Days 'til the A-Day Game: 4 Days 'til Season Kickoff: 137
Not much going on in the land of the Tide today. The big story is, of course, the shootings at Virginia Tech yesterday. The entire basketball and football teams have been accounted for by the coaches. Can you imagine the kind of impact this will have on recruiting up there? Blacksburg already isn't a very "recruit-friendly" place, but now you throw this on top of it. The fallout from this will include higher restrictions in admissions, security on campus, etc. This won't go away anytime soon.
Our thoughts and prayers are with those in Blacksburg. To those who were lost, we'll be toasting to you. Rest in Peace.
So, I guess we move on to football, even though it seems a little bit trivial at this moment.
The United Way is setting up donation stations around Bryant-Denny Stadium from 11:30am to 1pm on Saturday to help the city of Enterprise, AL, who was hit by a tornado on March 1st. You can donate a personal check or cash at any of the gates on the way in to the game. Also, incase you didn't know - the title of the game this year is the "Golden Flake A-Day Game."
The receivers are really buying into Saban's new philosophy about how a block can do as much for an offense as catching a touchdown. Matt Caddell said ""To be where we want to be, to be the best receiving corps in the country, we have to get a little bit more nasty."
Paul Finebaum discusses more about the longstanding effects of the Don Imus situation, pointing out that it'll be tougher to find people that will speak out for fear of possibly losing their jobs. This world could soon become a very boring place.
South Alabama is hiring Ronnie Arrow as their new head basketball coach. Arrow has been at Texas A&M Corpus Christi for the last three years, but the funny, and somewhat humiliating, thing for South Alabama is this - he was their coach from 1988 through 1995.
Not sure if you caught this yesterday, but the Reggie Bush case just got a little more ridiculous. The fact that the NCAA hasn't done anything about this yet is a fucking joke and shows their bias towards several select schools - mostly Alabama. Former USC player Reggie Bush and his family were accused of accepting over a quarter of a million dollars from agents Michael Michaels and Lloyd Lake. Michaels has been threatening to sue Bush for over a year now for all of the money that he gave that he was told would be paid back. Bush just settled with him for the exact amount that he was accused of taking. Michaels has now backed off of his initial claim and will not be suing Bush. It doesn't take a detective to figure this one out.
