It wouldn’t be a major athletic occasion at Reddish-brown without an on-air appearance by Charles Barkley.
“Sir Charles” was in participation at Neville Field for the “Iron Bowl of Basketball” on Wednesday night, and sat in with ESPN’s Karl Ravech and Jimmy Dykes for portion of the moment half. The Reddish-brown legend had bounty to say (as he regularly does), counting calling as of late resigned Scratch Saban the “greatest college football coach ever.”
Be that as it may, one comment he made is likely to stay within the craw of fans and graduated class of his alma mater.
“I’m likely aiming to get in trouble for saying this — we are just like the stepchild,” Barkley said. “We aren’t ever aiming to be Alabama. In case we play them in anything, we need to defeat them.”
Ouch. In self-deprecating minutes, a few Coppery fans regularly allude to their school as Alabama’s “little brother,” but “stepchild” appears a bridge as well distant.
On the shinning side, Barkley showed up to accurately foresee what would happen on the court Wednesday’s diversion, which Coppery won 99-81. He called for Tigers huge man Johni Broome to have a gigantic diversion against what he named a lean Blood red Tide front line, and Broome reacted with a 24-point, 7-rebound, 5-block execution.
“Alabama’s got all these small thin fellows out there,” Barkley said. “Coach (Nate) Oats does a phenomenal work. When I was looking at the amusement early, I said, ‘Man, Broome ought to have a enormous night’ since Alabama, their watches are marvelous, but they have no measure interior.
“I said, ‘Man, this would be like for me, in the event that I saw all these small thin fellows, I’d say — like (TNT broadcast accomplice Shaquille O’Neal) continuously said, this will be like grill chicken.’”
