This might be @tyschmit ‘s greatest performance I’ve ever seen. Has to be the funniest TV personality in the history of the world and it’s not even close. The Hulkster singing for 30 seconds was the best on air performance in ESPN’s sorry existence. #IDontWantToOverreactBUT
𝐴𝑛 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦 𝑡𝑜 @AlabamaMBB
I want to apologize to a program that I have loved and embraced starting as a 12-year-old who became drawn to the sport by the greatness of Ennis Whatley. I want to apologize to all the former players, coaches, staff and fans who also share my passion for Alabama basketball.
I want to apologize for almost losing faith, and today on Easter Sunday this seems the most appropriate time to ask for your forgiveness.
I never stopped supporting every coach, every player and every season, but there were many times I questioned why the second-winningest program in the conference seemed sentenced to wander in college basketball purgatory.
During those barren seasons of more than a decade with only one NCAA Tournament appearance, and a quick one at that, my crisis of faith occurred. I truly felt a once-proud program had become an afterthought, and in that brief moment I almost accepted that I would never see the Crimson Tide reach the Final Four in my lifetime.
I had become numb to the mediocrity and I didn’t expect more. I had forgotten what the program could be, and actually achieved, when I grew up in the 80s and graduated from The University of Alabama in the early 90s.
I wanted to take time to process the significance of last night’s 89-82 victory over Clemson in the very appropriate City of Angels.
The basketball gods, who I cursed after every mis-seeding by the NCAA selection committee, after every unexpected postseason injury and after every agonizing loss in the Sweet Sixteen, knew.
They knew a team and staff assembled together out of necessity but embracing “mudita” would be the one. They knew a team questioned about its physicality, about its defense, would be the one. They knew when the rest of the country laughed at Alabama and many penciled them as opening-round losers would be the one.
They knew a team that ignores the criticism and puts its faith in themselves and the process would be the one. They knew this team would be the one. The one to offer salvation to a long-suffering fanbase that had paid its penance across all generations (Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials).
Thank you 2023-24 for being THE one.
Thank you Mark Sears for coming back to your home state. Thank you Rylan Griffen for signing with Alabama out of high school and staying for another season. Thank you Grant Nelson, Aaron Estrada, Latrell Wrightsell and Mohamed Wague for seeing something in Alabama.
Thank you Nick Pringle for your fiery emotion and your gritty play last night with a bruised heel. Thank you Jarin Stevenson for sacrificing your senior year of high school and choosing Alabama over your home state Tar Heels. Thank you Sam Walters for your timely shooting and also choosing Alabama over your childhood Gators.
Thank you Mouhamed Dioubate for always giving maximum effort every minute and never backing down against larger and physical opponents. Thank you Davin Cosby and keep the faith as you recover from your injury.
Thank you Nate Oats, Austin Claunch, Ryan Pannone and Preston Murphy for restoring the faith in a fanbase when it seemed prayers would never be answered.
Seeing Robert Horry in attendance to witness history warmed my heart. I wish all of us could have been together in person last night to cherish the moment, but I could feel the Crimson spirit as the seconds ticked off the clock.
I’m grateful for meeting so many kindred spirits through this X account and again I thank @CrimsonXover, @GGrantJohnson and @ctsykes13 for inviting me to join the team and help promote the program on this platform.
Alabama basketball I humbly ask for your forgiveness this Easter Sunday and I will never question my faith in you again.
Roll Tide for eternity and Let’s Do This Bama!
The Tide has risen.
- 𝑀𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑒𝑙 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑛, 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑛𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑎𝑚𝑎 (@msouthern17)
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