the saban had the ethics of say…rich rod, the bama program would really be heading in the right direction.
/sarcasm

So when it becomes entirely obvious that there will be no roster cuts, now this fatass finally retracts his earlier ludicrous statements, but now questions things on the basis of medical scholarships of “dubious merit.” Well, I’m glad he decided to put on his Surgeon General cap and give us all some medical advice…

Either way, I will say the following

• He’s still an idiot
• He still looks like a candidate for a sex-change operation (and no, I don’t know in which direction)
• He still needs a haircut
• Go Buckeyes!

No, just kidding. SUX to be you!

I am sure every Alabama fan is so happy that Jimmy Johns was caught dealing drugs outside of the football complex. I hear OTL and Todd were the two informants on Johns!

Nothing like getting an arrogant ass to give even a half apology. I was sure there was going to be the typical redneck and inbred comments in there when I was reading it, though I am sure they will continue in the comments section once the Michigan fans stop by our blog.

In the words of Shaq “tell me how my ass taste.”

I am done gloating!

If they did, and he sat on his arse all day eating Twinkies and spouting off about shyte he knows nothing about, ... he would look just like Brian Cook.

Nothing against Lennon, I am a fan myself, but that is just the first impression that popped into my head.

On a more serious note regarding the Fulmer Cup…

Reasons like that are exactly why we oversigned in the first place. It doesn’t take a Harvard grad to figure out that we have / had a ton of character cases on our roster, and Saban, by oversigning, rightly bet that a few of them would screw up in a big way and get kicked off the team, thus freeing up scholarships.

Of course he didn’t know that the Elder / Johns situation would work out like it did, but again, he made a fairly safe bet that we would have a few guys screw up somewhere along the way, and that we would oversign to help account for the lost scholarships from those guys.

That’s not unethical, that’s just a damn good strategy and a very good awareness of one’s on roster, including its problems and shortcomings.

...I know this blog and Cook have locked horns in the past, but let’s leave the personal stuff out. Counter/attack his arguments all you want, but attacking what someone looks like is childish.

I had promised not to mention him on our site again, and was close to breaking said promise with Cook’s recent comments. Now I don’t have to.

I really wish he would expound on the medical schollies he thinks are “dubious”, and which of the players are deadweight.

It’s still the height of hypocrisy that he’s going after Saban so hard, yet has all but pledged his first-born to Pretty-Soon-Won’t-Be-As-Rich-Rod

Does Cook receive money or something from how many hits his website gets? Is that why he stirs the pot, so others will put up the link to his site and we all go over there to read the latest garbage from this ignoramus? Does he need readership so badly that he is willing to let everyone in on the fool he is? Just askin’.

...good if it helps RBR. On another Michigan note, did you know the M Zone was no more?

the hairy one, 2nd from the left

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/homer2931/zoltans-parents-yo.jpg

Enjoy.

... it seems cook’s lost his sign on so he can post on fanhouse. i can’t find his mention of this ANYWHERE on the site.

Todd, you’re obviously more than within your rights to take issue with my portrayal of Tide fans’ response to Lewis’s disqualification. It’s not flattering and I don’t blame you for standing up for them.

But I have to say, I don’t see how I’ve “completely misunderstood” OTS’s take on this situation or resorted to “convenient out of context quoting.” This is the passage of OTS’s I’m referring to, in its entirety:

Coach Saban announced that Lewis was enrolling in a junior college for the summer, and that he would not be at Alabama this Fall. And this one really has me dumbfounded, to put it mildly.

First and foremost, this one never made sense to me. Everyone thought he would qualify with no problems, and then the news came out that the NCAA Clearinghouse rejected a high ACT score from him because it was too big of a jump, and that he was going to Hargrave. But why? He could have still taken the ACT again at that point, so why not do that?

And now we have Coach Saban saying that he is going to junior college. But of course with him at a JUCO, he must graduate there first. And there were previous reports that he was going to enroll at Hargrave, a prep school. Obviously prep school would be preferred to a JUCO, so why didn’t he go that route? Prep schools give out scholarships, but perhaps he came onto the scene too late for that? Perhaps his family couldn’t afford the cost of a prep school - and they are extremely pricey - and a JUCO was a more affordable solution. On the other hand, though, Saban did not name the JUCO he had enrolled at, so perhaps he simply misspoke?

I’ll be honest, I have no clue on this one.

You say “the only confusing thing” is that Lewis is allegedly heading to JUCO instead of Hargrave, but that second paragraph makes it look pretty clear to me that OTS is confused about why he didn’t qualify in the first place: “Everyone thought he would qualify with no problems” and the point about Lewis not re-taking the ACT, for instance. It’s true that I focused on Lewis’s initial failure to qualify rather than the Hargrave/JUCO decision, but it sure looks like OTS is unsure about what happened on both ends. If that’s the case, I haven’t “completely misunderstood” OTS’s position, have I?

As for the quotes, the three I pulled were “dumbfounded,” “never made sense,” and “no clue.” I read “dumbfounded” and “no clue” as references to the entire situation and I think “never made sense” clearly refers to Lewis’s initial failure to qualify. The point was to illustrate that OTS was confused about Lewis’s situation, and he was, in fact, confused, right? Maybe OTS meant “dumbfounded” to refer to the JUCO decision specifically, but have I really quoted him out of context so badly it’s necessary to “take me to task”?

I couldn’t care less about these kinds of complaints coming from most places, but I think I’ve made clear on multiple occasions that I think enough of this site that if you guys have an issue with me, then it needs to be addressed. If I felt like I’d written something misleading or based on a false understanding, I’d redact it.

But I’ve got to say, I don’t see how that’s the case here.

The other thing that irritates me, especially from Auburn fans is the fact that Auburn has done the same thing. Auburn has oversigned nearly every year over the last 6 or 7 years. They even signed 30 players in 2007. These same insinuations could be made about Auburn as well as many other programs.

but Brian did call out Auburn in 07 (as an avid reader of his, I remember seeing it, I’ve just got to find it). It didn’t turn into as big of an issue for a few reasons:

1) AOL didn’t demand as stupid of topics then
2) No Auburn blog either read it or cared to comment, resulting in no blog fight.