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Happy Birthday Coach!
Fifty-eight years ago today one Nicholas Lou Saban was born in Fairmount, West Virginia. So while the rest of the country goes around playing dress up due to some hyper-commercialized pagan holiday ...
Scholarships and the NCAA Bylaws
There's been a lot of talk lately about Alabama's scholarship situation. Virtually all of it relies on un-sourced guesstimates of how many scholarships the Tide is obligated (or "obligated") to give o...
Such a Tease: The History of the 3-4 Defense and Another Preview Shot
In writing the 3-4 defense primer for this year's edition for Yea Alabama, I was forced to cut a lot of the "history" aspects due to space limitations (and the fact that OTS's O-Line article went twic...
Your RBR Word of the Day: orotund
orotund \OR-uh-tuhnd\, adjective: 1. Characterized by fullness, clarity, strength, and smoothness of sound. 2. Pompous; bombastic. Jay Coulter's orotund condemnation of Alabama's contract negotiation...
Your RBR Word of the Day: gravid
gravid \GRAV-id\, adjective: Being with child; heavy with young or eggs; pregnant. After a 34-10 whipping at the hands of the Crimson Tide, doomed Clemson coach Tommy Bowden could merely sit back and...
RBR Reading Room: How Good Do You Want to Be?
You magnificent bastard... I read your book! Make no mistake about it; Nick Saban’s book How Good Do You Want to Be? ain’t about the X’s and O’s. And since it was penned in 200...
Coach Saban vs. Crimson Tide Fans
It seems Coach Saban kicked off a bit of a kerfuffle recently when he made comments about the role the Crimson Tide fanbase played in the successes (or lack therof) of the team. It’s a point h...
Your RBR Word of the Day: cadre
cadre \KAD-ree; -ray; KAH-dray; -druh\, noun: <!-- wotd="cadre" --> 1. A core or nucleus of trained or otherwise qualified personnel around which an organization is formed. 2. A tightly knit and tr...
The A-Day UA Athletics Promotional Ads
Watching the A-Day game yesterday I was striaght-up gobsmacked by the new UA Athletics advertising campaign. The promotional ads that played during the ESPN telecast were nothing less than stellar ...
Your RBR Word of the Day: nescience
nescience \NESH-uhn(t)s; NESH-ee-uhn(t)s\, noun: <!-- wotd="nescience" --> Lack of knowledge or awareness; ignorance. Proudly displaying the nescience that has become a hallmark of our wayward nei...
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