Scarbo Knows with Kevin Scarbinsky

Kalen DeBoer didn't exactly prove himself a worthy successor to Nick Saban in his first season at Alabama. Imagine the unrest if he doesn't lead the Crimson Tide to the College Football Playoff this season. On the bright side, DeBoer has a history of stepping up in Year 2. The last six Alabama coaches did the same. Kevin Scarbinsky puts DeBoer's position in perspective on the latest edition of Scarbo Knows.

No more poor-mouthing. Not from Auburn coach Hugh Freeze. Not at SEC Media Days 2025. Entering his third season on the Plains, Freeze exuded more public confidence than he has at any point since taking the job. He did say he expects his Tigers to be in the playoff discussion, which would be a great leap forward after four straight losing seasons, the last two with Freeze in charge. Will this bold move pay off for him? Kevin Scarbinsky has thoughts in the latest episode of Scarbo Knows.

It doesn't take much for Alabama and Auburn fans to go to battle stations. Former Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron opened a new front in college football's greatest rivalry with some fightin' words on his new podcast. He took shots at Auburn coach Hugh Freeze and his abysmal recruiting ranking and reduced the Tigers to second-class citizens in their own state. Kevin Scarbinsky reads between the lines on the latest episode of Scarbo Knows.

It's not easy being Hugh Freeze. After two losing seasons as the Auburn head football coach, he's taking shots about how much golf he plays and how low his current recruiting class is ranked. He will be questioned on those topics and more at SEC Football Media Days. How should he respond? What can he say? Kevin Scarbinsky has some thoughts in the latest episode of "Scarbo Knows."

How down bad has Auburn football been? The Tigers have lost eight straight games to rival Georgia and five straight to rival Alabama. They have yet to make the College Football Playoff. And they have to face nemesis Diego Pavia one more time. But Year 3 under Hugh Freeze offers hope in an improved roster and a favorable schedule that brings Georgia and Alabama to the Plains. It's about time for Auburn's long irrational nightmare to end in Jordan-Hare After Dark. Kevin Scarbinsky welcomes Scott Griffin of CBS-42 in Birmingham to break it down.

It wasn't so easy to hurl slings and arrows at SEC football when the league was winning all those national championships. Go two years without one, though, and everyone's lining up to mock the Evil Empire. Commissioner Greg Sankey and company are an easy target right now as the sport tries to figure out a new playoff format. Wherever college football lands, you can be sure of one thing: The SEC will find its way back to the top.

The Florida baseball coach went on a profane tirade because his NCAA Regional game time got moved back one hour. The Wake Forest coach got caught on camera uttering an ugly slur at a demonstrative Tennessee hitter. Both coaches (and their athletics directors) had to issue formal apologies for their bad behavior. Those were just the latest examples of a college sports world gone mad. Is it crazy to wonder what happened to sportsmanship? Or does that just make you a snowflake?

Some people call Nick Saban the GOAT, the greatest college football coach of all time. It's hard to argue with his record of seven national titles, but Saban is becoming an even larger presence in the sport in retirement. As if his presence on ESPN's College GameDay weren't enough of a bully pulpit, he's now reportedly been named co-chair of President Trump's Presidential Commission on College Sports. Saban will need all his powers of persuasion to succeed in what looks like an impossible task.

Welcome to the new SEC, where "It Just Means More" meets "Everything's Bigger in Texas." The Longhorns have become the first SEC school to reach No. 1 in the nation in four of the five major sports - football, women's basketball, baseball and softball - in the same academic year, and they did it in their first year in the league. Scott Griffin of CBS-42 in Birmingham joins Kevin Scarbinsky to break down the UT surge and Alabama's fading dominance in the NFL Draft.

Pat Forde is one of the most recognized and respected voices in sports media. Hear how the senior writer from Sports Illustrated got Heisman winner Travis Hunter into the boat, how he imagined Coach Prime at Auburn, what he thinks about the SEC vs. the Family Iamaleava, why college players getting paid makes fans so angry and, despite what you've heard, Journalism IS NOT DEAD.

A week ago, Nico Iamaleava was the returning quarterback on a Tennessee team coming off a playoff spot. Now he's the poster child for everything that's wrong with college football. That's unfair, but at the moment, through a series of major miscalculations, he's in search of a new school, and Chicken Littles everywhere see the sport's sky falling. We separate the truth from the hysteria with longtime UT insider Jimmy Hyams.

If you love college basketball, Selection Sunday is Christmas morning. The gift is your favorite team's bid to the NCAA Tournament. To compare this year's presents, Scarbo Knows host Kevin Scarbinsky assembled an all-star lineup with Buddy Martin, Franz Beard and Loren Meadows of Gator Bait Media. Phillip Marshall of Auburn Undercover and Rob Browne of SEC Sidelines Sports to debate whether SEC regular-season champion Auburn or SEC Tournament champ Florida was more likely to cut down the final nets at the Final Four.   

Bart Hyche was a high school basketball star in Alabama before Alabama was a basketball state. Now, after his playing days took him to the Final Four with Mississippi State, he follows the bouncing ball all over Alabama and the SEC as a true insider. He joins Kevin Scarbinsky to discuss the roundball renaissance in the state and the conference.

No one studied SEC basketball more closely than Wimp Sanderson as he was becoming the winningest coach in Alabama history. No one studies it more closely now in his twilight years as an elder statesman. Hear from Wimp as he explains why the SEC has become the best conference in the country in roundball and as he offers a contrarian opinion about the quality of the league now compared to his coaching days.

The first time Florida won the national title in basketball, John Brady was there at the Final Four, too, with his 2006 LSU team. The first time an SEC program hired a Samford head coach, it was LSU tapping Brady. The 2018 SEC legend tells Scarbo Knows how Florida won its third national championship, if the Gators are now a blueblood, what Texas A&M can expect from new coach Bucky McMillan and Bucky Ball and why Alabama has become a basketball state.