Tide Tidbits – January 31, 2009
Recruiting Page Updated
Check out the list of committed players, their rankings and where Alabama ranks nationally.
Tide Tidbits – January 30, 2009
Recruiting: Tide already looking at 2010 recruiting class
The University of Alabama football coaching staff has hosted big weekends of official visitors during the month of January, but this weekend will bring in just one lone visitor making an official visit for the final weekend before next week’s National Signing Day. On the other hand, Alabama [...]
Tide Tidbits – January 29, 2009
A Look Back at Signing Day 2005
In about 10 days several of us will post stories about our 2009 signing class and where they may fit in with the tide program. But in the gut wrenching days leading up to “S” day I find it useful to look back for some perspective. Four years ago [...]
Tide Tidbits – January 28, 2009
Rival coaches not happy with Kiffin
If you’re the football coach at the University of Tennessee and have yet to play a game, there are two things you can do to endear yourself to Vols fans:
Tide Tidbits – January 27, 2009
2009 Off-Season Roundup
Nick Saban is taking his anger out on… Auburn. He has hired assistant coach James Willis away from the Plains to replace linebackers coach Lance Thompson (who left for Lane Kiffin’s staff at Tennessee). So just to review, in two short seasons in Tuscaloosa, here’s what Saban has taken from Auburn: recruits, the [...]
Tide Tidbits – January 26, 2009
Tide in Tampa
Freddie Kitchens and Amos Jones both played football at the University of Alabama. They worked together for two years on the same coaching staff at Mississippi State. They left to coach in the National Football League. Now they’re going to the Super Bowl, but with different teams.
Tide Tidbits – January 25, 2009
Fans get as much loyalty from coaches as they give
This is not a profession for the weak of heart. They scrap, they often struggle and they’re most often scared to death that some 18-year-old will fumble and lose a game that leaves them unemployed and unable to provide for their families. Of course, fans don’t [...]
Tide Tidbits – January 24, 2009
Saban asks pledges not to visit UT
Alabama coach Nick Saban has no problem with current Crimson Tide commitments visiting other campuses before National Signing Day on Feb. 4 – so long as that other school is not Tennessee. In the wake of former Alabama recruiter Lance Thompson’s abrupt departure last week for Tennessee, two blue-chip [...]
Tide Tidbits – January 23, 2009
How good will Alabama’s recruiting class be? Nick Saban speaks!
“I think that when the signing day comes, if we get some of the players that we have committed right now and a few more to complement them, it’ll be an outstanding class for us in terms of what we need,” Saban said. “We don’t have [...]
Tide Tidbits – January 22, 2009
Swinney ready to take Clemson to new heights
For six weeks last fall, Dabo Swinney had no idea what his future would be. The former University of Alabama coach and player was named interim head coach at Clemson University halfway through the 2008 football season after Tommy Bowden resigned, but didn’t know what would happen when [...]
Tide Tidbits – January 21, 2009
Three UA commitments named Parade All-Americans
Foley lineman D.J. Fluker, Andalusia linebacker Nico Johnson and Pensacola, Fla., running back Trent Richardson — all verbal pledges to Alabama’s expected 2009 signing class — have been named to Parade Magazine’s All-America High School Football Team. Richardson was rated as the nation’s No. 1 running back.
Tide Tidbits – January 20, 2009
‘We’ve moved on’
He’s the head coach of the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars and, this week, the head coach of the South team for the Senior Bowl. Yet he stood there in near anonymity at the end of Monday’s practice while a thick, U-shaped huddle of notepads, microphones and cameras waited to engulf somebody else. Such was [...]
