Wow...just wow!

Warning: Not office appropriate...

George W. Bush screws the Country:



Here is the link

Thanks Anya (or Adam), for the clip.

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So Rich Rodriguez has an offer...Now what?

Soon to become...

Reports out of South Florida are that Nick Saban (former LSU coach) turned down a 10 year, 50 million dollar contract (plus a 7 million signing bonus) that would have made him the highest paid coach in the history of college athletics (Bob Stoops at Oklahoma holds that distinction at $3.1M) [Article]

A UA board of trustee member came out and said that is rediculous, that UA would NEVER have made such an offer, and that its a lie being perpetrated by Jimmy Sexton (Saban's agent) who operates out of Memphis and is a UT grad in an effort (along wiht Don Shula) to make UA look stupid. [Article] (update:Now Sexton and Saban are saying this is a false report too)

It HAS been confirmed that Rich Rodriguez of West Virginia has been offered the job, and we exepect to hear an answer as soon as this afternoon, with a potential press conference tomorrow in T-Town if he accepts. Now here are the issues with CRR... [Article]

1 - CRR is a WVU grad, and he is head coach of his Alama Matter and has already ahd more success than any coach in school history. he owns the place. he is the bear bryant of WVU...needless to say he has some serious "Roots" there

2 - CRR is only getting $1.1 million at WVU, which is NOTHING compared to what he woudl get paid at UA.

3 - Rumors are that he wants to take over Florida State when Bowden retires (1 or 2 years) [this lends itsself to a thought that roots aren't a big deal compared to being coach of a MAJOR program]

4 - WVU just gave him a raise 6 months ago, and says the can't offer more money because they've got a budget to adhere to. His primary complaint with WVU is that the facilities are AWFUL (something that UA leads the country in) and Morgantown is a shit-hole town that is REALLY AHRD to recruit good players to come play there. Tuscaloosa has its faults, but its one of the best college towns in America, and only 45 min from B'ham which suprisingly is a selling point.

5 - His wife doesn't like WV...but i bet she wont like AL much better...

6 - WVU announced yesterday that htey play to renovate ALL the footballf acilities, the problem is that it wont be done for 4-6 years...so, he would have to be patient. [Article]


7 - THe UA job is one of the BEST and WORST jobs in college football. Lots of money, and its agood place to recruit because of the tradition and facilities, and the southeast is rich in HS talent. The SEC is a far superior conference to the Big East, but ont he flip side of that, he can win 9 games every year in the big east without breaking a sweat...This job is THANKLESS, if you don't win 9 or 10 agmes every year, play in 1/3 of the SEC championship games, and compete for a NC year in and year out, the fans will turn on you so fast your head will spin. From an EGO perspective, this is both a good and a bad thing. An egotist will believe he can handle that, and that he is good enough to win...at the same time, an egotist with a reality gras will realize that its almost impossible to escape the shadow of bear Bryant...

My gut says he wont accept the job. if thats the case, we're fucked. majory fucked. more fucked than all those guys your sitting with are in their exams...Fucked with a capital F...

Word is that Face-to-Face negotiations are under way as we speak...between CRR and Mal Moore.

News may be imminent.

If you like to see how crazy people are, here is an article about 'Bama fan's "Tracking Planes".

I'll let you know if I hear anything else news-worthy...

For your entertainment, some of the "better" photoshop jobs done by UA fans this week, in anticipation of different coaches:















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Some people have too much time on their hands...

Truly remarkable work by people with nothing better to do!

"I've got my mind set on you"


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New song written by a Bama Fan "Turning the Tide":


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Warning to the next coach...we are crazy!

But we will love you if you win!


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Things I'd rather do than study Legal Profession:

1. Remove the fingernails from my left hand;
2. Retake Judy Cornett's Civ Pro 1 exam;
3. Clean Toilets;
4. Swallow several Legos;
5. Fall from a reasonably high ledge;
6. Re-arrange my sock drawer;
7. Clean the cat's litter box;
8. Have a root canal;
9. Ride "It's a Small World" at Disneyland, from opening until closing of the park;
11. Take a soccer ball to the face;
10. Join the army.

Anyone else have ideas?



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Good Idea...Poor Taste...

Leave it to VW to be ethnically insensitive.

Fucking Nazis...

But it is a good idea, just in poor taste.

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"If I Did It" by Joe Mitchell

Joe Mitchell may have walked out of the court room a free man, but he was not found "not guilty".

The verdict was 3-to-3 split.

The attorneys for both sides did their best, but the facts in this particular situation (both from the book, and added) just made a conviction impossible.

Maybe Joe Mitchell should write a book about how he would have done it?

We've got excerpts!

"I thought about killing Brooke every time I saw her."

"I had known for sometime that I would ultimately have to kill Brooke. She was practically daring me to. The way she looked at me with contempt. The way she talked about me right in front of my face!"

"I went to the house that night, hoping I'd get a chance to tell Leslie my good news. Maybe if I could get through to her, I wouldn't have to kill that stupid bitch of a step-mother."

"When Brooke told me Leslie wasn't home, I thought my odds of reconciling with her were even better. Brooke might just live to see September 11..."

"The longer I sat at the theater, the more I realized that it wasn't enough that I was going to get paid as a writer. Brooke was more interested in breaking up our marriage because if we made it 4 years, she would lose all the money the Judge had left her."

"I thought about going to the house after I left the theater and shooting Brooke in the head. I wanted to make her beg. I wanted to make her scream for mercy. Then I wanted to watcher her bleed to death. I hated her."

"I didn't have the nerve. I left the theater and was going to the Ravena gun shop to get my gun and kill the bitch, but I was not man enough to do it. So instead, I got drunk."

"Its amazing how much easier it is after 4 beers!"

"I knew, from my extensive writing experience, that I needed an alibi. I stomped up the steps of the boarding house a few minutes before 10, knowing Raleigh would see me. She would make a great witness."

"I snuck out the back, down the fire escape. It only took about 7 minutes from my bedroom to get to the house on Madison. I was going to park, sneak up to the house, break in, kill Brooke, and take a few things to make it look like a robbery. I knew that Leslie couldn't suspect me, or she would never come back to me."

"When I reached the house, I saw Leslie was on the porch with Brooke. It was too late to turn back."

"I missed again. It had happened once before. I was drunk and I missed. What have I done. I lost my wife, and now I am going to be tried for murder..."

"Stupid Jury...what a bunch of suckers. You'd think they were related to my attorneys they way the disregarded the facts to let me off!"

Joe Mitchell got off, but he will never be innocent.

The book should be on shelves by mid-March.

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(much love to DCo1 for the photo work)

One Mans Take

These are not my words. It is, however, a good look at the situation as some of the "message board community" is seeing it.

And I quote:

I have a had a few very good contacts that I've spoken with (really more out of luck on this specific search and the candidates involved) , but I'm not one to make a leap and announce anything is a "done deal," or pretend I know something I don't.

I'll just tell you what I know (from ultra-reliable sources) :

- A journalist contact of mine (VERY close personal friend) is a Sports Editor and covers a school with a WVU recruit (with an offer). I've been talking to him for months about how Rich Rodriguez visits the school and calls the HC of the school all the time. This goes back until the start of the college football season.

Of course, when I heard Rodriguez was an actual candidate, I wondered when he would hear something. He called me Tuesday night, right after he had talked directly, in-person with the HC. The HC had just gotten off the phone with RR. The situation RR reported to him was that Spurrier had a deal on the table, and if he didn't take it (RR said he thought he very well might) then Rodriguez himself was (and I quote) "very interested."

- I also found out about the SOS deal and the specific numbers form a great source. A very high-up with UA Football Operations. He told a former UA player. Former UA player told Former UA BOT memeber, who is neighbors with a close family friend. That is a very trusted line of communication from where I sit.

- My last tidbit, also from a very reliable source, is that Saban initiated a feeler to Alabama (not the other way around) after the MSU loss - when the Dolhins were 2-6, or close to it. This comes down the pipeline from a former associate of NS. Can't say any more than that. Again, very reliable - or I wouldn't dream of posting it.


Now for pure speculation, based on what I know:

As far as Saban being the #1 guy, I believe it and have heard it throughout. So that could mean a number of things:

1) Either the SOS ordeal was a Sexton smokescreen (very possible, if seemingly unlikely) ... and Saban is being lined up and kept out of the limelight.

WHY I WOULD DOUBT IT:

Seems too JFK-ish to me. I can understand Sexton's angle to get both clients paid, but let's get real - every TV station and newspaper in the state isn't going to report something until they get it from credible UNIVERSITY sources.


2) Saban was interested early, when the Dolphins were going nowhere, but has rethought things. Now he is backing off the job and has told UA officials the same. This could back his strong public denial, as well as the massive reports of us going on to Spurrier (our #2 guy).

WHY I WOULD DOUBT IT:

Saban is supposedly a tough, my-way-or-the-highway guy. Strong, resolute, kind of an @sshole. Don't see him wish-washing all that much. If we wanted something, my gut would tell me he would go for it. But the SOS talks have been so strong, does this mean he considered and we couldn't pony up quite enough money to sway him? This is where I start to think he could have said 'no' and we moved on.


3) UA is issuing dis-information to keep everyone guessing and to go about the search in secrecy. I can directly trace the source of the 'SOS contract details' to a person involved in the program and search, so if it came out incorrectly... it was on purpose.

WHY I WOULDN'T DOUBT IT:

If UA is after Saban, but has to wait for him. Leaking our Spurrier talk will shift all the attention there, leaving Saban to answer a few questions and go about his day. His Miami Dolphins situation with Hizenga (sp?), is likely sensitive. We don't need to protect RR. WVU knows when a big-time school comes courting, he will go. He is destined for it and they are well aware, as is ANY small school sitting on a goldmine. Another thing to consider is that RR reportedly knew about the Spurrier deal Tuesday, making it unlikey IMO that it was a false report that was leaked. This means Saban would turned down his offer, if indeed he was #1, as is being reported. There is a possibility that the report was leaked so high it got to Rodriguez, but it's far more likely that we actually did pursue to ol' ball coach.


4) We have in fact strongly pursued and been denied by Saban and SOS. Now we are, through intermediaries, working on Rodriguez (#3). We will wait until after the season, Sunday, to officially contact him ourselves. Then we'll enter into official talks with him, hammer out a contract, go see him personally, and bring him back to Tuscaloosa with us.

WHY I WOULDN'T DOUBT IT:

I know from a source that he's interested, and his public comments only strenghten my resolve in reporting it. All signs point to him taking the job. Is he willing? Most certainly. Is money an issue? Not in the least. Are we ALABAMA? The last time I checked.



What I'm looking for in a timeline:

If there's a press conference set for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - IMO it's RR.

If it's delayed longer than that, Saban could be in the works. Of course I'm pulling for the Jaguars to knock Miami out of playoff contention, to see if this adds any credence to the 'we are lining up Saban' crowd. Then things could get interesting. I guess he could jump ship early with no possibility of post-season, but I don't know how that works.

But if Saban makes us wait, I would get nervous. I don't want to put RR in a position where he can't come on board. The move needs to be made in the next 2 weeks unless we have Saban LOCKED UP, which we can't do unless it's contractual - and that's impossible until he resigns or is fired. A handshake deal makes me uneasy.

RR would continue to get heat, and would be in a position to hurt WVU's recruiting majorly if we were to leave as late as a month before signing day. It needs to be soon with him. I'd hate to see him sign an extension.


My prediction:

Monday press conference to introduce Rich Rodriguez as Bama's HC.

I have to say, Saban would be cool, but his loyalty bothers me. How long until another school comes and CNS takes off?

I am getting behind Rich Rodriguez at this point. CRR to Bama would make me a happy man!

The talk about CRR to Bama is being fueled by reports like this. It is a good read. Apparently the Governor of WV even thinks CRR is gone. I hope its not to Miami (a.k.a. Thug-U)

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