Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: WVUA FM, Tuscaloosa.
[00:00:14] Speaker B: Alabama football dominating. Somebody needs to pick up Jimbo's reboot card. Everything's happening.
[00:00:21] Speaker A: It was a big weekend in the SEC.
[00:00:23] Speaker B: Yes, it was.
[00:00:24] Speaker A: How good? I'm good. Just got back from Lexington actually, like maybe half hour ago. So still kind of buzing from the, you know, it was very hyped up. It was a lot of. Yeah, I think we were all there, weren't we, at Lexington?
[00:00:45] Speaker B: Right.
[00:00:46] Speaker C: Well, I was there.
I made the drive up there.
I actually got a hotel room this time and did not drive straight back right after through the night.
It helped that it was an 11:00 a.m.. Kickoff. I was just able to go find a hotel outside of Lexington and then drive back today. But yeah, it was a good time.
I will say Kroger Field is probably my least favorite SEC stadium I've been to so far.
But anytime you see Alabama win the way they did, it's a good gun.
[00:01:27] Speaker B: Yeah. So everybody's coming in hot, and nobody was hotter than the Crimson Tide on Saturday against Kentucky. They come out, they score on their first three possessions, go up 21 nothing.
Final score, 49 21 on the road, Jalen Milro, six touchdown, day three through the air, three on the ground.
[00:01:50] Speaker C: First Alabama quarterback to do that.
[00:01:53] Speaker B: Exactly.
It's just remarkable to me, and continuously week after week, I continue to just be amazed at how this guy has grown from that Texas game. And I mean, he might by the end of the season, let's say that they do something insane. They beat Georgia, whatever. This kid could play himself straight into the Heisman conversation if he hasn't already. His ODs are climbing week after week and I don't know what his ODs would have been after that Texas game, but imagine if you had picked him up that.
[00:02:23] Speaker C: Yeah. Have they released the new odds?
I know last week after LSU he was at seven. Yeah, I would assume he would have moved up after know he did have the one interception, but three touchdowns in the air, three touchdowns on the ground. You're going to move up a little bit. I would assume Jaden Daniels still playing well, he was back from his concussion that he suffered in the fourth quarter against Alabama. And then you still have the guys out West, Bo Nicks, Michael Pinix. They're going to make some noise for it, too. But if Jalen Millro doesn't have, we assume he's going to play well against Chattanooga. Auburn's going to be a little tough just with it being on the road. We know how Jordan Hare is and then the SEC championship game, George is going to be the best defense he's faced all year. So if he has games similar to this or at least doesn't turn the ball, know, scores some touchdowns, he could still not going to, say win it, but he could be a finalist.
[00:03:20] Speaker A: Yeah. I think the other thing, too with that is obviously he's playing really well, but the Heisman, for the most part, it's like very hype award. Who's got the most hype? And right now for Alabama, just the way that they keep winning, essentially through him, it's hard to find a game recently, probably really, since that Texas game that he's actually played poor in, and Alabama just keeps winning. And that's always kind of the best way to obviously win the Heisman is for the most part, you got to be on a good team. So for Alabama to kind of be where they are and for him, the idea of winning the Heisman, even like you said, nick, after week two and he got benched week, uh, it's quite remarkable.
[00:04:07] Speaker C: Yeah. If he had come back, like, if he had actually played in that South Florida game now, I know it was raining. I know we also had one of the linemen was out and the line just did not, they already weren't playing well. But then having one of the starters out, you could definitely see in that game just how bad the line was at that point of the season. So it really didn't help out the other quarterbacks in. But if he had come back after Texas, because that Texas game, he had the two interceptions and they were bad, but he had still had, he was around 50% completions. He was 14 to 27, but he still had 255 yards in the air, two touchdowns. The two interceptions were bad. But if he had come out and actually played against South Florida and put up, like, decent numbers, like how we're seeing right now, I don't really know how that game would have went. Nobody will because it didn't work out that way. But if he had went out against South Florida and it was like, okay, it's raining, we're not going to throw the ball, then Jalen Millro is just running all over him. I mean, it also could have played out exactly how it did and it could have just been a bad game. But if he had had another game to where he could know, helped his stat line a little, know, it might have been good for him. But obviously, if I have to take him sitting out that game for Alabama to be playing how they are now.
[00:05:23] Speaker B: I'll take it and I think that him being benched for that game really is like an integral part of the story. Right. I don't think that a lot of this happens if he know immediately comes back in as a starter. Because one thing that USF week did was that it showed everyone who was.
Because there were a lot of people who even from the start of the season were like Millro's just a running.
Like they didn't trust him. They always thought there was a better option. There were people who were singing Ty Simpson's praises. When Buckner came in, they were singing Buckner. It felt like there weren't a lot of people who wanted Jalen Milrow in that starting job, especially not after that Texas game.
[00:06:07] Speaker C: Yeah, one thing I was going to say, even though he wasn't playing in that game, if you remember, I think it was the third quarter when Alabama got its first touchdown that wasn't called back. They got that first touchdown. And as Ty Simpson's coming off the field, Jalen Milrow was like the first one. He basically went out was screet by the whole offense. But as soon as Timpson was coming, they had that moment where you kind of saw, even though Milro is not in the game, he's still being the.
[00:06:33] Speaker B: Leader of this know to get what I was had, everybody got to see what else Alabama had, which honestly was not much. And I'll give Ty Simpson his credit. He played well when he came in. In backup. In this game, being the backup, it'll a lot different from being the starter. It's a lot easier to play up. I don't know how much they were up when he came in. A ridiculous.
[00:07:02] Speaker A: I think it was like 28.
[00:07:03] Speaker B: It's easier to play up 28 than it is starting. Zero. Zero. But that goes without saying. But everybody saw what else Alabama had and I feel like that made everybody appreciate Jalen Milrow so much more. And just the way that we've watched him grow week after week after week. And so much credit is due to Tommy Reese, because if Jalen Milrow was playing under Bill O'Brien, he probably would still be struggling the same way that he was in that Texas game. Because Tommy Reese has made adjustments and changed the entire game plan to fit around Jalen Milro. Something that we were saying should have happened since week one. It took him a minute, but you could not ask for a better time for things to come together for Alabama.
[00:07:45] Speaker A: And it's interesting when you say that if you look at just his numbers on the ground, since I think that Texas game. He's had multiple touchdowns three times since that Texas game on the ground alone.
Most of his games have a rushing touchdown in it. And I think, like you with Tommy Reese, it seemed like he had kind of a square peg and a round hole type of situation at quarterback. And it didn't even really seem like he was interested in adjusting the system. And then I think, like we said, when he realized that Millro was far and away the best option, then he made the change. And it's paid dividends so far. It's kind of remarkable, just if you look at the numbers. And the other thing too is he's been very consistent over this past time. He's hardly had a game where he's under 60% completion. He's only thrown four interceptions since that Texas game where he had two.
Like I said earlier, just really good games on the ground for the most part finding the end zone there. So just a remarkable amount of consistency from him.
[00:09:02] Speaker C: Other than that second half against know. Once he got know the first half he was amazing. And then something happened. That second half he wasn't really playing like himself. And then we know Tennessee, LSU, Kentucky. Probably his three strongest performances of the year. Now, there's one thing that Nick has not brought up, which I am very surprised at. This was Alabama's first touchdown on their opening drive since week one.
[00:09:29] Speaker B: Read my mean. I'm almost ready to say that the issue is dead. Okay? If it pops up again against Auburn or against Georgia, I'll bring it back. I'll say I was wrong. But for right now, I'm ready to put the issue to bed because they have that great response touchdown against LSU and they come out in this game after playing Tennessee, after playing LSU back to back weeks at home.
Those are two of the most important games that they played all year. They've played so many meaningful games. And you get to this Kentucky game and it's on the road and so many things could have gone wrong, but then your offense comes out and you score 21 straight. First drive of the game, you score a touchdown. I saw some stat on ESPN that said Alabama had only lost one game when they scored on the opening drive. A touchdown on the opening drive.
[00:10:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:30] Speaker C: You know what game that was?
[00:10:32] Speaker B: I don't know. I don't know. I wish I knew.
[00:10:34] Speaker C: That is going to be my goal for this week.
[00:10:35] Speaker B: You got to find that. But I mean, it feels like every issue that this team has had, whether it was the quarterback solved it, the O line appears to be much, much better. I mean, held up good against LSU, against Tennessee.
Held up well against Texas A and M. I mean, obviously the real test is going to be Georgia. Right?
And I don't want.
He was on, I think Pat McAfee talking about how he got angry with Miss Terry about having relief syndrome. She was talking about Auburn before they'd even played Kentucky.
[00:11:16] Speaker C: We got Chattanooga this week, guys, so we need to.
[00:11:19] Speaker B: Okay, but are we really going to call it relief syndrome if I'm sitting here, like, glossing over Chattanooga? I mean, nothing would surprise me more. I meAn, if you want to make the storybook that much more interesting. But as a whole, this game, 49 21 win over Kentucky, who is a good team? Don't get that wrong.
This team was ranked earlier in the year.
This is a fantastic win and the closest thing that we have seen to a complete game from Alabama this year. The only reason that Alabama didn't go up like 28 nothing was because we had that muffed punt and it kind of stalled the momentum. Right. But other than that, you couldn't ask for a better game.
[00:12:01] Speaker A: Yeah, the other thing I thought that was really impressive was they were able to kind of shut down Ray Davis, who has kind of been know. I mean, they have Devin Leary at quarterback who was hyped up. Hasn't really worked out well for him. And Ray Davis came in and he's had a couple 300 yard games. Had a good game against Mississippi State, getting 80 yards. He had a big one against Florida earlier in the year, going for 280 on 26 carries. And one of the better running backs in the SEC, just purely on talent in Alabama, holds him to 26 yards. Essentially had two touchdowns from a couple of yards out, but 26 yards, twelve carries, his longest run was six yards. So to do that and essentially shut down Kentucky's running game, except for that.
[00:12:54] Speaker C: One play close to the end there where they gave up that like 74 yard run where he went down at the 1 yd line.
[00:13:01] Speaker A: They were just feeling nice. They just wanted Kentucky to have some fun, I guess.
[00:13:05] Speaker B: Yeah, I feel like we've sung their praises enough for one week, at least until we get to Chattanooga and they come out flat and they're down 21 nothing. No, I'm just kidding.
[00:13:17] Speaker A: What's going to happen is maybe they'll get like 1020 yards, first drive punted away and Nick's just in the press box. Another slow start for Alabama, I rate and it's like, by the time he tweets that out, it's like 28 to nothing.
[00:13:31] Speaker C: I would not be surprised because, like, you've been saying, right, we've had those really important games. Every game is important. But we had those ones in a row where it's like, okay, we can't lOse. And now we have like, Ole Miss. They had Arkansas for the homecoming, but then you had Tennessee and LSU, and then you were expecting, you had mentioned last week how you would not be surprised if this was the game where they came out and they were struggling because of the let down. Right.
It's probably going to be against Chattanooga.
Obviously, we're not expecting Chattanooga to come out and win, but you remember last year, Austin p. 11:00 a.m.. Kickoff. It's the same week and it's just like we're going into halftime and it's like we only have.
[00:14:12] Speaker A: It's like 17 nothing.
[00:14:13] Speaker C: We only have 17 points.
[00:14:15] Speaker B: Don't let Saban hear you say that. 17 nothing. Not good enough.
[00:14:19] Speaker C: Look, I'm just saying if you're trying to, because the job is not finished, obviously you have to win out. But also, they're not moving up, at least in AP, we don't know about the College Football playoff pole yet. They're not moving at all. And that's partly due to the team still winning. But at some point you do have like, this was a great game to kind of get the most lopsided margin of victory that they've had since Middle Tennessee State. So this was a good game to kind of show know. We can still be know. And if you come out against Chattanooga and then it's like, okay, they only know this many points against Chattanooga, they were struggling and stuff. I'm not saying that it's bad for the team, but for the people that you're trying to impress, to potentially make a playoff, you do need to start dominating every opponent.
[00:15:17] Speaker A: Yeah, it'll be interesting to see just Chattanooga.
It's Chattanooga, respectfully, but you don't want.
[00:15:27] Speaker C: To give that ammunition to the committee when they're debating. Like, you heard last week how he was on there and he was saying how the resume favors Alabama and Texas over Oregon. If you're talking about the one loss teams. But it's like if you come out and you struggle against Chattanooga, then the committee can go, well, they struggled against.
[00:15:47] Speaker A: But yeah, but my point was more or less, I think for the Chattanooga game, it's just going to be like you say, go out, try to dominate. But that Auburn game on the road, I think is going to be really influential for this committee because Auburn's not going to be great. But I don't think Alabama is going to overlook Auburn by any means, especially with it being edgeword in here. But it's like you got the SEC championship the week after. You're kind of coming in. Assuming you win against Chattanooga, you're coming in on ten wins in a row or something like that.
You've already played kind of tough road tests A and M at Mississippi State. Even like at Kentucky, is kind of like a tough environment to play in a little bit.
But if you can go out and do it against Auburn, your last game of the season, when you've already kind of clinched something and you're playing a team with talent, then I think that's going to be really telling for the committee, too.
If you look at, like you said, that resume, winning at Auburn is going to bolster a resume, even if Auburn's not great, especially with kind of how this Alabama team has been portrayed.
[00:16:58] Speaker C: Well, once know did decide on a quarterback, it does look like their offense has come alive a little bit, which might be good for our team to see. So that defense, our defense has been so strong all year, maybe this is just an extra thing in the film room like, hey, we got to have you do it again.
We'll see. We still got two weeks for that.
[00:17:21] Speaker A: It's Chad and you get eight weeks. Still.
[00:17:25] Speaker B: I'm sure you might be one of like five people ever who have ever spoken those words. Chattanooga hate.
[00:17:31] Speaker A: I'm sure like some FCS school in Tennessee has a Chattanooga. I mean, yeah, that's true.
[00:17:36] Speaker B: We're going to have to do some research.
[00:17:37] Speaker A: Maybe Austin P. But they're in Tennessee. I believe so. Maybe they hate them.
[00:17:42] Speaker B: But anyway, when we come back, honestly, there's no telling what we could talk about. There's so much to talk about. Alabama basketball's back. Yes. Men's and women's. And they're cooking.
We could talk about the playoff. You're just going to have to find out here in about five minutes on the low tide.
Welcome back in, ladies and gentlemen, to the low tide here on 90.7. Nick, Joe, Adam, we still want to talk football for some, for a little bit. Who knows why? We will get to all of the other fantastic sports. And there's so much to talk about with Alabama basketball specifically. But I'll ask this to start. Do we think there is a legitimate chance that Alabama jumps Texas in the College Football Playoff rankings this week?
[00:18:58] Speaker A: I don't think so. I think the committee now, they have shown and we've talked about it, they are not prone to inconsistencies.
They have been a little inconsistent at times when there's like Debates going on between teams. And I think I wouldn't maybe be shocked about it because who knows? But I think they want, and they value that win over Texas beating Alabama in Tuscaloosa by ten points. I think they value that win so highly and they should. It's with good reason, especially now that you look at how Alabama is kind of played, it's getting a better loss for Texas the more Alabama keeps winning. But I just think they value that so much. And I think if you were to, honestly, if you were going to put Alabama over Texas, you'd probably also have to be comfortable putting them over Oregon. And I don't know if the win over Kentucky would warrant a two spot jump.
[00:20:00] Speaker C: Know it's very possible.
It just depends on what the committee is know that know it's a different committee every know they rotate, you know who's actually on the. But. Okay, so with Alabama's and Texas specifically, first you look at the head to head because they do have the same record right now. So you reward the head to head. But then also some people are going to look at how are they playing now. And if you go by at least the last like three weeks, Alabama has looked better than Texas. But then you have the debate of is it know the eye test or do we really consider the win in week two no matter how much Alabama has improved. But then there's a third thing which the committee last year did look at very well. It was know the losses were later, but Alabama and Tennessee had the same record. And then they moved Tennessee out of that spot because Hennon Hooker went down.
That's one of the reasons. The other reason losing to South Carolina, they didn't end the season well, but a big reason.
Hennon Hooker is not available, so we're not going to really have them with a shot at going to the playoffs without their main quarterback. Well, Texas just had their starting running back go down, torn ACL out for the rest of the year. They got their quarterback back. Quinn Ewers started for the first time in a few weeks against TCU. They won by three. Starting running back went down, torn ACL. Do they consider that running back injury enough to be like it's not a full, healthy team.
We don't want to put them in there if they're not going to be the Texas that we have seen all year.
[00:21:39] Speaker A: I don't know, though. I feel like if they valued the running back injury that high. I feel like when Ewers was out, they might have, they, I feel like they would have know flipped it mean because he's your quarterback of your team and I get that he was going to come back into the season. So it was just kind of like as long as Texas wins, they say that they don't have their starting quarterback. But still I think yours is a little more valuable to Texas than the running back than.
I don't, I don't know.
But it's definitely an, I mean, okay, look.
[00:22:19] Speaker B: So I think that that comes into more into play the closer we get to the end of the year, it was pretty known that yours was going to come back, right. So I feel like you don't really need to make that decision.
If it was yours out for the season, maybe it's different.
I'll get into that other point in a minute. I think I'm ready to move Alabama above. Okay, here's my reasoning. First off, very early loss early in the year, know Alabama was a completely different team back then and they have proven that and they continue to prove it week after week after week. They get better and better and better and better. They have not had regression since that UCF game.
[00:23:06] Speaker A: USF.
[00:23:07] Speaker B: USF. Imagine. Yeah.
[00:23:10] Speaker C: So many of those.
[00:23:11] Speaker A: There's a lot of UFS.
[00:23:13] Speaker B: Give yourself a national championship team. Anyway.
Texas, man, it feels like they are fighting to stay above water. I mean, they lose to Oklahoma by four points. Okay, next week against Houston. Struggle Kansas State, you barely pull that one out. Kansas State should have won that game. Some poor, poor coaching at the end. They barely beat TCU guys. And TCU is bad.
This is not even like I'm going to sit here and make an argument for them. TCU is bad.
[00:23:48] Speaker A: They're probably not going to make a.
[00:23:50] Speaker C: Bowl game other than that, you know, ever since Oklahoma, they just have not looked like Texas, hasn't looked like the Texas they looked at the beginning of the season.
[00:23:59] Speaker B: Also. I gotta get this out there. What did I tell you guys about Texas Tech? What did I tell you? I'm saying it's going to be a good game at the end of the year.
[00:24:07] Speaker C: They have, yeah, that Texas Tech game, which you're very excited about. But also what I'd mentioned right after that was that Iowa State game, which is next week on the road. And both these games are prime timing. So 07:00 p.m. On Fox this week at Iowa State. And then you have 06:30 p.m. ABC against Texas State.
[00:24:26] Speaker B: They should be prime time.
They're on upset alert for the rest of the season.
[00:24:34] Speaker A: Iowa State's five and two in the Big Twelve. I'm not saying they could make the.
[00:24:38] Speaker C: Conference championship game without Oklahoma State just laid an egg this.
[00:24:44] Speaker A: And I don't know if it's feasible. I don't know that maybe the tiebreakers with it, but Iowa State beat Oklahoma State. They did lose to Oklahoma, who's in front of them. But if they beat Texas, they're still very much, I should say, in the mix for that potential big twelve title game. If they really sneak up.
[00:25:05] Speaker C: Yes. Let's look at this. Texas Six and one in the conference. So they got that top spot. But if they lose the next two games, they could play themselves out of the Big Twelve championship. But right after them, Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, Iowa State and Kansas StAte, all five and two, all tied for that second spot.
[00:25:25] Speaker A: And hear me out, this could be a little history repeating itself. Because if we cast our minds back to 2011, Iowa State beat number two, Oklahoma State at home and it helped Alabama immensely make that national championship game. Now Iowa State hosts Texas, who Alabama needs to lose to really clear up a spot in that college Football playoff. And I'm just saying it's happened before, could happen again.
That's all I'll say about.
[00:26:02] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Also, I gotta say I'm not ready to move because I think something was said where if you're going to move Alabama above Texas, you have to be willing to move them above Oregon. I don't think that's necessarily true. Okay.
I see Oregon as completely different than Texas. Oregon has come out time and time like, we have not had a real head scratcher with Oregon. We have not had one of those games where it's just like, man, it feels like they're just barely hanging on. They've had some dominant wins this season against good opponents. 35 to six win over Utah, who is a good football team. That is a big, big win. Their only loss is by three points to a team that is in the playoff as of. Well. Aren't they five? I think they're five.
[00:26:48] Speaker C: Yeah, they're five.
[00:26:49] Speaker B: So that's just outside the playoff right now. But one of the best teams in the country, USC. I know that we've been saying USC is trash, right? That offense is still the real deal.
Their defense is trash, but their offense is good. And they got a solid win against them the other night. And Bo next has thrown in his last two games for 386 yards and 412 yards.
[00:27:12] Speaker C: So the last time you actually had questions, I mean, obviously that Washington game was one of the best games of the season. Week two on the road at Texas Tech, they win by eight.
That was one game where it was like, I don't know about Oregon. And then they come out the next week, 55 ten. Then Colorado, they beat 42 six, Stanford 42 six. And it's like, other than that one loss, I mean, Washington State, they struggled a little biT, but still it was a 14 point win.
And then after that, just complete domination of Utah. And Cal did good against USC that last game of the season against Oregon State. They're lucky they get that at home. If that was at stadium, I'd probably be leaning Beeves on that one. But I think that's going to be a pretty tough game. But I think Oregon should be in.
[00:28:05] Speaker B: That patrol chamber also. Just going to say this. I'm calling it now that the win over Texas Tech is going to look a lot better at the end of the year when they beat Texas. But Bo Nicks threw for 359 yards in that game and was their team's leading rusher.
Also should point this out, Bo Nicks favorite to win the Heisman as of right now, which called that, what, a year ago? Yeah, I called it last season. Right.
[00:28:29] Speaker C: 14Th year senior Bo Nick.
[00:28:32] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly.
[00:28:34] Speaker B: Took over for Cam Newton at Auburn. Folks, just let that one sink know.
[00:28:39] Speaker C: It's interesting because he started his first college game against Oregon and know they end up winning that game. He throws a touchdown with like a minimalist in the know he was probably still the best option at Auburn, even at the end, but obviously he gets benched. Then he transfers to Oregon and know he's a Heisman front.
[00:29:01] Speaker A: It's.
[00:29:02] Speaker C: What a journey.
What do we think about who do.
[00:29:06] Speaker B: You think was the quarterback for Oregon in that game when they played. When they played Auburn? It was Bo Nix's, I think his Justin Herbert. It was Justin Herbert.
[00:29:22] Speaker C: I couldn't remember if it was before Herbert or not, but, yeah, that's.
[00:29:24] Speaker B: I mean, how long has Herbert Herbert.
[00:29:27] Speaker C: Since 19.
[00:29:27] Speaker A: Do you know what year he was like? Herbert?
Would it have been like his junior?
[00:29:33] Speaker C: So that would have been 20.
[00:29:35] Speaker B: See, but I click on him and it pulls up his NFL stats.
[00:29:39] Speaker A: It would have been like 2018.
[00:29:41] Speaker C: Herbert's last college year was 19 because he got drafted in 20.
I believe he got drafted in 20. He was in the same draft with Tua. So, yeah, it was 19.
[00:29:51] Speaker A: Yeah, that would have been the year, I think that was the year, I think. Right, 2018 or 19?
[00:29:59] Speaker B: I don't know. We're going to have to do some investigative work, but it's actually wild. He started his 1st.
[00:30:06] Speaker C: August 31, 2019. So that was Herbert's junior year at Oregon.
[00:30:13] Speaker A: Yeah, that's.
[00:30:14] Speaker B: Cam Newton had an entire NFL career.
[00:30:17] Speaker A: And Bo Nick is still playing a five year mega deal, didn't he, in the NFL?
[00:30:23] Speaker B: I mean, it's unbelievable. Yeah, the super duper seniors. How many degrees does Bo Nicks have?
[00:30:34] Speaker C: Set himself up for some success?
[00:30:36] Speaker B: I mean, yeah, if he doesn't have the PhD at this point, then what are we doing here?
[00:30:41] Speaker A: Yeah, he's probably gone through every. He's like, yeah, I'll go to Oregon's medical school, and then, yeah, I'll go to Oregon's law school, and then I'll go. Just going to every single college, getting a.
[00:30:53] Speaker B: Real. He's the real genius.
Anyway. Oh, man.
The Heisman is basically, like, the NFL MVP to him at this point.
[00:31:05] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:31:06] Speaker B: That's insane. Anyway, let's talk basketball. Where do we want to start? Men's or women's?
[00:31:13] Speaker C: Let's do women's first.
[00:31:14] Speaker B: All right.
Women's basketball.
[00:31:17] Speaker C: They won today again. So they are now three and O, I believe.
[00:31:21] Speaker B: Yes, three and O. They played Morehead State today.
[00:31:25] Speaker A: Wow. Alabama is playing warhead State in a lot of things.
[00:31:29] Speaker B: I know, right? Okay, real question, why couldn't they schedule them for the same night?
[00:31:34] Speaker A: That would have been really funny. Or not funny, but that would have been really cool if you had the women play Morehead State and then the men play Morehead State.
[00:31:43] Speaker B: Everyone could take the same bus.
[00:31:45] Speaker A: Yeah. It would have been cheaper for more head State. They got to plan two trips. They could have just had one.
[00:31:50] Speaker B: Where is Morehead State?
[00:31:51] Speaker A: You have to fly Kentucky. It's a Morehead Kentucky.
[00:31:55] Speaker B: Okay, so probably fly, right?
[00:31:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
Well, depending. Maybe. I don't know how much money. Yeah. I mean, depending on maybe the budget, but, I mean, if Alabama flew there for the game, so I would imagine any Kentucky schools coming down. But I don't even know where Morehead is because Lexington's like six and a half. Morehead could be like four.
[00:32:16] Speaker C: So here's the thing. Alabama flies to everywhere except for Mississippi State and Auburn.
[00:32:22] Speaker A: That would have been fun if they flew to aUburn.
[00:32:24] Speaker C: Like, Alabama football, they're just like, all know we're getting a over, you know, 2 hours. We're flying.
I don't know if Morehead State has it, but maybe Alabama was just like, hey, here's some money. Fly down here, play us.
[00:32:41] Speaker A: Probably. Yeah.
[00:32:42] Speaker B: Anyway, they get the one. Did we already say the score?
[00:32:44] Speaker C: I did not say. Okay.
[00:32:46] Speaker B: They beat Morehead State today. 85 44.
I won't be the first person to say this, Christy Curry's scheduling a little easy.
[00:32:58] Speaker A: Yeah, he won't be the first and.
[00:32:59] Speaker B: Not, I will never be the last. Five different Alabama players put up double figures. Let's see, we got a box score.
[00:33:07] Speaker C: You'll see.
I know the scheduling especially compared that to the men's program. The men's program plays a much tougher out of conference schedule, but I've been impressed with how well the offense has played. Now, I know it's against lesser competition. They're going to face much tougher competition once they get to SEC play. But like Aliyah, Nye has been amazing from beyond the arc this year.
[00:33:31] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:33:31] Speaker C: See four of seven against Moreheads. I think she had five in the first half of the second game.
[00:33:37] Speaker B: I remember when last season when I was writing women's basketball full time, right. And I was getting ready. I think it was even the season before that because Aliyah and I was coming in and I kind of wanted to get a like watching her tape, just seeing her form her jumper is study it. Very good. If you want your kids to play basketball, just play that back over and over and over again. Copy that. And you will have mean. So she has all the tools to be a great shooter. And since she got to Alabama, she's been the team's best shooter. And I would say even last year when Brittany Davis was still there, I might be ready to make that call. But in this game, she knocks down four threes, leads the team in scoring with 14 points. You got Jessica Timmins twelve points, ten points apiece for loyal McQueen and Sarah Ashley Barker.
Just a phenomenal effort all around and they continue to win. We'll see what happens when they get to some tougher competition.
[00:34:43] Speaker A: Yeah, and I will say the schedule last year, Nick, me and you were both on the beat.
You look at it and it was pretty easy in the beginning. You played Utah, which was a ranked team, and that was your toughest game up until, really conference play.
And this year they at least have like a couple better games. I mean, they play Louisville coming up, Gonzaga over kind of the Thanksgiving weekend. They go to Syracuse. These are games that they didn't play last year. And to be honest, I think this.
[00:35:26] Speaker C: Year, I think last year their first loss was USF when they played down.
[00:35:30] Speaker A: In Tampa, who they actually play next on Thursday. But I think the good thing for them is they're just going to be a little more tested going into that conference play. I mean, they were really good out of conference last year in nine and seven in conference.
[00:35:45] Speaker C: And they don't have to play a Louisville team that has Haley Van Lithz because they'll have to wait till they play LSU for that one.
[00:35:52] Speaker A: Yeah, that is true.
And luckily you get kind of South Carolina and LSU on the road later in the year, kind of mid February.
[00:36:07] Speaker C: I'll ask you all a question because you all both covered women's basketball like the whole year last know riding for them and everything. So we have the differences in the scheduling out of conference from the men's win like the women's. Seems like it's an easier schedule. Get as many wins as you can before getting into SEC play. Nate Oates has a tougher schedule for his team to where know, get battle tested. Obviously it helps when you know top recruiting classes every year and you're expecting your team to be one of the best in the nation. So getting that battle tested early. So by the time you get to SEC play, you're used to everything. Nothing's going to scare you at that point.
Do we think that it's really like for the women? Do we think that can they just not schedule anybody? Nobody wants to play more. Is it more of like, hey, we're just trying to get as many wins to look good for the NCAA Tournament.
[00:36:58] Speaker B: Okay. So I will say I definitely think that it is. You want to build up wins so you have a better record because the SEC is a really good women's basketball conference. You got to play a lot. Like, there are a lot of tough, tough teams.
You got to play or, sorry, you have to play Tennessee. I meant to say Tennessee there. You have to play Tennessee, you have to play South Carolina. You have to play LSU, like every year, tough games all around.
So, yeah, when you have a weaker schedule, you're going to build a good record. So that way if you've already got the good record, and let's say that you manage to knock off one of those three, you get a win against Tennessee, which they did last year, you get a win against LSU, you get a win against South Carolina, who they almost, they should have won that game against South Carolina last year. They had, I digress.
[00:37:55] Speaker C: This time they got to go into Columbia for South Carolina. They had to play LSU twice.
[00:37:59] Speaker B: That's tough. But you're going to have a decent record. So when it comes time for the selection committee, makes it a little bit easier to get into the tournament.
But the flip side is like, like we said, NATO, it's exact opposite. Right. His philosophy is you play enough good teams, you get some wins for your resume.
That strength of schedule is going to be recognized late in the year. And it was even with Alabama teams that had the year before that had a number of losses. They also had a number of really good wins. And it was like, hey, it's okay that you guys lost in the, what was it not this past year with Brandon Miller the year before? It was like a first round or second round exit in.
Yeah, they lost it like in the Vanderbilt or something. Yeah. And it didn't really matter when it came to tournament time because it was like, hey, you guys have proven that you're a good team.
It has its trade offs, it has its benefits. I think you are always better off scheduling harder teams, in my opinion, unless you just don't think that your team is really ready for that, which this is a decently young team. Right. A lot of fresh faces.
[00:39:24] Speaker C: They have been getting better every year, though, at least the last three years they've been.
[00:39:29] Speaker B: But I think at some point, and you saw a lot of upsets in the first real week or two of women's basketball. You saw number one, LSU go down. Number two, Yukon goes down.
And it shows you that maybe the top dog isn't so invincible.
I think their program has been getting better year after year. So I think we could start to see some changes in the scheduling, especially when you're getting five stars. Right. Finally, a lot of big recruits. I believe they had like a four star and somebody else commit over the weekend or something.
[00:40:09] Speaker C: I've been trying to keep up. There's so many commit across all the commitments, wild.
[00:40:15] Speaker B: Out of all the things to report on, I would not want to be like 24/7 like having to track all that. It would drive me insane.
[00:40:21] Speaker A: Yeah. The thing, though, also with the scheduling for the women's basketball team, too, is you kind of talked about it without for the men's team when they played a couple of years ago and had some quality wins and then kind of stumbled into the tournament and still got ranked really high. I mean, this Alabama last year, women's basketball, they were essentially a five seed in the NCAA Tournament for most of the season.
And then I think they kind of ran out of gas and maybe a lack of playing those lost like what? Like four straight five in a row to end the year they lost to. I mean, like the teams that they lost to, it was teams that they should have beat.
They lost in the first round to.
[00:41:10] Speaker C: Kentucky and then they had a pretty decent lead on that Baylor team.
[00:41:14] Speaker A: They had like an 18 point lead against Baylor. But if you win or if you play maybe some tougher teams and get some wins, like you said, nick, where maybe you play a top 25 team, say like they beat Utah earlier in the season, maybe you're not a ten seed playing Baylor. Maybe you're a five seed playing somebody that you could theoretically, I'm not going to say you're obviously going to beat, but you're not going in as the underdog. You're playing a team that the committee thinks you're better, the rankings think you're better than. And they didn't have that resume last year to where losing those four games into a row entering the tournament was going to help them at all. Like it wasn't going to balance it out with early season wins.
[00:42:01] Speaker B: And again, when you schedule too easy, you're not ready for the end of the season, you're not ready for those wars that are going to happen, those blown leads.
[00:42:12] Speaker A: This was a team I can remember a couple of times having four or five point leads with like a minute and a half left.
[00:42:21] Speaker B: Couldn't hold on.
[00:42:21] Speaker A: You just lose by two.
[00:42:22] Speaker B: And that's not all on the coaching. No, but that was a very talented team that should have gone farther. But maybe if you just schedule a couple of harder opponents earlier in the year.
[00:42:36] Speaker A: I think she, and the other thing too is that if you just look at, I know that taking some criticism, but if you just look at the state of Alabama women's basketball, before Christy Curry got here, it was not like a super stable program and she has essentially gotten them. This is her 11th season, her previous ten seasons, she's got them to the postseason six times. So she's getting there more, she's getting results where going into her tenure at Alabama, it was not an easy job necessarily. I mean, the program was not doing great.
[00:43:17] Speaker B: And let me say, I do not mean criticism towards Christy Curry. She has done a fantastic job. She built something from nothing and she has been very successful since she got here. And it appears that the program just continues to be on an upward mean. Imagine if I would have told you a couple of years ago that they got a five star. That would be unbelievable. Right?
[00:43:38] Speaker A: Yeah, sorry. I was just going to say this is a program that before she got there had, let's see, one winning season since 2001.
[00:43:48] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:43:49] Speaker A: And she's essentially outside of her first couple of years, three years, I guess she's had almost exclusively winning seasons and tournament play.
It works.
[00:44:05] Speaker C: Obviously they're getting better. I always find it interesting because Alabama men's basketball has just this history of being pretty good. I mean, obviously no national championships, no final, fourth. But they had many SEC championships under, you know, they had pretty good success under Godfrey. And then every now and with. With some of the other coaches, they would know pretty good seasons. And now they're starting to be consistent every year. Like back in the conversation, I always find it funny because Alabama's women's basketball actually made a Final Four, like, back in 1994. And it's just so weird to me how it's like they did it once and then it was like the program just fell off the edge of the earth. And now it's finally coming back. But maybe the men can make a Final Four this year. They're looking pretty good so far.
[00:44:53] Speaker B: That's true. We will talk about them right after this break. When we come back, Alabama men's basketball till the close it back here on 90.7, the capstone for the last ten or so minutes here on the low tide. Nick Joe Adam talking Alabama men's basketball. Oh, man, are they hot. Let's see. First back to back start to the season with back to back 100 plus point games since 1964.
[00:45:47] Speaker C: 65.
[00:45:49] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't even think they had a shot clock in 1964. I might have to fact check that. No, they didn't.
[00:45:55] Speaker A: They did not have a shot clock in 1964.
[00:45:57] Speaker B: How do you put up 100 points in 1964?
[00:46:01] Speaker A: You must really not like your.
[00:46:03] Speaker B: Can I go back in time and check that game out? Because, man, could you just imagine?
Anyway, I digress. Most recently, they beat the Indiana State Sycamores 102 to 80.
[00:46:18] Speaker A: Yeah, Larry Bird ain't there anymore.
[00:46:21] Speaker B: Larry Bird is not walking through that door, but instead he has on an Alabama uniform and he's changed his name to Grant Nelson. Anyway.
[00:46:30] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:46:31] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:46:32] Speaker B: Fantastic win for Alabama. I was there, not covering the game, just there to check everything out, man. I am Aaron Estrada. Real deal. I mean, Mark Sears comes out and he's struggling early in this game, and then Aaron Estrada is just like, I got you, man. Just hop on. He put the team on his back and he finishes with 27 points. I legitimately think 25 of those came in the first half. He was locked in. It was fantastic. Dude is just a straight bucket. Six three pointers in that game.
And then Mark Sears, like I said, struggled in the first half, but came alive in the second half, 24 points. I think a majority of those were in the second half. Played much better. Grant Nelson also gives you 20 points, eight rebounds.
I'm really impressed with, like, first off, has to be one of the best back courts in the country. Between Estrada and Sears. They are fantastic and have shown that they can both play on the four together at the same time.
Nelson watching him play is something else. The dude is, he has a fluidity to his game that is just crazy for somebody with that size. And NATO came out in the beginning of the year and they were like, hey, don't be surprised if he's bringing the ball up the court and we do some different things with him. Dude is just, his bag is so deep. I don't even think he knows everything that's in the mean when you start.
[00:48:12] Speaker A: Your Alabama career the way he mean. Obviously we didn't really get a chance to talk about the Morehead State game, it being last Monday, but he has essentially first points at Alabama, essentially bodied a dude out of the way, which I didn't really think he was all that strong, but he bodied this dude.
[00:48:30] Speaker C: It's a sneaky strong.
He's 610.
[00:48:36] Speaker A: Yeah, he doesn't look strong, but he is bodies. The dude dunks the ball and then later in that game he puts someone else on a poster.
Finished with 24 points against Morris State and then, like you said against Indiana State, had 20 points back to back 20 point games.
[00:48:57] Speaker C: 611 230.
[00:49:00] Speaker B: And the thing is, right is that there was no point during that game. Maybe at the end where it felt like Nelson was the number one option, which is insane to me. He got 20 and those 20 were like, it was an efficient 27 for ten. Perfect at the line. He didn't even make a three in this game.
His points came down low in the post. Get the demand, the ball and just.
Dude has a bag but 20 points. And that was the third best scorer on that team for that night. This team is deep.
[00:49:37] Speaker C: See, the thing that impressed me the most out of these first two games, I mean, obviously offenses look amazing. The defense still needs some work to do. But we saw the same thing with last year's team. It wasn't really until that Gonzaga game when they lost and I think it was like 100 to 90 and then they finally bought in defensively. But this team, you go to the first game, Grant Nelson finishes with like 24 and seven.
Just completely dominating performance. You go to the second game, the first half, he only had two points non factor. At some point he gets like a cut over his eye. He has to leave, go to the locker room, come back in the second half and that's when he scored 18 to finish with 20. And even with him, who was so important in that first game with only two points in the first half, Alabama still had, I believe it was 48 in the first half and Estrada had already had like 25 at that point, just knocking down three after three. So last year they still had multiple guys that could at least handle the game. I mean, Brandon Miller was really the only one that we kind of saw just take over this year it looks like you have. I'm not going to say anybody's going to be on a Brandon Miller type level yet, but you have multiple guys like Grant Nelson can just take over a game. Estrada can just take over a know he's still getting healthy. So this team, at least offensively so far they've looked good and I don't really see it slowing down.
[00:51:13] Speaker B: I feel like the defense will come with time. I will say this team really misses.
[00:51:17] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:51:18] Speaker B: Like it makes you wish that he had not decided to go to the draft. And although he may be on my San Antonio spurs, he very rarely gets minutes.
[00:51:28] Speaker A: Well, they got another center there, you.
[00:51:31] Speaker B: Know, a guy who may or may not be like.
[00:51:36] Speaker C: Especially like with the way know NBA basketball has gone where it's like you're not really even know centers.
[00:51:43] Speaker A: Alabama's had some questionable draft decisions as of later than know going back. Like JD Davidson I thought was really weird. He declared and then went to the second round.
They've got hurt a couple of times but yeah, losing Bidayako is tough.
[00:51:59] Speaker B: Yeah. And this team feels like it's not built around super young guys anymore. Right. It's just built like we're starting to get to that Duke, that Kentucky type mindset of like, hey, we're going to go pick up guys who it's like win now.
[00:52:13] Speaker C: Well, see, you saw it last year when you got to the Elite Eight. I think it was seven of the eight teams had like majority upperclassmen, whether it be people that had stayed there or it had been transfers.
You had so many good teams throughout the season who had those one year, one and done guys. But when it came down to the tournament, it was those experienced guys that were really dominating the tournament. And San Diego State was like one of those teams, very upperclassmen, heavy, very experienced. They were able to handle Alabama in the Sweet 16.
But I think that was, I mean, Nate Oates knew he had some good freshmen coming in, but that's when you saw him really go into the portal this year and that's when he got Grant, Nelson and Estrada.
It's a good team. It looks way different than last year. We'll have to know how they play once they get to those tougher games. We do know three huge games, like right in a row in December. So it's going to be interesting.
[00:53:15] Speaker B: But here's the thing. When you schedule tough opponents, like, like, okay, first off, SEC, really good. This team's projected to finish fifth in the SEC, by the way, which is insane.
[00:53:25] Speaker C: If they asked them again, do you think they'd still say fifth?
[00:53:28] Speaker B: Honestly?
[00:53:29] Speaker A: Maybe. I mean, it's two games. Yeah, but I'm already ready to buy.
[00:53:33] Speaker C: Final Four tickets, guys.
[00:53:35] Speaker B: Now you got the rat poison coming in here, man.
I don't even know. I lost my train of thought.
[00:53:43] Speaker A: I can go for a little bit, but yeah, this game, one of the things that I thought was very interesting was just kind of the difference in how they played half to half. I mean, you guys talked about individual performances and Estrada picking up in the second half, Grant Nelson coming out. But this was a nine point game early, like really early in the second half. And then all of a sudden it's Alabama goes up twelve and then Alabama kind of stays around twelve for a long time. Then it's 15, 1920. They just kind of built upon this lead that obviously they looked really good.
I don't think it was ever really scared for them that Indiana State was going to win this game. But when you're up eleven at half and then able to kind of Indiana State gets it down to single digits and you're able to win by 22 at the time of the final, Buzer, that's pretty impressive for a half of play. And I hope that they can kind of translate it to where it's a full 40 minutes. Kind of like more of what they had against Morehead State where they're kind of dominant from start to finish against some of these teams. But you won by 22, which here's.
[00:55:00] Speaker B: The thing, early in this game, Indiana State would not go away. I believe they were up nine nothing at one point. Very early in this game they were knocking down shot after shot after shot. And credit to them, they got some absolute buckets on that team. But man, this team has the potential to just be so good. When you have multiple players who are like bucket getters who can be that guy at any second, when you can interchange your top three at any point and say like, okay, this ain't working, we need you to go to get us a bucket. That's a sign of a great team.
[00:55:35] Speaker A: And we were talking about a little bit earlier with how you kind of need to have veteran guys. I mean, they had a 16th ranked recruiting class for last year's guys that came in this year.
And I mean, none of them, well, I shouldn't say none of them, but they're not really starters type of players. It's Sharon Stevenson who gets good minutes Walters, Diobati and Chris Parker were their four signings out of high school. And they don't necessarily, they're not the major contributors, but it's the guys that we talked about from the portal with Aaron Estrada and Nelson and then guys who have been at Alabama. I mean, Nick Pringle is a senior, Sears is a senior. They kind of know the system. They know kind of what Alabama expects at. You know, we talk about in football a lot, but in basketball it's just as important.
[00:56:26] Speaker B: And I don't want to overreact. Right. We're two games in. I'm going to slow my role. But also notice this, who were we talking about in the preseason a lot?
Sam Walters oh, yeah. We were saying dude was a bucket, he was a sniper.
[00:56:40] Speaker A: Really good game against Wake Forest. I think that was his really.
[00:56:44] Speaker B: And even in the TCU, not so secret skirmage against TCU, we would know how he played three in this game.
He played nine minutes, like three rebounds a steal.
[00:56:59] Speaker C: It's going to be real interesting once you get later into the season.
Were the scrimmages just flukes, right? Or is it going to be like later in the season he starts coming out actually getting meaningful minutes again? I don't know.
[00:57:16] Speaker B: I think it'll take time. But if that guy can grow into.
[00:57:21] Speaker A: If he can get a role, if.
[00:57:22] Speaker B: He can turn into a 1012 point per game score, a guy who can come in and just knock down threes.
[00:57:29] Speaker C: I made a joke during the first game with a couple of guys that were sitting next to me and I was saying how this is all NATO's plan. He's going to keep him out of the game, so then he doesn't get that NBA draft stock bump, so then he has to come back for a second year.
[00:57:47] Speaker A: Yeah, we need him in the system for a couple of years, but he took one three against Morehead State, too. So I mean, it's not 15. I think it was like 15 minutes for him, still three or four in that game. But yeah, if he gets going and I wonder if it's just going to kind of be like a more slower process. I mean, Brandon Miller came in last year as a freshman. I think he blew up our expectations of what kind of what a freshman basketball. I mean, listen, like Brandon Miller obviously really good, but he's more of an exception than a rule type of player. I mean, he is so good so.
[00:58:21] Speaker C: Quickly, and it still took him he was playing well off the bat, but it still took him a while before it was like, oh, he's the best.
[00:58:29] Speaker A: Guy, I think WALTerS this is probably to his benefit, can just kind of sit in the background for a while, figure it out, figure out kind of what he has to do, and that's it going.
[00:58:42] Speaker B: There's no pressure on you when you've got three guys who are 20 point per game scorers.
[00:58:48] Speaker C: They have South Alabama Tuesday. That's been a tough game like the last couple of years. Luckily, this year it's back in know they don't have to make the trip down the mobile. So that'll be interesting just to see how well have they made improvements on defense. Is the offense still clicking? Are we going to have that first let down offense game where the defense has to make some plays?
Mercer, Ohio State, that one's at the end of Thanksgiving break. But yeah, they got some pretty know. You were mentioning the thing about and how, you know, he was a seven footer.
Everybody thought he was going to come back. He didn't. I know it's still like a little ways away, but that Purdue game in Toronto, when we have to go against Zach eating, seven foot four guy, reigning Player of the Year, I'm interested to see how our lineup is able to handle him or not able to handle.
[00:59:46] Speaker B: It's going to be tough. It's going to be designed around do not let him get the ball. So it's going to be instead of.
[00:59:54] Speaker A: You'Ll be fronting him.
[00:59:55] Speaker B: Yeah, you're going to front him the entire time. It's gonna be tough. And that's gonna be a game where people are really gonna say, like, really missing Betty Ako, really missing that rim protector presence. And I think that that might be this team's Achilles heel. But we will wait and see.
[01:00:12] Speaker A: It very well could be.
[01:00:13] Speaker B: Before we go, I know we got soccer. Got to talk about soccer.
[01:00:17] Speaker C: So soccer had first round matchup against Western Carolina, first round NCAA tournament at home. They won two nil. They go to the second round. This is the third straight year going to the second round.
Last year was the first time they had made it past the second round. They went all the way to the College Cup. Hopefully they can get another run like this. Had a little not as successful of a season. They ended up with four losses, five ties and their second round matchup. They're playing Friday, so if anybody is getting out of here on Friday or before Friday for the break next week, and you're living around Lubbock, Texas, that's where they're going to be playing their next game. So they're facing North Carolina, who's the three seed in their bracket. They played North Carolina once this year. What's up? What is the game in Lubbock? Okay, so the first round, it's just whoever the higher seed is, once you go to the second and third round, that's when it goes to like four teams are going to that side. So Texas Tech had the two seed in their brackets, so they are hosting all of the teams that advance.
[01:01:24] Speaker B: I thought you were about to tell me they were playing tech. I was like, oh, okay.
[01:01:29] Speaker C: In the second round, they will play North Carolina. If they beat North Carolina, they will play the winner of the other game, which is expected to be Texas Tech, who did have the two seed. They already played North Carolina once this year. It was at home. That was one game that they tied. It was like four out of five games that they tied in a row. They tied one to one against North Carolina. Then in Tuscaloosa. Rematch in Lubbock, Texas, Friday. If you're in the area, go support the team.
[01:01:55] Speaker A: They're going to need you and what time. Sorry, did you say it?
[01:01:58] Speaker C: Me? I got to pull it back up.
It will be okay. You are no help right there. Anyway, get to the schedule.
They had it on the article and it was just like, oh, yeah, it's.
[01:02:17] Speaker B: Just on Friday, but 02:30 p.m. If it's another close game, let's hope that Alabama practice pens.
[01:02:26] Speaker A: Yeah, so it's at 230, which, I mean, listen, you can still have watch that game. Lubbock, Texas. And then at night, still make it home. Still getting time for the men's basketball game at like 07:00.
[01:02:40] Speaker C: I've never been to Lubbock.
[01:02:41] Speaker B: How far is that drive, man?
[01:02:45] Speaker A: I don't know why I'm saying lIke, I know. Sorry. Go ahead, Nick.
[01:02:48] Speaker B: Let's see. So where I'm from, it's about 5 hours to anywhere. Let's see. I think from Dallas to Lubbock, I think it's like 5 hours. And then from Dallas to Tuscaloosa, it's like 1314. So if I had.
[01:03:05] Speaker A: So you're taking a day?
[01:03:06] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
Let's see. Maybe like before we go.
[01:03:11] Speaker C: Well, while you're looking that up. So Alabama plays North Carolina, 230. Like I said, Texas Tech will play Princeton at 06:00 p.m. That day, winners will play each other on Sunday at 01:00 p.m. And then after that, if they do make it through all that, I believe.
Okay, so then they will have to go again to. What is that? BYU. BYU is the one seat over there. So they went out to Provo last year. So that would be interesting.
[01:03:47] Speaker B: All right. I was like 4 hours wrong. It's 13 hours, 18 minutes drive.
[01:03:53] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:03:54] Speaker A: Simple.
[01:03:55] Speaker B: You could do it.
[01:03:56] Speaker C: I will not be making that trip. I made a lot of trips for sporting events this year. That is one I will not be making.
I will be supporting the football team against Chattanooga.
Also Friday, I will be going to my old high school's playoff game. They are in the second round for just the second time in school history. So I will be going there and trying to use my media pass to get on the field. So we'll see.
[01:04:21] Speaker B: While we're shouting out high schools, shout out the Permian Panthers, who somehow beat Pebble Hills.
[01:04:27] Speaker C: That's a real.
[01:04:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Friday night lights. Look it up.
They beat Pebble Hills, who they probably weren't expected to beat. They have not had the greatest of seasons, but somehow beat one in the last week against a much better team to make the playoff and won their first playoff game. So who knows? Anything can happen. I can almost guarantee you they will not win the. What would it be? The area game. They haven't won the area game since 2014.
[01:05:00] Speaker C: Full disclosure. I did know that they were a real team. I have the book and everything, but.
[01:05:05] Speaker B: Shout out to them. Hopefully they can keep it going. Anything else?
Joe, you want to shout out your high school?
[01:05:15] Speaker A: Yeah. Hold on a sec. Let me see. Let me see what Baltimore is looking like right now. Let's see here.
Wow. Yeah. I don't know.
My high school is a little different. We were not quite as football.
We weren't quite as football crazy as, obviously Texas. But yeah. Okay. My school just got. Well, I don't actually know.
[01:05:42] Speaker B: Did they score?
[01:05:44] Speaker A: I don't know, actually. Their schedule is kind of broken. I'll have to go. Hold on.
They're not doing good this year. I don't really want to shout out my high school if they're terrible.
[01:05:54] Speaker C: Well, I'll give one more. So adapted athletics, the men's wheelchair basketball team played in the Jalapenos Invitational this past weekend. They won all four games.
5849, 723-367-5553 and 51. So they are now six and one on the year in their quest to repeat as national champions.
They will not play again until December 15, down in a tournament at Auburn.
Also the women's team, they have not played as many games so far, but their next game will be in Wisconsin, which I will be traveling with the team to be the producer for the live stream.
[01:06:41] Speaker B: Let's go.
[01:06:42] Speaker C: And I am sad to say that it is the same weekend as the SEC championship, so I will not be there. But I've already discussed it with our play by play guys. We will have a cell phone with the game on.
[01:06:57] Speaker B: Okay. So he will be there in spirit. Do not you know what?
[01:07:00] Speaker A: Yeah. I found out randomly. I did some digging, found my high school. They won their last game, which wasn't even like to it. They didn't make the playoffs, but they finished their year four and six.
[01:07:13] Speaker C: There is something for seniors to be able to win that last game instead of having that devastating loss in the playoffs.
[01:07:19] Speaker A: And it was 42. Yeah.
[01:07:21] Speaker C: Might as well just not make the playoffs.
Ask Michael Jordan. You either want to win the finals or don't make it at all.
[01:07:27] Speaker A: Don't get there. Don't even have a big game. Thanksgiving Jalapeno Classic.
[01:07:32] Speaker B: Where was that at?
[01:07:33] Speaker C: That one was here. Jalapenos is a big sponsor, so that one was here at Strand Harden Arena.
[01:07:38] Speaker A: It's a restaurant.
[01:07:39] Speaker C: Yes.
We also had the coaches show there last Wednesday, and the owner, after it was over, he let the guys, actually our play by play guys that are actually the ones on the show. I'm behind camera and everything, but they got to taste some stuff on the show. And then after, the owner was like, oh, do you want anything? I'm like, I want that world famous Fajita Gumbo. So he got me that. He also gave me a margarita. Nice. I am over 21, if anybody's wondering. So it is. Okay. Shout out.
[01:08:10] Speaker B: Shout out. That guy sounds like cool. Anyway, we're way over time. We got stuck talking about the health. We really want to talk about the.
[01:08:18] Speaker A: Big Ten west football. We can really go.
[01:08:23] Speaker B: Yeah, man.
[01:08:25] Speaker C: I will say it is interesting how Iowa has lost two games.
[01:08:31] Speaker B: No.
Did they cover the spread? They did not.
[01:08:35] Speaker C: No, they covered the spread. They didn't hit the lowest. 27. So they won 22 to nothing, which.
[01:08:43] Speaker A: Honestly is pretty good for them. 22 just from them is really under.
[01:08:47] Speaker B: Was like third quarter, 27 and a half, tied for the lowest in the history of college football, folks. Anyway, we're off on everything. We're cooking. We're cooking. We could go for another hour, but we can't. This has been low tide here on 90.7. Catch us next week. Thank you for listening and.
