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From what I can tell, being head coach at Michigan has one big advantage: A huge pay-for-play budget including a donor who's a de-facto owner -- Stephen Ross. The disadvantages are legion. There is no permanent President, only an interim. Warde Manuel (the Athletic Director) is on the...

Joey Hale is a bagger at the Publix near where I used to live in Birmingham. He's a better man than I am. Here's a story from Rick Karle https://www.al.com/life/2025/12/meet-a-man-who-just-may-be-the-most-inspiring-positive-influential-bag-boy-in-america.html

Kind of recruiting, kind of football in general: A player played two years at UGA. Then he transferred to Mizzou. UGA is suing to claw back what they paid him, asking for $390K. According to the ESPN article below, the method of calculation is “interesting.” I’m not at all sure they’ll get...

Went back and forth on whether this was Football or Recruiting. Finally landed on Football because it has implications far beyond just recruiting. There's an article in today's Wall Street Journal, written by Harriet Ryan, about the wreck that high school pay-for-play brought onto Phillip...

I know you're tired of this topic. I'm beyond tired of dealing with it. 99% of posters are fine. 1% just can't seem to help themselves and will seek out any gap, even if the gap is measured in angstroms. You can almost hear them do the Beavis and Butthead laugh. Here's the background: Some...

Jeffrey Epstein was an evil person. He wasn't stupid. He intentionally cultivated relationships with high-profile members of both parties. Reason being that whatever party was in power, they had reason to keep information from the public eye. And the party out of power also had its own...

After a long period of compliance, we've had at least three violations of the profanity policy over the past week....that I know of. There could have been others that got by. At least two were by posters of long standing. Don't post profanity. Don't link material that contains profanity...

Thought this was worthwhile and didn't see a thread where it really fit. Peter Zeihan is a fascinating guy, and brilliant. I don't always come to the same conclusions as he does because he often underestimates the ability of people and countries to adapt. So he also often expects his...

A member of almost 9 years standing has just been suspended through the end of the football season and post-season for a cute attempt to circumvent the profanity filters. It boggles my mind how this happens so much. Given the publicity it gets, it boggles my mind how it happens at all. We're...

Couldn't decide if this warranted a thread of its own, but also didn't see a pre-existing thread where it fit. So here goes. Alabama's four game run, beating four ranked teams in a row, is even more impressive than it looks on the surface. First, two of the wins, including one against the #5...

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I'm on record here several times saying that members of Congress and employees of a lot of other federal governmental agencies -- pretty much anybody in Congress or in a job that requires Congressional approval -- shouldn't be able to trade stocks, bonds, futures or other marketable securities...

TideFans is the best Alabama site on the net, and one of the best boards of any kind. A big part of that is because the rules don't allow behavior that is tolerated elsewhere. Ahead of Saturday's game, a reminder of TideFans rules around profanity and around teaser titles seems in order. No...

We're at the end of the offseason, so I thought I'd ask one more general purpose question: What's the best career advice you ever received? For me, there are two: 1. Never go to your boss with a problem without having at least two proposed solutions in which you've thought through the...

Article from today's WSJ. If you aren't a subscriber, it'll be behind a paywall. With One Colossal Mistake, the NCAA Lost Control of College Football - WSJ Essentially says that the crucial mistake was in the early 1980s when the NCAA', led by Walter Byers, wouldn't negotiate a settlement...

Welp, we didn't make it to preseason practice before somebody couldn't control themselves. Just suspended a long-time member (2001) for 90 days for an attempt to get around the profanity filters with cute use of symbols. How many times do we have to say it, guys? No profanity. Acronyms and...

Couldn't decide if this was football or NSNP, but in a close call landed on Football. Either way, it's a lesson in how you should act....though I don't know whether Orgeron has the brain capacity to learn a lesson. Ed Orgeron owes ex-wife $8 million of LSU buyout after Louisiana Supreme Court...

Somewhat old news, but I didn't see a thread, so I started this one. Looks like Glenn Putyrae was nudged out the door about a month ago. Had the telling, "leaving to spend more time with family" statement from Putyrae. Kind of like, "pursuing other career opportunities," in the business...

I have to confess, a factoid at the end of a WSJ editorial caught me off guard. Following up on some surprising unanimous rulings released last week, it said that 45.8% of SCOTUS rulings in the last term were unanimous. Side Note: SCOTUS terms are not on a calendar year. They run from the...

Mrs. Basket Case and I have been to almost all the home meets, and it's been a frustrating year. Our ladies are perfectly capable of scoring with Oklahoma or Florida or anybody. The difference is that they're also maddeningly inconsistent. Last night, we were tied with Florida (#4 in the...