Now that I've flown back from Dallas, done three radio shows (two on this station, and another for CTSN), and taken a deep breath from Alabama's season opener, here are a few thumbnail thoughts on the team.
- Derrick Henry is even better than we hoped...
Winning a press conference won’t win you a single game.
Talking about going to the Final Four won’t get you there.
But if you are an Alabama Basketball fan, that doesn’t mean you can’t be excited about the first two hours of the Avery Johnson Era...
He won’t do this all season.
He can’t.
It ain’t possible.
The downright gaudy .720 batting average that Alabama sophomore outfielder Casey Hughston is sporting after six games, is 53 percentage points higher than the two players tied behind him in the current NCAA Division One stats...
The day of the first Alabama Baseball scrimmage, I left my house, drove to the Hoover Met, parked, walked into the stadium and up to the batting cage where head coach Mitch Gaspard was watching his team take cuts at their home for the 2015 season.
It never once crossed my mind that Alabama would lose to Missouri Saturday. Not once.
That’s not me being a “homer”, or having a lack of respect for the Tigers. Nick Saban’s old teammate has done a fantastic job since Mizzou joined the SEC three years ago...