Can Anyone Catch the Tide and Gators?

Now that the brakes have been put on massive conference expansion for the time being, my initial thought as it relates to the SEC is that everybody else needs to catch up with Alabama and Florida. While it’s true that three different SEC teams have won BCS national championships in the last three seasons, the Crimson Tide and Gators have dominated the league the last two seasons. Between them, they’ve lost three conference games, and two of those losses were to each other. Florida reeled off a 22-game winning streak before losing … to Alabama. Meanwhile, Alabama hasn’t lost a regular-season game in two years. We’ll see if the rest of the league is up to the task. [More]

Alabama’s defense carries a 34-game streak

Entering this season, Alabama’s defense carries a 34-game streak of not allowing an opposing player to rush for 100 yards. The last player to accomplish the feat against the Crimson Tide was former Ole Miss running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis, who totaled 131 rushing yards in an Oct. 13, 2007 game in Oxford. Alabama ranked second nationally in run defense last season at 78.14 yards allowed per game. [More]

Recruiting: Bama coaches high on DePriest

It’s becoming increasingly more difficult to picture Under Armour All-American Trey DePriest, who’s looking more and more like the second-coming of Rolando McClain with his football IQ, not being a part of Alabama’s 2011 signing class. DePriest (Springfield, Ohio/Springfield South) and his high school coach, John Cupps, who helped work Alabama’s camp last week, flew to Alabama on June 6 and flew back on June 9. DePriest’s mother, grandmother, sister and cousin made a road trip out of southward excursion, driving down from Ohio on June 7 and leaving on June 9. “Down there (at Alabama), it’s hard not to enjoy it,” Cupps told CrimsonConfidential.com Tuesday afternoon. Cuppssaid DePriest really impressed the Bama coaching staff in how fast he grasped the three different coverages the players were taught and then how he was able to explain those coverages to a teammate who was struggling to understand. [More]

Big 12 AD Takes a Shot at Alabama and the SEC

Chip Brown relayed a shot at Alabama he heard from a Big 12 AD. “I was told by an athletic director in the Big 12 that Alabama’s academic standards are lower than all 12 schools that used to be in the Big 12,” Brown said. Alabama provided a strong statement from faculty athletics representative Joe Hornsby. “The academic policies for admission and retention at the University do not discriminate between students and student-athletes; the same standards apply for both populations. In one area, progress toward degree accountability, student-athletes are held to a more rigorous standard than non-athletes.” one way to compare actual academic performance in which Alabama measures up quite favorably with its Big 12 counterparts. The NCAA last week released its latest APR numbers, which measure how well student-athletes progress toward a degree. Alabama’s football program scored a 957 for that period. That score was higher than 10 of the 12 Big 12 schools. Alabama’s score of 957 was higher than the Texas score of 947. [More]

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