Tide Tidbits – April 23, 2009
Comments OffAlabama’s coach sees strengths, weaknesses heading into offseason Saban was already looking ahead immediately after Saturday’s game as he analyzed his team’s biggest challenges coming out of spring. “I think that, offensively, we don’t have enough depth and we don’t have enough playmakers right now,” Saban said. “I don’t think we have enough depth in [...]
Tide Tidbits – April 22, 2009
Comments OffLooking back to peek ahead All that is left for the legions of fans to do for the dog days of summer is to sit and speculate, rewatching their TiVo’d A-Day telecast and analyzing every position on the field to construct a picture of the 2009 Crimson Tide. To save some time, here is a [...]
Tide Tidbits – April 21, 2009
Comments OffRanking the nation’s top coaches It’s Urban Meyer’s world. Everyone else is just coaching in it. Meyer has enjoyed a meteoric rise to the top of this chart. When this decade dawned, Meyer was the wide receivers coach at Notre Dame under Bob Davie. When will Meyer get bored by all of this and scamper [...]
Tide Tidbits – April 20, 2009
Comments OffSaban has high expectations for team, fans Most of the Sunday talk about Saturday’s A-Day Game was about just that — the game and the performers in it. But while A-Day is a game, sort of, it also marks the end of spring. In between questions about the quarterback position, or the tight ends, Saban [...]
Tide Tidbits – April 19, 2009
Comments OffSaban pleased with A-Day effort, crowd University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban didn’t spend a lot of time looking at the statistics after the annual A-Day Game at Bryant-Denny Stadium on Saturday.Instead, he looked in the stands, where the college fan base that has set the standard for spring game attendance responded once more [...]
Tide Tidbits – April 18, 2009
Comments OffNo ordinary spring scrimmage for Tide As players and coaches scurried to make final preparations Thursday night, Alabama’s football complex had the buzz of a game week in the fall. “I feel like I’m going to play in a real game,” defensive end Lorenzo Washington said. The days of Alabama’s spring football game being merely [...]
Tide Tidbits – April 17, 2009
Comments OffGoal-oriented: Preseason hype doesn’t register on Saban’s radar Alabama football coach Nick Saban isn’t interested in predictions. He’s interested in results. So when predictions on the upcoming season were offered by local reporters during Thursday night’s “Dinner With Nick” fundraiser for Team Focus at South Alabama’s Mitchell Center — many have his third Crimson Tide [...]
