Scarbinsky: Don’t be mad at Bama. This isn’t football and it isn’t March.

Scarbinsky: Don’t be mad at Bama. This isn’t football and it isn’t March.

This is an opinion column.

Today’s PSA is a FOG alert. It’s for Crimson Tide fans who may not know or care that their beloved University of Alabama competes in sports other than football. Those tunnel-visioned Tiders are affectionately known to their crimson brethren as Football-Only Gumps. Hence, FOG.

While searching for scoop on Nick Saban’s ongoing hunt for not one but two coordinators, the FOGs may have stumbled across this final score Saturday: Oklahoma 93, Alabama 69. Imagine their reaction.

WTF? Wasn’t Alabama ranked No. 2 in the nation? Wasn’t Oklahoma unranked? What in the name of Avery Johnson is going on down there? Alabama doesn’t lose by 24 points to anyone in anything. At least, not since the 2019 College Football National Championship Game, but you know Tua was hurt.

They want a new arena? How about we chisel a brick out of the perfectly fine one we got and airmail it to the office of one Nate Oats?

If this or any similar thought ran through your head as the Sooners ran through the Tide like spit through a tin horn, calm down. Listen up. This PSA is for you: This ain’t football, and this is not March.