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Brought to you by The Tuscaloosa News and TideSports.com, Cecil Hurt and Clint Lamb team up to talk all things Alabama football and Alabama sports.... more
FAQs about The 'Bama Beat:How many episodes does The 'Bama Beat have?The podcast currently has 422 episodes available.
March 15, 2019Road to Saban: Bill Curry's 3 Alabama seasons - The Bama Beat #191The "Road to Saban" series continues with a look at Bill Curry's three seasons as Alabama's coach. Taylor Watson, curator of the Bryant Museum, joins Cecil Hurt and Ben Jones. They talk about how Curry came to be Alabama's coach, why his tenure ultimately didn't work out and the lessons learned that would be used as Alabama began searching for its next coach....more33minPlay
March 13, 2019Finding the 'Alabama factor' this spring - The Bama Beat #190Ben Jones and Terrin Waack sit down to discuss the importance of spring practice for the Crimson Tide. Nick Saban kicked things off last Friday with the intention of reestablishing the "Alabama factor." Jones and Waack talk about what that could mean and how the Crimson Tide can return to that standard in 2019....more30minPlay
March 11, 2019Do-or-die for Alabama basketball's postseason - The Bama Beat #189Cecil Hurt and Ben Jones review Alabama's final two regular season games and take a look at the SEC tournament. They talk about how important the loss to Arkansas was for seeding and the SEC tournament draw as well as what the odds are for Alabama to make the NCAA tournament and potentially miss the NIT. They finish by talking about realistic expectations for the Alabama basketball program while examining how consistent other SEC programs have been....more27minPlay
March 08, 2019Former Alabama DB Will Lowery and the start of spring - The Bama Beat #188Former Alabama defensive back Will Lowery joins the podcast. He talks about his road at Alabama from walk-on to starter in the secondary and how he tried to defend Julio Jones in practice. He also talks about some of the things to keep an eye on during spring practice and the angriest Nick Saban ever got at him....more32minPlay
March 06, 2019Road to Saban: The Ray Perkins Era - The Bama Beat #187Ray Perkins was the first Alabama coach to succeed the legendary Paul W. "Bear" Bryant. Taylor Watson, curator of the Bryant Museum, joins Ben Jones and Cecil Hurt to discuss the Perkins era. They talk about the highs and the lows, what worked for Perkins and what Alabama learned in the aftermath of the Bryant era. They also discuss the best players of the era and other coaches considered for the job....more36minPlay
March 04, 2019What Alabama basketball needs to make the NCAA tournament - The Bama Beat #186Cecil Hurt and Ben Jones sit down to discuss the final two games of the regular season for Alabama basketball and what it will take in the next two weeks for the Crimson Tide to make the NCAA tournament. Alabama sits at 17-12 after 29 games for the fifth straight season, including all four under Avery Johnson, and will finish between 10-8 and 8-10 in conference play for the fifth straight season as well....more32minPlay
March 01, 2019Marq Burnett and the Birmingham Iron - The Bama Beat #185Marq Burnett, the team reporter for the Birmingham Iron of the AAF, joins the podcast to talk about the team's 3-0 start to the season. He reviews some of the Alabama alums on the team, including Trent Richardson and four former Crimson Tide offensive linemen. The Iron host the undefeated Orlando Apollos in Birmingham in two weeks at Legion Field....more28minPlay
February 27, 2019Road to Saban: End of the Bryant Era - The Bama Beat #184Ben Jones and Cecil Hurt begin a new series of podcasts looking back at the coaches at Alabama between the Paul W. "Bear" Bryant era and the Nick Saban era. In the first podcast, they discuss the state of the program in the final years under Bryant after Alabama won the 1979 national championship. They discuss the best players of that time period, Alabama's competition in the SEC and around the nation and what the perception was when Bryant retired....more26minPlay
February 25, 2019Alabama football, men's basketball, gymnastics, womens's basketball, baseball - The Bama Beat #183The TideSports staff goes around the horn to discuss the latest news for several Alabama sports. Cecil Hurt and Ben Jones begin by discussing football's home-and-home with West Virginia as well as the weekend win over Vanderbilt for men's basketball. Terrin Waack joins to discuss gymnastics. Cody Estremera joins to discuss women's basketball and baseball....more45minPlay
February 23, 2019Travis Reier of 247Sports - The Bama Beat #182Travis Reier is senior analyst for Bama Online on the 247Sports network and also hosts Southern Fried Sports on 102.9 FM in Tuscaloosa. He joins Ben Jones to talk about his history as a recruiting analyst and what it was like to take an official visit to Hawaii with his daughter, who now plays basketball for the Rainbow Wahine. He is also asked about the maddest Nick Saban ever got at him....more30minPlay
FAQs about The 'Bama Beat:How many episodes does The 'Bama Beat have?The podcast currently has 422 episodes available.