🏈 LOL! Oh, now that was priceless!

[porkchop]

The teleconference today with the NCAA spokesman takes the cake! We have to get that linked.

Jeff Foxworthy once said, "we're not stupid people in the South. We just can't keep the most ignorant amongst us off the television." I'm starting to think Jeff missed the boat on that one.

During the teleconference earlier, every Barner and Vol supporter in the media was hounding the NCAA spokesman about why BAMA didn't get the death penalty. They were pissed that this lenient punishment sends the wrong message.

Two of my favorite callers;

((This is all Paraphrased))

1. We'll call this guy Johnny Knoxville. Johnny Knoxville--"So hey, can we claim the BAMA game from last year as a win now?"

NCAA Spokesman--Uhhhh. WTF?

2. Barner from Montgomery--Does Alabama have to vacate their Iron Bowl win from 2008?

NCAA Spokesman--Are you people really this stupid?

These are journalists people. These are supposed to be credible, unbiased, sports journalists who have no agendas other than to report the sporting news. :bs: How incredible pathetic is it for a journalist to call into an NCAA conference call and BEG LIKE A DOG for wins? How incredibly DUMB is it for the person to think that the NCAA would enforce penalties for the 2008 season when they clearly stated that the time frame for all of this was 2005-07? Heck! Why not ask for a forfeiture for this year's Iron Bowl too while you're at it?

I was embarrassed for my Southern brethren after listening to that. The level of redneck ignorance reached monumental proportions during that conference call today.

 

[Rolling Tide]

I am glad I am not the only that thought what a bunch of dumb asses.

 

[Perdido Tide]

That was truly embarrassing. I hope people from around the country did not listen to that.

 

[AFF]

That was truly embarrassing. I hope people from around the country did not listen to that.

Yeah, it might ruin our current reputation of being a bunch of high-browed intellectuals! :lol:
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[rolltide1969]

What I don't get is: why would our rivals want us to receive the "death penalty"? Don't they realize that it would be less fun if we didn't have an iron bowl to look forward to every year and a 3rd saturday in October? Personally I want all our rivals to be at their best so when we beat them it feels that much better.

 

[Perdido Tide]

Yeah, it might ruin our current reputation of being a bunch of high-browed intellectuals! :lol:
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Before today they they didnt think we were borderline retarded. :smile:

 

[bamarooski]

Before today they they didnt think we were borderline retarded. :smile:

And they wonder why they still use Corn cobs to wipe their BUTT!:rofl:
You would think they would be happy we gave them six in a row!

 

[Swamptick]

Yeah, it might ruin our current reputation of being a bunch of high-browed intellectuals! :lol:
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HAHAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Post of the week award! :rofl::rofl:

 

[porkchop]

HAHAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Post of the week award! :rofl::rofl:

I know that Alabama isn't known as a bastion of intellectual superiority or anything, but the other day was bad.

 

[cartag]

Maybe I'm dumb. I was born in Alabama.

But am I wrong in understanding that no textbooks were sold? Didn't Coach Moore (or Dr. Witt) say "Not one dollar changed hands," or something to that effect?

I have yet to see an article by a sports journalist, local or national, which hasn't alluded to the "selling" of textbooks by athletes.

It seems to me that all the textbooks were loaned to scholarship athletes, in a manner of speaking. No money changes hands when they pick up their textbooks, but the books must be returned at the end of each semester or paid for by the athlete. So a handful of scholarship athletes borrowed more books than they were entitled to, some for the use of their friends. But none of the the athletes received payment for the books. Not one dollar. And all books were turned in or paid for at the end of each semester. However, those few athletes who indulged in this practice knew what they were doing, even if their only benefit was increased popularity among their friends.

Then, there were the 80% of the 201 athletes who "received improper benefits." They were actually unaware of those "benefits." They went to pick up their textbooks, showed a bookstore employee their schedule of classes. A bookstore employee handed each of those student athletes a pre-packaged set of books for each class. Some books in the packages were not "required" for the course, but merely "recommended" by the professor. Those athletes long ago made restitution out of their own pockets to the university for all those "unnecessary" textbooks and supplies, most amounting to less than $100 each.

Like I said, I was born in Alabama. And my parents, grandparents, great-grandparents were born in Alabama. So maybe I'm dumb.

Maybe I am mistaken.

But if I have accurately comprehended the NCAA report on Alabama's textbook infractions, the sports journalists of America owe us an apology. Especially the ones who say the detail don't matter.

But it is entirely possible that I've misunderstood this situation in some detail large or small. If I have, please set me straight. And I will apologize to every sports journalist in America, including that genius Kevin Scarbinsky.

I bet he wasn't born in Alabama.