The Crimson Case 4.14.25 - Transfer portal pandemonium

[00:00:00] Speaker A: This show is a Sports production of WVUAFM 90.7 the Capstone, a division of. [00:00:06] Speaker B: Student media at the university of Alabama. [00:00:08] Speaker A: Support us by leaving a review rating or following us on x at WVUAFM Sports. [00:00:15] Speaker B: Wvuafm Tuscaloosa this week featured a lot of pants pandemonium in the transfer portal and we're seeing some new situations that we've never seen before. College sports is just kind of evolving, but there's also a lot of positive things we can get to. But unfortunately we're going to start with the transfer portal and everything that's been going on. I am Matthew Mason. Next to me is Matty Hewitt, Lydia Liscoe and Zach Elrod. I think I want to start with the Alabama related transfer portal news that we've gotten lately because obviously Nico iheamaliava is going to be a big topic. But I do want to start with all of Alabama's transfers, especially looking at the basketball side. So Jaren Stevenson and modiabate and then also Darian Reed, they're all gone. The only one that's actually signed with other team is modiabate with Kentucky. So I guess I can start with that. Going from Alabama to Kentucky is that smart. [00:01:23] Speaker A: I mean, it's where he came from. I believe that's where he's originally from is Kentucky. So it kind of makes sense for mo because his two top teams were or. Well, I'm not sure if he was from Kentucky. I think I'm thinking of Jaren Stevenson being from North Carolina, but I mean. [00:01:37] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. Stevenson1. [00:01:39] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, he's from North Carolina, but mode to Kentucky was huge. Obviously a big sec matchup for us. And yeah, I mean, I was shocked that he even left in the first place. We expressed it last week on the show. Him being kind of the heart and soul of the team. You know, just his willingness to be able to hustle and, you know, do the dirty work for us. [00:01:59] Speaker C: It seems as though a lot of commits are looking at both Alabama and Kentucky because I don't know if you saw like Mark pope was on the phone with someone when he was taking a picture at the NCAA tournament and he was like, oh, we lost some commit to Alabama. So it looks seems like a lot of people are looking at both of the teams. But I think it's just crazy. Like we beat Kentucky three times. It's so rare to be the team three times and now you're transferring to the school that we beat three times this year. Like, I know we're not going to have the same people next year, but come on, like New Year's, Kentucky. [00:02:28] Speaker D: I just think it's disappointing because yes, we didn't make it as far as we did last year, but we still had a very successful season that we've talked about previously. And to like have so many people leave, it's a little disheartening. And I mean we're already going to be rebuilding next year due to our seniors graduating marks years, Grant Nelson and just having some of our key, like, like mo, like having him leave, that's going to be. It's going to definitely leave a hole. And I think our recruiting class better really step it up because we again, we already were going to have a tough year after losing some pretty great seniors. And just having all of these people leave it, it's not heartening for the program. [00:03:05] Speaker B: Well, Diabate bringing a lot of hard hats with him to Kentucky. So I mean, that was kind of like one of the players you imagine. You think about the Hardhat award and winning a couple of them. But you know, with Jaren Stevenson and Darian Reed, they enter with a do not contact tag. So is that almost like a message that it's like, hey, I already know where I'm going because I already got that check waiting. [00:03:27] Speaker A: It's exactly that. That's literally exactly what it is because technically that's not allowed. That you're supposed to, you know, contact someone before they enter the transfer port. Like, you know, because that's like tampering. But I mean, you know, we just. That's just how it goes. [00:03:40] Speaker B: Well, obviously no one cares because when Nick Saban retired, they said there was people waiting outside the Alabama practice facilities, so. And no one did anything about that. The ncaa, they don't do anything. They've opened this transfer portal area. Their fault for the transfer portal, which honestly it is a good thing and a bad thing at the same time. And also the nil, they're the ones that open the door and now they act like their hands are tied when anything happens. So they barely want to do anything. [00:04:04] Speaker C: Yeah, I did a whole project my senior year of high school on like the NIL and the transfer portal together. Because I do think the idea of transfer portal is great. Like you don't have to sit out a year. Like that's big news if you actually want to transfer because, like you don't feel like this school is the best place for you. Like, it makes sense, that's okay. [00:04:20] Speaker B: But. [00:04:20] Speaker C: But then when you couple it with NIL and The lack of restriction, actually, the zero restrictions that we have on it, that's what makes it such a big problem. The transport people are just going for money. And the do not contact thing, that's like, I don't know. That seems really selfish. It. Actually, I feel like it is pretty selfish. [00:04:38] Speaker D: I guess for me, how I think of it, it's obviously, you want to go where you'll get the most playing time, you'll do the best. But also, what about loyalty? [00:04:47] Speaker B: Like, I don't exist. [00:04:48] Speaker D: We talk about Ty Simpson, but he really, truly. In regards to football, not basketball, but he truly does love Alabama. And I think that these athletes, like, you're so lucky that you even have spots to play. You're so lucky that these schools are willing to take a chance on you. And you have no loyalty. Like, all of a sudden you're going to go from wearing the crimson to being big blue. Like, where. I don't know. For me, school loyalty is such a big thing. Like, I will always root for Alabama since I go here and everything. And it's just, I guess you got to do what's best for your bag. I don't know, like, have some pride in your college. Even, like, even if you have a bad year, even if you don't play, you should be like, I'm so grateful that I get to be here and get to showcase my talents on, you know, the SEC stage. I don't know. Just have loyalty. That's. That's my thing. [00:05:33] Speaker C: Especially at a school like Alabama where all of our athletics especially. I mean, I knew coming to school here, I was like, oh, like big SEC school. We're pretty good at a lot of. We're really good at. [00:05:43] Speaker D: At every sport, basically. [00:05:45] Speaker C: Pretty much every sport we play, we are very good at it. [00:05:48] Speaker B: Except volleyball. [00:05:49] Speaker C: Okay. [00:05:52] Speaker B: That's the only one that we're not gonna. [00:05:53] Speaker C: It's true, it's true. Like, you're coming to a school like Alabama where there are great athletes being turned out of this place every single day. [00:06:00] Speaker D: Our football team is ranked, our baseball team, our softball team, our basketball team, all gymnastics. Gymnastics. [00:06:05] Speaker A: Gymnastics. [00:06:06] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:06:06] Speaker B: If you just kind of cut the volleyball out of it. Alabama really is an everything school. I think you get one pass. Let volleyball be the pass. Let it be the pass. [00:06:15] Speaker D: Even our, like, non, like, super big sports like our tennis team, both men's and women's are amazing. [00:06:23] Speaker C: Track. [00:06:23] Speaker D: Track. [00:06:24] Speaker A: Track is. [00:06:25] Speaker C: I was about to say, we just won another national championship today. [00:06:28] Speaker A: I don't know how the swim team is, though. [00:06:30] Speaker C: They're really? They're ranked too. [00:06:31] Speaker A: They are. [00:06:32] Speaker B: Yeah. There we go. [00:06:33] Speaker C: We are in everything school. [00:06:34] Speaker D: See, we don't subscribe to the Alabama Alabama Glaze because it's just real. [00:06:39] Speaker B: Yeah. No need. [00:06:40] Speaker D: Not glazing if it's true. So. [00:06:43] Speaker B: Yeah, but I'm still not getting one of those subscriptions to yeah. Alabama. I don't care. Oh, yeah. [00:06:48] Speaker C: Nope. [00:06:48] Speaker A: Not going over that last episode. Why? You don't need to. [00:06:51] Speaker D: You know, they're. I mean, without my money. [00:06:53] Speaker C: So we pay to go to school here? [00:06:55] Speaker B: Yeah, we pay to go to school here. We increase the tuition, we increase the ticket prices and then you want us to get a. Nah. But hey, we'll support just. You're not going to take all our hard earned money as we're students. [00:07:07] Speaker A: Not that much money. Not that much money. [00:07:09] Speaker D: No. [00:07:10] Speaker B: I mean, because you're already like we. [00:07:11] Speaker A: Said, you're already getting in tuition and all that. [00:07:13] Speaker D: Were we saying one of like the top packages was like $1,000 a month? [00:07:17] Speaker B: Actually, now that I look at it, I think that the hall of fame tier or whatever it was, it was like the hall of fame tier. It said 250 or more. So if you wanted to go a thousand a month, if you wanted to be like that, you know. [00:07:32] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:07:32] Speaker C: Who you can be like that. [00:07:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:07:34] Speaker D: The Die Hards. [00:07:35] Speaker C: I literally see these people on campus every day. My friends are talking about how they see Keelan Russell every day. I don't need to pay to do it. [00:07:42] Speaker A: I hadn't seen him once, so. [00:07:44] Speaker B: Hey, I look, I was. I was walking out of Rhys Pfeiffer. Ryan Williams walked by. [00:07:48] Speaker C: Swear exactly everywhere. [00:07:51] Speaker B: He was limping and he did not even play in the A day, Bob. [00:07:53] Speaker C: No, I noticed that. I went to the game and he was not there. [00:07:56] Speaker B: He limped right by us. I swear I did not. [00:08:01] Speaker D: He wasn't scooting by. He wasn't on a scooter. [00:08:03] Speaker B: I think he probably parked it. He parked it and then he just probably limped. Bias. I know every athlete does this walk like, you know, it's a. You know, the walker's just like. Oh, it's like you walk like you're tired. Yeah, no, that wasn't it. He was limping, so something's wrong. But they need to get him right or else this program is cooked. Yeah, absolutely. [00:08:23] Speaker A: They have time, so. [00:08:24] Speaker B: But as far as A day, you know, it wasn't televised, so there's really not much you can learn other than trying to consume other people and their articles in their media. But the only thing that I learned is that people did not come out. Like, I don't even know if they made it across the 15,000. They don't want to release the numbers of how many people were there. But I understand a lot of people were there to get those autographs that were Yale Obama members. And Ryan Williams had a line that went almost the whole football stadium. I mean, oh, my God, it was ridiculous. His autograph line was insane. [00:08:57] Speaker C: Someone got their forehead autographed. Oh, my goodness. [00:09:00] Speaker B: What are you going to do with that, though? Take a picture with your forehead and Ryan Williams sign and then you just wash it off, I guess. [00:09:05] Speaker A: Never take a shower. [00:09:07] Speaker B: Maybe just walk around on the strip. Actually, at the gymnastics meet, sign your forehead. [00:09:11] Speaker C: When we played LSU at the gymnastics meet, someone had Livy Dunn sign their ankle and then got a tattoo of it. [00:09:15] Speaker A: Oh, you could do that. Yeah, you could do that. [00:09:18] Speaker D: But the forehead is not the place you want to do that. [00:09:20] Speaker B: Look up here near the Zach here in Tuscaloosa. I'm trying to think of landmarks up there. It's near Zaxby's, near the Academy in Tuscaloosa, other places like that. It's a Julio Jones Kia. He was signing autographs, and the table literally said, no body parts. He literally just said, he is not signing body parts in bold letters on the table. [00:09:45] Speaker D: All right, I think that's enough for Alabama right now. Matthew, what's the trouble in Tennessee? [00:09:53] Speaker B: All right, Nico Iemaliyava might have just done something that has probably changed the way that we look at this era that we're in. So he had a rep that's talking like, hey, you know, he's already getting paid 2.4 million, but they wanted him to get 4 million. Oh, and his father was shopping him around, trying to hear out offers. So that's the deal. It's not necessarily like there's teams trying to reach out to this guy. It's almost like his dad and his rep are shopping him around. [00:10:27] Speaker A: I mean, see what they get. [00:10:28] Speaker B: There's a rumor that Oregon head coach Dan Lanning contacted Tennessee head coach Josh Hyple and told him, hey, man, this dude's dad's shopping him around. And then they basically came to this situation where Iamaliavo's not going to spring practice. And then finally they made their decision that, hey, he's gone, he's gone. We're not giving you this money. So he's entering the portal whenever it's opening on a Wednesday. I mean, how do we feel about Tennessee? I mean, we got to Give them props. Even though we really don't like them here, but we got to give them props, a little golf clap. Because this era would have been ruined if they caved in. [00:11:03] Speaker A: They stayed strong. I mean, kudos to them for not just backing down and just letting this well up and coming sophomore quarterback just dictate how much money they're willing to give him. So kudos to them. [00:11:14] Speaker C: Josh Hyple came out with a quote. Someone asked him about it and he said like, no one is bigger than the program and like so much respect. Like you were saying, like, we don't like him down here, but that is very good. [00:11:23] Speaker D: Yes. [00:11:24] Speaker C: And I do think that this should be a wake up call to the ncaa and someone was saying like, oh, Nick Saban was right. Yeah, he was. [00:11:32] Speaker D: Nick Saban's always right. When have we ever, when have we ever doubted Nick Saban? [00:11:36] Speaker A: True. [00:11:36] Speaker C: Right. [00:11:37] Speaker D: But no, I think for me, do you know those memes of like the parents smothering their kids? I think we've all seen it in our respective like year group chats like, my son can't buy his football tickets. Where do I buy his football tickets from? And now that's what this is giving. This is giving. Oh, my son only makes 2.4 million. I want him to make 4 million. You're making $2.4 million as a, he's a freshman. As a 20 year old, a 21 year old, like, dude, calm down. I'm sorry. Like, I literally when you said that number, I was gagged. My jaw dropped. Like $4 million. It's insane. [00:12:17] Speaker C: People never see that kind of money in their life. It is not that serious. You don't need that to live. [00:12:23] Speaker D: No. And it's just like, again, respect your school. Tennessee already gave you so much by, you know, freshman quarterback starting and great guy and whatever. And he's like, no, they're not giving me enough money. And it's just, it's disrespectful. I don't know. And his dad, his. If my dad, like, if I was like, oh, I want to leave for 1.6 more million, my dad be like, what is wrong with you? Like, you're already making so much more. You're already making so much money. Like, I don't know, it's on the parents as much it is on him. [00:12:52] Speaker B: You know what it sends a message to me as is that you're. They're confident that he's probably not going to make any professional money. So they want to juice as much money out of the college world as they can. That's what the message is being sent as. See, you don't see someone like Ryan Williams. They're both. Look, him and Nico were both freshmen. You don't see Ryan WILLIAMS Asking for 4 million. I mean, now here's the thing. He might actually deserve it. IH Maliaba. His play was not good. [00:13:19] Speaker A: Not good last year. No, it wasn't the fact. [00:13:22] Speaker B: Look, the Arkansas game, final play. This is what you need to know. Final play of the game, it's about maybe at the 40 or 30 yard line. What you got to do is heave it toward the end zone. That's your chance. And instead of heaving it toward the end zone, he decides to take off running and get shoved out of bounds. And clock hits zero. That is a guy that's asking for $4 million. [00:13:42] Speaker A: Shout out will Howard. [00:13:44] Speaker B: Yeah, shout out, Will Howard. Man. [00:13:46] Speaker C: Do you think another team will take him on a big scale like Tennessee? Do you think another big team like that would take him? [00:13:54] Speaker B: Well, the rule is no one in the SEC can. After the spring practice, SEC to SEC transfers cannot happen. [00:14:02] Speaker D: I mean, who in the SEC would even need the quarterback? [00:14:04] Speaker B: Well, I'm sure a couple would, but. So we rule out every single SEC school with just that. [00:14:09] Speaker A: That's huge. [00:14:10] Speaker C: I feel like a Big Ten school would take him. [00:14:11] Speaker B: The other schools that I've heard, Ohio. [00:14:14] Speaker A: State, I've heard Ohio State. I've heard. I've heard Colorado randomly. I don't know why, because they just got a big freshman coming in. But that was just like on own 3 recruiting. So I don't know. [00:14:26] Speaker B: See, I'm trying to think of destinations in my head. Like I don't think Ohio State would want them because they got enough money to get. [00:14:34] Speaker D: Yeah, they. [00:14:35] Speaker C: Well, I was going to say, if he wants money, Ohio State is the place to go. [00:14:38] Speaker D: And then, I mean, OSU also has like a roster too, right? [00:14:42] Speaker B: I heard that a possible landing spot would have been either USC or Notre Dame. Either one of those. [00:14:48] Speaker A: I heard USC is not interested in him. [00:14:51] Speaker C: I don't know if Freeman would take Marcus. Freeman would take him. [00:14:55] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a lot of portal pandemonium that we'll continue to cover throughout this episode. But coming up, we will be talking about Mel Kuiper Jr's latest mock draft. You do not want to miss what draft Jesus had to say this time, stick around. Wvuafm Tuscaloosa. Wvuafm Tuscaloosa. We are back from break on the Crimson case and we gotta see what Draft Jesus. Mel Kuiper had to say in his latest ESPN mock draft, you know, the draft is around the corner. It's not that far away. And I also want to kind of just throw out, you know, there's multiple drafts coming up because we do have the WNBA draft. That's Monday night. [00:15:58] Speaker A: True. [00:15:58] Speaker D: We'll definitely very own Sarah Ashley Barker. [00:16:01] Speaker B: Sarah Ashley Barker is in attendance. I also believe Aaliyah Nyanze Green will definitely get drafted somewhere. But Sarah Ashley has a real chance of being, you know, drafted in that first round. So we'll definitely get into that later. But back to Draft Jesus, you know, since he's so important, Mel Kuiper Jr. Decides, hey, maybe Cam Ward really is the number one overall pick. Maybe he. We've talked about this extensively. Field Yates had Cam Ward here. I think we all agree the Manny's man will have. His experience is over. I mean, we've talked about that week after week. [00:16:30] Speaker A: We have, yes. [00:16:31] Speaker B: But the interesting thing I see here is that he wants or he thinks the Browns should take Travis Hunter at number two and forget a quarterback, forget the whole entire, you know, Abdul Carter thing. We've heard so much about Abdul Carter, and then he's deciding, hey, Travis Hunter's the most valuable player besides anyone else behind him. So Travis Hunter, the Browns. Abdul Carter would then be picked by the New York Giants at three other notable ones. Everyone has a consensus pick that Ashton Gentee is going to the Raiders, probably a good fit. But Shadir Sanders sliding to the New. [00:17:07] Speaker A: Orleans Saints, that is extremely interesting. [00:17:11] Speaker B: And Derek Carr does have a shoulder injury that he's dealing with. So Shador really has a chance. Prime time a coach. Prime put out a little something on Twitter, little eyeballs about the potentially having his son play for the Saints. [00:17:24] Speaker A: But I wouldn't take him for a city like New Orleans. That's interesting. [00:17:29] Speaker B: New Orleans is a good city. You get down there and eat. That's Zion with. [00:17:32] Speaker D: You can't eat. [00:17:33] Speaker A: But like, it's a dump. Low key. I've been in. Whoa. Have y'all never been in New Orleans? [00:17:39] Speaker C: No, I actually haven't. [00:17:40] Speaker B: I've never been. But I wouldn't say the Superdome is a dump. I mean. [00:17:44] Speaker A: No, they're not. The Superdome I'm selling like right in the city limits. Like, it's just like construction. It's just swamp. Like, it's just. [00:17:50] Speaker B: Well, you know what, when you're chilling in the facilities and you get you a house and now the bar, the. [00:17:55] Speaker A: Barbecue, you know, the barbecue is the Best barbecue I've heard. [00:17:58] Speaker C: The food is fantastic. [00:17:59] Speaker A: It's pretty dang good. [00:18:00] Speaker D: I love a good po boy. And then what they would do. Sorry. [00:18:05] Speaker B: No, my bad. We're talking about shrimp po boys real quick. [00:18:09] Speaker D: No, they're going to, like, clean New Orleans for sure. His dad's going to, like, pay all these people. [00:18:14] Speaker C: Coach prime is going to be like, watch out. [00:18:16] Speaker A: I wouldn't be mad at that. [00:18:17] Speaker B: I mean, Prime Time cleanup. [00:18:19] Speaker A: I would go there more often probably. Yeah. [00:18:21] Speaker D: Anyway, sorry. [00:18:22] Speaker B: You can see Prime Time driving a garbage truck down the wood down Bourbon Street. [00:18:27] Speaker A: This is a garbage truck with, like. [00:18:29] Speaker D: What is on it. [00:18:32] Speaker C: Be, like, waving to all the people. [00:18:34] Speaker B: It's like a blinged out garbage truck. Got, like, a bunch of bling on it. [00:18:37] Speaker A: Oh, my God. God. [00:18:38] Speaker C: And then. [00:18:38] Speaker D: And then his cybertruck comes in afterwards. [00:18:40] Speaker B: Well, that's. That's how I would. I would describe Colorado. Just a garbage truck with some bling on it. You know, with Travis Hunter and Shador and everybody else is kind of. [00:18:52] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:18:53] Speaker B: In the hole. Sorry, I just kind of continue going through. [00:18:56] Speaker A: Sorry, Colorado fans. [00:18:57] Speaker B: Sorry, Colorado. But y'all are not going to be any good. I'm sorry, but you lose Travis Hunter, Shadow, you're not going to be any good. Like, I don't care. They got Julian Lewis. I know he can ball, but it takes a lot more. [00:19:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:10] Speaker D: Did I tell you the story? So my sister lives in Boulder, Colorado, and at her apartment complex. [00:19:14] Speaker B: Oh, she's gonna be so mad. [00:19:15] Speaker D: She saw, like, Shador with, like, his cybertruck and his rocks taking photos at her apartment complex. [00:19:22] Speaker B: What a combo. [00:19:22] Speaker D: It started getting, like, flooded with all these teens. So I bet she's happy to see him go because, like, what a combo. Like, first of all, it raises the rent because those are more prime apartments, because it's next to a good football team or whatever. But anyways. [00:19:35] Speaker A: True. [00:19:36] Speaker D: Sorry. [00:19:36] Speaker B: I can't get past the fact a cyber truck and Crocs. [00:19:40] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:19:40] Speaker B: What a dude. [00:19:41] Speaker C: Well, our whole football team has partnerships with Crocs, so. [00:19:43] Speaker B: Does he have, like, Monsters Inc. Crocs. [00:19:46] Speaker C: Doesn'T our football team? [00:19:47] Speaker D: Isn't that what it is? [00:19:48] Speaker B: I think we do. [00:19:48] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:19:49] Speaker D: It's either the Crocs or the really ugly Yeezy slides or whatever. [00:19:52] Speaker B: Okay, those. [00:19:52] Speaker A: Oh, those are so the foam runners. Like, really ugly ones or, like, which ones? Normal slots. [00:20:00] Speaker B: Any of them. [00:20:01] Speaker D: I'm pulling up a visual aid. [00:20:03] Speaker B: We're not gonna be able to show anyone listening to this, but just for entertainment, Lydia's gonna pull up because the. [00:20:08] Speaker A: Normal Slides are just slides. [00:20:09] Speaker B: You can just pull up and. [00:20:10] Speaker A: They're foam runners. [00:20:11] Speaker C: I think she's talking about the foam runners. [00:20:12] Speaker D: Is it the fo. [00:20:13] Speaker A: Okay, I know what you're talking about. [00:20:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Just Google foam runners and you'll see. [00:20:15] Speaker A: That's the one that I show speed always wears. [00:20:17] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:20:18] Speaker A: The shoes. [00:20:19] Speaker B: The shoes that I show speed. [00:20:21] Speaker A: I heard they're comfortable, though. [00:20:23] Speaker D: They're so ugly. [00:20:24] Speaker C: About to invest in a fan, maybe. [00:20:27] Speaker A: Hey, if it makes ishowspeed that fast. Come on. [00:20:31] Speaker B: Speed wore those in the Royal Rumble, and Bron Breakker turned him inside out. He about lost him, but he almost. [00:20:37] Speaker A: Beat no Lyles in a race with him. [00:20:39] Speaker B: All right, but that guy's a fraud. [00:20:41] Speaker A: I mean, no Lyles. You think so? [00:20:42] Speaker B: Speed can beat him. Good. [00:20:43] Speaker A: Dude, we're getting way off topic here. [00:20:45] Speaker D: And they're also disgusting. [00:20:47] Speaker A: Yeah, I am so sick. Can't wait for the race against Tyree Kill, though. Gotta add that in. [00:20:50] Speaker B: Well, Tyree Kill needs to run like he's running from all his baby mamas. He might win. Uh. Oh. Oh, give me five, booms, A.J. all right. [00:21:04] Speaker C: All right. [00:21:05] Speaker B: Oh, my God. [00:21:06] Speaker C: Hey. Jihad Campbell to the Bengals. [00:21:07] Speaker B: Yes. [00:21:08] Speaker C: Let's talk about it. [00:21:09] Speaker B: I love that. [00:21:09] Speaker A: That'd be awesome. Yes. [00:21:11] Speaker C: I love that idea. [00:21:13] Speaker D: What a great. I think him and Joey B. Would just. [00:21:17] Speaker C: Jamar and everybody. Send them. Send them over. [00:21:22] Speaker A: He would have their defense a whole lot. [00:21:24] Speaker D: I. And I think he would be very appreciated there. Like, I don't think that they would skimp out on the money. I don't. [00:21:31] Speaker C: The city would love him. [00:21:32] Speaker D: Oh, the city would love him. [00:21:34] Speaker A: He's a man of the people. [00:21:35] Speaker D: So I think if he were to go to the Bengals, it'd be such a great fair for him. I feel like he has the personality and the dedication that the Bengals need right now on their defense. And again, the city would love him. [00:21:46] Speaker C: I would agree. [00:21:47] Speaker B: So I think it sends a message that they care about defense. If you just take a defensive player in the first round, it sends a message that you care, because they almost don't. Yeah, it kind of seems like they don't almost. [00:21:58] Speaker C: Well, I don't think we. [00:21:59] Speaker B: Do you want to go all the way? Okay. Yeah. [00:22:01] Speaker C: We don't care about defense. [00:22:02] Speaker B: Yeah. The Trey Henderson thing, that's kind of getting a little bit ridiculous, the fact that they don't communicate and they're. They're, you know, our front office. [00:22:10] Speaker C: The Bengals front office is awful. [00:22:13] Speaker B: And then I do have quarterbacks. I wanted to talk about two in particular. Jackson Dart Being projected to the rams at 26. And then just at the start of the second round, Jalen Milro to the Giants to play on in the same quarterback room as Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston. I know. And, and Tommy DeVito. You want to talk about that? That guy, this quarterback room. I mean, I know I mentioned that the pregame prayer was going to make you want to run through a ball. Now it's fixing to get to where they going to run through a bus. I mean, they're going to get after it. [00:22:55] Speaker A: It's going to be pretty hype. [00:22:56] Speaker B: And then the other one I found notable in this, this, this round was second round. We'll. We'll get to that. Sorry. Texas wide receiver and also former Alabama wide receiver Isaiah Bond to the Panthers. That's a reuniting him and Bryce Young. But go ahead, Maddie. [00:23:13] Speaker C: I mean, I'm assuming you guys all saw the Isaiah Bond thing. Which one in Light yard said he admitted to. Oh, gosh, hold on. Did you guys not see this? [00:23:25] Speaker A: It's not about the 40 yard dash, right? [00:23:27] Speaker C: No. [00:23:27] Speaker B: He admitted to something. [00:23:29] Speaker C: Yes. [00:23:31] Speaker B: Can we even be bringing this up on our episode at the moment? [00:23:34] Speaker C: I don't know if he'll actually end up getting drafted as high as some may think he will. That's all I have to say. [00:23:41] Speaker D: Or. [00:23:42] Speaker B: Well, this draft, this mock draft was made before that. [00:23:46] Speaker C: Yeah, Yeah. [00:23:47] Speaker A: I don't know them. [00:23:48] Speaker B: I don't want to get in all them details. Yeah. Let's just say Isaiah Bond, his draft stock might be plummeting right now. [00:23:55] Speaker C: Big news in the sports world. Yeah, yeah, but I just read. [00:24:00] Speaker B: Hold on, go back. Go back up to your. Wait a minute. So the other thing I saw is there's a quote from him that says something like, alcohol makes me do things. [00:24:11] Speaker A: That's all we. That's all we. Okay. [00:24:14] Speaker B: Anyway, Milro to the Giants. Yes. [00:24:16] Speaker A: Yes. [00:24:17] Speaker B: How do we feel about that destination, him being a second round pick? We're getting canceled, but let's just enjoy it. [00:24:22] Speaker D: While we completely condemn anything that he does. [00:24:28] Speaker C: We do not support. [00:24:29] Speaker D: We do not support. [00:24:30] Speaker B: We are clean hearted individuals. [00:24:33] Speaker C: Everyone was like, good, I'm glad he left. [00:24:35] Speaker D: Yeah. I mean, yeah, but we don't want him. [00:24:38] Speaker C: Okay. [00:24:38] Speaker D: So that's all we're gonna say. And we are nice individuals here at the Crimson case. We do not support any of that. [00:24:44] Speaker B: Right. [00:24:45] Speaker D: Just legal disclaimer. [00:24:48] Speaker B: Now, I do want to read some quotes real quick so we can get back on track with the millroad thing. An NFC executive said, and I quote, he has Trouble going through his progressions and is not accurate. But then from an AFC executive, he said at some point someone will say he's too good of an athlete not to take. [00:25:06] Speaker D: Okay, he is a fantastic athlete. He has speed. He has a good arm 75% of the time and it's a generous percentage. [00:25:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:20] Speaker D: And he is a very good athlete. And I think he could be useful to a team. I just. The Giants. [00:25:28] Speaker C: I really liked the idea of him going to the Steelers. I really liked that one. I feel like he would fit really well in that organization. But also I think with that being too good of an athlete. He is a good athlete. I think if developed properly, he would have been almost like Lamar Jackson. That style. I just fear he wasn't developed correctly. [00:25:52] Speaker B: Do you want to know what draft Jesus has the Pittsburgh Steelers doing now? What he has him taking at the 21st overall pick. Derek Harmon, defensive tackle, Oregon. So they just said Steelers are. And this is. This is. He'll say he's holding off on trying to say that they're going to take a quarterback because he really strongly believes. [00:26:11] Speaker A: That Aaron Rodgers is going to the Steelers. [00:26:14] Speaker B: Then who would be Lydia's favorite player. [00:26:16] Speaker A: Then who would be their backup then? [00:26:18] Speaker B: Mason Rudolph. [00:26:19] Speaker A: Mason Rudolph. [00:26:20] Speaker B: That's the only guy they got at the moment, I think. [00:26:22] Speaker A: Right. [00:26:22] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm not confident in him. [00:26:25] Speaker A: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. [00:26:26] Speaker B: But you know, he's trying to say he originally had Jackson Dart to the Pittsburgh Steelers. So that would be ahead of the pick that the Rams have. [00:26:33] Speaker A: I remember him and Jalen Milro are kind of interchangeable at that pot at that spot. [00:26:37] Speaker D: I mean, but I just, I just think. I just think that we've talked about this before, how Jalen is for sure. Like, I mean, 34 was high. We had him maybe third round. So I mean, if he goes to the Giants, good for him. But I just. I just don't think that's the best place for him. [00:26:57] Speaker A: Jackson Dart to the LA Rams. [00:26:58] Speaker B: So that's interesting that sitting behind Stafford. [00:27:02] Speaker A: Sitting behind Stafford. [00:27:04] Speaker C: Yeah, that could be good for him. [00:27:05] Speaker A: Kind of looks like a young staff. Like if you said those two were related somehow, like, you know what I'm saying? I was thinking Matthew Stafford is his uncle or something like that. [00:27:13] Speaker C: They give the same vibe. [00:27:14] Speaker A: They do give the same vibe. Like back in the day, Matthew Stafford used to have luscious locks like Jackson Dart, you know what I'm saying? [00:27:22] Speaker D: And he might learn a thing or two. Oh, wait, yeah, I found an old Matthew. They look so similar. That's an old Matthew stalker. [00:27:30] Speaker A: You see what I'm saying? Like you told me that was his uncle. I would believe you. [00:27:33] Speaker B: Well, Jackson's art thinks he's a Star wars character. First of all. He thinks he's literally in Empire Strikes Back all day, every day. I mean I don't even. Yeah, the high black. Your father. Sorry, guys. Yeah. That is what the Florida defense said to him this year. I am your father. Jackson, he threw. Man, that game was so bad. But he has upside, a lot of upside. That you know what? That's the comment you can make about everybody. Everyone has upside. It's just what does the downside? [00:28:04] Speaker A: Look, their ups are high and their downs are even lower sometimes. So it's just. Yeah, it's just whether. I mean whether or not they're going to progress and what you're going to get on any given day. But that's like you said, Matthew, that's with everybody. [00:28:19] Speaker D: Matthew, where did draft Jesus have OSU's quarterback going? [00:28:24] Speaker B: Not in the first two rounds. Oh, so he only did two rounds. He doesn't have Will Howard up here. [00:28:29] Speaker C: I'll take Will. Howard was carried actually. I don't know if that's a hot take. Yeah. [00:28:33] Speaker A: And Gabriel even going to get drafted. [00:28:35] Speaker B: Maybe later he might be a Brock Purdy. [00:28:37] Speaker A: I don't know because he's, you know, with the combine he. He had and you know, he's still third in the Heisman boating but like, you know, the type of combine he had, I wasn't sure. [00:28:48] Speaker B: Well, let's talk about our favorite team, the Dallas Cowboys. He has always had. Actually he's kept the same player as the last mock draft he did Amari and Hampton, North Carolina running back. He's had that pick. Kind of just might as well write it in pen according to draft Jesus. Don't use pencil. Just go ahead and write in pen. Yeah, but taking a running back at least shows you care about having a running game because they. I don't know. Since the last mock draft he's done, they signed Javante Williams who was on the Broncos. Miles Sanders who I believe was on like the. The Panthers or somebody like that. But you can't just rely on a couple has beens. You got to get a rookie in there. You got to get some fresh legs. [00:29:32] Speaker A: To this year's RB class. There's a lot to choose from, so it's not a bad year to do that. [00:29:38] Speaker B: Ashton Genti is definitely not going to be there unless they want to try to trade up. [00:29:42] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. [00:29:42] Speaker B: To six and get him I don't think Jerry Jones would trade up to six and do that. Any other notable? The Jacksonville Jaguars, just for entertainment purposes, they have the fifth overall pick, Mason Graham, defensive tackle from Michigan is who he says. And then the Patriots as we wrap up, I know it's we got a Patriots fan in here, Will Campbell, offensive tackle from LSU to try to protect Drake May. So maybe that's a good thing. Coming up, we will make a case for the best Alabama edition in the transfer portal era. Stick around. Wvuafm Tuscaloosa. Wvuafm Tuscaloosa it is once again that time to make a case and this prompt is going to tie in with our little transfer port portal special that we got going on today. Just talking about everything in the portal era, our prompt is make a case for the athlete that is Alabama's greatest addition in the transfer portal era, any sport. So I want to see, you know, if Zach, Maddie or Lydia is going to get the point from me. Judge Mason, we will see how this goes. So I guess I'm the judge so I instruct who goes first. Zach, you're going first. I'm going to judge. [00:31:21] Speaker A: Okay. I got to give it to Jermaine Burton. I mean stepped up big time for us in a time in 2023 where we were wondering who is going to be our big time receiver. I mean out of nowhere just came up and just bawled. In 2023 he had some big time games. Just one for starters. Got to give it to, I mean the one verse Texas A&M for instance, 197 yards, two teddies he had, I mean back to back 100 yard, you know, 100 yard receiving games in Chattanooga, Auburn. I mean he had some big time games, dude. And especially in a time where Jalen Milro was kind of unsure on like where he was going to go as far as the wide receiver one. He's, he was just balling for him and especially with Isaiah Bond kind of being inconsistent. So Jermaine Burton got to give it to him. A wide receiver one definitely helped Jalen Milroe in his development going into being a QB one here at Alabama. [00:32:21] Speaker B: I got you. All right, next up, Lydia. [00:32:23] Speaker D: Alrighty. So I have to go with our favorite here on the Crimson case, Ms. Sarah Ashley Barker. When she transferred from Georgia in the 2022, 2023 season, she put up 214 points in her first year which almost tying her record at her last or her second year at UGA. And then in her second year at Alabama, she did 556 points. And she just has mean so much to the program, not only from a stats perspective, which obviously I can read on and on about, but from a culture perspective. I mean, we had the amazing opportunity to get to talk to her on the show, and just the amount of humbleness that she came, she brought to the program, and she really did exemplify glg. And obviously she's going to the draft, so that's an amazing thing for her. Her career at Alabama really helped that. And I mean, we can talk about her. The last game she ever played against Maryland, she carried us through that game. And she's really just been such a dominant athlete, but also just a giant and a titan of a personality and such a great character. So I have to go with her. [00:33:25] Speaker B: And last but not least, Maddie, I. [00:33:28] Speaker C: Have two words for you. Mark Sears. I mean, he came from ou, Ohio University. [00:33:35] Speaker B: Oh, you makes me think Oklahoma. [00:33:37] Speaker C: Yeah, see, that's what everyone says down here, but in my mind, it's different. [00:33:40] Speaker B: People say UA for, like, Arizona, too, when you talk about. Anyway, go ahead. [00:33:45] Speaker C: Yeah, true. [00:33:47] Speaker A: They do say that. [00:33:48] Speaker C: A little Mac School, you know, playing some action. All sudden comes to Alabama, changes the program, changes the entire program. Like, the whole Alabama basketball was not as prominent as it is now. And that is because of Mark Sears. Like, he was averaging in his second season at OU. At Ohio University, he was averaging 19.6 points. He came to Alabama first season, 12.5 points per game. Not. I mean, not fantastic, but, like, that's still really good numbers. 21.5 points per game averaged in his second season. 18.6 this past season. I mean, and bro's just a baller. We all know that. He changed the program as a whole, just like, as who he is in a person and, like, just playing basketball. [00:34:37] Speaker D: So, yeah, so I'd like to keep. I'd like to defend my case a little bit more. How you said Mark Sears changed the men's basketball program. Sarah Ashley Barker brought that to the women's program. Her dominance made Alabama's women's basketball more, like, prompt. Like, people were always gonna go to the basketball games because it's men's. But with Sarah Ashley Barker, and yes, she had an amazing team around her, but she's brought in such a crowd to women's basketball and really made it more prominent here on campus. [00:35:06] Speaker C: I love Sarah Ashley Barker and I love the women's basketball team, and they. [00:35:10] Speaker A: Both have great cases. [00:35:12] Speaker B: Do you have anything else to add to Jermaine Burton? [00:35:14] Speaker A: No, I said Chattanooga that's bottom right now. [00:35:18] Speaker D: It's okay. [00:35:19] Speaker A: I think we're. Yeah. [00:35:20] Speaker D: Zach, you can say it's me. [00:35:22] Speaker A: I can take the bell on this one. Mark Sears is honestly, you're at a little bit of a pickle of a situation, Matthew. I'm gonna be dead. [00:35:29] Speaker C: National prominence. [00:35:31] Speaker B: All right. [00:35:31] Speaker A: Cause both Final Four have been with Bama for so long. Both have just. [00:35:36] Speaker D: The women's team were ranked for the first time, like, ever while she's been here. [00:35:40] Speaker C: We went to a Final Four. [00:35:41] Speaker D: Okay. We also had order in the court. [00:35:46] Speaker B: All right. I have heard the cases. I respect the Jermaine Burton, but he will be coming in at a bronze today. He'll be coming in at a bronze. [00:35:57] Speaker A: I tried, Jermaine. [00:35:58] Speaker B: I tried. Now, when it comes to the silver and the gold here, we obviously have two big basketball stars. Mark Sears, Sir Ashley Barker, Sarah Ashley coming from Georgia, and obviously Ohio University for Mark Sears. This is what I'm going to say. The way I look at it, the angle that I look at it is that Mark Sears came from freaking Ohio. [00:36:23] Speaker C: Let's go. [00:36:24] Speaker B: Sarah Ashley was destined to come play at Alabama whether she knew it or not. [00:36:28] Speaker C: She's from Birmingham. [00:36:29] Speaker B: Exactly. The way I look at it is that going and getting him from Ohio. Yes. Is ridiculous that you can find someone that did that, did what he did. I love Sarah Ashley. I really do. [00:36:41] Speaker C: Yes. I love her as well. [00:36:42] Speaker D: Please come back on the show. Sarah Ashley. [00:36:44] Speaker B: Look, look the way I'm looking at it. I mean, I've already kind of explained, but, like, you know, Mark Sears, he took team to a Final Four. Now, Sarah Ashley did literally everything she possibly could, but her teammates fouled out of the game, left her on an island by herself, basically. I really respect that. I just got to go. It's a very close one. I can't split the gold in half and give it to both. I have to pick a winner. I go, Mark Sears. [00:37:12] Speaker C: Roll Tide. [00:37:14] Speaker B: Roll Tide. [00:37:16] Speaker D: I respect it. I'll graciously take my silver medal. [00:37:19] Speaker C: Yes. But also, Sarah Ashley, we love you. I've seen Mark Sears twice this past week. He was at the A day game yesterday, and I saw him on the Strip. [00:37:28] Speaker D: Oh. [00:37:29] Speaker A: I saw him at Julia's one time. [00:37:31] Speaker B: Did you flick up with him or did he ask for your yay, Alabama QR code? [00:37:35] Speaker C: Oh, neither. But I just didn't want to talk to him. He was with his friends. I was like, oh, maybe not. [00:37:40] Speaker B: Yeah, we'll. We'll. [00:37:42] Speaker D: Let me interview you. No. [00:37:43] Speaker C: Hi. Would you like to come on our. [00:37:45] Speaker A: Podcast Imagine Mark Sears in here. [00:37:48] Speaker B: Hey, Mark Sears would just be leaning back, chilling. [00:37:51] Speaker A: Yo, what up, bro? Yeah, yeah. [00:37:52] Speaker B: But hey, shout out Sarah Ashley Barker being in New York, got invited. One of 16 people invited to attend in person. She's there. Represent. So she could be a first round pick. We got to see. I think the first round picks. I think 11th or. No, she's projected to go 12th. Now, projections obviously mean nothing because draft Jesus projects whatever, but you know, draft. [00:38:12] Speaker A: Whatever he says goes. [00:38:13] Speaker B: I don't think WNBA has a draft Jesus. It's just really. [00:38:16] Speaker D: It's you, Matthew, up in the air. What are you doing right now? Your picks go. [00:38:20] Speaker B: My picks. [00:38:20] Speaker C: I would also like to say real quick, Aliyah Knight is actually in New York. [00:38:24] Speaker B: She is too. [00:38:24] Speaker C: Yeah, she posted on her Snapchat story. [00:38:26] Speaker B: I. That's sick. I just know that they did something with like. Like they made a post about it. [00:38:34] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, I saw that as well. [00:38:36] Speaker B: I think she's there. She'll be at Sarah Ashley's like, table with her. [00:38:39] Speaker C: Right, That's. That's what I was thinking. Like how Caitlin Clark had her friend, but then her friend ended up getting drafted as well. [00:38:45] Speaker B: Oh, they do every round in the same day. I think this is three rounds and it's like 12 the first one and then 13 in the second, third. Anyway, so we chose Mark Sears or I chose Mark Sears, gave him the gold just for this topic. And now it's time for Crash out, part three, the third time we've ever done this. I have some. Some tunes that I would like to share. [00:39:11] Speaker D: I'm so ready. [00:39:12] Speaker C: I am so excited. [00:39:14] Speaker B: LeBron James fans is who I'm gonna be crashing out about. I'm laughing and crashing out the same exact time, which is a con. It's a contradiction. It's the hypocrisy. [00:39:23] Speaker D: But I'm doing it anyway. [00:39:25] Speaker B: I'm doing it anyway. First of all, this song I'm about to play, it had a picture of LeBron face planted after Draymond Green shoved him on the floor. And he's face planning, and it's just a still picture of LeBron on his face. And then the top comment was, why did someone not send me an Amber Alert? Why did I not get an amber alert for LeBron being down? That was what the top comment was. Now you want to know what the song was? Don't. Don't mute us. Because I want to get your reaction over the song. Do not mute us. Okay, here is one of the songs that the LeBron James fan base has made LeBron. What are we doing there? [00:40:11] Speaker C: I'm telling you, there have been some great ones. There's an icarly theme song about LeBron. [00:40:15] Speaker A: This has been going on for years. Matthew, come on. [00:40:19] Speaker B: But with. Why is it now on my page? What? [00:40:22] Speaker C: All of her mind. [00:40:23] Speaker B: You know what? Speaking of the Minecraft movie, which, by the way, made me want to crash out even more, but I don't know if I should crash out about the Minecraft movie, they decided we're going to take it a step further and put LeBron James song somewhere. LeBron in the Steve's hot lava chicken and just make it about LeBron. [00:40:39] Speaker D: No way. [00:40:48] Speaker B: What are we doing? [00:40:49] Speaker D: Can we play a little Luther? [00:40:51] Speaker C: I want to hear that one. [00:40:52] Speaker B: Oh, and then Kendrick Lamar's song just. [00:40:54] Speaker A: Came out with the music video. [00:40:55] Speaker B: Kendra Lamar has a song called Luther, which is like it. It samples the. The great Luther Vandross. If y'all don't know about Luther Vandross, y'all missing out. Yeah, but this is titled Le Luther starts out slow and we got to build it up. I can't play it anymore because there's some words in it. But that was what he said. If LeBron was mine, why are we doing that? These people need to go to a therapist. These people need to go to and get professional medical attention. [00:41:43] Speaker D: Matthew, I'm gonna say something that should calm you. Should calm you down a little bit. At least it's not Stephen A. Smith anymore. At least he's out of our face. Okay. Now it's just. [00:41:53] Speaker B: Well, Stephen A. Is acting like he's fixing a, you know, make a run for president in 2028. [00:41:57] Speaker A: I've heard about that. [00:41:59] Speaker C: Wait, what? [00:42:00] Speaker B: He thinks that people are gonna vote for him? [00:42:04] Speaker A: Probably not. [00:42:05] Speaker D: I believe he has 0.3% of the popularity. [00:42:08] Speaker B: Yeah, he. [00:42:10] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:42:11] Speaker A: Is it going to be like him? [00:42:12] Speaker B: Kanye, if he gets that salary, if he gets that presidential salary, he's just going to try to make his hairline, you know, great again. Hey, I don't know if it ever was great. I don't know if his hairline ever was. [00:42:25] Speaker A: Same same boat, dude. Him and LeBron, they can relate on that. [00:42:28] Speaker C: I don't. They want to relate on anything. [00:42:30] Speaker B: And then you know what? My personal favorite lay? Thriller James. All right. That one didn't make me as mad as the other ones. [00:42:53] Speaker A: That one is actually kind of good. [00:42:55] Speaker D: Okay. You have to give these guys props. They actually have the vocals. [00:42:59] Speaker B: Okay. [00:43:00] Speaker D: But not irritating to my ears. [00:43:02] Speaker C: Unless it's AI. [00:43:03] Speaker D: Unless it's AI. [00:43:04] Speaker A: It probably is AI. [00:43:05] Speaker B: Yeah. He is the king. [00:43:07] Speaker C: The very best anyone ever was. [00:43:11] Speaker B: This one takes the cake. [00:43:19] Speaker C: For 20 years, he's been the man. [00:43:22] Speaker B: Just. Just wait a second. Listen to this crap. Teammates with his son. They had the chance, but he came back three one. [00:43:33] Speaker A: Came back down, three one. [00:43:38] Speaker C: This is fire. [00:43:40] Speaker A: This is, like a Power Ranger theme music, but, like, for LeBron. [00:43:47] Speaker B: That's enough. Shut it off. Shut it down. [00:43:50] Speaker D: But speaking of Pokemon, don't we have something to say, Matthew? [00:43:55] Speaker B: Oh, since we're on the topic of Pokemon, I want to congratulate our sports director here at WVUF. What did I just say? WVUAFM. Nicholas Pursley. Yeah, he got 15 out of 165 in a Pokemon Championship tournament that was held in Atlanta. [00:44:12] Speaker A: Let's go. [00:44:13] Speaker B: I'm just wanting to know. I want to see. I want to see. What does a Pokemon Championship tournament even look like? [00:44:19] Speaker C: I was wondering. Same thing. [00:44:20] Speaker A: You got to catch them, dude. You got to catch them. [00:44:22] Speaker C: You got me some more. [00:44:23] Speaker B: You have, like, the cards. You go to, like, Target. I mean, you can go see Target and get some cards or something, or you can. [00:44:28] Speaker D: There's actually. You can make, like, teams, and you have, like, Pokemon battles with the cards. [00:44:34] Speaker B: So. [00:44:34] Speaker D: So you, like, make a team. Make a deck. It's called. Okay, hold on. [00:44:38] Speaker B: So we got a minute. We got it. We got, like, a minute closing in. [00:44:42] Speaker C: Is that what she was running in? She was coming from Atlanta. Sorry, guys. [00:44:50] Speaker B: Now, hold on. Does it. Do you just sit there? I mean, you imagine beefing with someone, and you're just like, you know what, buddy? You want to beef with me? I choose chabad. Bam. And then it just. That's how you beef right there. [00:45:04] Speaker D: You jest, but you can win serious money. You can win some serious money from me. [00:45:09] Speaker B: Should I send him a message and see how much his purse was for winning 15? [00:45:12] Speaker D: You probably couldn't get anything. [00:45:14] Speaker A: Bro's a millionaire. [00:45:15] Speaker B: Bro is a casual millionaire. That's why he's leaving. All right, well, we're gonna wrap up. I might not have been as angry as I have been in the past, but those LeBron James songs, I crashed out when I first heard them. So hearing them again, I almost kind of was just laughing. But anyway, back to the top of the hour with some more sports news. Stick around here. WVUAFM. Tuscaloosa. [00:45:52] Speaker A: This show is a sports production of WVUAFM 90.7 the Capstone. A division of student media at the University of Alabama. Support us by leaving a review rating. [00:46:03] Speaker B: Or following us on X At WVUAFM Sports, wvuafm Tuscaloosa. We are back from break on the Crimson case. Just to reintroduce ourselves, I'm Matthew Mason alongside Matty Hewitt, Lydia Lisko and Zach Elrod. And I do want to kick off this news rally that we got going. We got Alabama gymnastics that is going to be kicked off with Lydia. [00:46:43] Speaker D: So I want to give a huge shout out to our women's gymnastics. They are making it to the semifinals of the NCAA Gymnastics Championship. It was such an electric match. That is why I was not at the recording of the show last week because I was working the game and or working the me and supporting our girls. And they used a season high score of 197.675 to punch itself consecutive. Consecutive ticket to Fort Worth. They had meet high rotations on beam 49.5 and floor 49.525. It so going into that meet, we were really close with Cal because Cal was ranked sixth and we were ranked. I can't remember off the top of my head, I think like 11th or 12th. And it was, it was looked like it was going to be Florida, which also advanced and then Cal. But we, we really pulled through. Our girls should be so proud of themselves. They put everything they had into their me and I'm just. It's going to be amazing. On April 17th at 3:30pm Central Time, tune in to support the Alabama Crimson Tide in Fort Worth. It'll be so electric, so fun. And I have a feeling they're going to do amazing. [00:47:55] Speaker B: Roll. Yeah, Roll Tide. Later. Okay, so we're going to keep on this news train, especially when we mentioned that the WNBA draft is Monday night. Alabama has three draft prospects. Sarah Ashley Barker, Zay Green, Aliyah Nye. We definitely talked about that a lot throughout this, this, this program, you know, program. You know, you spell it. P, R, O, G, R, U, M. Program. [00:48:24] Speaker A: Program. [00:48:24] Speaker B: Program. Program. I mean, that's just being in the South. No one says program. No, everyone says program. [00:48:30] Speaker C: Lydia and I do. [00:48:31] Speaker B: Yeah, y'all say program. Program. [00:48:33] Speaker D: We're from, you know, Ohio. [00:48:35] Speaker B: Y'all from hippie land. I mean, not hippie land. Yuppie land. [00:48:40] Speaker D: Yep. [00:48:40] Speaker C: I've been called a Yankee so many times since I've been here. [00:48:42] Speaker D: I've been called a Yankee too. [00:48:44] Speaker C: I'm from Ohio. To me before, I'm not that much from Ohio. [00:48:48] Speaker D: I said, I said y'all same. So anyways, yay. Alabama women in the draft. [00:48:55] Speaker B: Yay. I think everyone's going to get selected. [00:48:58] Speaker D: Oh, 100%, which is huge. [00:49:01] Speaker C: I mean, I didn't realize how little spots there were in the WNBA draft. And he was talking about it and, like, the fact that we have three girls going into the draft, that's huge. [00:49:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:09] Speaker B: I don't want to, like, say that's the most, but that might be the most under Curry, having those three prospects all go at the same time. And if they all three get drafted, it could be the. The most prospects under Curry drafted. And then obviously, like, the other part of it is, you know, I recently got to be in a zoom, a media zoom with ESPN analyst Andrea Carter, and she shared some thoughts about these three. Barker, you know, she met her down there in Tampa because Barker was there for the. It's like a. So you want to be a coach program that she was there at. [00:49:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:42] Speaker B: And she said that since she saw her freshman year Georgia to now she. Her frame has gotten so much stronger. It's like. It's not like one of those things. When you say frame, it's not like one of those things that would make her less fast. No. It means she finishes at the basket a lot more physical, this muscle. Yeah, there's people bouncing off of her when she's driving to the. To the hoop. And then, you know, Zay Green, obviously a point guard, but she has a lot of length. I mean, she has a lot. If you have a lengthy point guard, I mean, you know, dishing out dimes and stuff, finding shots. [00:50:15] Speaker A: Spread the four, too. I mean, you can hit threes. [00:50:17] Speaker B: And then Aaliyah and I. I think the thing we. We look at, obviously, the records and stuff. But, you know, she says that defense is something she don't feel like she gets enough credit for. Most of those threes come from shutting down somebody on defense, and you get out and run, and she likes to get out, run. [00:50:31] Speaker A: All three of these people are disciplined on the defensive end, but yeah, shout. [00:50:35] Speaker B: Out to them as they. They wait to hear their name called tomorrow night. And then. I know I'm talking about Auburn, but, you know, Auburn's Jennai Broom is obviously declared for the NBA draft. I did want to get a quick answer from you guys. Where do you think he would possib. Is he top 15? Would you say round one or would you say even like a round two selection or just undrafted? I mean, he was one of the best players in college basketball, but a lot of people don't have him in the top 10 of their mock drafts. [00:51:00] Speaker C: It's because he's so old. He was so much older. Than all the guys he was playing against. I mean, of course he's going to be better. He's had more time. I mean, this is like the age that a lot of guys are in the NBA. I mean, I know, like, LeBron is super. Like, he's old for the NBA, but, like, these other guys are around Jani Broom's age. [00:51:20] Speaker A: There's a reason why guys like Hunter Dickinson are fighting for another year of eligibility. But with Jani Broom, I think he does have some upside. Obviously, he showed strides being able to spread the four as of. In comparison to last season to this season. We've talked about that before. But do I think he's a first rounder? No, I think he's kind of more of a. I don't know, Maybe late second. [00:51:44] Speaker D: Yeah, I'm piggybacking off of you. That's what I was gonna say. [00:51:47] Speaker A: Maybe a late second. [00:51:48] Speaker C: Second round, for sure. That's what I was. [00:51:51] Speaker B: And like, Phylon is. I don't know if he's made his decision. Not yet. [00:51:55] Speaker A: I haven't heard anything yet. No. [00:51:58] Speaker B: I'm sorry. Did you have something to add? [00:52:00] Speaker C: Oh, no, I just made eye contact. No, no. [00:52:03] Speaker B: I know the Masters is going on as we record this, so we definitely got to pay attention to that. [00:52:08] Speaker C: I'm stressed. [00:52:09] Speaker B: Stressed out for Rory if he's gonna blow it. I mean, him and Justin. Him and Justin Rose are going to a playoff. And is that going to happen today or am I tripping? [00:52:21] Speaker C: No, it'll happen today. It has to be today. [00:52:23] Speaker B: Are they doing it, like, right now? [00:52:25] Speaker C: It should start soon. They'll usually give them, I think, a little bit of time. I mean, not too much. Obviously, it's 7:00 in Augusta, so. [00:52:33] Speaker B: Well, RIP my man Bryson DeChambeau, he fell down on leaderboards. Now you don't care? You don't like him? [00:52:40] Speaker C: No. He sold out to live. I'm. I'm very big on PGA loyalty. Sticking with the whole loyalty thing again, I think it's very. Selling out for money. I don't like it. I don't like DeChambeau. [00:52:52] Speaker A: That's been the theme of this episode. [00:52:54] Speaker B: Loyalty. Yeah. There ain't much of it. Speaking of loyalty. There's not loyalty we NBA head coaches at all. Especially when we talk about Michael Malone being fired by the Denver Nuggets just days before the playoffs start. The Nuggets are fourth in the Western Conference, I believe, and they won a championship two years ago with this guy as their coach. But I believe they lost, like, maybe four in a row. And they just decided, you know, like, there was reports saying the players were like, miserable under this guy. [00:53:19] Speaker A: Yes. [00:53:20] Speaker B: I would go in a press conference and say these players would never watch film. He never would do what he wanted them to do. So they just said, all right, well, we're going to choose the players. We're paying millions of dollars, and I'm sure this guy's got a pretty wealthy contract buyout to get rid of them or something. But, you know, I posed the question, and these are two different questions, but kind of the same. Are coaches useless in the NBA? And then also, could an NBA team win a championship without a head coach? [00:53:46] Speaker A: Do you know five out of the last seven coaches to win an NBA championship have been fired? [00:53:54] Speaker B: Pretty crazy, because you got with the Bucks. I know Mike Budenholzer was fired. [00:53:58] Speaker A: Booneholzer was fired. [00:54:00] Speaker B: I know the Cavs won one and they fired Taron Lou Taryn Liu was fired. [00:54:04] Speaker A: Michael Malone. Michael Malone was fired. Yeah, a lot of coaches were fired, so. And it just is a continuing thing that can occurs and it's always the coach to go first. I mean, that's just the common theme. And then when Michael Malone, I know teammates were also frustrated with him, kind of favoring Russell Westbrook with his inconsistencies on the floor. He was continuing to give him minutes and even start him at times, which they showed success, but also is kind of inconsistent. So I don't know. I was extremely confused, especially to hear today, Chauncey Billups just got an extension through 2027 through 2028. Guess what number, guess what seed they are in the Western Conference. The Portland Trailblazers. 12th seed. The play in and not even in the playoffs. And Chauncey Billups just got an extension. [00:54:52] Speaker B: Well, is it one of those things that they see the growth and they know. They probably envision that he could keep growing the team, one of those type of deals. [00:55:00] Speaker A: Maybe It's. They're a 12th seed. So if there's growth really bad for office, very, very minuscule. [00:55:08] Speaker B: I don't know what to do about that. [00:55:09] Speaker C: I like the question, like, are coaches useless in the NBA? Because, I mean, if you think about it, it's so crazy. Oh, my goodness. It's so crazy that these athletes are like, sometimes they're older than their coach, like in the NFL and everything. Like, I don't know. So. And personally, I feel like at a certain point you're going to want to stop taking direction from a coach, like, bring it back to LeBron. Like you really think he's going to take that much direction from a coach. Probably not lay coach. [00:55:37] Speaker B: I mean, Frank Vogel. [00:55:39] Speaker A: Frank Vogel, he's a great example, too. He got fired from the Los Angeles Lakers. [00:55:43] Speaker C: True. I don't. But then you pose the question, like, how would the team be organized? Like, I mean, are they going to have players call? Like running the. [00:55:51] Speaker A: You know, we never know. We never know. [00:55:53] Speaker B: You can have players call plays, but it's the substitutions that is the biggest deal. And the timeouts is also a big deal. Yeah, but the way I look at it, like, I'm trying to remember other coaches. Nick Nurse with the Raptors, they won that with Kawhi Leonard and then got fired. [00:56:08] Speaker A: And now he's not doing great things over in Philadelphia. So who knows? He might be on the clock as well. When. Even. Even in Philly. [00:56:17] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm. And it's like I saw that one of the matchups they got finalized and I'll say this, and then we can move on to other news that we got here, but the Bucks are going to play the Pacers again with the first round, and they're not going to have Damian Lillard. Last year they didn't have Giannis, so it's like. It's like an injury bug that keeps killing them and seems like another Pacers Mickey Mouse run. Possibly. [00:56:41] Speaker A: They don't have Chris Middleton to try and save them towards the end either. Because Chris Middleton, if y'all don't know, in that last playoff series last year, he was going bonkers. But, I mean, both of these teams have kind of had some late stretches, definitely with wind. So it'll be an interesting matchup first round. [00:56:56] Speaker B: And just for to throw some MLB love in there, Vlad Guerrero Jr. And that Toronto Blue Jays agreed on a 14 year, 500 million contract extension. [00:57:07] Speaker A: Heard about that. Yeah. [00:57:08] Speaker B: 500 million, 14 year. [00:57:10] Speaker A: Toronto's got money to burn, dude. They got money to burn. [00:57:14] Speaker C: I just can't. I will never get over how much because the MLB doesn't have a salary cap and they just throw money at their players and it's so insane. [00:57:21] Speaker A: Which I think is a problem. Dude, I really do think it's a problem. [00:57:24] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:57:24] Speaker A: Especially with the Dodgers. [00:57:26] Speaker B: Yeah, well, they want to. They won a title and the Yankees were there. So those two people are trying. The Mets are definitely trying. The deal they gave Juan Soto was insane. [00:57:36] Speaker C: Crazy. [00:57:37] Speaker A: 700 mil. [00:57:38] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, I mean, that goes back to loyalty, too. He went from the Yankees to the Mets for money. [00:57:43] Speaker D: Yeah. I mean, because my thing is with baseball, it's like the seller cap. I. I don't think they'll ever get one because these baseball players, like, I don't know. Also I just feel like baseball games, they make enough money to support that insane. Like, for me, baseball games I always go to, like, they always sell, like, they always have their season tickets. They always sound like. I feel like more people get concessions at a baseball game, like, and I feel like merch sells more. So I don't know. I feel like they always make the money to justify those insane salary. [00:58:13] Speaker C: That's a good take. I would agree with that. But also then if you think about it like the NFL on that, I. [00:58:18] Speaker D: Just feel like NFL tickets are getting too expensive because I know, like, MLB. [00:58:23] Speaker C: Tickets there, I can still get my $16 seats. Yeah. [00:58:27] Speaker D: Yeah. So I don't know. That's just my thought. I mean, I don't like. Yes, obviously the money is a big draw for people, loyalty and all that kind of stuff. But I just. I don't know. I don't. The Dodgers are just really good and they. They just have really great players. So those are my thoughts. [00:58:43] Speaker B: Throwing bullpen, I mean, considering. Considering that they quite literally had the same. Like they didn't have him pitching and they win the World Series. Would you want him to get back to trying to be a. A pitcher and a hitter if they just won the World Series, him being a hitter? Because I know he's super talented as a pitcher. Do you really want to risk? Because, you know, here's the thing. You heard his elbow. That means he ain't gonna hit for you. [00:59:08] Speaker C: That's what I was gonna say. I mean, there's so many risks with injuries. Being a pitcher, like, you wear out so quick. And that's just. If he is one of your best hitters, like, what do you. Don't. Don't try to make him pitch sometimes it's just not going to end well for you. I'm sure those are like. [00:59:23] Speaker B: Sorry. I just want to say that's something that is like, I would keep him in my back pocket regular season. I don't feel like you need him to throw playoffs if you throw him a. Throw him if you need him in the playoffs. [00:59:33] Speaker D: But you got to keep him loose a little bit. So maybe like a closer here or there or something. But I mean, if Shohei wants to throw, let him throw. Honestly, like, yes, the elbow injury or strain or whatever he had and everything, I just like, I think he'll be fine. I mean, I think he's a talented athlete. He takes care of himself very well. So if he wants to throw, let him throw like a game and then in a series here or there. [00:59:58] Speaker B: Yeah. You know, like with the Dodgers, they can pay any pitcher they want. Oh, they can literally pay any pitcher they want. They can just snap their fingers and it's literally like a pitching tree that you can just pick one and just, and just have the, the rotation that you want to have. So do we still think the Dodgers, just as we kind of close in here, do we still think the Dodgers are World Series favorites? [01:00:22] Speaker C: Yes, yes, I would. [01:00:23] Speaker A: Extremely. [01:00:23] Speaker B: So, yes. [01:00:24] Speaker A: I think this season is going to dictate. We were talking about the salary cap. If it is so lopsided. I think this season is going to be huge when determining if the MLB will proceed with the salary cap going forward, but I think this is going to be a big determining factor. [01:00:41] Speaker B: All right. Well, we're going to go to break again and we obviously have a guest join us. I wanted to mention from the Crimson White Fisher, Isabel is going to join the talk a day later, but we will be talking the Masters and Nick Saban getting Emmy nomination. Stick around on the Crimson Caves. Wvuafm Tuscaloosa. Wvuafm Tuscaloosa. Well, we have breaking news as we watch or as we have been watching the Masters and as we've been recording this episode, that Roy McIlroy has finally done it. I know Matty is excited. There's a stat that you just told me in the break about Rory finally getting that jacket, that green jacket down there in Augusta. Take it away. What is your reaction? [01:01:51] Speaker C: Well, I am very excited. Rory has been one of my favorite golfers. I've been watching golf with my dad for my entire life and Rory has been my favorite for forever. The last time he won a major was 2014. That is 11 years ago. Wow, guys. And I just. He completes a grand slam. So that means he's won all four of the majors. And he has been really on the up recently. So people, the odds of him winning the Masters a few weeks ago were super low. And then as we were getting there, closer to it, he started winning more and more tournaments. And there was something I saw on Instagram where it was like statistically, like every Masters champion has done this and won this tournament recently, whatever. And the only person there was like Rory. So he continues the streak of whatever that guy was talking about on Instagram. But yes, he joins an elite club. Tiger woods has gotten a grand slam once. I'm trying to research real quick who has had it. So, yes, Rory, Tiger is the most recent one. Well, you guys can figure it out. It doesn't take me too long. Yes. But career grand Slam, this is like, a huge, huge thing. And I think this definitely cements Rory's place, if it wasn't already there, as one of the greatest golfers of all time. [01:03:04] Speaker A: He's got to be one of the most popular at least now. Like, right now, he's probably the most popular golfer. [01:03:09] Speaker C: Yes. Oh, wait, guys, I have the list. Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Ben Hogan, Gene Sarazin, NB Park. Yeah. Okay. [01:03:21] Speaker D: And that's it. [01:03:23] Speaker C: That's. Yes. [01:03:25] Speaker B: You know what's crazy is that, like, when they were. He's putting, and there was a thing that was like. It was like four career grand slam. It was like. It's like the biggest putt ever for him in his life. That's, like, the craziest thing about that. Like, can you imagine? It's one of those things. Like, the only thing I can think of that happened recently in any type of Alabama sports is when Sarah Ashley Barker was at 3, had three free throws at the foul line she had to make all to force an overtime. [01:03:57] Speaker A: To force it to ot. [01:03:58] Speaker B: Yeah. At least this one was. If you made it, you know, you win, you get the jacket. [01:04:02] Speaker D: Yay. [01:04:04] Speaker A: That's a tough putt. That's a tough putt. [01:04:07] Speaker C: And when they were doing the par three contest, their families get to play with him, and his daughter made, like, a really insane putt, and everyone was freaking out. So that's kind of like full circle, too. [01:04:14] Speaker D: Oh, that's so cute. So precious. [01:04:16] Speaker C: His daughter's like, three. Oh. [01:04:18] Speaker D: Or better golfing than I am. [01:04:21] Speaker B: Dude. I saw a meme that said Bryson DeChambeau. Whenever I put US currency on him. It was like a picture of DJ Khaled or somebody like that. Golfing. Let's go golfing. Life is Roblox. Y'all ever seen these videos? No. [01:04:35] Speaker A: No. [01:04:36] Speaker B: How have y'all never seen those videos? [01:04:38] Speaker A: You know? [01:04:39] Speaker D: Yeah, you're just speaking to, like, a. [01:04:40] Speaker C: Like a wall. [01:04:41] Speaker B: All right, now I'm about to actually crash out. I'm just playing. Anyway. Somebody that got famous for crashing out on television, Nick Saban. I mean, hey, that man is nominated for an Emmy in his first year Outstanding personality slash emerging on Air Talent. He's up against Jason Kelsey, Richard Sherman, Ryan Fitzpatrick, and Jay Wright. [01:05:05] Speaker A: So Jason Kelsey might. [01:05:08] Speaker B: I don't know, Swifties might put him over. [01:05:10] Speaker C: I don't think it's the Swifties because I'm not a big Travis Kelsey fan, but I do love Jason. [01:05:15] Speaker A: Jason is. I like Jason. [01:05:17] Speaker B: I think a lot more than Travis. [01:05:19] Speaker D: I don't know. [01:05:19] Speaker B: Game day was must watch television. [01:05:22] Speaker C: Nick Saban on game day is one of my favorite things ever. I think he did so great. [01:05:27] Speaker A: The job great. Yes. [01:05:29] Speaker D: The energy and the vibe he brought. Like, he was. No, he was Nick Saban. Like, he didn't change himself for anybody. And that really, like, he balanced with Pat so well the game days. Like, my favorite thing was he's, like, holding his chair when Pat's, like, standing up and doing, like, the Roll Tide. And honestly, like, because of his notoriety as such a great coach and perhaps one of the greatest coaches of all time in one of football. The greatest coach of all time in college football. I think he brought in so many people that like him and Pat, I think, well, Pat definitely was reevaluate, like, rechanging, defining. [01:06:05] Speaker B: Sorry. [01:06:05] Speaker D: Redefining game day and making it espn, like, relevant again. And I think Nick Saban really also added to elevate that. I think he was just such a great addition. And then when he brought Ms. Terry on as the guest picker and everything. [01:06:20] Speaker B: Love Ms. Terry. [01:06:21] Speaker D: Yes, we love Ms. Terry. So I think he deserves it. I don't know. [01:06:25] Speaker C: I think also something like, major to respect about him in this whole process is that he did not have, like, Alabama bias. He was very straight up about it, except for the one time that Pat said something about Jalen Milron. He, like, slapped the table and he was like, now, wait a minute. But, like, otherwise, on the whole, like, people can't even come at him and be like, oh, like Alabama Gl. No, he was very real the entire season. And I think that's something that. I mean, everyone kind of respects Nick Saban. I don't think any. No matter what you think about Alabama, I think everyone respects Nick Saban, like, who he is as a coach. Yeah, I think he did a fantastic job. [01:07:00] Speaker D: I agree. [01:07:01] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, do you know that he actually got three FCC complaints sent in against him about his curse words? [01:07:07] Speaker D: Only three? Wow. That's surprising. [01:07:10] Speaker B: Well, that. That it's three occasions that he. He's probably said a cuss word that somebody had a problem with. I. I think if I wanted to, I could send in an FCC complaint. I don't. I don't think you have to be like, an executive. I think like any watcher, enjoyer of television sitting in your mom's basement with your drawers on can send in a complaint. You know, like Charles Barkley said, you know, Charles Barkley said, man, all these people sitting in their mom's basement, they got cookie crumbs on their stomach. They eat chicken pot pies for dinner. Hey, mom, meatloaf. Anyway, anyway, so those people are probably the ones complaining about Sabin. Somebody said something like, they don't turn on their TV in the morning just to hear the filth that comes out of his mouth. What? But also, I'm kind of like, well, why Auburn fan? Why are you. Why are you letting someone that young watch a show like that anyway if they don't really understand what's going on? [01:08:01] Speaker D: Yeah, no, I mean, like, he pro. I don't know if he said, you know, like, the F word on television, only he has. [01:08:08] Speaker B: No. [01:08:09] Speaker D: No. So, like, the rest of them aren't even that bad. And I mean, most kids that are watching it are, you know, teenagers, maybe at youngest, like preteens who are actually, like, getting up that early to enjoy and watch the show. And they. They know the world that they're in. So I don't think it's that big of a deal. Like, it's. [01:08:26] Speaker C: Pat McAfee is so much worse. [01:08:28] Speaker A: I was just about to say this. [01:08:30] Speaker B: I think people. I think people have already accepted McAfee. [01:08:33] Speaker A: That they've there because he's the originator. [01:08:35] Speaker B: That's all. That's the cash cow. So they're not. But somebody. They're. They're more disappointed in. In Sabin. They just expect it from McAfee. Maybe that's the. [01:08:44] Speaker A: Because, I mean, they're the two sitting by each other, and Pat McAfee is kind of aging them on a little bit, you know, get loose a little bit. You know, say a word or two. [01:08:51] Speaker B: In fact, you get like a turkey leg. Yeah. [01:08:53] Speaker D: Eat turkey leg. [01:08:54] Speaker C: It was just fantastic. [01:08:56] Speaker A: That's. But that's just. It makes it hilarious. [01:08:59] Speaker B: They got saved in a dress in a nitty line suit. [01:09:02] Speaker C: The two of them together is like. [01:09:04] Speaker A: Lydia was saying, they're just a perfect contrast. [01:09:06] Speaker C: They are. [01:09:07] Speaker A: You know, they just work off each other so well, and that's what made it. Must watch tv. Like you were saying, Matthew. [01:09:12] Speaker D: Yeah. And it's just like, you got to see Nick Saban break out of his shell a little bit. And I mean. Okay, back to the cursing thing. Sorry. I just remember. Remember that very, very famous clip of Nick Saban with, like, the Alabama when they're like, trail. [01:09:25] Speaker C: Run the route again. Yes. [01:09:29] Speaker D: Swear word. Okay, so Nick Saban. Don't be he swear. [01:09:33] Speaker B: That's practiced before. [01:09:35] Speaker A: Oh, he's done that a million times. Yes. And you can read his lips on the sideline back. Like, if you look up his most heated moments on the sidelines breaking the. [01:09:43] Speaker B: His practice moments are hilarious. [01:09:45] Speaker A: They really are. [01:09:46] Speaker B: The clip I saw one clip he was getting on this. This corner because he wasn't using his hands. Like, I guess he wasn't really jamming. It might have been a corner wide receiver. Yeah. Yeah. And there's a clip. He's like, what'd you do all your childhood? Play Nintendo? He's like. He's like, if you're not gonna use your hands, you might as well just stick them up your. [01:10:04] Speaker A: Yeah, I think I've seen that. I think I've seen that. [01:10:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:10:07] Speaker D: I also. There's this really funny one I like where he's complaining about, like, my shoes are too tight. Can somebody get me a new pair of shoes? He's like, how come he has nice shoes? I want. [01:10:17] Speaker C: I've seen that, too, actually. [01:10:18] Speaker D: So funny. He's just. [01:10:20] Speaker B: He complained he wanted a pro pill water bottle. He got mad. He got mad because someone gave him dysante, which is disgusting, that water. [01:10:26] Speaker C: You know, it's actually really funny. [01:10:27] Speaker A: It doesn't have salt anymore. [01:10:28] Speaker C: Only in the athletic dining hall. I've been a couple of times, because my friend goes, whatever. They only their fridge is full of propel waters. That's like. [01:10:36] Speaker B: He's like, what do I got to do to get a propel? [01:10:40] Speaker C: That's what it is. All the water in there. [01:10:42] Speaker B: He walked up to that guy who's some equipment manager, and he was like, I ain't got the right water. My shoes are too tight. I'm trying to find something that you can do, buddy, but I don't know if you can do anything. [01:10:53] Speaker C: Imagine Nick Saban come in and telling you, you can't do anything. [01:10:56] Speaker B: Hey, story time. Story time. As we wrap up, one of my coaches in high school had went to a camp where they work Alabama camp. And, oh, man, I just realized we didn't get to our one more thing today. Well, guess what? I'm sorry about that. [01:11:11] Speaker D: We still have five minutes. [01:11:12] Speaker A: This could be your way more thing. [01:11:13] Speaker B: Wait, what? Tell me what you got left right there. Yeah. [01:11:16] Speaker D: Ten minutes. [01:11:16] Speaker A: So we have five minutes. [01:11:17] Speaker B: We have five minutes. Oh, great. All right. This is my one more thing. We will. I'll tell a story and then bounce it to y'all. One of my coaches went to an Alabama camp, and the thing is, when you. You're outside, they want you. When you're doing cone Drills, they want you to move the cones after every cycle so you don't tear up a particular patch of grass. So you're supposed to move the cones, like just this way, this way so you don't shred the grass because everybody's got cleats on. So one of my coaches just forgot to do it. That guy came over there and dog cussed him. [01:11:44] Speaker D: Nick Saban. [01:11:45] Speaker B: Nick Saban came over in Dog Custom. The funniest part about it is before that camp, we were sitting in his class and that dude said something like, hey man, we got the same job. We're both grown men. I'm not gonna another grown man talk to me like that. Oh, Nick Saban came over and let a rip on his rear end. And what he do, he said, yes, sir. Yes, sir. [01:12:05] Speaker A: The tail went right between the legs. And he was like, oh, yes, sir. [01:12:08] Speaker B: It's like, yeah, y'all do the same job, but there's about a, I don't know, 100 million dollar difference between y'all net worth. [01:12:16] Speaker A: I feel bad for the. But he did it to himself, man. He did it to himself. [01:12:19] Speaker B: Anyway, move the cones, kids. All right, anyway, who wants to go next for the one more thing? [01:12:24] Speaker C: Ms. Terry was like the most successful picker on game day this year. Did anyone else see that? [01:12:29] Speaker D: I did see that, yes. [01:12:31] Speaker B: Love, Ms. Terry. [01:12:33] Speaker C: Have you guys heard the story about how Nick Saban, like, drove her to the. Her ex boyfriend's house when they were married and he, the ex boyfriend, owned a gas station. And so he was like, see, this is how you would be living. And she was like, no, I'll be the. I would be the wife of the Alabama football coach, like, saying it was like her because of her, that he's true. [01:12:51] Speaker B: True statement. [01:12:52] Speaker C: Love, Ms. Terry. [01:12:54] Speaker D: No, we love Ms. Terry. Speaking of game day pickers, this isn't mine, but just going off of you real quick. Timothy Chalamet knows ball. Yeah. [01:13:01] Speaker B: Hey, Crazy. [01:13:02] Speaker D: There was some pretty good guest pickers for game day. We got to give it to them. Miss. Miss Terry, obviously, our favorite, Missy Chalamet did really well. Libby Dunn, she did okay. She's. She's not my favorite. [01:13:15] Speaker A: Mm. [01:13:16] Speaker C: Oh, I have lots of thoughts on living. [01:13:18] Speaker D: Oh, well, I'll transition to my one more thing. So you guys remember how a while ago we talked about the torpedo bats with the Yankees? [01:13:27] Speaker B: Yes. [01:13:28] Speaker D: So big controversy. People are still, like, using them and everything. Well, I would just like to point out The Yankees are 8 and 7 with their fancy torpedo bats. Ever since that day, they haven't really hit that many major home run. [01:13:45] Speaker C: Maybe we really. [01:13:46] Speaker D: Maybe we. The Torpedo bats. Like, like, as I was saying, I think I kind of called it like they really aren't making a difference. People are getting used to them. Or the Yankees are in a slump right now, which definitely could be a possibility. But yeah, the Torpedo bots obviously aren't making that much of a difference. And I mean, it's obviously still in discussion, but I think it's just going to get pushed to the side because it doesn't really matter. I mean, the best. The team with the best record in them will be right now is the Padres. They're 13 and three. [01:14:13] Speaker A: So long season left. [01:14:15] Speaker D: But yeah, long season. But as of now, after everyone was up in arms, oh, it's the Yankees. Oh, they're going to get away with everything. It's really doesn't matter. [01:14:24] Speaker A: Good point. [01:14:25] Speaker D: Yes. Zach, how about you? [01:14:27] Speaker A: Do we, just to clarify, do we talk about Darion Reed? [01:14:31] Speaker D: I don't think we did. [01:14:31] Speaker B: I don't even read. I mentioned him, actually, I did in the first one, but. [01:14:35] Speaker A: Okay. But that's not my. One more thing. I was just making sure. [01:14:38] Speaker B: Yeah, I mentioned him in the transfer thing at the beginning of this episode. [01:14:42] Speaker A: NBA play in tournament starting on Tuesday, April 15th. Hawks, Magic, Mavericks, Kings, Grizzlies versus the warriors and the Heat versus the Bulls. So, I mean, some pretty solid matchups there. And then you also got to think I did want to mention Chris Paul being the first ever person to play all 82 games in year 20 plus. [01:15:05] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, LeBron James would not be doing that. [01:15:08] Speaker A: All 82 games. That's pretty. [01:15:10] Speaker C: That's so many. [01:15:12] Speaker A: That's impressive. He just did it tonight by playing tonight. [01:15:14] Speaker B: Does he? And then they're not going to the playoffs, right? [01:15:17] Speaker A: No, this person. [01:15:18] Speaker B: The spurs are not going to playoffs, so he did that. [01:15:19] Speaker A: They're not in the playoffs. [01:15:20] Speaker B: So it was very easy to be like, all right, we're not going to the playoffs, so I'm gonna save my body. But that tells you what kind of guy he is. [01:15:25] Speaker A: But I mean, with De'Aaron Fox going down, obviously Victor Wembanyama was down first. There wasn't really any point. So. Yeah, but he got the number, so. [01:15:35] Speaker B: All right, well, coming up next, we are going to have Fisher, Isabel from the Crimson White, we're going to talk a day and kind of rate the differences between the two formats we've seen lately. And does this mean that the NIL era is actually kind of destroying Alabama? We will get into all that coming Up. WVUAFM Tuscaloosa. WVUAFM Tuscaloosa. We are back from break on the Crimson case. And joining us from the Crimson White sports desk, Fisher Isbel, who attended a day. And we're going to dive in and talking about the differences from maybe this year's a day to last year. Is it a boom? Was it a bust? I don't know. How do we rank it on the boom meter? [01:16:39] Speaker C: Why is this the second time this is coming up today? [01:16:42] Speaker B: The second time I've mentioned the boom meter. [01:16:43] Speaker C: Yes, the boom meter. [01:16:44] Speaker B: I really don't know. I'm just in a memeable mood. [01:16:47] Speaker A: I don't know. Big justice. I don't know. [01:16:48] Speaker B: I might just be. Anyway, Fisher, thanks for taking the time to stop by on a. On a Sunday as we record. What's going on, man? [01:16:56] Speaker E: Nothing much. Just watch a little bit of Masters about y'all. [01:16:59] Speaker B: Heck yeah. [01:17:00] Speaker A: Just reacted to that. Yeah. [01:17:01] Speaker B: Yes. Somebody said the, the lunch or the menu is going to be like toast and bean with beans on it next year because he's like, from Northern Ireland. [01:17:10] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:17:11] Speaker B: I said he's going to be the worst menu of all time. [01:17:13] Speaker A: Well, like sour cream. He's classy. [01:17:15] Speaker B: He'll have a good menu. I trust it. Anyway, talking about, talking about a day, obviously you got to go and view it from a media perspective. We can start. I want to start with just a fan perspective. First of all. What did you think of it from a fan perspective? And then what do you think from like a media perspective? [01:17:33] Speaker E: One thing's for sure, as a fan, it was a completely different experience. There is a whole. Obviously, I'm sure you've seen some of the photos. There's. There was probably 20,000 people at most in attendance. I mean, it was. It was also just really kind of hard to keep up with as a. Just from a fan perspective. I mean, there was about four different drills going on each corner of the field. So you kind of had to switch here and there just like within 10 seconds to figure out what's going on. But it was an interesting kind of perspective. You got to see what they do on a daily basis. Basis as their athletic trainer kind of mentioned. But it definitely wasn't promoted the same way as previous years. And one thing's for sure as well, it just was not. I don't think it was that organized compared to. I mean, it might have been for a practice, but it was. It was just not necessarily that organized for the fan. But I guess from a media perspective, it Was. It was pretty intriguing because you got to see all three quarterbacks doing the same drill each period. So. [01:18:40] Speaker D: So I heard rumors that maybe Deborah is trying to get rid of 8A. Do you think this can provide credit. [01:18:46] Speaker E: To those that definitely could with. I forget which school did it first, but I think it might have been Nebraska. They just completely canceled their spring game and I believe Texas may have done it as well. It. I think it's bad for the game, but I do think that based on how it went this time, they're gonna just get rid of spring games until they can regulate tampering, until there's some sort of regulation for nil, which. Yeah, that's essentially. I think that's kind of where it's going, which I don't really agree with. I think spring games are great for a lot of people, especially here in the state of Alabama. You get to bring a whole lot of people who can't afford to come to games into Tuscaloosa, and they get to get that experience. So it'll be a tough loss to lose a day, but you kind of just have to keep adapting to this always adapting landscape of college football. Right now. [01:19:42] Speaker B: I saw something that was like, someone said they. They're Alabama fan. They drove from Tallahassee to Tuscaloosa, and then they get there and see. They were so disappointed about what it was like. [01:19:56] Speaker C: I was. I went as well. And I would agree it was not easily digestible for a fan from a fan perspective at all. I think it was very. It was a lot going on on the field, I think. I mean, we finally got to Boar and Khakis and Apollo, though. I would like to point that out. [01:20:12] Speaker B: Gotta point that out. [01:20:13] Speaker C: Big moment. Big moment for Alabama football. But I don't. I just think part of me wants to hope that from what I've heard, Alabama football's been a lot more locked in recently. I would love to think that that's the reason we chose to do a practice instead. Like, they don't want to give up a practice day to have a day which I could respect. But it was not at all enjoyable. Like, from. Like, it was nice. It was. The weather was beautiful. So it was like, nice to be outside and doing something and in Brian Denny. But I mean, there was just so much going on at once. And also I just. I think it was too much. I think it was too much. But I did like getting to see all the quarterbacks and all three of them are looking pretty good. [01:20:54] Speaker B: Glad you brought up the quarterbacks because he's not too solid on Ty Simpson. [01:20:59] Speaker A: No, I'm not. [01:20:59] Speaker B: I mean, he even said this way back when, whenever they had the. These like quarterbacks they were playing. Except for Keeling because he was in high school. But like Ty and Austin Mack played against Mercer and you know, he's not very high on Ty Simpson. But what would you say? The. If you had to predict a starter, who would you predict? [01:21:17] Speaker E: I think right now it's pretty clear and cut Ty Simpson just because Keelan. He showed some flashes. He showed some flashes for sure. There's one pass that he had. I forget if it was 11 on 11 or 7 on 7, but he threw just right in the bucket to Rico Scott in the end zone, which was pretty impressive. But just to compare as well, he started his day with an interception to Ivan Taylor on his first pass. So there was kind of up, down, obviously a welcome to college football moment for him there. But Austin Mack, I felt like had. [01:21:50] Speaker A: He's improving. I've heard great things from him so far. [01:21:53] Speaker E: He had some. He had some moments that looked really great. And then like I said with Keelin, he kind of had some moments that were really poor. Like a couple of. He had two interceptions. One was to Zabian Brown, which was kind of over the middle. And then he had another one to Abdul Sanders in a seven on seven and that was right over the middle again. So he's kind of. He's got some. Some work to do. But I do think right now it's Ty Simpson clearing cut. He didn't make any mistakes really. He looked like he could. He had a pocket presence and most notably to me, over the middle when we were on the field, he stepped up in the pocket, avoided some pressure from. I forget who it was. Might have been Tim Keenan, something like that, but he hit Derrick Meadows on the run over the middle and that was probably the most impressive play from him. [01:22:38] Speaker B: So like you mentioned Rico Scott for a second. We've known that when you look at the dead stars, obviously Ryan Williams, the top guy at receiver, he was injured so he went there. But Jeremy Bernard obviously emerged from the group last year as the second best. So is there really a wide receiver three that is kind of claiming that spot? Would you say Rico is possibly getting up there? Because last year it really never was a guy at that wide receiver three spot. It just was everyone else on the same level and then Ryan Williams and Jeremy Bernard were above them. Is there a guy that you think is stepping up at the wide receiver spot? [01:23:12] Speaker E: I was really impressed with Isaiah Horton for sure. Rico Scott had a good day as well, and so did Derek Meadows, which was pretty surprising to me. I think this wide receiver room is going to be really deep just about everywhere. I think really we're going to have plenty of guys that are going to come out here and they're going to get all sorts of playing time. I think there's going to be probably 10 deep that are going to get decent playing time in each game. I know Embark didn't really. I didn't see much of him out there, but I'm sure he's going to be looking to make an impact. I know, I know. Definitely Isaiah Horton impressed me the most and Rico Scott looked pretty good as well. But I think. I think it's going to be Horton who would emerge in that wide receiver three and that. That would be a huge big three to have with Horton, Williams and Bernard. I don't think you get much better than that. [01:24:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:24:02] Speaker B: I mean, hey, you know what? Getting someone out of the portal that can be like a ready to go immediately type of guy. I don't think we've seen necessarily too many guys in Alabama football like lately. Like we had a couple transfers obviously from the switch from Saban to deboer. The biggest one that comes to my mind probably thinking is obviously Jeremy Bernard. But if Isaiah Horton can be a big transfer, be an impact that. That year one, that'd be great. I don't know if anybody from the cw. Has anybody from CW been able to. To speak with him? He's a transfer, so nobody can speak. [01:24:39] Speaker C: Probably not. You guys don't have. [01:24:39] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:24:40] Speaker B: Alabama gotta get. Yeah. Alabama subscription. Yeah. [01:24:43] Speaker E: We have not. Noah's obviously certainly failed a few times. [01:24:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:24:47] Speaker E: But yeah, he's probably gonna. I. I would look out for him throughout the like fall camp. And then coming into playing Florida State at dope Campbell, he. There's that double pass play which was pretty notable. [01:25:01] Speaker B: Jeremy Bernard looking like a quarterback contender. [01:25:04] Speaker E: Yeah. Jeremy Bernard, he. That was one of the most impressive throws of the day. [01:25:07] Speaker A: I love that guy. I love that guy. [01:25:09] Speaker E: Yeah. And Horton got up there. I was like, wow. Either that was bad DB player. Horton just got bunnies like that. So. Yeah. [01:25:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Detail for us what your A day experience looked like. What. What, you know, what does it look like when you get there? What were some of the things that you were doing as far as the media perspective, you know, anything who you got to go with. Just tell me all about those details, where you were sitting, all that stuff. [01:25:35] Speaker E: Yeah, I'd like to thank Courtney at the CW for bringing me along to shadow her at 8A. It was a great experience despite being so different and we got there and you could obviously tell it was a damper crowd. I guess it wasn't really. Obviously it's kind of hard to top what last year brought with new coaching change and so many fans coming to see their first look at the DeBoer era. But it was still, I think coming in to the stadium there was a good atmosphere even though it wasn't quite as enthusiastic. I got to spend about. Well it was a 90 minute period. I probably spent about 80 minutes of that in the press box. Just write down notes because there was no stats sheet really provided to us. So we were just kind of writing down whatever we saw and that stuck out to us. So we headed down to the field for the last period which was pretty, pretty cool. Got to see the autograph session for a little bit and also got to see the last few plays of period 19 where Keelan Russell was getting a little bit of last minute reps in. That was pretty cool as well. And he showed a lot of pocket presence. But those last two plays didn't really go his way. But he at least he has a bit of a pocket presence to him and that was pretty cool to see. [01:26:56] Speaker C: That's what we were lacking in Jalen Milroe. [01:26:58] Speaker A: True. [01:26:58] Speaker B: That's what we. [01:27:00] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm like we could use pocket presence for sure. My 8 experience was very different. My friend and I decided to go 20 minutes before we left and so then we just went to 8A and we kind of watched. I stood on the side by the gate. One of my friends is a cheerleader. So we stood right in front of like the cheer team. Um. But yeah, it was interesting for sure. I don't like the practice format. Like I really don't. I don't think it's as entertaining practice. [01:27:25] Speaker B: I've heard that people like the non televised thing is so they don't get anybody like poaching players and stuff and then. Yeah, but also the same thing and why you go for a practice format. Don't want to have anybody get poached. But a rule that I figured out because we. We dove into the Nico Emalia stuff just earlier that you. After like the spring games you cannot transfer inside the sec. So that means that someone else. Here, here, here's. Here's the deal. I would like to think that technically, you know a couple players that have left previously like an Isaiah Bond, he didn't even transfer inside the sec, because technically Texas was not in the SEC yet whenever he officially joined them. But anyway, just a little bit of rambling there. As far as the expectations, is there really any expectations that either changed or decreased for you from what you saw, or is it kind of not necessarily enough that you would be able to decrease or change your expectations? [01:28:29] Speaker E: I didn't see enough, really. It was. I saw a lot of positive stuff, but I didn't see. I mean, we didn't get four quarters of game time or anything like that. It was. It was awful at times to kind of dive in and really see what was going on. I mean, there's only one play going on in the left corner, the other corner, you got the two lines clashing with one another. So it was. It was a bit tough to kind of. To change my expectations after that. But I do think that if Ty can continue to just play clean football like he did in the limited scrimmage action we shot or we saw, if he could play like that, I. I mean, Alabama won plenty of national championships with a game manager. I know DeBoer said to Todd109 a couple of days ago that he wanted a game changer, but I don't think we necessarily need one. We just got to get a guy who can make all the right plays and. And just limit mistakes. [01:29:28] Speaker B: Just have a guy that's, you know, not going to, you know, fumble the ball in the most crucial moments, is not going to throw picks against Vanderbilt. [01:29:37] Speaker A: I mean, we just saw that recently in Ohio State. I mean, up until the end, Will Howard was able to just get the job done. And guys like Jeremiah Smith, all those guys, I mean, that's what talent does for you. [01:29:51] Speaker B: And the thought that I kind of had is definitely about what happened afterward and after. Meaning the autograph signing. Yeah. Alabama members only. Did you get to kind of see what that looked like? We have one minute left. But I did want to get your reaction. Did you kind of see that line that Ryan Williams had? And what did you think about kind of just only having ye. Alabama people being able to do those autographs? [01:30:16] Speaker E: Well, I think it was a bit of a disservice to some of those in the crowd who weren't. Yeah. Alabama members not being able to get to see some of the guys. But I also did get to see Ryan Williams's line. There was so many people. It was. It was really impressive. And I forget who it was. Might have been Nick Kelly. That said, that was like one of the longest lines he'd seen. But I do think that everybody should have gotten the chance to get to meet some of their favorite players, because you don't get that kind of chance very often at all. [01:30:45] Speaker B: And you do have a story coming out, right? [01:30:47] Speaker E: I do. It should be out sometime. We'll figure out when. [01:30:51] Speaker B: But by the time people listen to this, Fisher Isbull has a story that will be out about a day on the Crimson white dot com. You can definitely go find that. Well, Fisher, I really appreciate you joining us. Great insight. Great to have you on the show. You know, just getting another CW person on here and me being a fellow CW person. We'll work together and we'll continue to make the CW great. We'll see you next episode, everybody. Wvuafm Tuscaloosa.