okay. The last couple of games, but then Ohio State, they're going to fire their coach and now all of a sudden we got the best team in college basketball.
[00:46:16] Speaker C: Yeah.
No, I will say this. I know we might want to talk some other stuff, but I do worry a little bit with this Alabama team just on some of these bigger road games or just bigger games on the stretch in general. Because if they do lose them or if they lose a couple of them, at least they're sitting at like, I believe it's two and six right now in quad one games over the course of the season. Now they are like, I'm going to have to pull up this number because it's something like they're two and six in quad one wins, but seven and two in quad two games or something like that.
[00:47:01] Speaker A: Next five straight I think are quad ones.
[00:47:03] Speaker C: It could improve and I'm sure it will.
Florida is a good, that's a winnable quad one game, even though Florida is very tough and very physical, but you just don't want to run into a situation.
Maybe the couple years ago the team with, I guess the highlight guy was JD Davidson coming in and Shackleford and that team kind of ended the season poorly. And you had to play a Notre Dame team that was kind of running a little warm coming into the tournament and got knocked out. And you just fear that if Alabama slips up a little bit down the stretch you're running into. I mean, right now, Leonardi, an eleven seed Gonzaga, that's a really good team that you're going to have to play as an 611 game.
You could potentially go into them just looking around kind of the lower seeds that Alabama might have some problems with. You don't want to be in that position. So you need to take care of some of these games that you can improve your stock.
[00:48:06] Speaker B: You just got to take care of business. And the other thing is that stretches like that can be scary for such an offensive heavy team like Alabama. Right?
You've had all these 100 point games this season. You've leaned heavily on your offense to make up for some rather poor defense and lack of size down low.
If all of a sudden you have a couple of games where you get cold, these are the kind of problems that you can run into.
You're not as consistent as maybe a really strong defensive team would be and that's something scary for the tournament.
But I feel like the other thing that you have going for you, if you're Alabama, you have a very veteran team, led know Mark Sears who probably has the biggest chip on his shoulder of anybody in college basketball.
[00:49:00] Speaker C: The dude is not named for any award.
[00:49:02] Speaker B: He's like straight disrespected by everybody.
[00:49:06] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:49:06] Speaker B: So it's going to be very interesting to see. Alabama obviously got to take care of business, but I think they're in a good spot right now.
We'll just have to continue to watch and see.
[00:49:16] Speaker C: Listen, here's the thing too, is that the expectations have been raised since and Oats took over, but this is still, I mean, like Alabama is going to go to March Madness. It's potentially booked right now.
The program is still very much doing really well and this was going into the season going to be tough anyway. I mean, you lost Brandon Miller, you lost two NBA draft picks, all of your assistant coaches got hired elsewhere and you're still in this position. Top ten and two in the SEC.
[00:49:45] Speaker B: We were talking about on this show about how much lower the expectations were going to be and look at where you're at. Great season in progress right now.
[00:49:53] Speaker A: You get at least a one game. Is it a two game lead now for the SEC?
I know they have sole possession of the lead right now. So they have a very good chance, especially if you beat Tennessee at home in that next know, very good chance to win the SEC regular.
You know, we'll see what happens.
You know, we talked about how Nick Saban showed his best coaching performance when with the season, like how poorly the team had played early against Texas. Offensive line wasn't really doing that well. You had basically changed your whole offense and then still be getting them to a playoff. And now you have Nate Oates, who Joe, you just know, lost those two guys the first round NBA draft. Obviously one guy, number two overall pick. People transferring know some people that shouldn't have went to the NBA declaring for the draft, some people unnamed and then the coaching staff. And I think that was the biggest one for me. Losing all three of your assistants to be head coaches somewhere else. And now you have them right there ready to win the SEC.
[00:51:05] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:51:06] Speaker A: Is this Nate Oates'best coaching job?
[00:51:09] Speaker B: Okay. All right. Let's not call that yet. Well, let's see what happens. But potentially, potentially. So we're going to take one more break. When we come back, we're going to touch quickly on baseball and softball, both of which got started up since our last time on the air. So we'll be right back here on 90.7, the capstone. Nicholas, Joe, Adam, closing things out with you here.
We got to talk Alabama baseball. They're back. Adam, you were there team's gotten off to a great start. Couldn't ask for a better start.
[00:52:14] Speaker A: Yeah, first weekend, three games against Manhattan. Obviously very good to get a sweep, especially first year head coach. A lot of new faces. First two games they won. The first one I believe five nothing, 2nd 115 nothing. Very good performance pitching wise in both games. The third game, the final ended up being eleven to eight.
And I don't want to make excuses, but when you won your first two games kind of handedly, you're not really worried about too much. That third game might be a little hard to get up on a Sunday afternoon, but obviously also Manhattan. They wanted to get their first win of the season so still good to come out with that. They did finally get so that second game and this was what we were talking about at the game, they scored 15 runs in that second game. No home runs. It's all just real solid small ball for the most part and that's something you're going to need to make a run right now. Coming to the season, preseason Rank 19th. I know some people have them as like a dark horse to maybe make it to Omaha.
I'll have to see how they play once they get SEC play. Like right now, you can't make too many judgments off of playing Manhattan for three games. And then on Tuesday they have middle Tennessee State. You need to start seeing in a couple of weeks they have a game where they'll play like Arizona, Dallas Baptist, who's a ranked team. So I need to see him play some better competition. But the pitching staff looks pretty good. Alton Davis finally got some work in today. He pitched the last two know shut down pretty much everybody he know. Still getting used to all the new guys, but it's good to see the know coming alive. And then we covered it a couple weeks ago about how the stuff had finally coming out about the previous Alabama coach, like what was all going on with that whole thing with gambling and stuff. So who's to say if it's that big of a difference, but the team does look better coached and it could be because you don't have somebody betting against them while they're out there.
Who's to say? I don't know, but team looks good.
[00:54:32] Speaker C: Might be a logical leap.
[00:54:33] Speaker A: They look good pretty much everything.
The bullpen today kind of let the team down a little bit, but a lot of those guys, they're getting their first work of the season. They'll get better throughout the season so I'm not really worried.
Starters look good, offense looks good.
People still making plays out on defense. It's going to be a fun season. It's going to be a long season. There's still 52 more games to go before they get to postseason play, but who's counting? Me.
I'm trying to go to as many games as I can.
[00:55:06] Speaker B: None of the people out in right field are counting.
[00:55:08] Speaker C: Yeah, that's true.
[00:55:10] Speaker A: But yeah, it'll be fun. It'll be fun. I think I'm not ready to make like official predictions for the season. Like I said, I want to see him play some better teams, but you need a little more evidence, a little more sample size.
[00:55:25] Speaker B: Did you guys know LeBron plays for Alabama now?
[00:55:27] Speaker A: Yeah, that was so weird hearing LeBron with a double and what is going on here. But yeah, it's good. I feel like me and Evan slight out in right field, we're friends now. We've talked a couple of times, said words to him. He's nodded. So best friends already.
[00:55:45] Speaker C: Did he nod or was he just like playing baseball?
[00:55:47] Speaker A: No, he talks to the people in Rideville. He's a good guy. Kind of missed some of those guys from last year, like Andrew Pikney and everything, but this team, they brought in a really good recruiting class. They brought in a top ten transfer portal class and undefeated so far.
[00:56:03] Speaker C: So it's going to be fun, to be honest. I mean, Adam, you said you're waiting for kind of when they play some of these bigger teams and bigger moments. Honestly, with how kind of Alabama has struggled in these midweek games against weaker opposition, I'm just interested to see what they do Tuesday, Wednesday of this week against middle Tennessee State and Alabama State because those are games that Alabama dropped in years.
Know it wasn't all that long ago. I believe they in one season lost to North Alabama, UAB, Alabama State, some other teams, like in these midweek Tuesday night games that you really can't be losing if you're also going to have to go on the road and play LSU on the weekend or play Florida or whoever. But yeah, really good start. I mean, it was nice to see Rob Vaughn and his family, I guess throughout the first pitch.
Not, I guess I knew his family throughout the first pitch, so that was cool to see. And he's three and he's undefeated.
[00:57:02] Speaker B: Couldn't ask for better.
[00:57:03] Speaker C: Yeah, I will say too, we talked about this a little pre show Manhattan's jerseys.
I was not expecting them to come out. Three different jerseys for the three different games.
[00:57:15] Speaker A: Two of them pinstripe oriented.
[00:57:17] Speaker C: Yeah, two of them pinstripe. I liked the black ones or the gray ones that they wore. I can't remember now whether it was Friday or Saturday.
[00:57:27] Speaker A: Friday was the gray pinstripes, the straight black I think was Saturday. And then today was the super bright green pinstripe ones.
[00:57:37] Speaker C: Yeah, the ones today. It was a little questionable, at least on I was watching through tv screen, so looked a little suspect, but cool. You know what? Go for it.
If you're going to come to Alabama and play SEC baseball teams, then why not wear your full arsenal?
[00:57:57] Speaker B: Yeah. Just bring all the uniforms on the.
[00:57:59] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. It's also weird that they're in the Bronx like you're Manhattan college.
[00:58:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
Interesting.
[00:58:10] Speaker A: Is that a thing with New York, just like not naming your teams?
[00:58:15] Speaker C: I feel like every New York team should just be called New York because.
[00:58:18] Speaker A: That'S what even the teams that are called New York aren't in New York, they're in New Jersey.
[00:58:21] Speaker C: Well, that's true, too. Yeah, that's very true.
[00:58:25] Speaker A: We'll discuss that later.
[00:58:26] Speaker C: But I will say the baseball point real quick, just I think today might not have been maybe the best day. Like you said, you already won the first two. Maybe you showed up a little slow to work a little bit. But it could also be, I mean, you don't know maybe who your best rotation is, who your best pitchers are yet this season. Who's going to be hot, who isn't.
I'll give him time.
[00:58:50] Speaker A: Friday with Ben Hess. Great performance Saturday. Riley Quick, I believe he's a sophomore.
He was relief last year. This year he's projected to be a weekend rotation guy and he was staying around like he was in 97, 98 mph starting off. Over the course of the game, he kind of lost a little bit. I don't know if that was part of it just being cold or if that was. He's not used to pitching for that long, since he was a bullpen guy last year. But also once it gets a little bit warmer, should be possibly getting that fastball up a little bit more. It's a lot easier to throw in warmer weather. And then today, Adam Mazda, he started off good. He had one inning early where he gave up three, but then the next inning he came right back and just shut him down. So I think with a little bit more experience, all these guys are going to start, really.
This is almost an entire new team. There's not a lot of people that came back. Some people going professional, some people transferring out, like Colby Shelton transferred to Florida. There are a couple of guys are still here, like Will Hodo, will Portier.
Anyway, probably messing up his last name right now. But anyway, you had a couple of guys that came back, but Porterra, Will Portera. And then you have other guys in the pitching staff that's still here. But when we're getting the starting announcements, I'm like, who are these people? These are not guys that were here. A bunch of transfers, obviously, top ten transfer portal class. So obviously they've had practice. They had the false scrimmages and stuff. But this is the first time they're getting actual season games with each other. Still kind of learning how to play off each other. So I think for me, I'm saying that I need to see them against some teams. I think they need to see themselves against some better competition too, to kind of see what they're going to do.
[01:00:49] Speaker B: We also had softball getting started up last week on the eigth in Atlanta, Georgia. They go four and o at the Buzz classic. Five and, sorry, 123-1234 yeah, five and took me a second. And then first games at home this past or this week played St. Thomas in Virginia and southern Indiana. And they won all of those games.
[01:01:20] Speaker C: It's OD how they play five games amongst three teams.
[01:01:24] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a little strange. That's what threw me off the most.
[01:01:27] Speaker A: I was like basically the same thing they did last week. Did y'all watch any of this stuff last week? Did y'all see what happened last week.
[01:01:34] Speaker C: In Atlanta with a triple play? Whatever that.
[01:01:37] Speaker A: I was watching it on the bus ride home. So they're playing Georgia Tech.
They're up five nothing.
So Caleb Beaver, who we had talked about was named to that top watch list, that top 50 player watch list for player of the year, had the no hitter in the opening game of the season, had went into the 6th against Georgia Tech in the last game last week after they'd already started off four. No, basically they're up five nothing. Getting to the 7th inning. That's the first time she starts having like real struggles with the team. I think a couple of walks, singles and stuff. And then they get bases loaded. It's five nothing. It looks like it's out. Robs the home run, throws it back to second for the double play. Looks like it goes to third for the triple play. They cut the broadcast off. I think the game's over. I see later that they reviewed the play, said, oh, it's just a double play. They tagged up at third and then they had to finish the broadcast like on the radio only because they had already cut off the television broadcast. Just really strange. Ended up winning that one five to one. And then this week another five and weekend. So was that really good?
[01:02:45] Speaker B: Couldn't ask for a better start.
[01:02:46] Speaker C: Yeah, exactly. Ten and again, kind of, I guess Georgia Tech maybe seemed like a good test for them, but I'm waiting to see a little more against some quality teams here before I'm going to jump on the national title train.
Yeah.
[01:03:06] Speaker B: So does anybody else have any other topics we got to touch on? Anything? Any shout outs here at the very end?
[01:03:14] Speaker C: Oh, man, I don't know.
[01:03:16] Speaker A: Gymnastics is back in, say gymnastics?
[01:03:20] Speaker C: I was going to say we could talk a little. We had Bama representation at the NBA all star weekend. Brandon Miller and the rising stars.
[01:03:27] Speaker A: Who's that?
[01:03:33] Speaker C: He played here for a little bit. I don't know if you remember.
I think he was 24.
[01:03:38] Speaker A: Everybody keeps showing that clip of the Hornets mascot when he got drafted where it just looks so disappointed and I'm like, look, I really like how he's played this year. Obviously he just got rookie of the month. I believe.
Obviously he got named two. With the little rising stars and everything.
Is there anybody that can get him out of Charlote?
[01:04:05] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, dude, he's got to get a bus, a train, a plane, anywhere.
[01:04:09] Speaker A: One.
[01:04:10] Speaker C: Get out of there.
[01:04:10] Speaker A: They didn't appreciate him when he was taken. I'm sure some people did. But when you have your mascot, when there's a little clip of the guy that is like representing your organization, just like, oh, we're so disappointed. So I would like to see him go to a better team. Don't know if that's going to happen. They'll probably try to keep him now. Especially, I mean, you spent your number two overall pick and now he's playing like a top pick anyway, so probably going to try to keep him. But I'm like, get him and Bryce, package deal out of Charlote. Just go somewhere else, man.
[01:04:42] Speaker C: Yeah, I don't really get that.
I guess in theory, the reason you were terrible for this long, and this is functional was to get Brandon Miller at number two, know Lamello ball and hope it works out. Now I will say, too, maybe we should shout out anytime Auburn. Alabama beats Auburn. I feel like it's worth talking about women's basketball. Did that today.
[01:05:03] Speaker A: Yeah. The two guys that covered women's basketball.
[01:05:06] Speaker B: Big comeback.
[01:05:08] Speaker C: Sarah Ashley Barker hit a thousand point club career points.
[01:05:11] Speaker A: Is that good?
[01:05:12] Speaker C: Yeah, that's pretty good. And I believe they have at South Carolina next.
[01:05:20] Speaker A: After the game today, I was planning on doing this anyway, but the baseball game ends wish it would ended a little bit sooner. If they didn't allow eight runs, it would have been.
So the game ends. There's like two minutes left in the women's basketball game. So I run over to catch the end of it and so I walked in. Alabama already had like a three, four point lead, hit a couple free throws at the end to seal the. Then, you know, Christy Curry gets on the microphone and she's know, thank you for coming out. She hands it to Sarah Ashley Barker and she's basically saying the same thing. But then she says, tune in to that South Carolina game because they're going to take down the number one team. And I'm like, I like the confidence, but you're also going on the road is tough. Hopefully South Carolina does not get that clip.
[01:06:14] Speaker B: No bulletin board.
[01:06:15] Speaker C: Last year they were competitive with South Carolina.
[01:06:18] Speaker B: They're very winnable.
[01:06:19] Speaker A: They played better against South Carolina than they did against LSU because LSU last year, they just came in dominating. I know this year in both games they've had halftime leads and then just haven't been able to hold on to it. That South Carolina game, you thought Alabama really had a chance going into midway through the second half, and hopefully I'll be rooting for them, obviously. But that's a very also tall task.
[01:06:44] Speaker C: The Chamaya mingo young revenge game coming back to Tuscaloosa.
Yeah, she scored her 14 points, six to 13 shooting. So she came in and did her thing.
[01:06:56] Speaker A: But how much eligibility does she have left? I think I mentioned this on before.
[01:07:00] Speaker C: I don't know eligibility anymore. So I stopped thinking.
[01:07:03] Speaker B: I mean, people can play college up on it.
[01:07:06] Speaker C: If they show up at a game, I'm like, oh, yeah, I guess they're pumped.
[01:07:08] Speaker A: But also, I guess he's eligible in most instances when we're talking about, and it might be different now because of all the realignment, but we've talked about people that transfer, and it's usually like, they'll be at Alabama and then they'll go to a different conference or a different level of competition.
But like Jemia Mingo Young started off at Mississippi State, transfers to Alabama, transfers to Auburn. I'm like, how many SEC teams are you going to hit?
[01:07:32] Speaker C: Yeah, next season she's transferring to Arkansas and then Texas, and then her career will be done.
[01:07:39] Speaker B: Journeyman.
So I think that's going to do it for us on the low tide here on 90.7. Thank you for tuning in. We'll be back same time next week on Sunday, so thank you. Have a good night.
[01:07:56] Speaker C: You close?
