Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: W VUA FM tuscaloosa.
[00:00:14] Speaker B: Little misfire at the beginning of the show, but welcome in, ladies and gentlemen, to the low tide here on 90.7, the Capstone nicholas, personally joined as always by Joe Schottz, Adam Ham. How are we doing?
[00:00:26] Speaker A: I'm doing great, yeah, doing pretty good.
[00:00:28] Speaker C: It was a good weekend for Alabama, so good weekend for me.
[00:00:33] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm the same way. Having a good time. We had the football victory over Tennessee and cigars were lit some a little prematurely, but we still came out with a win. And then if you are around the actual Tuscaloosa area, you know how late the people were partying. It was a good time today. Had a couple of sports aren't doing as well as we would hope, but overall good weekend.
[00:01:03] Speaker B: Yeah, pretty good weekend.
I will say it was kind of interesting. You could smell the smoke in the press box with a couple of minutes to go in the fourth and I was like, oh boy.
[00:01:14] Speaker A: Yeah, I saw people around me, they were like five minutes still in the game and they're already starting to line them up. And I'm just like, no, you got to wait. At least wait till a minute left.
14 point lead with a minute left is still not for sure a victory, but if you're going to light it early, at least wait till you're in the final countdown.
[00:01:35] Speaker B: True. So of course, Alabama on the third Saturday in October gets a 34 20 win over Tennessee. I wrote Arkansas on my paper. For some reason. I have no idea how that happened.
Brain fog.
[00:01:49] Speaker A: Maybe it's because you think Dan Enos is going to be coming back to Tuscaloosa as an analyst or something after he got fired today.
[00:01:56] Speaker B: For sure. Anyway, big win. If you're going to talk about the game, you got to talk about the second half.
[00:02:04] Speaker C: Yeah, well, let's not talk about the first half.
[00:02:06] Speaker B: Yeah, forget it, skip it, who cares? But I mean, what a second half?
What was your reaction when they come out in the second half? Immediately break off like a 30 yard run and then touchdown on the very next play?
[00:02:21] Speaker A: Well, for me, I am never comfortable in any football game, even against Middle Tennessee State. Like even when they have like 50 point lead, I'm just like, it's not enough. So they score right out of the two plays. I can't remember the exact yards, but two plays, touchdown, and then you're down 20 to 14 and I'm sitting there and I'm feeling a little better, but I'm still like, I don't know.
We talked about it last week, how I was saying the offense makes those big plays, but they couldn't sustain long drives and they still relied on the big play a little bit. But I think you started to see the offense kind of coming around to actually just being able to drive down the field. So it made me a little happier with my outlook towards the rest of the season.
[00:03:08] Speaker C: Yeah, I was kind of in the same with you, Adam. After that first drive, the two plays, obviously I was know they scored, made it a one possession game again, but the back of my mind, I was know kind of did against Texas, too. Like we even took the lead against Texas, but never really looked like we were going to actually win.
We weren't playing all that great. So I was kind of waiting to see a sustained offenses moving and the defense is actually stopping Tennessee. And luckily I think once it actually got to 24 to 20, I was a little more comfortable because even then I was like, okay, Tennessee just seems completely out of it and we might get into it. They had some questionable fourth down play calls and it was kind of weird what they were doing some of the time in the second half.
But yeah, it was a phenomenal second half. And Jalen Milrow played really well and they actually got a running game consistently going. So it was great to see.
[00:04:10] Speaker B: Yeah, one of the better second half that I can remember seeing from really any team. I'm not just talking Alabama, maybe I just haven't watched enough football, but phenomenal second half, they scored, what, 27 27 unanswered by Tennessee.
And immediately after that two play drive, then you have Chris Braswell managing to knock the ball out from Milton and just like that, another touchdown and Brian Denny came unglued. That's probably the loudest I've heard it all season. I don't know. What about you, Adam?
[00:04:45] Speaker A: I wasn't there for Arkansas. We got to remember that. But I feel like nothing that happened in Arkansas really made that place get to that loud. So we don't even have to worry about that one.
With the games we had, Texas was hard to was that was loud. It was a night game, obviously, late in the know when Alabama was losing, you're not really hearing the full crowd. You heard a bunch of, you know, that was probably the loudest I've heard. The opposing fan base in there and then, you know, it's pretty loud there. But there was something different about this one and maybe it was just they kept showing that little clip of Nick Saban from the show earlier this week where he's telling the fans to come out, create the own momentum for the team. And I think especially the students and even the rest of the fans just kind of you've been called upon by the legend to come out and help this team and I think they took it to heart. And we're down 20 to seven at halftime. You come out in the second half. If Alabama doesn't do anything, that place probably goes quiet. But you come out, you score like they did real quick.
All of a sudden it starts getting louder. Then the turnovers and starts getting louder. And by the time Alabama takes the lead and then it's a seven point lead, and then you have the fumble that gets picked up by Jihad Campbell, and he runs it in. That singular moment is probably the loudest I've ever heard. Brian denny stadium.
[00:06:23] Speaker C: Yeah, that's what I was thinking, too. When I was at the like, it seemed like the crowd was pretty loud, but that moment, that was probably the most pandemonium that I'd ever heard at the stadium. I mean, people were jumping and moving and people threw shirts off. It was wild.
[00:06:45] Speaker A: And then you have that, and then immediately after, they play Dixie Landali, and.
[00:06:49] Speaker B: That just perfect timing. I don't know who's up there playing the music, but that had to be so satisfying to just immediately be able to hit that right after.
[00:06:58] Speaker A: See, I was sitting next to Ashley Woods and Maxwell Donaldson, and we're talking about it, and they take the lead, and it's like, okay, there's too much time to play it now. They get the field goal to go up by seven, and it's like, maybe you play it now, and then they still don't play it, and then that play happens, like, okay, now you got the fans in the right mood right here. You play it. And that was then. You know, they had to get a little extra loud for that Tennessee part at the end right there.
[00:07:28] Speaker B: Yeah. Also, shout out to the intern running the Alabama football Twitter account that did the classic, like, just a bunch of random letters on the keyboard. The boomers. Didn't get that one, but that was.
[00:07:40] Speaker C: Click on the tweet and the reply is like, what's going on?
[00:07:42] Speaker B: They're like, what is this? No, nobody got it. But it was funny. It was funny. You got a bunch of people. It was good. So shout out.
I know we said we want to forget the first half, as I'm sure everybody wants to, but we got to talk about Mean. First off, the defense needs to be commended because there was a very real possibility that on three out of the first four drives, tennessee was going to score touchdowns. The fact that on the second drive, they punted, but on their third and fourth drives, the fact that they got limited to field goals, unreal job by the defense.
[00:08:18] Speaker A: Yeah. Saves the game, because then you have Alabama scores. They're down 13 nothing. They scored to make it 13 seven. They get the ball back. They have that chance to take the lead right there, or at least cut into a little bit more. They get the batted ball that's intercepted. Tennessee goes down and they score with I think it was 16 seconds left in the first half.
You hoped that they wouldn't score right there, but by them limiting them to field goals earlier, they get that touchdown right there. It's only 20 to seven, which 13 points. It's the biggest comeback Alabama has had since that 2018 national championship game against Georgia. So it's not insurmountable. But if it had been 27 to seven or 30 something to seven, then I don't think the offense comes out able to play like that in the second half.
[00:09:10] Speaker C: Yeah, no, I 100% agree with you to an extent. I think it probably messed with Tennessee a little bit, too, where they went into halftime and they controlled the game in the first half and they're looking at the scoreboard and it's like, okay, yeah, it's really only like 14 or 13 points.
Adam said it's not insurmountable. I think that kind of eats at you a little bit where we've complained about it a little bit. Alabama getting in the red zone and not finishing drives off with touchdowns. I'm sure Tennessee fans were thinking that a little bit in the back of their mind, like, okay, we left a lot of points on the board and Alabama takes advantage of it.
It's a bend, don't break defense, and they didn't break on many occasions.
Really, the only one I can truly think of would be, I guess, the two kind of the deep ball that Milton threw on the first drive and then that second half, or right before the second or right before halftime when Tennessee got the touchdown. But it was like a master class in that philosophy by the defense in the first half. And to be honest, they've been doing it all year. But to do it in this type of game where you need it and the offense is sputtering out of control in the first half, that really shows that the defense can get it done almost anytime, anywhere.
[00:10:43] Speaker A: And early in the know, it was very reminiscent of the game last year at Tennessee. This year, Tennessee's offense hasn't really been able to pass the ball that well. They've been focusing on the run. They come out this game, they start throwing it right off the bat.
[00:10:56] Speaker B: That first drive, I don't know who the play caller is for. Josh. Yeah, fantastic scripted first drive. A lot of this is something we complained last year about Bill O'Brien not doing, is running those short little screenplays of the outside, trying to get your receivers, use your athletes in different ways.
[00:11:20] Speaker A: Like what they were able to do, I think it was Jalen Hyatt, they constantly were able to get him guarded by a safety, which he was just able to beat all game long. And in the first half of this game, you had it again where he was getting squirrel. It's hilarious name, but they kept getting him matched up on a linebacker that he was just able to outrun. And I'm surprised that they were trying in the second half. I'm surprised that they weren't able to take advantage of that more than they did. But credit to the defense this year, they were able to make those adjustments after the first half. And terry on Arnold comes out after the game. That the reason he didn't play in the second half. He did not clear concussion protocol, so he was kind of getting beat. Obviously, he got hurt.
Hopefully with the by week, we'll have everybody healthy for that LSU game.
[00:12:15] Speaker C: Yeah. I think the second half switch, it was kind of unbelievable. I saw in the first half, Tennessee had 100 rushing yards to Alabama's 16, and then essentially in the second half, it just flipped. And I think that that was one of the big reasons that Alabama's defense was really able to kind of frustrate Joe Milton in a way.
To go from 100 rushing yards to Tennessee had 33 in the second half. Alabama essentially made it to where you don't have to worry about the running game at all in the second half. Joe Milton is going to have to win this game through the air. And it wasn't really his best game through the air, or it wasn't his best half, I should say through the second was, I think, just the ability to make Tennessee's offense very one dimensional when they really can't afford to be this year. Like last year, if you had told a Tennessee fan, well, we're going to make you throw the football, they would have been like, yeah, sure, okay, hendon Hooker is going to throw it 90 yards in the air, or whatever. Milton cannot clearly really can't do that, at least to the same effect. And I think for Alabama, we talked about kind of other teams looking at Jalen Milrow and saying force him to kind of throw the ball. Alabama kind of did it with Milton and it worked in that second half.
[00:13:42] Speaker A: Yeah. He ended up finished with 271 passing yards. Milton did, but I believe it was like 170.
[00:13:48] Speaker B: Those were just first half.
[00:13:50] Speaker C: Yeah. 175 at the end of the half. Yeah.
[00:13:51] Speaker B: Their offense was cooking.
And I know we question a lot of hypo's calls to go for it on fourth down, but at the end of the half, that decision to go for it on fourth down with like a free field goal, you're already ahead, I think it would have put them up. What was the score at that time?
[00:14:12] Speaker A: Well, it was 13, so it would have been 16 seven. If they kicked the field goal and.
[00:14:16] Speaker B: Make it that decision.
Incredible. I would not make that call.
And it changed the whole momentum of the game. You felt like Alabama was already you were already so far out of it. You felt like, oh, man, we're playing horrible. And then you felt really horrible going to the half, which just makes what happened in the second half for Tennessee on offense just mind boggling.
[00:14:42] Speaker C: Yeah. And you said it like, to go for it on fourth down in that situation, a really great call, and it clearly worked.
But I did want to say they had that one fourth down at like the 50 where they handed it off in a shotgun run and Alabama stopped it. I think it was probably the only play the Alabama defense would have really stopped in that situation, and I don't know why. Tennessee, you have a Joe Milton who's six five and like 250.
[00:15:13] Speaker B: Was that early in the game that was like in the second quarter when they went for it?
[00:15:18] Speaker C: No, I think it was the second half.
[00:15:21] Speaker A: I know the one that you're talking about in the first half where they went for it.
[00:15:25] Speaker B: Yeah, it was like on their own 34.
[00:15:27] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:15:30] Speaker A: When they go for it so many times on fourth down.
[00:15:32] Speaker C: Yeah, that is true. They weren't really punting a lot in those situations, but it just seemed like a really I don't know, I think Tennessee I don't know if a coach got a play sheet or what, but they made a lot of weird decisions and key moments in that second half.
This fourth down was one of them. And I don't know why you don't run Milton, who was a pretty effective runner early, but I'm glad they did it.
[00:16:04] Speaker A: Why do more team I know Alabama did it against Arkansas. Some people call it the tush push. Philadelphia people are now starting to call it the brotherly Shove. I don't understand when you have a quarterback that big, why you're not even going to try that on one of your fourth and ones?
[00:16:18] Speaker B: I mean, honestly. Okay, this could be a whole separate conversation, but the NFL has already been looking at that play for safety reasons. I don't know if it survives the season or through to next season. While you can use yeah, for sure, 100%. Especially when you have Milro who is built perfectly to run that play.
[00:16:41] Speaker A: I want to bring up a couple of things for the game. In this game this year, tennessee third down efficiency was eight of 18 and then fourth down efficiency of three. So they went for it three times, weren't able to get them. But Alabama five of 13 on third down. So still not like the best. But they weren't in third downs as many times. They were getting first downs early, which we had not seen most of this season. We're averaging, I think, a third and eight on every like, every game is basically third and long pretty much every time.
And then the biggest difference, obviously not allowing a team to score 52 points like they did last year, but that helps. Penalties 2022. Alabama, tennessee. Alabama had 17 penalties for 130 yards. Obviously, you have the call late in the game on the game ceiling interception where they throw the flag for pass interference. And then this year you have one penalty for five yards. Tennessee had eight for 55. I know some people are complaining about the disparity of penalties. Some people, yeah.
[00:17:56] Speaker B: I wonder who those people could be.
[00:17:57] Speaker A: I don't know. I just see people. They happen to have orange in their photos on X. Yeah, a lot of volunteer.
[00:18:06] Speaker C: And then a first.
[00:18:12] Speaker A: When the head coach, Josh Hypoll, goes into his press conference, he didn't want to get fined, but they ask him the question about it, and he literally just stood there for like, 13 seconds or whatever it was, didn't say anything.
[00:18:23] Speaker C: And then he starts tapping his desk. He's like, that's it.
[00:18:27] Speaker B: I mean, how many times this year have Alabama shot themselves in the foot with penalties? So how nice was it to watch Tennessee do the same thing late in the game when the crowd starts getting loud and they get like, I think two or three false start penalties, like in a row?
[00:18:46] Speaker A: It was great. I loved then.
[00:18:48] Speaker B: Felt like you were looking in a.
[00:18:51] Speaker A: You know, hopefully this is a sign of how Alabama is going to know in the rest of their games. This know, knock on wood, but every time we were scoring those touchdowns, I would get the early touchdown in the second half to Isaiah Bond and then on the one for Jihad Campbell when he picks it up, I'm constantly just looking at the field like, where's the flag? And this know it wasn't there. We didn't have to see another touchdown called back.
[00:19:18] Speaker C: Yeah, very true.
[00:19:19] Speaker B: Also, I just want to say I brought this up last week on our show. The whole thing about how they couldn't score early in the game, how the offense continues to come out slow, happened again.
[00:19:32] Speaker A: Who was closest?
[00:19:33] Speaker B: I got to know when oh, that's right.
[00:19:37] Speaker A: I know I said third quarter for our first touchdown, but I did say it was going to be to Jermaine Burton, so I got that part right.
[00:19:45] Speaker B: What did you say again? I have it here, but I didn't write names next to him.
[00:19:49] Speaker C: I said second quarter with, like, second.
[00:19:53] Speaker B: Quarter, eight minutes, something like that.
[00:19:55] Speaker A: I made a very specific that's pretty close.
[00:19:58] Speaker C: I made a very specific time for mine.
Yes.
[00:20:01] Speaker B: Did you have 435 yes in the first?
[00:20:04] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:20:04] Speaker B: Okay, never mind. You let's see when they I got.
[00:20:08] Speaker A: The scoring right here. So with seven minutes and 5 seconds left in the second quarter, alabama scored on the pass to Jermaine Burton.
[00:20:19] Speaker B: I had a second quarter, eight minutes left. So, hey, that's pretty close. I got that. And continued struggles of I still got.
[00:20:29] Speaker A: It to Burton, though. I'll give myself a little credit.
And offense didn't wake up until the second half.
[00:20:38] Speaker B: True.
[00:20:38] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:20:39] Speaker A: But no, hopefully they have two weeks now, get people healthy, get people rested, come up with some sort of plan to actually get your offense and the rest of the team, like the whole team, offense, defense, especially everybody playing for four quarters. We've seen them for second halves. We saw them for a first half against Arkansas.
LSU is going to be a big game. Obviously. It is every year the winner of that game is most likely going to win the west unless they just fall apart the last couple of weeks of the season.
And LSU's defense has played better the last couple of weeks against Auburn, which we know the struggles of the Auburn offense. And then they played army, but I believe they shut out.
[00:21:28] Speaker C: Yeah, it was like 63 to nothing.
[00:21:30] Speaker A: So their defense has been playing better, but when they played like Ole Miss they gave up 55. So this is your chance for the offense to really take over a game. So hopefully Alabama can just come out early, hopefully score early, not have to make us wait till the second quarter not happening and then consistently throughout the game.
[00:21:50] Speaker B: Actually I take that back. LC's defense is historically terrible.
We'll see it'll be Battle of Mid Alabama in the first quarter versus LSU's.
[00:22:03] Speaker A: Defense but the matchup. So obviously you have the LSU defense and Alabama offense, which has not been that great this year. But then you have LSU's offense against Alabama's defense, which could be two of the best in the SEC. And that's going to be fun to watch.
[00:22:17] Speaker B: Very true. Well, I'm glad that we have a by week next week because we've got so much to talk about. When we come back from break here on 90.7, we're going to talk a little bit about the national picture, the AP poll touch on a little bit. And we've got so much Alabama athletic stuff to get to, including the results of Alabama's secret scrimmage with TCU. We'll have that when we come back here on 90.7. The Capstone.
[00:22:57] Speaker A: W V UA FM Tuscaloosa.
[00:23:11] Speaker B: Welcome back in, ladies and gentlemen. Here to the low tide on 90.7, the Capstone. Nick Adam Joe talking Alabama football. More in the national picture this time. Alabama finally back inside the top ten in the AP Poll. They move up to 9th with a couple of big losses.
Do we feel like Alabama being at nine is probably the right place?
[00:23:38] Speaker C: Yeah, I do. I mean, like, obviously it's a little different because you, like, UNC North Carolina, who lost in probably one of the most shocking upsets maybe ever to Virginia. Like a bad I was I will say I was a little surprised that they put Alabama above Penn State because I didn't know how much losing at Ohio State would really damper on. But they moved up two spots.
Obviously there weren't a whole lot of losses ahead of them. There weren't many teams that lost that are still ahead of them this week.
I don't think actually there's any it's not surprising.
[00:24:34] Speaker A: Yeah, if you just look at those teams directly had Oregon one loss, that was to Washington, real close game, they missed that field goal, that would have tied it. Washington's ranked fifth, Texas one loss, but they beat Alabama in Bryant Denny. And their only losses to Oklahoma who's currently sitting at 6th florida State struggled, really until that fourth quarter and then they kind of pulled know.
[00:24:59] Speaker B: But that's been their thing all year. They've struggled to beat a lot of teams that they should beat now. Duke good football program. Now these past two seasons, they've really come alive. I don't know what got into them.
Still another close contest against Florida State. I thought they were going to take it there for a think. I believe they went into the half up a touchdown, I think, or maybe fuchel. I don't know the exact details. I was kind of jumping back and forth between that and Ohio State.
Speaking of Penn State, just see, I don't really think Ohio State is that good. And I thought Penn State was a lot better than they were. Penn State did not look very good in that game.
[00:25:49] Speaker C: No.
Drew aller the quarterback had maybe one of the worst stat lines I've seen in like a big time game. 18 for 42.
[00:26:02] Speaker A: And Penn State still struggles with Ohio State. They haven't not beaten Ohio State since 2016 when they blocked the field goal and ran it back for the touchdown.
[00:26:10] Speaker C: I think James Franklin's like one in 14 against top five teams.
[00:26:15] Speaker A: And then they still have that game against Michigan, which maybe but probably not. We'll see. Does Michigan have a coaching staff by that point? We'll have to wait.
[00:26:26] Speaker B: Is Michigan going to play the postseason.
[00:26:29] Speaker A: By that know this this week Michigan State even thought about canceling the game. Like just not playing them. They decided to go ahead and do it.
[00:26:37] Speaker C: But it's like, well, I think they said that. I don't think they were going to cancel, but yeah, just the fact that.
[00:26:45] Speaker A: They were thinking, yeah, but obviously the postseason thing. But does anybody just go, oh, we're not going to play even still inside?
[00:26:52] Speaker B: Is that the real power move if you're just cancel the game?
[00:26:57] Speaker C: Imagine though, canceling that game because Michigan it's not like it was close. 49 to nothing for Michigan, but it.
[00:27:05] Speaker A: Would have been closer if they weren't still inside.
[00:27:07] Speaker C: Exactly.
[00:27:07] Speaker B: I saw a tweet that said, this is going to be one of the greatest vacated wins, vacated butt kicking of all time.
[00:27:15] Speaker C: Yeah. It would be kind of funny though. Like you pack out your stadium, big rivalry game and then like three days before the game, michigan State was like, we're not going to play you.
[00:27:23] Speaker B: Yeah. Like, okay, so they've still got Penn State. They've still got Ohio State on the schedule.
[00:27:29] Speaker A: What if Ohio State's well, also, Maryland's no slouch this year either. So they still have Maryland right there. Maybe you can have some tongue of.
[00:27:36] Speaker C: Iloa magic Talia will bring yeah, we'll help Alabama's playoff case by knocking off Ohio State.
[00:27:43] Speaker A: He is a plant.
[00:27:45] Speaker C: Nick Saban knew all those years ago.
[00:27:48] Speaker B: See, you thought stealing signs was a big know.
[00:27:50] Speaker C: Yeah, Nick Saban's planting play transfers around.
[00:27:53] Speaker A: The also around the conference since we're talking about these, like we'll see what happens with Michigan, Michigan, Ohio State still have to play each other. The big issue with that one is if they both, if Ohio State beats Michigan or Michigan beats Ohio State and they finish undefeated, that one lost team still sitting there doesn't have to play in that Big Ten championship game. So that could be a team that takes up a playoff spot depending on how the rest of the season works out. And we were talking about Florida State having their struggles. They were down 20 to 17 at the half. They end up winning that game 38 20. They have their rest of their schedule.
So they're at Wake Forest and they're at Pittsburgh. Now.
Both those teams aren't necessarily that good. You don't expect that upset, but that's why it's called an upset. And both of them on the road, that's their next two games on the road at Wake Forest, at Pittsburgh, they get Miami at home, then they have the November Cupcake that everybody likes to have of North Alabama. Alabama will have Chattanooga right before the Iron Bowl. They get north Alabama and then at Florida. So there are some possibilities of slip up right there.
[00:29:03] Speaker C: Yeah, some of the teams ahead of Alabama didn't I mean, Washington looked awful.
[00:29:09] Speaker A: They won 15 to seven and they.
[00:29:11] Speaker C: Did twelve fourth quarter points. The only touchdown they scored was on a pick six. So their offense was not moving the ball. Oklahoma struggled against UCF, actually in the opposite way, like they struggled to stop UCF.
Even Texas struggled against Houston.
It seems like anyone's ball game, but.
[00:29:32] Speaker A: A big thing about those other ones. So I was talking about how the Big Ten, Michigan, Ohio State are only going to have to play once.
These other conferences like Washington might have to play Oregon again. I mean, depending on how the season works out, utah is looking good, they're coming back up there. USC probably not going to get in that conversation. Know, something crazy happens. Texas might have to play Oklahoma again and Oklahoma could lose to Texas. Texas could have a second loss that would, might look worse on Alabama for them having two losses, but also better because you could jump ahead of them. Then you have the ACC could have teams that are like North Carolina has one loss now, Florida State is undefeated. That could work out itself and Air.
[00:30:15] Speaker C: Force Seven and could very well run the table.
[00:30:20] Speaker A: We'll see about Air Force.
James Madison, also undefeated. I think they're coming in at 20.
They cannot go to them. And Jacksonville State just became bowl eligible. Yeah, neither one of them are able for three years because James Madison, their first year in the FBS was last year, jacksonville State was this year. Jacksonville State just won their 6th game. James Madison, undefeated, just got into the top 25. Neither one, unless they get a waiver, which. James Madison's waiver appeal was already denied by the NCAA.
They could have so many teams with seven losses that they do get in, like, just because but what a bunch of people are saying and this is something Alabama actually did in the it was like early two thousand s like two thousand and two, two thousand and three. I believe one of those years might have been both, but they were ineligible to go to a bowl game, so they scheduled a game in Hawaii against Hawai, and that was their extra game. Now people are saying that James Madison and Jacksonville State, if they can't go to a bowl game, they just schedule that game. That last week of the regular season. So it's not a bowl game, but they still get to play each other.
[00:31:34] Speaker B: The boycott bowl.
[00:31:35] Speaker A: That would be amazing.
[00:31:35] Speaker C: Well, it can't be a bowl.
[00:31:37] Speaker B: Yeah, well, they're boycotting the bowl, so they can call it the boycott.
[00:31:42] Speaker A: It'll be like when we did the live not really broadcast because we couldn't really say play by play of what was happening when we did our Super Bowl, where we weren't allowed to call it the Super Bowl.
[00:31:56] Speaker C: The big game on Sunday. You mean in February? Yeah, that one the only game today. Yeah, the big football game.
[00:32:03] Speaker A: The two teams fighting for the.
[00:32:08] Speaker C: No, they should, they should schedule that, especially.
[00:32:10] Speaker B: Because and then the winner would be the real national mean.
[00:32:14] Speaker C: Oh, God.
[00:32:14] Speaker A: Well, if James Madison ends up going undefeated, UCF all over again claim the national I looked at their schedule.
They should be able to win out. They do not have a tough schedule. They have Yukon, they have Appalachian State, they have Coastal Carolina, which are decent teams, but it's not like they have a late season matchup with Ohio State that they'd have to worry about.
[00:32:37] Speaker C: Yeah, no, that's true. That would be they should they should play each other and whatever they call it. And then they did it. It's a COVID year, if you remember, against BYU. And I think Coastal Carolina scheduled a game like four days in advance. So it's like you can do it. It seems pretty clear you can just do with that. So why not?
[00:32:59] Speaker B: Hey, guys, we're coming down. You just want to play.
[00:33:02] Speaker C: Yeah. And it's like, see BYU, coastal Carolina, other end of the country, jacksonville state. James Madison is James Madison.
[00:33:11] Speaker A: It's close.
[00:33:11] Speaker C: Virginia and Alabama, one of them can go down there pretty easily. Or you can find like a meeting point.
[00:33:19] Speaker A: I would say just go to Hawaii just because but that's just me.
[00:33:22] Speaker B: All right. Anyway, before this goes completely off the rails, I would say that the two biggest roadblocks there's really, like, three major roadblocks for me in Alabama's. Path of getting to the playoff. It's going to be Michigan and Ohio State. Whoever comes out of the Big Ten. And the fact that one of them could have one loss.
[00:33:45] Speaker A: Or you might get both somehow.
[00:33:47] Speaker B: Or both of them could have one loss, honestly. Okay, hot take. With all the things that have been coming out about Michigan, a one loss Michigan might get left out by the committee.
[00:33:57] Speaker C: Yeah. Especially if they don't even well, I don't think if they get to the big Ten championship, they're probably not going.
[00:34:03] Speaker A: To lose to Iowa or whatever, I don't know.
[00:34:06] Speaker C: But if they don't get to that Big Ten championship game because we've seen it before, like teams that haven't made the conference championship game and it's essentially a by week for them have actually, in a couple of cases gotten hurt because of it. Because I don't know if it's like the committee watching or something, but you see some of these teams again play and Michigan might not be playing that week. So if you're like an eleven and one Michigan, and then let's say heck for this argument, alabama wins the SEC championship against Georgia.
You're watching one team. Yeah. Knock on wood. Like break the wooden table, knock. That's how hard you got to knock.
Like you watched Alabama beat Georgia, who has been number one all year and then Michigan, no one talked about that know, I'm just saying it's happened.
[00:35:00] Speaker A: I will know if Alabama were to go to the SEC championship and beat Georgia, the immediate response is not going to be alabama knocked off the number one team. It's going to be, well, Georgia wasn't really that good.
[00:35:14] Speaker C: That's true, too.
[00:35:15] Speaker A: They didn't play anybody.
[00:35:15] Speaker C: All that could be very true.
[00:35:17] Speaker B: Yeah. But then we're going to sit here and act like they would leave Georgia. So does a one loss Georgia that didn't win the SEC championship get left out?
[00:35:24] Speaker A: I think this year they do, yeah. Also depends on how everything else works out.
[00:35:28] Speaker B: How bad do they have to lose to Alabama to get left?
[00:35:30] Speaker A: I think if they lost it's at.
[00:35:32] Speaker B: The last if they lose on a field goal, are you leaving them out?
[00:35:35] Speaker C: See, that's the problem though, is that you're going to because it's going to come down to that georgia versus you're probably going to say the Alabama team that just beat them, perhaps an undefeated Ohio State or Michigan get a Florida state. Florida State, Washington, it depends on how everything works.
[00:35:52] Speaker B: Washington oregon can get seriously interesting if Oregon plays Washington again and they win by a field goal.
I'm talking super competitive games. Right. I think if Oregon was to blow out Washington, not a question because it's that later in the season game, another.
[00:36:12] Speaker A: Thing that they will have to look.
[00:36:13] Speaker B: At I meant for Washington.
[00:36:18] Speaker A: The more.
[00:36:19] Speaker B: Recent game matter now with Alabama, georgia.
[00:36:22] Speaker A: Specifically, do we know if Brock Bowers is going to come back?
[00:36:27] Speaker C: I think they said because he had.
[00:36:30] Speaker B: The surgery, you know, it's an interesting surgery because I think Tua came back in like a month.
[00:36:34] Speaker A: If it's from that same one yeah, he got it right after the SEC championship game that he got hurt in and he was back for that playoff game against Oklahoma. Now, if it's a close game, you might put Georgia back in there, but then they will have to have the conversation. If Brock Bowers is not playing, do we put them in without their best player? That's going to be a conversation. But if it's like the 2021 year now, Alabama's offense hasn't looked that good, but Alabama won by 20 plus. If that were to happen this year, I think they just leave Georgia at.
[00:37:03] Speaker C: Let me throw this out on the table. Say I don't think this is going to happen, but say Georgia loses to Missouri and Alabama plays Missouri for the SEC.
[00:37:11] Speaker A: It is very possible.
[00:37:13] Speaker C: And that could actually no, no, but what I'm saying is say Alabama plays Missouri in the SEC championship game, say they beat them.
Does that even have as much value to the committee because you'd have a one loss SEC champ, but Alabama didn't play Georgia. They probably played a Missouri team that is ranked behind them at the time, still ranked behind.
[00:37:42] Speaker B: Think, okay, as much as I love this argument, you're not leaving the SEC champion out of a especially yeah, like.
[00:37:49] Speaker C: One loss SEC champ gets in.
[00:37:51] Speaker B: Maybe if it's Missouri.
[00:37:52] Speaker C: But what I'm saying is that if.
[00:37:54] Speaker A: You have three undefeateds but then it comes down between a one loss Alabama champion or a one loss Texas champion, it's hard.
[00:38:06] Speaker B: But we've seen in the past that the committee, when it comes to teams that played each other more than once, they've shown a tendency to not really care as much about a really early, you know, that's the good thing is that you played Texas, but it was, what, week two.
[00:38:23] Speaker A: It's really going to be how the committee thinks they're playing.
[00:38:26] Speaker B: There's not a person on the planet who would argue that Milro Alabama as a whole look anywhere near that team that's played against.
[00:38:38] Speaker A: Be very interesting. If it comes down to recent performance, then it's really going to be who looked better in that championship game that they just said, we'll see. We'll see what happens. Now, I've just been thinking about when you were talking about maybe Missouri gets in, which I hadn't really been thinking about because nobody really thinks about Missouri. But they are still they have one.
[00:38:58] Speaker C: Loss, I think seven and.
[00:39:03] Speaker B: One.
[00:39:03] Speaker A: So if they were to beat Georgia and then go to the SEC championship game, and then obviously we would expect Alabama to win that game. It's out of I mean, they could, it could happen.
[00:39:15] Speaker C: I mean, seven, they're not bad.
[00:39:17] Speaker A: But the thing is, if Georgia doesn't play in the SEC championship, that might actually work out better for them.
[00:39:26] Speaker C: It could, I mean, you could kind of see like, teams knock each other out and Georgia it would be like.
[00:39:33] Speaker A: The 2017 year Alabama did not play. And they lost right before and they were still able to get in because they've been number one all year.
[00:39:40] Speaker C: But Auburn didn't know when to lose. We're smarter.
[00:39:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:39:45] Speaker B: Somebody we're not talking about. Also like Pac twelve, right?
[00:39:49] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:39:50] Speaker B: Everybody forgot about Utah.
[00:39:52] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:39:52] Speaker B: They're still going to play Oregon. That would be they're going to play.
[00:39:55] Speaker A: Washington if Utah just goes and runs the table the rest of the year. Basically the Pac Twelve just eliminates themselves from the playoff.
[00:40:04] Speaker B: But also, interesting note, even if so, let's say Utah beats Oregon. They beat Washington, guess who they get in the last week?
[00:40:12] Speaker A: I don't have the schedule.
[00:40:13] Speaker B: Dion primetime. Then Colorado comes just they jump them. The media just throws Colorado into the playoff. They get a buy.
[00:40:25] Speaker C: Exactly.
[00:40:25] Speaker B: Straight to the national.
[00:40:26] Speaker C: Three loss. Three loss. Yeah.
[00:40:29] Speaker B: All right, whatever. We've gone completely off the rails. When we come back here on 90.7 and the low tide, we're going to talk about that TCU Alabama secret scrimmage. Spooky Halloween super secret. I know, right? Yeah, totally. Not like there was a box score posted on Twitter about five minutes after it happened. Anyway, we'll be back here on 90.7. We're going overtime today because we've just got so much to talk about in Alabama athletics as a whole. Just a tongue twister. Truly, this is why it's good to have the boss one of those days. We got a by week coming up, so this is we're throwing it all out there. This truly, I need the rest just as much as I'm sure the rest of Alabama football does.
Anyway, like we discussed, the super secret scrimmage, that was not a secret at all. Everyone knew about and I saw a box score on Twitter, five minutes.
[00:41:57] Speaker C: Alabama had a basketball game.
[00:41:59] Speaker B: Yeah, they did have a basketball game. There's something other than football happening.
[00:42:03] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:42:04] Speaker B: Which you might not have gotten from the first.
[00:42:05] Speaker C: It was secret.
[00:42:06] Speaker B: 40 minutes of the show.
It was secret, but we're talking it now. So TCU beat Alabama again, like last year, but it was not a massive blowout. I don't think there's going to be a players only meeting after this game. TCU beats Alabama 85 81. Alabama freshman Sam Walter, 29 points.
[00:42:27] Speaker A: I think he was seven of twelve from three.
Come on.
[00:42:32] Speaker B: Grant Nelson, 13 points, nine boards. Aaron Estrada puts up 19.
A lot of people not playing.
[00:42:39] Speaker A: Yeah, Mark Sears didn't play.
He was a big part of that team last year. So hopefully it's just they're wanting to save everything for the regular season and it's not like an injury that could keep them.
[00:42:52] Speaker B: Gotta you gotta hope that there's nothing going on there. But this Alabama basketball team is so young and there's so many new faces, but I think they're gonna be very fun to watch. I think so. And they got first off okay, media poll comes out at SEC basketball Tip off. They're projected to finish fifth by the media. Now, they were also projected to finish fifth last year. We saw how that went. Good call, guys.
[00:43:22] Speaker A: And the 2021 year.
Anyway, both years that Alabama won the SEC regular season and the SEC tournament, they were picked to finish pits.
[00:43:36] Speaker B: Yeah. So also preseason poll for basketball came out. AP poll. Alabama, number 24, down a lot from last year, but still a good spot for a very young team that really only has Sears. I mean, Ryland Griffin, if you can consider him a veteran.
[00:43:55] Speaker A: Yeah, when your vets are I mean, Sears, you know, he transferred from Ohio, so he's got college basketball experience only one year at Alabama. When most of your veterans on the team are just people in their second year in the program.
It's tough. I mean, you also lost Brandon Miller, who was number two pick in the draft.
You had other players that left. Charles medelle. He goes to the nets. So you have all those big parts leaving and then the entire assistant coaching staff. So like all of the main assistant coaches got head coaching jobs. So I think that's a big reason for them being that low is just because you have the unknown of is the team going to be as successful without those assistant.
[00:44:43] Speaker B: I mean, Alabama, okay, sorry, alabama coaching you truly, I mean, this is like the hotspot any sport. Come here, be an assistant, get a free head coaching job.
[00:44:54] Speaker C: I was going to say Nadotes is training his coaching staff into what like Nick Saban has, where he loses one guy a year that becomes like a head coach somewhere else.
But yeah, no, I was just going to say that it was pretty interesting just how many new guys and obviously they're new and there isn't a whole lot of guys that have played. But when transferring from different schools, like grant nelson coming from north dakota state and estrada who came from hofstra, I believe you're going into new systems, too. And I would imagine that some of these guys, like Mark Sears, probably didn't have to play this scrimmage because he actually knew the offense pretty well and some of these guys don't. And it might take them a while to get going, which is why I think that 24 ranking is actually pretty good. I didn't actually think they would have gotten ranked because Alabama going into this season lost a lot of hype. They didn't have the one like last year. It was okay. Brandon Miller's here, he's one of the best, probably, I don't know, statistically one of, if not the best recruit Alabama has ever gotten in mean. So the hype's there. And I think that's one of the reasons why Alabama doesn't have one of these very early.
Well, I don't know if that's a reason, but it's one of the good things about why Alabama doesn't have one of these really early, like Gonzaga or Purdue game. They have a couple weeks or a couple games before they really get to a tough game that is going to really test them because it's going to take them a while to learn.
[00:46:33] Speaker A: But also these other games on the schedule that obviously you have the big games where it's like Purdue and you're playing in Canada, they got the game in Arizona, neutral site, but still right down the road. And these other games, it's not all of them, but a bunch of these other schools that they'll be playing are predicted to win their conference. So it's not like they're know these are teams that are probably going to be in the mix for getting into the NCA tournament. So even these schools that you may like, if you're not in the know, you might not have heard about them, but they're still going to know. Good.
[00:47:13] Speaker C: Morehead State is who they open their season against, who I believe was in the tournament. I don't know if it was last year, but they've been in the tournament a fair amount for I think they.
[00:47:22] Speaker B: Were in the tournament last year.
[00:47:23] Speaker C: I want to say they were, but they're in the tournament. South Alabama is a pretty good team because they get a lot of SEC transfers that don't play, a whole lot to go to that school and they give Alabama a tough run for the past two years. It's never been a pretty yeah, Indiana State's good. I mean, obviously Larry Bird isn't quite there anymore, but great team.
[00:47:50] Speaker B: I think it's been a little yeah.
[00:47:52] Speaker C: Yeah, he left a couple years.
[00:47:55] Speaker A: Heard so and here's also okay, just.
[00:47:57] Speaker B: Just as an aside, I know we don't want to talk football anymore, but imagine if we got the kind of football scheduling just for everybody. So say we had the football Premier League, we got Alabama scheduling all these great opponents throughout the year. Imagine if we got that for football.
[00:48:15] Speaker C: Yeah, I have a feeling. I do wonder with the twelve team playoff, again, not to harp on football too much, if that's going to grow a little more because you can kind of afford to take a loss and if you win it, that's such a big resume booster to get up in the polls.
[00:48:30] Speaker A: I think the twelve team is going to be kind of the because when you're adding now teams, if they play that first week, it's going to be three more games. If they go all the way to the championship, I think at some point then it is going to raise the question of safety.
[00:48:43] Speaker B: We'll debate that next week.
[00:48:44] Speaker A: But anyway, back to basketball with the other teams, not like the ones that I was talking about to where they're predicted to finish, but this is the top 25 on the schedule or received votes. I have the list here. So Alabama plays Florida twice who received votes being the top 25. They have Missouri receiving votes, mississippi state twice who receive votes, obviously, Auburn twice who received votes. Then they have number 16, Kentucky. Number 15 texas A and M. Number 14 arkansas. Number twelve arizona. Number nine, Tennessee twice. And then big Alabama rivalry with number eight, Creighton, and then number three, Purdue, that one's in Canada. Wish we could have had Charles Betiaco from that one. Know it's from the same area, but very tough schedule you have that. You have the other schools that aren't ranked, but they're going to be great in their conference.
It's a tough schedule, but this is what NATO has done since he's got here. He schedules these tough games, so then once they get later in the season, they're used to that level of competition.
[00:49:53] Speaker C: Yeah, and I mean, just to look at it real know, Ryan Griffin had two points, Latrell Wrightsell had zero points. So you have two players combined and Riley Griffin is kind of going to be a pretty big part, I think, of this team.
You have them combined for two points, Mark Sears didn't play and you lose by four.
I think a pretty good TCU team.
It's nothing to really be worried about. The fact that Alabama lost.
Well, first off, it's a scrimmage, like, who cares? But Alabama, you're not going to get that from those two players all that often.
[00:50:32] Speaker A: And last year they had another one of these secret scrimmages with TCU. That time it was in Texas and it wasn't even close. It was a blowout loss for Alabama. And then you see, they got in the season, ended up getting ranked number one for a while. They got the number one, number one seed going into the NCA tournament and then they know, obviously, players who were drafted in the first round, one being number two overall. So we don't know if the team is going to be as good, but loss in scrimmage, four points, like you were saying, doesn't really matter.
[00:51:12] Speaker C: Yeah, and it is kind of interesting. Walters I have found a Pox score on Twitter. He was seven to twelve from three. There was only one other guy that made a three pointer. Jaron Stevenson was one for two from three. Alabama was eight for 25 from three points.
[00:51:30] Speaker A: And that will change when Mark Sears is in.
[00:51:32] Speaker C: That will definitely change when Mark Sears is in. And you probably won't get that shooting level again for a little bit, at least.
[00:51:42] Speaker B: Watch this space, though. Could be an interesting development because you said only one player knocking down, or sorry, two players knocking down any threes.
[00:51:51] Speaker C: There was only one three outside of Sam Walton.
[00:51:53] Speaker B: Mark Sears is going to help there, but might be something to watch as a season.
[00:51:58] Speaker A: And then the Grant Nelson almost getting a double double in his first scrimmage, if he can be doing that consistently, that's going to be huge for sure.
[00:52:08] Speaker B: So let's touch on some other stuff. What else do we want to touch on.
[00:52:12] Speaker A: Well, I will give the update on Alabama soccer. They are currently playing Mississippi State. They are down two to nothing. They only have one more regular season game. It's on the road against Missouri. Then they have the SEC tournament which will be down in Pensacola. Right now, the committee for soccer, who's going to be making the selections and stuff for them, that one will be after the SEC tournament. They're going to pick whoever makes it. Right now they have Alabama as the twelve seed. So if that holds, Alabama would still host a couple of postseason games. So if that happens, get out there, support the team and I will see if we have any more updates on this game. It should be wrapping up soon.
Yeah, there is 20 seconds left. Mississippi State still has a two nothing lead. So this will end the Alabama unbeaten streak at home. That was at 28 games.
[00:53:19] Speaker C: Yeah, I'll go onto a different type of field. Softball had a couple of games over the weekend. They played two double headers, finished four and o. They played Jones College on Friday and a doubleheader on Friday evening into night, and then Chipola College today at 01:00 P.m. Was the doubleheader. Alabama was four and on all four of those games, first off, Jones College on Friday, they won nine to two the first game and twelve to one in the second game.
Jacelyn brisky started the game. She allowed and started the first game, I should say allowed a two run home run, but then struck out seven of eight in three innings.
Kenley Callahan had triple and drove in a run that way, a couple of walks.
Kendall Clark was four for four in the second game with two run home runs. So the offense really coming to light in that one. And then earlier today in that Chipotle College doubleheader, they won nine to nothing in the first game, eleven to one in the second game, and they haven't allowed more than two runs in any of these fallball games.
Lauren Esman and Jason Bricks combined seven shutout innings in game one. Six strikeouts, just three hits allowed. Marley Giles was three for four with three every eyes in game two. And yeah, just overall it was a pretty dominant performance. I mean, obviously these are teams Alabama expects to dominate kind of to end this fallball stretch, but still just like a pretty dominant display. It's good to beat these teams, especially the way that they're doing them. It's eleven to one, nine to nothing. So obviously the competition will get better, but still a good weekend for softball.
[00:55:24] Speaker B: Yeah. So I'll give some quick golf updates because I'm like the golf guy league in the room.
Anyway, JP. Cave got his first collegiate win at the Martin Fed invite.
I think Alabama sent a couple of the individual players to go play in this tournament.
So congratulations to him getting his first collegiate win.
And also Nick Dunlap was a part of Team USA at the World Amateur Team Championship.
Think he had a I'll see exactly what he shot in the final round. Let's see, he finished in the top five to help the US. Bring home the Eisenhower Trophy for the first time since 2014. So big win for him, couldn't watch it anywhere. But they won by eleven shots. So largest margin victory since 2016. So USA. USA.
[00:56:36] Speaker A: And I have a couple of things. So first one, I went to the swimming and diving competition on Friday.
[00:56:44] Speaker C: Oh yes, you were in there.
[00:56:45] Speaker A: I was in there.
I had to make them my post. But yeah, that was the SEC opener.
Men's team is ranked number 19, women number 20, and they both won against Missouri SEC opener. The men won with a score of 180 to 118. The women won 212 to 88 and the women's program won 13 of the 16 events, men winning twelve and completely dominating performance. It was great to be in there. I will say it was hilarious. They started playing Mr. Brightside in there and the Missouri swimming and diving team Missouri on the outskirts of the SEC. They still hold their big twelve rivalries in high regard, their biggest one being Kansas and they have a chant in there where it's an expletive towards Kansas. I thought that was hilarious how you're in Alabama and you still had to get it out there. Anyway, also, I made a comment last show about the cross country team after they had won and I was saying how hopefully they could start getting team championships and cross country and track and field. They go hand in hand. I had forgot. I remembered right after the show we couldn't come back on the air. But the cross country team, men's and women's did win the SEC Championship last year. Both of them did do that. Now, I already apologize to a couple people I know on the team for my mistake on air, but I just wanted to make that clear that I do know some stuff about sports. That's why here.
But when we get to track and field, the last time that Alabama has won any team championship was indoor track and field, 2018. The Alabama men won that one and since then it's been Florida in 2019 and every year since then it's been Arkansas. And then Arkansas women have won indoor for at least like the last ten and then outdoor, it's been a while for Alabama and Arkansas both. They swept men's and women's outdoor last year as well. So hopefully Alabama keeps the success with the cross country, hopefully winning another championship and then maybe that'll go into indoor.
[00:59:26] Speaker C: And outdoor track and yeah, yeah, hopefully I'll give another quick little update.
Tennis, men's tennis was in the ita Southern Regionals this past week, which is in Auburn, and kind of the big highlight was Enzo.
I'm going to probably butcher this won the Ita Southern Regional singles title. Philippe, playing Insect, and Andre Zamach were both named doubles champions. This was Monday and Tuesday.
Won on Monday. And he gets to go now to the Ita National Fall Championships. Both him and the doubles team get to go to the Ita National Fall Championships on November 1 through the fifth in San Diego.
And, yeah, you can't really ask much more for better.
It was kind of a pretty interesting thing.
The number 60 Eigth ranked tennis player in the world, peter or Peter Yo Vanovich from Mississippi State in three sets. So just kind of like a pretty good week, obviously, for them. And they're not done with these Ita Championships. Like I said, they'll be in California in a couple of weeks.
[01:01:05] Speaker B: Yeah. So I think that's pretty much going to do it. Just give a quick update as we're going off there live on NBC Sunday Night Football. Philadelphia Eagles up ten to three.
Obviously 20 versus Jalen. Very exciting game.
Eagles finally scored in the red zone. I think they've been struggling.
[01:01:27] Speaker C: Was it a touch push?
[01:01:29] Speaker B: I don't know.
[01:01:29] Speaker A: It's the brotherly shoves. I told you about that.
[01:01:32] Speaker C: Oh, no, it was a receiving touchdown. Never mind.
[01:01:34] Speaker A: Anyway, you could also watch it on Peacock. I'll give them a shout.
[01:01:37] Speaker C: Yeah, they don't need us, the shout. They don't need our shout out.
[01:01:42] Speaker B: They need the low tide bump.
[01:01:44] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:01:44] Speaker B: Thank you.
[01:01:45] Speaker C: Yeah. Maybe this will propel them.
[01:01:46] Speaker A: We're kind of a big deal, guys.
[01:01:48] Speaker B: Okay. When are we getting a streaming deal?
[01:01:52] Speaker C: That's a good question. Would we take it or do we need to? One for the people.
[01:01:56] Speaker B: Honestly, it might just have to be a YouTube show. Keep it free for the people.
[01:02:00] Speaker C: Low tide on like Peacock or ESPN.
[01:02:03] Speaker A: Plus, if we can just get some kind of sponsorship, maybe.
FanDuel used to sponsor a show that recently left to be on ESPN.
Then there's Academy. They sponsor a show for some guy up in Nashville, so maybe they'll give us some love down Bass Pro Shop.
[01:02:27] Speaker C: Bass Pro Shop.
[01:02:28] Speaker B: Going for anything?
[01:02:29] Speaker C: Yeah, honestly, Staples, I mean, to be honest, if there's, like, a Jim's Tire Shop in Alabaster, we'll take it.
[01:02:36] Speaker A: Look, we need Tuscaloosa business legend Taco Casa to come sponsor the biggest cactus in town.
[01:02:43] Speaker B: Imagine a live show.
[01:02:46] Speaker C: We're here in the Taco Casa.
Come get your questions.
[01:02:51] Speaker A: I will do it. You all just tell me.
[01:02:53] Speaker C: Come get your questions in. Tell me what?
Oh, God.
[01:02:57] Speaker B: All right, we've got to cut this before it just completely goes off the rails. Anyway, it was fun. Another episode of the low tide down. We'll be back next week during the by week. I think we've got something special cooking in the lab. We're going to have to cook for that show. No football to rely on. Alabama football, at least. So, anyway, we'll be back same time here next week on The Low. Tide 90.7 the capstone. Thank you for listening, Ram.
