The Low Tide S2.E12 - Playoffs? + Iron Bowl antics

[00:00:00] Speaker A: WVUAFM Tuscaloosa. [00:00:15] Speaker B: Welcome into the low tide here on 90.7 the Capstone. Nicholas Persley, Elliot Miller, Adam Hambragh, we're joining you from various parts of Tuscaloosa. We no longer have a studio, at least for the time being, so we're just kind of. We're kind of piecing it together here. How are we doing, Elliot? [00:00:36] Speaker C: You know, I'm out here chilling. I'm so happy that my Pittsburgh Steelers scored more than 40 points in a game. Okay. Are they back? Another winning season for Mike Tomlin. [00:00:49] Speaker B: Everything's looking up, Adam. [00:00:52] Speaker A: Yeah, you know, I'm doing fairly good, you know, decent win yesterday for Alabama football. Disappointing into the basketball game, but then, like Elliot said, Steelers just won. Wish the defense had played better, really across the board on all three games, but, you know, I'm doing pretty good. [00:01:14] Speaker B: That's true. And we'll get into that later on in the show, but we'll kind of start. You know, first off, I just want to give like a few minutes to get any of the frustrations out about Oklahoma. We didn't have a show, thankfully. Thankfully. I, you know, the Internet was not. Was not cooking very good in Gulf Shores, and I think that's probably best because it would have just been me and Elliot kind of raging about how terrible Alabama looked in that game. But either of you have any, any big thoughts on that game? [00:01:47] Speaker C: Adam, I'll defer to you. [00:01:49] Speaker A: Okay. So I thought, you know, obviously 24 to 3, you know, least amount of points scored by Alabama Since, I believe, 2004, you definitely don't want to see that, especially when, you know, the offense has been doing pretty well, you know, for the most part. Like, you hired an offensive minded head coach. Right? You don't want to see the offense play that poorly. Now, we could talk about how, you know, Ryan Grubb was supposed to be offensive coordinator, but he took the job in Seattle and now it's Dick Sheridan. I, I did see one thing that, you know, Nick Sheridan might be moving to a different program. I don't really know think. I wish Alabama could have some consistency with offensive coordinators, but, you know, you got, you got to put points on the board. You move the ball pretty well. First half, the first couple of drives just couldn't really get it done. Now the defense gave up a lot of rushing yards. Still can't really seem to stop a running quarterback, but they weren't keeping him out of the end zone. You know, it was 10 to 3 at halftime. And then you have the first interception that, you know, Kobe Prentice misses the block. Maybe there could have been time for Jalen Milroe not to throw the pass, but you know, he's trying to get it out there fast for a screen, throws the interception, they get the ball at the 14, Oklahoma scores at 17 3. Then what I think was the worst pass, which ended up being the pick six, and then it's 24. 3. You got to find something to do on offense and then you finally do it and you have a phantom, you know, illegal touching call because he was covered up when he's not covered up now. I'm not saying Alabama would have went on to win the game, but we saw how well momentum can go. In that Georgia, Georgia Tech game where they scored 14 points in five minutes, Alabama would have had still over 14 minutes left in that game. Could have got some things rolling. Who knows? It didn't happen, you know, and 24, three, that was. Yeah. And if you win that game and then you win the iron ball, you know, you're in the SEC championship game, you've locked up a playoff spot and you know, you had everything in front of you and then just to see it end in that way was just. It was very disappointing. [00:04:11] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, go ahead, go ahead. I'll go. [00:04:15] Speaker C: Okay. I thought it was pretty brutal, kind of on all fronts. I think I knew from the first play out of the get go, you know, Oklahoma took a page out of like the Vanderbilt playbook. You're not going to let Jalen Milroe run Stutzman. I pretty sure stuffed him right up the middle, met him right at the line of scrimmage, did not let him go anywhere. And I was like, yeah, from there, like, this is just not going to work. And I don't know whether it's arrogance, whether it's like trying to prove a point, but to continually call these like QB draws and sweeps knowing that it wasn't working. And then when you give it to the running back, I think when you look at it, they're averaging like 5 to 6 yards of carry apiece. Like the normal running game was actually okay, but it was the QB draws that weren't doing anything. But it was still, you know, let them keep it, let them keep it, let them keep it. And I think that really, you know, hurts overall when you can see what they could have done. Obviously the defense gave up a lot of yards on the ground, which is a little weird considering that Oklahoma cannot pass the ball being down their top six wide receivers. So I think Brutal on all accounts. I'm not even going to comment on that phantom call. I think everyone unequivocally agrees that that was awful and it should have never been called in the first place. But that's just how the cookie crumbles. Sometimes bad calls are going to be made. You just got to be better than only scoring three points and giving up 24 to a pretty subpar SEC team at this point. [00:05:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:33] Speaker A: And one more thing. You know, Richard struck quick. Like you've got to be able to make adjustments, right? And you know, they still couldn't stop Jackson Arnold running the ball the whole time. But like, even the offensive play calling, it's like you, you got to make adjustments. And guess what? You don't have to wait until halftime to try to make the adjustments. You can, like when you see that it's not working, you know, halfway through the first quarter, maybe switch it up a little bit, but it's in the past. [00:05:58] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. That's a good point. I mean, a lot of my, A lot of my thoughts are pretty similar. I thought, you know, obviously it was clear that they had taken the Vanderbilt loss and kind of really studied it and keyed in on the things that worked in that game, especially for Oklahoma. On offense, you saw a lot of the same things. The little shovel passes, little things inside. It was a pretty run heavy attack for Oklahoma. They only passed for 68 yards in this game and managed to just blow the doors off of Alabama. Disappointing performance. You know, you thought that the, the defense has kind of turned a corner and it didn't really look like that in this game. Now part of that's on the fact that the offense has to be able to score more than three points. That's absolutely ridiculous. Probably easily the worst game we've seen from Jayla Milroe maybe of his entire career at this point, 11 for 26, only 164 yards. Obviously the three interceptions, two of them I would would not say are on him. One of them, he had a pretty poor block and I actually don't remember the other one, but I know, I know there was only one that was like pretty terrible that was directly on him. [00:07:09] Speaker A: And the third interception late when, you know, after the touchdown gets taken away, this is like that next drive and he gets hit as soon as he's throwing the ball and, you know, it just like floats out there and you know, so two of the interceptions I could really say, you know, like, weren't really his fault, I guess. And then, you know, the one where he just doesn't even see the linebacker that re throws the. Fix it. [00:07:36] Speaker B: Yeah. 100 and I think, you know, I think this game is a real like if this team somehow obviously we're going to talk about the Auburn game. We're going to talk about their future as a postseason team. This is a perfect game to study of like how do you shut down Alabama and how do you do things that really cause that defense trouble? Obviously the run heavy kind of option looking attack just destroyed Alabama's defense. They have not been able to stop a team that has played like that all year from the two, the two times that we've seen it. And also, I mean just. It truly to me it just screams that like the most important thing about Alabama's offense is Jalen Milroy's ability to run the ball. Without that, the entire thing starts to shut down. And I think, you know, at this point, right this late, you know, this is most likely Milrose last season with Alabama. I think you kind of, you've gotten to the point where you kind of realize his limitations as a, as a quarterback, as a passer. You know, I've been one of his biggest defenders since, you know, day one. And I think a lot of the hate that he gets is very undeserved. But it's pretty clear that, you know, unless he's firing on all cylinders like he was in the first half of that Georgia game, that you kind of know exactly what that offense is going to look like and when he's able to use his legs, when they're able to use, you know, weapons and get, get things going. Him being able to run opens everything else up. Kind of like you saw in the Sovereign game, exactly what you saw again against lsu against Georgia early. I mean, it's just, I think by this point in the year we kind of know what Alabama is. We know how they're going to win a game. I think that's, that's really all there is to it. Ugly, ugly loss should, should never happen. But you know, on the bright side, obviously have Auburn this week. They come back home, they win this game. 28 14. Kalendaboor's first Iron Bowl. A pretty solid performance from Alabama. Even though in that first half, three turnovers in the first half, four on the game. Again, not one of Milrose prettiest games as far as, you know, turnovers go. On other fronts, it was great. But how do we feel about this Auburn game? Elliot? [00:10:12] Speaker C: Okay, I'll go first. Definitely a bit of a bounce back performance. After the Oklahoma game. I am still. Since we're going to be talking about their potential postseason chances, I'm still a little bit leaning towards the concerned area. As you said, not one of Milrose prettier games. There has got to be an emphasis placed on ball security. I understand that. It was kind of cold. Okay. I was there on the fence, you know, down there. It was, it was a little bit nippy. You know, can feel like a rock sometimes, but like there were too many opportunities for them trying to give the game to Auburn. Even at the end of the game, you know, you have like the fumbles, you just go three and out. And it was one of those like weird scenarios where it's like Auburn honestly had every opportunity to try to tie this game or inch closer and then they just shot themselves in the foot. They ran that trick play that resulted in like a pick or whatever. Just another awful lollipop throw from Peyton Thorne for another pick at the end. And like, really realistically, this could have been 28, 28 with like two minutes left in this game and it should have never been. Now granted, that probably would have been like that had it been in Jordan hair knowing, you know, what kind of goofy stuff goes on over there. But you know, mistakes like that, like, are not going to fly in the playoffs if they make it there. You got to be able to clean some of this up. You got to be a little bit more creative on some of the stuff. Auburn was. They were kind of okay at containing Milro, but they let him kind of get outside a couple times and that's where he burned them on the ground is whenever they let him bounce it outside. But I wouldn't really say they let them get a lot of stuff up the middle. They were pretty stout on that end, so just got to come in with a better game plan, emphasize ball security. I thought the defense was pretty okay overall. Came up with a few turnovers, so that's probably about it. [00:11:57] Speaker A: Yeah, you know, sloppy game, four turnovers, still able to get the win out. So I'm happy about that. Obviously. Fifth straight win over Auburn, you know, that's. We haven't seen that, you know, in a while. It always seems like there's always one year where Auburn's able to pull one out. But, you know, Malachi Moore, you know, finishes his career five and oh, I think it's the first player to do that. Calendar 9 Win season highs for the most wins as a first year head coach at Alabama since Frank Thomas when he took over, you know, 100 years ago, basically. But wish it was a little bit more crisp. I did like how the team came out. You know, they were very energized. You know, it was a good thing after the disappointing Oklahoma loss to come out and just kind of see the energy that the team brought to this game with it being, you know, a rivalry game. And knowing that, like, if you lose this one, you know, that's like nothing. Not talking about, like, posting, like, you lose this one and, you know, lose four times in a season and losing to an Auburn team that really hasn't been, you know, all that good all year, that would. That would not have been, you know, a good way to end, you know, first season as a head coach. Would have probably had the same thing as Nick Saban's first year when everybody was saying that, you know, they should fire him after, you know, his one year in a 7 and 6 finish. But, you know, I liked, like I said, the energy they came out with. Just wish it was a little bit more crisp. Defense, you know, didn't let them score too much, but they were giving up a lot of yard. You know, it seemed like every drive Auburn was driving down the field, and then you. They would stiffen up, you know, closer to the end zone, they had the one, you know, fourth down stop, you know, miss field goal. And then, you know, it's 28 to 6. You want that one final stop. It ends up getting the penalty. That kind of kick starts that Auburn drive and they're able to go down and get it 28:14. And I was kind of thinking, like, you, Elliot, you know, I'm like, you know, Auburn's going to come back and be able to tie this up. And then, you know, the interception from thrown by Jarquez Hunter and then the final intersection by Peyton Thorne kind of sealed it. So, you know, Alabama's really good when, like, y'all are saying Milro's able to run the ball. And when the defense force turnovers, you know, they. Other than the Oklahoma game, I think it's like five of the last six games. You know, they force like three or more turnovers. So really good to see the turnover forcing. I just wish they wouldn't let an offense, you know, go down the field as easily as Auburn was able to do a lot of the game. [00:14:35] Speaker B: Yeah, 100%. Also speaking of that throw by Dark Quest Hunter, I have no idea why that ball is let go. That's one of those situations where, like, you gotta, you know, you're almost hitting, like, the Will Levis Hugh freezes, like, what in the world? Like, why? Because you can just see the disaster, the car crash coming from a million miles away. I thought there was a lot of encouraging things from Alabama in this game, especially from the defense. Now, I know, you know, late in the game, they kind of started to let them drive. You know, it wasn't maybe this, you know, wall of a performance that we really wanted to, but Alabama turned the ball over three times early in this game, four times for the game total, and they only scored six points off of it. I mean, it's hard. You know, I said this at halftime of the game. I said, if Alabama wins this game, it is going to be because of the defense's performance in the first half. The game easily could have gotten out of hand. And, you know, obviously we've kind of seen what happens to Alabama when the game kind of starts to get out of hand, when they start pressing. I thought Jaylen Murrow, other than, you know, there were a lot of turnovers, a lot of fumbles that, you know, some of those were just careless. You hate to see those. The one interception, it kind of gets batted up. You know, it is what it is. But as far as, you know, if you take away the turnovers. Right. Obviously, that's saying a lot. A pretty solid game for Dale Memorial. 18 for 24 for 256 yards through the air, only the one interception, 75% completion percentage, and then obviously on the ground, 104 yards, three touchdowns. I believe he is third or fourth for most SEC rushing touchdowns in a season. Getting perilously close to that record. Obviously, whether they get to play in a playoff game or only get the one bowl game, that that's going to, you know, affect that a lot. And you'd love to see him get that. But I thought a pretty solid performance. He looked extremely explosive on that. I want to say it was the second or third touchdown run where he just kind of bolted. You were like, wow, like that. Where. Where has that been? Like that. That's the kind of speed that, you know, NFL scouts are going to love him for, and it'll be a big part of the reason why he will get drafted relatively early. But so you saw a lot of good things. Another thing that I really love to see from Alabama is how involved they got Jeremy Bernard in this game. Jeremy Bernard, you know, obviously transferred over from Washington with DeBoer. He was a big selling point. One of the big players that they brought in, other than Brailsford at center, and, you know, he goes for 111 yards in this game, 10 targets. And it really showed that Alabama is not a one trick pony as far as the receiving cord goes. You know, I think a lot of emphasis has been placed on Ryan Williams. It's something that happens. You know, he's a very young player who, you know, in this game, you know, had a. Had a couple of mistakes, including the one ball where he slipped and somehow still caught it. I have no idea how he managed to pull that one off, but, you know, he only catches three passes in this game. But Jeremy Bernard, 111 yards, seven receptions on the day, you could tell that the game plan was very built around him. Built around a guy who, you know, I'm sure Dubois felt like he could really trust, and they were able to get it done. The other thing, the tight ends just came alive. I don't know what, what changed from the other games, but it just seemed like every single play there was a tight end wide open over the middle of the field. And obviously that makes it so easy. You know, if you have those easy reads that you can go to for Milro, that's obviously what you love to see. So overall, I thought a lot of really good things from Alabama in this game. Maybe not the definitive performance you wanted to see. I will say coming out of the locker room, one of the best drives I've seen from them all year. The first drive out of halftime, they drove straight down the field and scored relatively quickly. And at that point I was like, okay, this game's over. Like that. That's what you needed to see. And they came out and gave you exactly that. Now, I thought that they were gonna try and make more of a statement with that, because I'm sure in the back of their mind, despite what all the players will tell you, when they were just consistently dodging the question after the game, this team has to make a statement. This was their one chance to make a statement before those final rankings come out. And I thought, you know, after they had scored that initial drive out of the halftime, I was like, oh, okay, they're going to come alive right now. They're going to put this to bed and they're going to make a statement. Didn't do exactly that, but I thought overall, pretty solid performance and definitely a huge bounce back from that Oklahoma game. And honestly, thank God they won this game because social media would have been an absolute disaster, as I'm sure it's going to be if they somehow managed to backdoor their way into the playoffs. Any final thoughts I think that, I mean, for me, that kind of wraps up Auburn. For me, Good, good time. Very last game that I'll get to cover at, you know, at Bryant. Denny, last time being down there, it was cold as hell, especially at the end of the game. It was freezing up in the box because they refused to shut the windows. But, you know, it is what it is. It was a great time and thank God they won because I do not, you know, all I need to do is click on Yik Yak a couple more times and just hear some of the absolute mess that's on there. So I think that's going to do it for this segment. When we come back, we're going to talk about Alabama's potential chance to still somehow end up in the playoffs, however slim it might be. We'll just kind of talk about that. We'll talk about the AP poll that when we come back right here on 90.7 Capstone. This show is a sports production of WVUAFM 90.7 the Capstone, a division of student media at the University of Alabama. Support us by leaving a review rating or following us on X at WVUAFM Sports. Welcome back into the low tide here on 90.7 the Capstone, our nice remote edition as we're going to do until somehow we end up back in the studio next semester, probably long after Alabama's finished playing football. A absolutely chaotic Friday and Saturday in college football. Another crazy week. Honestly, things are shaping up to be one of the best college football seasons we've had in quite some time as far as not knowing really who is going to make noise going into the playoff. Absolute chaos. You've got Ohio State somehow managing to lose to potentially one of the worst Michigan teams I've ever seen. Tragic. Ryan Day probably going to lose his job unless they were to win the national title. Let's see what else happened. Miami loses to syracuse. They're up 21 nothing in the second quarter. Absolute dumpster fire over there. And then you've got Clemson, who, you know, I think personally all year I thought they had been overrated. South Carolina has been on a hot streak. They're able to get that one done. Clemson is still going to the ACC title game and still has a chance to make the playoff simply because Miami lost, which is truly tragic. But, but a pretty wild day. So the rankings are sure to be chaotic tomorrow when they come out. I believe that starts at seven. I. I'd have to. [00:22:59] Speaker C: Is it on Mondays? I thought it used to be on Tuesdays. [00:23:01] Speaker B: It's on. Oh yeah, that's right. Two days from now. Yeah. Tuesday. It is on Tuesday. Yeah. Hopefully this. Well, look, it could have been tomorrow, you know, if I just. [00:23:10] Speaker C: Okay, wait, wait. So let's record it twice and then that way you can do one in case you post it today and one in case you post it tomorrow, right? [00:23:18] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. We're gaming the system. It's not live anymore. Everything's good. But. Yeah, so how. I guess we'll start with this. We'll kind of. We'll try and keep it. I don't even know what the word is. Try and keep it a little bit brief. How are we feeling about Alabama's playoff chances? A chance to kind of backdoor their way into the playoff given everything that happened on this Saturday. Elliot, we'll start with you. [00:23:47] Speaker C: I think that the door is open and it's a jar. I'm not going to say that it's almost shut and I'm not going to say it's completely wide open. This is completely contingent upon the fact that Clemson has to lose to smu. But as somebody who watches a lot of ACC ball, I will tell you that SMU is actually probably one of the best, like maybe five teams on this list. I'm pretty impressed by their defense and their offense is lethal. So I do not see Clemson beating them in the title game. I think even though that the ACC title game is not supposed to eliminate you or whatever. That's what they said about the title games. Clemson has three losses and the reality of the situation is that three, their three losses are just arguably worse and they are going to drop like and that's just how it is. They to get in, they must win then. That's the reality situation. The only argument that you could maybe make is Miami because they only have two losses in my opinion. Miami has no statement win. Miami has been overrated all season and quite frankly they've given up like oodles of points to teams that do not score. And I don't think there's anything more telling than a pretty below average pit team blowing out Syracuse and then Syracuse hanging 42 points on Miami. So I understand these are two completely different spots in the season. Miami doesn't deserve to be anywhere near the top 12 in that regard to make the CFP. And then when you look at the other teams Ole misses three losses incurred are a little bit worse. Alabama owns the head to head over South Carolina. So it's hard to make an argument on that fact. I think it would be fun to see South Carolina in there, to see some Beamer ball. But it realistically, if you had to come down and choose between Alabama, South Carolina, you have to give it to the head to head winner. So the door's open. But Clemson has to lose. [00:25:31] Speaker A: All right, leave something for the rest of us. Okay? But yeah, so like you said, you know, SMU has to win. If Clemson wins and takes, you know, that spot, that's basically a bid steal because SMU is still going to get in. Right? So you need SMU to be Clemson, not Clemson out. Now we pretty much know the rest of the team. We know all four of those Big Ten teams are getting in. We know three SEC teams, you know, Texas, Georgia, they're getting in. Tennessee is definitely in. You're going to have at least the ACC champion, the Big 12 champion and a group of five. I don't think you're getting the second Big 12 team in there. And unless Clemson wins, I don't think you're getting two ACC teams. I don't really think you can even make the argument for the two lost Miami just because they have no top 25 wins. I think the best argument against Alabama, like if you're going with head to head, no, not head to head, but if you're debating between two teams to get in, I think it is Ole Miss because they beat South Carolina by more points and they beat Georgia by more points. So with common opponents, they played better in those games. We can talk about the Kentucky loss, we can talk about the Florida loss, but Alabama also lost to Vanderbilt and Oklahoma. So I think it would be more difficult if it was between Ole Miss and Alabama because in the game against Georgia they won that one by double digit points. Then the game against South Carolina, they won that one, I believe 27 to three. Miami, you know, they could still get in. Obviously we don't know what the committee's going to do. It's going to be very interesting to see in those rankings that come out in one of these days where they ranked them with no top 25 wins and then those losses to Georgia Tech and to Syracuse. So you know, I'm going to be looking at that. And then do they still respect that head to head against South Carolina or are they going to say, well, South Carolina is playing better now and they just beat Clemson and now we're going to bump them ahead if they do that, I think it's ridiculous because I think you do have to reward that head to head. But with Alabama and Ole Miss not playing against each other I think they're going to look at common opponents and then I think it favors Ole Miss with that one. [00:27:39] Speaker C: Remind me though, on Ole Miss real quick, where were their losses at? I will say that the one thing, if there's any silver lining at all, okay. No matter what grade it might be or how little, all three of their losses were on the road, those were not incurred at home. So to me, in that regard, that is a, that's a little bit of a benefit to a certain degree. Now, granted, doesn't excuse what happened. Obviously we already talked about it a little bit ago, like with OU and everything, but I do think that that has to be something taken into consideration. [00:28:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:14] Speaker A: So Ole Miss did lose to Kentucky at home, 20 to 17. [00:28:19] Speaker C: That's a pretty brutal one. [00:28:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:21] Speaker A: On the road at LSU and on the road at Florida. But for me, I think the committee, and you know, I'm not in the room obviously, but I think the committee would just see, you know, three losses, both teams lost to one ranked opponent and two unranked opponents. And then they're going to look at, oh, they beat Georgia 28 to 10 and they beat South Carolina 27 to 3 and Alabama need a last second touchdown after giving up the lead and then held on to beat South Carolina by two points. So I mean, if I'm in the room, I'm pitching all day for Alabama to get in, you know, a little biased, just like everybody else in that room does. But I think, I think what would happen would be that they would look at those common opponents where Ole Miss fared better in those games. [00:29:10] Speaker B: Yeah. You know, you bring up a good argument with Ole Miss and I don't know that I necessarily disagree with you, but I will say this. We've already seen a ranking and if the committee was going to take that stance, I feel like they already would have. They have Alabama ranked over Ole Miss, they have them ranked over South Carolina. The thing that I think comes out for me is there is an outside chance, however small it is, that South Carolina could jump both Ole Miss and Alabama simply because they went and got that win over Clemson. Now personally, I think that that went over Clemson is not as good as it is. I think it's going to be interesting to see how far Clemson falls after, after this game, after that loss to South Carolina. Obviously they still have their destiny in their own hands, have the potential to make it through an auto bid. But you know, I think that that's really the only team that I can, that I can see jumping Alabama like That would be South Carolina, simply because they've looked absolutely fantastic to close out the year. And really they only lost to 2. They only lost by 2 to Alabama on the road. So I, you know, personally, that, that I, I don't know, it's gonna be, it's gonna be interesting to see. As far as other teams, I do not think Miami has a chance anymore. I think they played too many games that could have gone the other way. Obviously that Virginia Tech game, that game should have gone the other way. I actually don't know how they ended up with that one. They went a super close one against Cal. They went a close one against Louisville. I mean, I think that really had. Now had they made the ACC title game, I think I would have been a little more like, okay, yeah, this probably is not good for Alabama, right? But even then, you know, I think the only conferences that are really guaranteed, like if you make it, like they're not going to punish you, are the SEC and the Big Ten, like straight up. And honestly, I don't even know that I 100% buy that. Just because now I think like something insane would have to happen. Like we're talking like Georgia would have to lose like 40 nothing or you know, let's say whoever's in the Big Ten title game, which is completely possible. I think it's what it's Oregon, Penn State. I think if Penn State was to lose, you know, 30, 40 nothing, or they were to just get absolutely, just get absolutely steamrolled, not even close to being competitive. I think there is a chance that the committee could hold that against them. Now. I don't think the same can be said for the acc. It's just not as tough of competition. Miami does not. They don't have a quality win. They were kind of banking off the fact that like, oh, we only have one loss, we're going to be in the ACC title game. It's not possible anymore. The only other argument that I'll make for Miami is just that it is going to be. Social media is going to be a firestorm when a three loss SEC team gets it. Especially if it's Alabama. You already kind of know that that blowback is coming. So I think there is the potential that the committee says, okay, well who is the like the most palatable of these, like bad options? And you're going to say, oh, well, Miami just has one less loss. Okay, let's throw them in there. I don't think it's a good argument, but I think it, it totally could happen. I think, yeah, go ahead. [00:32:53] Speaker A: It would have been so good if, you know, Notre Dame had lost that game to usc. You know, USC throws the two, you know, hundred yard pick sixes or they could have won that game. And so then you would have ended up, you know, probably getting Alabama in and then one of the other ones, whether it be Miami or South Carolina, Ole Miss. So that would, I would, I was rooting for USC in that game just so we could have a little bit more clear path for Alabama. But now if Alabama does get in the playoffs, you know, they're going on the road and then it's just like, where are they going and can they handle it? [00:33:25] Speaker C: Well, the best scenario I would say that occurred is actually the game that I was a little bit focused on last night was the Texas, Texas A and M game. Because the biggest problem, what would have happened is if Texas A and M won that game because they would have been a three loss SEC team then going to their championship. And the championship is not supposed to penalize you. Right. They'd have to play Georgia. And so this would have caused like this whole issue scenario where now, okay, now you got another team in the mix, right. And that's the last thing that you would want is to add another team that's already 14 race. [00:33:54] Speaker A: And if A and M had won that game, you know, then they get the auto bid and then they would have had to put in Georgia and they would put in Texas, they would have put in Tennessee. Now, I mean, you could that argument. We talked about this before how, you know, that would have been Texas having, you know, two losses in their two biggest games and maybe they drop them out, but I don't think that would have happened. [00:34:13] Speaker B: Yeah. So like just for the record, absolute stinker of a game between Texas and Texas A and M got built up all year and A and M looked absolutely pathetic. If it wasn't for Quinn trying to throw the game away, it would have been unwatchable at the end of that one. [00:34:29] Speaker C: I thought the game was unwatchable. [00:34:31] Speaker B: Yeah, it was pretty ugly. Texas A and M clearly not as good as everybody had kind of built them up to be. I think that they really got enhanced by that LSU performance before we kind of knew that LSU actually kind of stinks. It just kind of is how it is. I think, you know, we've seen a lot from a bunch of SEC teams, very competitive league this season, despite what other people will tell you. What I will say is like, also, I just want to put this out there for the record, we do not know what would have happened. So this is 100% hypothetical. I actually think that A and M's only path to the playoff, even if they had made the SEC title game with three losses, would have been to win. I think they would have had that held against them had they lost just because, yeah, they, they weren't that strong going in. I, you know, I'm not one of those people who's like, oh, well, like, if you have four losses, you should automatically be out. Because if Florida only had four losses right now, I would 100 be like, okay, yeah, Florida should get in. Like, let's put some hands up. [00:35:42] Speaker A: Imagine if Georgia Tech had beaten Georgia on Friday night and then you would have had a Georgia Tech, you know, finish with four losses. I mean, they obviously wouldn't have got in, but finished with four losses, beating Miami, Georgia and then technically a top 10 Florida State team in week one. So you would have had. [00:36:05] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, the. Granted, I don't think that really helps any argument though, because Georgia is going to get in regardless. I mean, even incurring that loss, right. It supposedly, again, the championship is not supposed to count against you. Right. And so even incurring that, that third one, I think the committee would have been like, okay, no, like, but I'm. [00:36:23] Speaker A: Saying, whatever, if that has happened, I would have been trying to get the Yellow Jackets in the playoff. I'll be like, put them in. [00:36:29] Speaker B: Yeah. You know, like, here's the thing though. Like, I think if Georgia would have lost the Georgia Tech game, I do not think it's a, It's a given that they would have been in. And I don't even think, like, I understand, you know, Joe test his tour, you know, don't, you know, I love the guy, you know, Monday night, new Monday night Raw commentary. So I'm not going to hate on him too much. But if, like, you had turned the, like, oh, they win this and they're in the playoffs into a drinking game, like, you would have been dead watching the game. I mean, it was absolutely insane how much that was being harped on. And I understand, right, that like, you gotta push the playoff. That's all we care about. And that's kind of the trap that not only every show that talks about college football has fallen into, but just college football in general. You know, when you started saying things like meaningless bowl games, fun stuff like that. But, like, if they would have lost to Georgia Tech. And like, even right now, I don't think it's a given that just because you Made the title game, you're gonna get in because anything could happen. I mean, if you were to lose to Texas 40 nothing or if you were to, you know, get tcued, I mean, you, you would be out of that. Like there's no way they would put you in. And I don't think it's just because like, oh, you just made the SEC title game. Because then like why, why are we playing the game? Because you can sit here and argue that the team that loses that game is going to be in a better spot than the person who wins it. [00:38:01] Speaker A: You know, I know we, we've said it many times on this show. You know, last year and this year, how, you know, this is the perfect year for the 12 team playoff and this year might have actually been the perfect year for the 14 playoff because you would have had a play in game between Oregon and Penn State, a playing game between Texas and Georgia. You know, it would like. I mean, I'm still glad Alabama has a shot to get in, but you know, with, with the chaos that happened these last couple of weeks, if it was still a 14 playoff, that would have been insane. [00:38:32] Speaker B: Guys. The 12th team playoff is actually garbage. We're going back to the four team playoff. We've decided to make changes. [00:38:39] Speaker A: Yes. Select the team. [00:38:42] Speaker B: Oh, man. Yeah. We're gonna have the new. We're gonna have chat GPT pick the. The College Football Playoff. Also like the Big 12. Absolute dumpster fire. Colorado still had a chance to make the game before BYU lost last night, which is absolutely insane. [00:39:02] Speaker A: I won Colorado in. I wanted Colorado to go on the road to like an SEC place and just see what would happen. But that would, that would be fun. [00:39:10] Speaker B: Could have been interesting. But now, now you're gonna get, you're getting Arizona State, Iowa State. Arizona State was like picked last in the Big 12 to start the year and they're 9 and 2 and they could play their way into the playoffs real quick. So fantastic job over there from them, you know. [00:39:27] Speaker A: Yeah. With the, with the big. You know, I just, you know it's going to make it to where Boise State, if they don't lose to unlv, you know, they're going to be that team that gets a first round bye as a group of five. That's insane. [00:39:39] Speaker B: And I don't know that I hate it because the Big 12, like, you know, I just hasn't looked. It's. It's been super competitive. I mean you can't really ask for. You know, there was still like a number of scenarios that could have played out like when the day started. Absolute insanity. You know, kind of looking down, you know, the last College Football playoff rankings, to me, like, man, the Big Ten is really just getting some big time favors here. I, first off, Ohio State losing to Michigan, absolutely unacceptable. Like, I do not, like, legitimately. I can almost promise you, unless they were to win the national title, Ryan Day is gone. You cannot lose to Michigan, what, four times in a row now? [00:40:29] Speaker C: Yeah, it's four. [00:40:30] Speaker B: And then the absolute dumpster fire of a situation that happened after that game because you don't know how to lose. Like, I. Come on, guys like you, you had all this time to let that play out on the field, but then you're going to get mad when you lose at the end. Like, I don't know. And don't even. That whole, like, you cannot sit here and like be offended by people like planting stuff on your field. Mike Norvell, if you win two games, like, don't, don't even get me started with that. That's complete garbage. Truly, truly tragic that we're even, like we even have to have that discussion in 2024. But like, I think there's a lot of these teams in the Big Ten that just, they are getting saved by the fact that like, they didn't really have to play anybody. I mean, Indiana lost its only game that was super important all year to a team that just lost to Michigan, a team that has not been able, like, I don't, I don't even think they'd had a, they had one game like over 150 passing yards all year. They're terrible. They, their quarterback, Alex Orgy cannot throw the ball. And then like they're, they're out there running a two quarterback system and will Howard in Ohio State just throw the game away. I, one of the worst performances I've ever seen. I mean, they missed like a 30 yard field goal at one point in that game. [00:42:03] Speaker A: And like, you know, Indiana, you know, they, they cemented, you know, that playoff spot with their, you know, 66. Nothing went over Purdue, you know, so now they're going to be that one loss team that's still going to get in. Especially with, you know, Alabama losing, Ole Miss losing and now being, you know, three loss teams trying to get in. But I saw this hilarious thing with the, with Purdue, right. You know, so lose that game 66 nothing. But somebody had done and went through like all the games. Like if Purdue had started with a 34 point lead in every game, like just got given 34, they would have still finished six and six. [00:42:41] Speaker C: Terrible. Well, speaking of the Big Ten, and this is one of those weird scenarios where I, you know, everyone talks about how the SEC kind of gets a lot of favors done. And in a little bit of fairness to the sec, I think that there is not a higher quality of talent because there are some very talented players in the Big Ten. But I would say that the quality of opponent throughout the entire league, top to bottom, is much better than the Big Ten. You got some real, real stinkers in the Big Ten. And then again, play who you play on your schedule. Quite frankly, I am a little bit worried about Indiana, like in the first game that they play. I think that they're a first round exit. I'm not entirely convinced it would depend on who they play. There are a couple of teams, I think if it's the, I think if it's the Big 12 champion that they wind up having to play or if it is, I'm trying to think who else would be on the outskirts of that if they had to play Boise State, if they might be able to beat Boise State. And that's just because, you know, Boise State, they're very good, but you know, they've struggled in a couple games, you know, they could probably beat them. But outside of that, I'm, I'm not entirely convinced that they're really like that much of a wagon. SMU to me has proven more that they're a wagon compared to Indiana. And that's just by virtue. I think that the, some of the, some of those mid tier ACC teams are just better than the bottom half of the Big Ten. Penn State, I've always thought has been a fraudulent team. I've never, I'm never on the James Franklin hype train at all whatsoever. Obviously Ryan Day, like, he's a terrible big game coach. James Franklin is another terrible big game coach. And whenever they play head to head, it's like, okay, well one of them has to win. They can't tie, right? Like someone asked is going to have to win this game. And so I have a, I have a pretty big feeling that this Penn State, Oregon, you know, Big Ten championship. I absolutely think that Oregon is going to blow the doors off of Penn State. Penn State's got a pretty anemic offense and they have struggled with a lot of like bottom feeder teams and it has taken Drew all our heroics to win some of these games. I just don't think that that's going to fly. [00:44:53] Speaker B: Yeah, 100, you know, again, multiple Big Ten teams that I'm super worried about Indiana, like, congratulations, you beat a 1 in 11 team that just fired their head coach. Like, what was this, 66? Nothing. Penn State, like, not worried at all. I mean, they could get absolutely steamrolled and probably will get steamrolled by Oregon in the Big Ten title game. And they're probably still going to make it comfortably. Ohio State, they're still going to make it just because, like, hey, we don't have any better options at this point. Like, hey, you know, yeah, you get in. But like, what are we supposed to do here? And one thing I really want to bring up here is that I totally think so. Honestly, in my opinion, I think if Alabama gets in, it's going to be as the 12 seed. But I think that that might actually be a good thing because you look at who they would play, they would probably play Notre Dame, who cannot be seeded any higher than fifth. And I like, as far as, you know, like just looking at the history of the program in recent playoff games, very similar to an Ole Miss or Penn State. It just doesn't. Like, I'm not terrified, like Alabama has been horrible on the road, save for like one game against lsu, who are like, exactly. Pretty similarly probably fraudulent. Right. So I think out of all the possible scenarios you could get, it would be like either that or Penn State would be like probably the best ones of, best of, best of bad choices. But I don't know, it's going to be interesting. [00:46:36] Speaker A: Yeah, I think if it, if it comes down to like something like that and you know, I'm still confused at like where exactly the seeding would end up because, you know, we've seen it. Everyone with that last conference champion, that fifth conference champion, always got the 12 seeds. So I wonder if they would have 11. But. [00:46:52] Speaker B: Well, yeah, yeah, they could be in the 11 because what would happen would be like. So obviously, obviously it depends on where they put them in relation. Right? Like how, how much does Arizona State jump up? They had a major win against Arizona in a game that I thought was going to be competitive, was not competitive even in the slightest. So it's going to be really interesting to see where they, where they put them. Obviously. Yes, Alabama could, you know, if they were the 11, because if they're ranked outside of the top 12, they would get the 12 seed just by virtue of having been the next highest ranked conference champion. [00:47:26] Speaker A: And just from what I've seen, like, if it ends up being either that Notre Dame or Penn State, you know, it's. I'm a little conflicted with it because, like, I think Penn State has not played as well as Notre Dame has. But I do think it would be a more difficult home field to deal with going to Penn State, like, with how poorly Alabama has played on the road, other than LSU and a Wisconsin game where their quarterback had an ACL tear, you know, on their first drive. So, like, Penn State I think might be. I mean, I don't want to say, like, easy because, you know, like, it's still. It's still a playoff game. It would still be on the road. But if. If we've looked at how Penn State has played and how Notre Dame has played recently, I think I might want to play Penn State. But that's still a tough place to go into with how, you know, how much of an advantage, you know, Happy Valley gives them. [00:48:22] Speaker C: I'll just put it this way. Me personally, if I am a team playing in the College Football Playoff, I'm not really that scared of any Big Ten team. I'm not really even that scared of Oregon. Oregon has had their moments where I'm. [00:48:32] Speaker B: Like, honestly, I don't know that if I'm any team in the College Football Playoff that I'm scared of anybody, because everybody has looked vulnerable. Like every single team looks like they can be beat. [00:48:46] Speaker C: I will say this. There is actually one. This is going to be a super controversial opinion, but I'm going to say it anyway and I'm going to put it on the record. Okay? There is one team that I am worried about if I am playing them, and that is Georgia, because they have proven time and time again, no matter how much of a hole that you try to give them, and no matter how late it might be in this game that you put them down, they will. They will fight until that final buzzer. And they are. Carson Beck will not go down without swinging. You know, like, there is no lead to me that is safe with them, right? So you have to be super, super careful because he's resilient. He'll make a terrible interception. He'll have, like, an awful fumble. He'll do something really stupid and he'll come out that next drive and he will just throw it right down your throat. And they will. They will come back. And that's just how it is. I would be concerned about that just because I think Kirby Smart is probably one of the best coaches in college football at this moment and he has his team ready and prepared for every single possible scenario. [00:49:43] Speaker A: So credit to them, especially if it ended up being a first round Matchup in Athens. [00:49:51] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, good point. So yeah, I think that's going to, that's going to do it for this segment. Obviously Tuesday the first rankings come out. That's going to tell us a lot. It's probably going to tell us whether Alabama is going to be in or not and then it will just be up to the conference championship games. Obviously that Clemson SMU game will be appointment viewing and it is actually the last game that will come on. So good on the TV networks for picking the right one to put on last. But that's going to do it for this segment. When we come back, we're going to touch quickly on Alabama basketball and the Players Era Festival and then we'll do B for the week as always. All right, we'll be right back here on 90.7 Capstone. [00:50:53] Speaker A: WVUAFM Tuscaloosa. [00:51:08] Speaker B: Welcome back into the low tide here on 90.7 the Capstone Nicholas, Adam Elliott closing things out here in our nice little virtual edition of the Low Tide. Alabama basketball has played a ton. They're going to play a ton as we, as we keep going. They've played I believe four games since we last talked three wins, a win over a then ranked Illinois big win over Houston, they take down Rutgers and then in the championship of the players era festival, $1 million on the line. They do fall by two points to unranked Oregon. Positives and negatives from what we've seen from Alabama here in these past couple games. [00:51:57] Speaker A: Adam so you know, obviously would have wished they had been able to win that, you know, final game against Oregon. Oregon will definitely in my opinion be ranked once the new polls come out. I think they're either undefeated or only have one loss. I think Alabama's offense is starting to, starting to gel a little bit more. You know, they've been fairly consistent even with that Illinois game when they won 187. Mark Sears had zero points in that game. He actually refused to go back in with how like, like he was like NATO wanted to put him back in and allegedly Mark Sears said no, let them handle it. They're you know, doing good. I'm not so just seeing how you know, it doesn't have to be Sears. You know, we said it multiple times how you know they got many players that can, you know, contribute on the offensive end and when Sears is not going, you know, they, they were still able to score 100 points against ranked Illinois team. Now they went in to the players era, beat a top 10 team in Houston, beat Rutgers, who you Know, they got two of the best freshmen. Obviously they had. The one guy had over 30 points in both the game in the first round and then the game against Alabama. So kind of wish a little bit stronger on the defensive end, but, you know, had a bunch of people start getting in, you know, some foul trouble. I think the biggest issue in the players era that, you know, was very prominent were the turnovers. And they really need to clean up those turnovers. You know, luckily Alabama was able to. Able to win two of those games. But let's see, against Houston, 15 turnovers. Rutgers, they had 20 turnovers in that game that they won. And then against Oregon, another 15 turnovers. And, you know, really, you know, if you're watching that Oregon game, obviously Oregon wins by two. I think Alabama did not really play well enough to win with those turnovers that we saw. But having that goaltending call, which I did not agree with, a bunch of other people did not agree with, and then losing by the two points that, you know, it's, you know, I think they called that with a little over a minute left in the game. So that was. That was hard to swallow. I think it would have been really nice if Alabama had been, you know, had won the players era. That was one of their preseason goals. They talked about. They talked about wanting to win four championships, the players era, regular season, SEC tournament, and then the national championship. They didn't get the first one done. So how are you going to respond? And they got a big test on Wednesday. They're going and playing at Chapel Hill, North Carolina against the Tar Heels. That's going to be a tough place to play. I know North Carolina hasn't played to what their fans consider their standard, but it's going to be tough to go in there, especially with the injury to Latrell Wach Reitzel. Still nothing new that I've seen. They said that they were going to wait till they got back to Tuscaloosa before he went and got an mri. Looks like possible torn Achilles. Hopefully it's not. But Youngblood, the guy, you know, he's been injured. He hasn't played yet this season. He might be back for North Carolina, they said. He probably will be back for Creighton. That's what I saw. I can't remember who posted it, but that's at least SEC play. But if they can get him back for North Carolina or Creighton, that would be huge. [00:55:23] Speaker B: Yeah, you've seen a lot of, a lot of good things from Alabama recently. Obviously you've been Able to win multiple games despite having some pretty bad turnover problems. You've seen a lot of the depth that we constantly heard about over the off season through the first couple of games. That's really shown up for you. Tragic loss against Oregon. Obviously played pretty well. Jaron Stevenson literally had not made a three pointer. He was like 0:19 up to that point. And then I think he made his first three or four. Obviously the last one, I believe was an airball, which is a little tragic. But you know, granted you have a terrible goaltending call. Both the announcers thought that it was, was clean. It was pretty close. It's one of those things where probably you had to call it as it was called on the floor. They took a long time looking at that replay just for that to be the, to be the case. Crazy, crazy ending. As far as, you know, managing to get an offensive rebound off a board, you simply very. End of the game, that's one of those things that you would hope they learned from at the end. You know, you got to get a shot up. I mean, even if it's Mark Sears trying to take a crazy layup there, you know, you got to understand how much time you have that you simply do not have time to pass that ball because, you know, they were in the double bonus. He totally could have gotten fouled on that play. You never know. But very close game. Really shouldn't have been in it late given how everything was. Had some calls not go your way, but you saw a lot of, a lot of different people get involved. Aiden Holloway, I mean, you had what, five people, Five people in double figures. Aiden Holloway played pretty well. Hit a couple, hit a big three late in the game. Lebaron Filon, you know, continues to be exactly who we thought he was. Mark Sears still kind of on a little bit of a downturn, you know, only 11 points in this game. Not exactly what you would expect from somebody who's thought to be, you know, player of the year potential as far as across all of college basketball. Oregon's a good team. They're 8, 0. They will be ranked coming up here. I'm sure that it was an interesting experience for a lot of these players. I mean, this is one of the first, like, I mean, think about it. This is a college basketball playing college basketball game that was played for money. I mean, they were not shy about the fact like these guys were playing for a million dollars to split between them like in nil, which is like insane to think about that. So it was a good, you know, Stressful test right in the middle of the year. Obviously you play these games to be in those moments and the more of these moments at the end of games, those sorts of things that you can have, the more that will build towards the end of the year and will hopefully push into SEC tournament success and NCAA tournament success. So a lot of good things from Alabama. Big win over Houston. Really. They played extremely well against Illinois. A lot of good things. Things are looking up despite the fact that they lost this game to Oregon. Got a two really tough schemes back to back. Unc, Creighton, honestly, I mean they would probably be good if they went 1 for 2, but you would love to see them win both of those games. They would make a huge statement going on the road and beating UNC. Mr. Miller, any thoughts? Short thoughts? No. [00:59:06] Speaker C: You guys, you guys ate, left no crumbs. I have nothing left to say. Retweet. Retweet. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. There's nothing of substance that I could say that has any meaning, so. [00:59:18] Speaker B: No, no. Like a word salad. You want to put together a word salad very quickly. [00:59:24] Speaker C: Turnover, bad. Depth, good. Team coming together good. [00:59:29] Speaker A: You know, you know, I'll, I'll say one more thing. I was really like, I know, you know, you still had the turnovers, but like you win that first game against Houston, right? That, that first night of the players era. You win that game, it's an overtime game, you're getting beat up. Everybody's, you know, like just exhausted, right. And then turning back around, you know, very next night, playing a Rutgers team who had also been in an overtime game, but Notre Dame and you know, just seeing how like seeing them play those games back to back nights playing, you know, as competitive as it did, as hard as they did, you know, coming out with wins in both of them, you know, that kind of makes me feel better, you know, because I. At this point last year, you know, obviously we. They had many losses that really shouldn't have happened. Like they should have found ways to win those games. They played very poorly and so on. You know, I think at this point last year they would have lost at least one, if not both. Seeing how well they were able to play, you know, on a back to back like that, that makes me feel good for when they do get to the tournament. As long as they stay healthy and nothing happens too drastic in SEC play. [01:00:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Also, just one final thought. Player Zero Festival. Very fun. Enjoyed it. We're in Vegas and the arena for the championship game was absolutely empty. Please just Give away some free tickets. Do something to get some people in there. Because that game was very good. It should have had more hype than it did. And they were basically playing for an empty gym. So love the Players Era Festival. Loved everything that went into it. We got to get some more people in there. That would be my only big point of concern. Okay, so beef of the week. You know what it is? It's back. It hasn't left for some many months. So I don't know that I can say that it's back anymore. Just consistently back and not like a fake back. Like Texas. [01:01:31] Speaker A: Ooh, shots fired. [01:01:35] Speaker B: Okay, who wants to start? [01:01:38] Speaker C: I actually have two beefs of the week, so I guess I'll go first since I had nothing to say about basketball. So my first beef. So I'm flying back and forth for Thanksgiving break. I'm not going to make the nine hour trek both ways just to be there for like six days and on my flight in. Now let's ignore the fact that I had to wake up at 3am for both of them because my flights left at like 4:30 to 5 in the morning. Okay. To get into Easterwood Airport in College Station and to get out of Easterwood Airport in College Station. Now if you've ever been to Easterwood, you would know that. [01:02:14] Speaker B: Funniest baggage claim scenario of all time. [01:02:18] Speaker C: It is the stupidest thing. Okay? I don't know what the logistics behind it are. It's awful. Okay. Anyway, I'm getting to my connecting flight in dfw, okay. And they're like, hey guys. So the captain isn't here, so the flight's going to be delayed, but we can't tell you how long. We just know that he's supposed to come in at 8:40 and then he's in terminal A and we're in terminal E. So if you know anything about the DFW airport, you know they have to take like the Skytram and everything. It's going to take him 20 to 30 minutes to get from his gate over, right? And I'm like, wait a second, this flight was like supposed to leave at like 8:30. So what do you mean he's supposed to come in at 8:40? Like you knew that he wasn't going to be here but you scheduled the flight to be earlier and so. But you know, I'm starving, I'm hungry, okay? Because I've been up since like 3am but I can't leave the terminal because they don't know when he's going to show up because they have no information. And they're like, just hold on, guys. Just hold on. And so they board the plane. They're like, oh, he's going to get here on time. He's actually going to get here early. So we all board the plane. We sat on the plane for an hour because he wasn't there yet. And then he walks in, like, with his food, and he's like chatting up with, like, the, you know, the flight attendants. And I'm like, dude, just put your fries in the bag and fly me to Easterwood Airport, okay? I have never in my life wanted to go to Easterwood Airport more. Okay. Anyway, that's beef of the week number one. Speaking of Texas and Texas A and M, that's my beef of the week number two. As a. As a College Station resident, okay, who lives in the place that this whole game of the year, okay, theatrics were building up to, okay? What on earth were the logistics of any of this? I mean, traffic was a nightmare. The way that they had stuff blocked off was a nightmare. I do not understand. I feel like over at Alabama, they do it pretty well. Like, what. What is going to be blocked off? What isn't going to be blocked off? The problem is over in College Station is that they don't do that. And half of the stuff is also under construction. So if you're trying to go do something, which, granted, there are not that many things to do in College Station, okay, It's like impossible to get there. Wall to wall traffic, people have no idea what they're doing. And then I now have to suffer the wrath of two different fan bases. I already can't go home and wear Alabama gear in fear for my life from all the A and M fans that I went to high school with, okay? Now with all the Texas fans in town, if I say Roll Tide, okay, now I got two different parties that I feel like are going to just assault me outside of the Napa Flats parking lot. So there's. It was a bit of a tough scene, okay? But, you know, we make do. Anyway, those are my two beefs of the week, A and M. A and M. Hype game logistics and American Airlines, the east for what? Airport. [01:05:17] Speaker B: Wow. Do you want me to go, Adam? Or. [01:05:21] Speaker A: I mean, I can go ahead and go. [01:05:23] Speaker B: Okay. [01:05:24] Speaker A: I could have had, you know, five or six people the weeks, but, you know, I'm just gonna go with one. You know, technically it was. It would have been my beef the week last week, but, you know, we didn't have a Show I wouldn't have even been able to be on it. I've already told y'all about this, but just so everybody else can, you know, hear my frustration. So, you know, we had a, we had a tournament, you know, I was with Alabama Adapted a couple weeks ago. Tournament at Wisconsin Whitewater. So it's a 13, 14 hour bus ride and you know, we end up finding out, you know, like the day before, like a couple. Anyway, right before we make this trip, this is going to be the first company that we use that will not let their drivers drive straight through the night. So how it works on these trips, especially when it's that long, you know, obviously you can't have a driver do that full drive. So you'll stop, you know, about halfway, you'll switch drivers. But every single one. When we would finish the final game on a Saturday, we would get back on the bus, drive back, you know, still did the changeover, and then we'd get back early Sunday morning. I think this time it was supposed to be, you know, a 6:50am Sunday morning return time and the drive. So I won't talk about the first driver that we had. He was the first one and then the last one, you know, he did some stuff that, you know, kind of delayed us a little bit. I won't get too much into that. But you know, the second driver that we had, and we had him the whole time in Whitewater and then on the way back, at least the first part, you know, he was a cool guy. I'm not talking about the drivers, but the company itself was just like, nope, can't happen. You have to wait till Sunday before they start driving back. So I ended up, you know, we finished that first game or the final game at around 2:30ish on Saturday. You know, we could have, we could have made it home, you know, pretty, pretty quick. And I don't know exactly what time, but you know, I wanted to get back on the road. Then we couldn't, you know, then, you know, operations, you know, they had to figure out, you know, staying in the hotel another night getting dinner. Anyway, so then I have to watch Alabama Oklahoma in a hotel in Whitewater, Wisconsin and then finish that game, wake up, be loaded up on the bus at 5am Sunday and then just doing that whole drive, like the whole 14 hours back, just very upset and, you know, it was not a good time. [01:08:05] Speaker B: Man, that, that sounds awful. Like, that's just like, it's like a, it just kept parlaying into like the worst possible circumstances. Okay, So I guess. I mean, I guess I'll have two beefs of the week. So first off, obviously, I went to Gulf Shores for Thanksgiving. You know, I'm not gonna pay for the cat, like, hotel for solid week. It gets very expensive. This fool has, like, everything he could possibly want. He's got the automatic litter box, the automatic feeder, the water fountain. Like, he's got all the amenities. And this goober, which I have my cat, like, right here up in the camera. Just so, like, you know, for those of. Those of you listeners out there. Yeah, yeah. This goober makes an absolute mess when I come back. Like, he had somehow gotten into the bathroom and opened every single drawer. He loves drawers. I don't know what it is. Opened every single drawer, knocked over everything that you could have knocked over. He, you know, you could say he was a little bit pissed that I, you know, left for a week or so, which was tragic and very, very fun to deal with when I got back. My second beef. Okay, now this is kind of a. This is like a beef of the year, okay? Because they, like, we're gonna have to do that also. Just sticking a year. Yeah, we're gonna have to, like, the biggest, biggest beef. So I do not understand what it is about college apartments and people, like, just acting like absolute fools. Like, I would expect this from, like, a freshman year dorm, right? Like, chaos, you know, You've never been away from home before. Okay, it is what it is. I understand. But, like, by the time you're living off campus, which you're probably a sophomore or a junior at that point, how do you not, like, understand, like, how you should behave, like, around other people in an apartment? Because it was like, one in the morning and the people directly above me are, like, doing, like, Jeff Hardy Swanton bombs from the ceiling, like, onto the floor. I don't know what was going on. I. I don't know that I've ever been so close to, like, doing the, like, thing where you get the broom and just, like, smacking the roof. It was. I was almost got to that point. It was. It was absolutely ridiculous. Like, come on, people. Like, can we. Can we not act in a civil manner? I don't know. Has anybody else had problems with this? Is this just me? [01:10:58] Speaker C: No, no. I think everyone has a shared experience. I mean, that's just. That's just beef of the generation, okay? [01:11:04] Speaker B: Like, that is so true. [01:11:05] Speaker C: So I don't know. [01:11:07] Speaker B: All right? So unless anybody's got any last thoughts, any parting wisdom other than, you know, never trust a. And M and taxes to bring you a quality game also. Okay, I just remembered my third B. Texas A and M police and Texas A and M in general, the university. Did you know apparently it is a violation of university rules to ride a horse on the Texas A and M campus? If you have ever been to Texas A and M A and M campus, it is massive. You cannot walk anywhere. Now there were some absolutely hilarious gold mine pictures that came out on the Internet. There was a man riding a longhorn holding his dog through A and M's campus. He did not. They just agreed for him to leave campus. That guy, absolute champion. That is. That is awesome. Longhorn. Okay, yeah, maybe we shouldn't have one of those in public, but a horse, like, come on out of all the places. [01:12:15] Speaker C: But you are allowed to ride a sheep. If you read the rules. The one animal that you are allowed to ride in the, I think in the campus area is a sheep. [01:12:25] Speaker B: I'm going to have to do some research into this. I'll report back next, next week. [01:12:30] Speaker C: And I think specifically for the, the, the mud and busting or whatever or whatever it is that they do where they literally put a toddler on like a baby sheep and then they just let them run around until the toddler gets thrown off and gets CTE from a traumatic like head injury. [01:12:48] Speaker B: So we're truly. I mean, this is just some groundbreaking stuff we're doing. [01:12:53] Speaker C: This is a lot of College Station talk. Is it, is it just. Is beef of the week, just College Station themed. [01:12:58] Speaker B: Adam, do you have College Station Aggies? I mean. [01:13:03] Speaker A: I can't come up with anything right now. I did go to College Station last year for that game. You know, I had a good time, you know, especially since Alabama won. But you know, I guess my thing was like just trying to get there because I drove, you know, from Tuscaloosa and you know, just driving through three hours of nothing in Texas. So it's not really, it's tough, I guess. [01:13:26] Speaker C: It's all Texas. [01:13:29] Speaker A: Wow. [01:13:30] Speaker B: Wow. We're just taking pot shots of the whole, the whole state. Yeah, those, those drives are, the drives are brutal. Yeah. Take you, take you a good like day to two days to drive across the whole state. [01:13:42] Speaker A: Yeah, especially like when I was doing it, you know, I, I got off work at about midnight and you know, I drove straight through from there. So I was, I was dying. [01:13:51] Speaker B: Yeah, that sounds awful on those nice like two lane roads. Yeah, absolutely brutal. Okay, that's gonna do it for us here on the low tide. This nice little virtual edition will be back next week, probably the same time. I won't promise anything. I don't think anything is promised as far as this show goes, ever. But hopefully we'll be back. Hopefully Alabama will have somehow backdoored their way into the playoffs. And hopefully the mob on Twitter has not burned all of the SEC to the ground for allowing Alabama to backdoor their way into the playoffs. We will see you next week. Have a good one.