http://crimsontidetickets.greatseatsblogs.com Just another GreatSeats Blogs weblog Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:26:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Alabama Crimson Tide will open up the 2010 season as the No. 1 team in the country following last year's national championship.   The Crimson Tide will try to repeat with a team that has an awful lot of talented returning players.   One key player returning is running back Mark Ingram, who ... http://crimsontidetickets.greatseatsblogs.com/2010/08/25/alabama-opens-on-top/ Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban compared sports agents to pimps in a press conference.   Saban said that any agent who is found guilty of conduct with a college player should have his license revoked for a year.   There has been some shady business with college players going out in Miami at ... http://crimsontidetickets.greatseatsblogs.com/2010/07/24/saban-says-agents-are-like-pimps/ By Bud L. Ellis To the victors go the spoils, and when the victors return as many players as defending national champion Alabama, you expect the preseason honors to have a crimson hue to it. Alabama placed six players on the first team of the All-Southeastern Conference Coaches’ Team, announced ... http://crimsontidetickets.greatseatsblogs.com/2010/07/21/tide-land-six-on-sec-coaches-first-team/ Alabama Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban apologized for the way he mislead and then left the Miami Dolphins.   Saban acknowledged how important honest and intregrity is, and that leaving Miami did not go as planned.   He said he was constantly asked about the Alabama job by the media, so he lied to them ... http://crimsontidetickets.greatseatsblogs.com/2010/06/21/saban-apologized-for-miami-departure/ By Bud L. Ellis   Basketball teams hope to find their stride as February closes and March dawns. The exact opposite has happened to the Alabama Crimson Tide.   The Tide lost for the fifth time in their past six games on Saturday, and this one hurt: Up by 13 points with just under ... http://crimsontidetickets.greatseatsblogs.com/2010/02/22/tides-struggles-continue-in-loss-at-georgia/ The Alabama Crimson Tide put together a solid first half but couldn't hold on in a 63-56 loss to the No. 8 Tennessee Volunteers. Alabama took a one-point lead into the locker room, but the second half was a totally different story. Head coach Anthony Grant was disappointed that his team was ... http://crimsontidetickets.greatseatsblogs.com/2010/01/22/alabama-falls-to-tennessee-63-56/ The Alabama Crimson Tide used a powerful running game and hard-hitting defense to roll past the Texas Longhorns, 37-21, and win the national championship. The biggest play of the game occurred in the first quarter when Texas quarterback Colt McCoy was hit hard in the right shoulder. McCoy appeared to be fine ... http://crimsontidetickets.greatseatsblogs.com/2010/01/09/alabama-runs-past-texas-to-win-national-championship-37-21/ By Bud L. Ellis   Back to work after the Christmas holidays, the Alabama Crimson Tide are moving closer to their date with destiny.   The Tide resumed workouts Sunday night, practicing under the lights in Tuscaloosa in preparation for the BCS national championship game against Texas, Jan. 7 at Pasadena, Calif.   The SEC champions ... http://crimsontidetickets.greatseatsblogs.com/2009/12/29/tide-continue-preparations-for-bcs-national-title-game/ By Bud L. Ellis   Shortly after 9 p.m. Eastern on Dec. 12, the BCS National Championship game took a new twist … and Mark Ingram ended a 75-year drought for one of the college football’s most storied programs.   Ingram, the running back who helped thrust the University of Alabama to the Southeastern ... http://crimsontidetickets.greatseatsblogs.com/2009/12/22/ingram-carries-heisman-into-tides-title-showdown-with-longhorns/ The Alabama Crimson Tide surprised most of the college football world with a 32-13 pounding of the Florida Gators in the SEC championship game. It seemed like Alabama had been thinking about this game ever since they lost to the Gators in last year's SEC title game. The Crimson Tide looked like ... http://crimsontidetickets.greatseatsblogs.com/2009/12/12/alabama-rolls-past-florida-32-13/