'F-Clay Travis' Hats All The Rage At Alabama-Arkansas Game

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Several Alabama basketball fans came prepared to the game between No. 2 Alabama and Arkansas Saturday afternoon on ESPN2.

They brought their love for the Crimson Tide, no matter what the circumstances are behind star freshman Brandon Miller continuing to play despite his connection to a Jan. 15 murder at The Strip near campus. They gave him a standing ovation, even though Tuscaloosa police and detectives believe he brought the murder weapon to then-teammate Darius Miles.

Miles gave it to friend Michael Lynn Davis, who shot and killed 23-year-old mother Jamea Jonae Harris, according to the authorities. Miles and Davis remain in jail on capital murder charges. Miller has not been charged by authorities or suspended by Alabama.

Alabama Fans Wore Their Hearts On Their Heads

Alabama fans also packed their hate for OutKick founder Clay Travis, whose tweets have harshly criticized Alabama for allowing Miller to continue to play. Miller scored 24 for the Tide in an 86-83 win.

"He (Travis) kept criticizing us even though Brandon Miller's defense attorney came out and said that Brandon Miller didn't know he had Darius Miles' gun in the car with him," Alabama junior Casey Sherman of Huntsville told OutKick. "He's been all over us." Sherman also creatively demonstrated exactly how he feels about Clay. Warning: the F-Word is involved and you will see it.

Sherman is only a junior so he may not know defense attorneys often try to present their case in the media and are not always completely truthful. Miller's attorney is Alabama graduate Jim Sandridge, and his comments differed from Tuscaloosa investigators.

JUST BECAUSE AN ATTORNEY SAID IT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S TRUE

"I know who Clay Travis is," Sherman said. "I just noticed how much he doesn't like Alabama in his tweets recently after the Brandon Miller stories broke."

Sherman spoke to OutKick during halftime from his seat in the student section.

"I know he's a radio personality, and he's a Tennessee fan," Sherman, a Management Information Systems major, said.

Sherman wrote "F-Clay Travis" on his hard hat before the game.

"I walked right by all the security," he said. "They didn't notice."

Sherman was not alone.

Travis, a Vanderbilt law school graduate, had fun with the Alabama fans as usual.

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Guilbeau joined OutKick as an SEC columnist in September of 2021 after covering LSU and the Saints for 17 years at USA TODAY Louisiana. He has been a national columnist/feature writer since the summer of 2022, covering college football, basketball and baseball with some NFL, NBA, MLB, TV and Movies and general assignment, including hot dog taste tests. A New Orleans native and Mizzou graduate, he has consistently won Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) awards since covering Alabama and Auburn at the Mobile Press-Register (1993-98) and LSU and the Saints at the Baton Rouge Advocate (1998-2004). In 2021, Guilbeau won an FWAA 1st for a game feature, placed in APSE Beat Writing, Breaking News and Explanatory, and won Beat Writer of the Year from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association (LSWA). He won an FWAA columnist 1st in 2017 and was FWAA's top overall winner in 2016 with 1st in game story, 2nd in columns, and features honorable mention. Guilbeau completed a book in 2022 about LSU's five-time national champion coach - "Everything Matters In Baseball: The Skip Bertman Story" - that is available at www.acadianhouse.com, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble outlets. He lives in Baton Rouge with his wife, the former Michelle Millhollon of Thibodaux who previously covered politics for the Baton Rouge Advocate and is a communications director.