🏀 🏀 #3 Alabama at Arkansas 🏀 - Bama pulls out road win, 85-81

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Oats from today...

 

[Bammerboy321]

Reid out again. Fuck

 

[TerryP]

Reid out again. Fuck

Reading between the lines here:

Oats mentioned "being able to get through an entire practice without discomfort." How to look at that comment? He's practicing, but isn't in game shape as of yet. To me, that's encouraging news.

"Long term health" is another way of spelling March.

 

[TerryP]

Be forewarned. Dykes is on the call today.

 

[Bammerboy321]

Be forewarned. Dykes is on the call today.

40 minutes of that blow hard basically doing nothing but go balls deep on Arkansas fandom.

 

[Bammerboy321]

Reading between the lines here:

Oats mentioned "being able to get through an entire practice without discomfort." How to look at that comment? He's practicing, but isn't in game shape as of yet. To me, that's encouraging news.

"Long term health" is another way of spelling March.

It's encouraging he's making his way back, but it's frustrating that he received minutes vs UGA and is now back to being out. A lingering injury that hurts his ability to play at 100%. His trajectory was a lottery pick with how he played in OOC. And he was improving every single game.

 

[TerryP]

40 minutes of that blow hard basically doing nothing but go balls deep on Arkansas fandom.

The stage is set. It's my opinion the media wants little more than seeing UArk, and Cal, be successful. I saw Kevin Sweeney (CBS, I believe) suggest they've already played their way on the bubble. I believe it was Lundardi that has them as one of the first teams out.

It's his "the Roll Tide" versus saying, "the Crimson Tide" that drives me to the remote, followed by pressing mute.

I saw Dickie V is returning for tonight's Clemson game...versus Duke. I won't be listening to that one. I wish TTU vs AZ was tipping earlier.

I'll be watching...looks like it'll be a music night.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

The stage is set. It's my opinion the media wants little more than seeing UArk, and Cal, be successful. I saw Kevin Sweeney (CBS, I believe) suggest they've already played their way on the bubble. I believe it was Lundardi that has them as one of the first teams out.

It's his "the Roll Tide" versus saying, "the Crimson Tide" that drives me to the remote, followed by pressing mute.

I saw Dickie V is returning for tonight's Clemson game...versus Duke. I won't be listening to that one. I wish TTU vs AZ was tipping earlier.

I'll be watching...looks like it'll be a music night.

Any game Dickie V is involved in ...i choose..."mute".... no...."MUTE " is more like it

 

[EasyTider]

I believe this will be our most difficult road game to date. Hopefully the rest will make a difference. Must weather the storm (1st 8-10 min) and take care of the damn ball.

 

[BamaFan334]

Just like Gus Johnson, I'll buy into a commentator that is into the game and loves his job all day long. College Athletics to be aren't supposed to be communicated like the Masters or the NFL/NBA/MLB. Give me everything excitement wise.

 

[#80]

Analytics give the Tide a 68% chance to win and Vegas has them at a 5 pt. favorite.

 

[TerryP]

Just like Gus Johnson, I'll buy into a commentator that is into the game and loves his job all day long. College Athletics to be aren't supposed to be communicated like the Masters or the NFL/NBA/MLB. Give me everything excitement wise.

A diaper dandy you are.

The problem isn't that its similar to the NFL, or NBA, or MLB. It's not close. It's WWE with a SNL producer. At some point, you don't call other men "baby."

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

No surprise, but…

 

[50+yeartidefan]

No surprise, but…

That was good. Wonder who on here has tickets? You Brandon?

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

That was good. Wonder who on here has tickets? You Brandon?

Nope. Much better experience IMO watching from home. Coleman sucks.

 

[TerryP]

No surprise, but…

I jumped over to rolltide.com this morning and at the top of the page they had an ad up for GameDay...with Arkansas tonight. A little backwards ... but, no surprise.

 

[Bammerboy321]

I have a weird feeling that Philon is about to go off

 

[mando]

I have a weird feeling that Philon is about to go off

That would be great to see. A little bumbed about Reid as I was seeing him and Philon as two freshmen difference makers. Maybe both still will when it is all said and done. Hope the team has their heads right tonight. They are going to take a step tonight. Hope it is a step in the right direction.

 

[EasyTider]

Hope your feeling is right, because my feeling is that we’re due to schitt the bed. I lived in Arkansas for about 10yrs and Bud Walton can be a tough place to play and the Hogs are playing their best ball over last 2 weeks.

 

[BamaFan334]

A diaper dandy you are.

The problem isn't that its similar to the NFL, or NBA, or MLB. It's not close. It's WWE with a SNL producer. At some point, you don't call other men "baby."

Nah, I like it. Gimme the excitement over bore any day. Half y'all listened to Eli Gold for years and years and he's bland. WWE is in a better space than a lot of programs, so I wouldn't use them as the butt of a joke.

Funny, you call them men, but so many others call them kids. Not me, but so many that come to their aid when people are on them about their performance.