2017-18 College Basketball Bitchin' and Moanin' Thread

[War Eagle!!!]

That was a lot of fun.  Didn't just win, beat the absolute shit out of people. 



I still have this magazine.

That was for the year that they weren't as good. I think there was just a little too much pot smoking, and a little too much big head.

[War Eagle!!!]

Yeah, my bad. But yeah, still made it to the Sweet Sixteen just like 03.

We made it to the Elite Eight in 86, ironically, with Person.

Making it far in the tournament is not the end all, be all. I think that team lost maybe 3 games all year, beat the shit out of everyone, and lost to OSU who eventually won. If I remember it all correctly. That team was bad ass.

[Kaos]

That was for the year that they weren't as good. I think there was just a little too much pot smoking, and a little too much big head.

The magazine is.  You're right. 

But I was thinking about the team that was the #1 seed in the South. 

I really thought we'd turned the basketball corner then.  Same as I did when we had Barkley and Person.  Back then Bama had Bobby Hurt.  They always claimed it was some rivalry and Hurt was better than Charles. I knew where Bobby partied.  I knew how much weed and coke he did. I knew better.

Don't know if any of you remember (or are old enough to remember) but Hurt was just part of the perpetual cheating that goes on there.  Just like TJ Yeldon, he and/or his parents were threatened with financial ruin if he didn't sign with the Tide.  Just like Yeldon, he'd gotten money from Bama boosters over his high school career and they threatened to make him pay it all back - plus interest - and that they'd expose him and ruin his eligibility. Just like Yeldon, his coach, his principal all conspired to keep him from going to Maryland or Louisville or Hawaii.  Just like Yeldon, all of a sudden he's walled up in the office of the coach and everything the kid's ever said is being contradicted by the coach.  Maryland's coach reported that he and his staff were stalked by Bama supporters and felt threatened.

Supposedly Hurt signed LOIs with Maryland and later Hawaii, but his coach tore them up and gave him the one from Alabama.   

This was the beginning of Finebaum actually being a good journalist (as he was at the very beginning of his career).  He interviewed Hurt before he signed with Alabama and had him on record talking about being threatened by Tide supporters if he didn't sign. Finebaum set up an interview with the principal who allegedly paid and threatened Hurt -- he resigned the next day and disappeared.

After it was all over, Wimp Sanderson said Bama performed an internal investigation and 'didn't find nothing wrong.'  That was as far as it ever went. 

He was a good player, but never lived up to his promise.  I think he vanished overseas after college and then got arrested for something later on. 

[CCTAU]

We need Scotty Pohlman!

[War Eagle!!!]

That the one where they booed the shit out of that cocky white guy from bama who made some dumb statement before the game? If so I was there. Student section. I think that was my last game as a student. And yes it was wild.

I thought it was at half time when they presented the trophy?

[GH2001]

I thought it was at half time when they presented the trophy?

Had to go back and look it up.

Guys name was Jeremy Hays.

Here's the story. Can't believe I remembered. Good times.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/no-3-auburn-romps-alabama/

[Snaggletiger]

On the road.  Starkville.  16-1

Fighting Pearls.  Pleeeeease keep proving me wrong, Bruce.

[wesfau2]

On the road.  Starkville.  16-1

Fighting Pearls.  Pleeeeease keep proving me wrong, Bruce.

Quality win on the road.  Horrible officiating, but the larger sin was our absence under the opponent's basket for most of the first half.

Once again, however, the 2nd half Auburn team was different than the warm bodies that filled the jerseys in the first half.

[Kaos]

Quality win on the road.  Horrible officiating, but the larger sin was our absence under the opponent's basket for most of the first half.

Once again, however, the 2nd half Auburn team was different than the warm bodies that filled the jerseys in the first half.

Can't keep doing that. 

[GH2001]

Can't keep doing that.

Against the Floridas and kentuckys and aggies of the Conf, no.

[Kaos]

Against the Floridas and kentuckys and aggies of the Conf, no.

Maybe not the fighting Averys either.  For whatever reason, they're going to own the officiating.

[Buzz Killington]

Maybe not the fighting Averys either.  For whatever reason, they're going to own the officiating.

 

[GH2001]

Maybe not the fighting Averys either.  For whatever reason, they're going to own the officiating.

Not to mention they have one of the best offensive players in the Conf. He will travel at will.

[Godfather]

Once again, however, the 2nd half Auburn team was different than the warm bodies that filled the jerseys in the first half.

And don't forget the 9:30 show is completely different than the 7:30 show. Enjoy the veal!

[Kaos]

Not to mention they have one of the best offensive players in the Conf. He will travel at will.

[AUChizad]

[wesfau2]

Sexton out with an abdominal injury.

[GH2001]

Sexton out with an abdominal injury.

I'll take it. The kid can score.

[jmar]

Missed free throws lost this one.

[GH2001]

Missed free throws lost this one.

I thought we got the calls tonight. Shockingly.

Like you said just couldn't convert them to points.