HALE CONTINUES TO BE "DAY TO DAY"
...TIDE HOSTS JAX STATE TONIGHT...
Tip-off tonight at 7:00 PM at Coleman-Coliseum. Plenty of tickets are available. TV available on ESPN live streaming. The team opens as an 18 point favorite.
Football on television, playoff magic in the air, students home for Christmas, and a second level opponent doesn't exactly scream "big time crowd" for tonight's game. What really should be nothing more than a glorified scrimmage may take on some interest with the season loss of Dazon Ingram and the status of Shannon Hale's medical condition. His problem has taken on great mystery of what is wrong? Maybe one day soon he will reveal what the problem is and all the conspiracy theorists will be proven wrong. I think his absence cost us the Oregon game. We needed his scoring with Obasahan having an off night, but more important we needed his long arm to cut down some Duck long range shooting.
The most important event to unveil in the last couple of games was the explosion of Justin Coleman. Coleman, who is generally the smallest player on the floor, has been playing a giant type game. Bama cannot survive the loss of points from Coleman, Hale, and Obasahan. Even a lower division team could beat the Tide. The Crimson has a great chance to finish the pre-conference of their season with only three losses. All three of their losses will be considered "good" losses against quality opponents, but the Tide needs to avoid a meltdown against a poorly respected team or program. The first six games in the Tide's SEC season are brutal. I'm reading some fans think we can win five or six of those games. I don't eee i that way personally. Let's assume that 'Bama win it's next two games, I believe they'll need to win 12 or 13 SEC games to make the NCAA.
I like the Tide by 12.
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