Tide Tidbits – October 17, 2009
Comments OffTide’s homecoming game could hinge on Saban’s offense vs. Spurrier’s defense A familiar face from a different place will pace Bryant-Denny Stadium’s east sideline tonight. Remember Steve Spurrier? Wore a visor? Used to be a villain? Beat Alabama more often than not? Across the field from the fifth-year South Carolina coach will be a coach [...]
Tide Tidbits – October 16, 2009
Comments OffTide’s resilient Reamer disrupts the competition and dismisses the doubters A twice-injured knee was mending. The Alabama coaches who recruited him were gone. Impressive new players were arriving. Cory Reamer could have thought he was doomed. Nick Saban was in as the Crimson Tide’s head coach. Mike Shula was out. And, oh, did we mention [...]
Tide Tidbits – October 15, 2009
Comments OffTide Football Has Tough Preparation What does a team that is 6-0 and ranked second in the nation do as it prepares for its seventh game of the season? Nick Saban’s Alabama Crimson Tide has a tough week or preparation. That should surprise no one who has been paying attention. “We ended a pretty tough [...]
Tide Tidbits – October 14, 2009
Comments OffRhetoric heats up in appeal A strongly worded appeal from the University of Alabama was met with even stronger verbiage from the NCAA Committee on Infractions that levied textbook sanctions against the Crimson Tide. The COI called UA a “serial repeat violator” with an “abysmal infractions track record” and an “extensive recent history of infractions [...]
Tide Tidbits – October 13, 2009
Comments OffNow that Tide’s Harris can play, Nico Johnson might stand in the way The “wait” of the world has been lifted from Jerrell Harris. He missed six games while his Alabama teammates played. For most of the past three games, he was missed after standout inside linebacker Dont’a Hightower suffered a season-ending knee injury. Now [...]
Tide Tidbits – October 12, 2009
Comments OffTide topples Texas for No. 2 spot in AP poll Alabama’s steady rise in the rankings has left the Crimson Tide with a clear view of No. 1 Florida. Alabama jumped Texas into second-place behind top-ranked Florida in the AP Top 25 on Sunday, giving the Southeastern Conference the Nos. 1 and 2 teams in [...]
Tide Tidbits – October 11, 2009
Comments OffThis is the best defense I’ve seen Houston Nutt has seen a lot in nearly three decades in the coaching business, including 16 years as a head coach. But the coach of the Ole Miss Rebels has never seen anything like the third-ranked University of Alabama’s defense. “This is the fastest defense, if you went [...]
