Outspoken, persistent, intense: Jeremy Pruitt a good fit for Bama’s staff
Comments OffAs if it weren’t already a highly intense staff with Coaches Saban, Smart, Sunseri, Cochran, et al, and now they’ve gone and added Pruitt. Without a doubt, there is not another staff as knowledgeable and passionate about football anywhere in college football. If anyone differs with that opinion, I’d more than like to hear an [...]
‘I’ve mellowed a lot,’ says Saban
Comments OffOn the recent day that a great basketball coach died, a great football coach sat down for an extraordinary interview with the Sporting News. Alabama coach Nick Saban talked about how the very first book he read about coaching was written by John Wooden, the late, legendary UCLA coach. Sporting News: A lot of people [...]
Alabama 2011 football recruiting class
Comments OffNick Saban has helped take Alabama football recruiting to new heights. Depending on which recruiting service you quote (and they all have some good qualities,) the Crimson Tide staff has three straight years of top 3 recruiting classes in the team rankings with a great chance at a fourth. Some have had Alabama number one [...]
Athletic budgets on the rise
Comments OffThe University of Alabama is one of 10 schools projected to exceed $250 million in its athletic budget by the year 2020, based on figures released last week in a report by the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. The report described the growing disparity between the nation’s elite athletic programs and the majority, which operate [...]
Saban pays tribute to Nico Johnson’s mom at funeral
Comments OffMamie Johnson was known as a sports enthusiast and a Crimson Tide fan. Yesterday, one of the biggest names in college sports – and especially Alabama sports – Nick Saban, paid tribute to her at her funeral. “Miss Mamie made me promise to make sure he [Nico] did the things he needed to do to [...]
Rolando McClain: Everything you would want in a player
Comments OffAs a college sophomore at Alabama, Rolando McClain established himself as a team leader for the Crimson Tide and also perhaps the best linebacker in the nation. In his 2009 junior season, he put an exclamation point on that statement with an undefeated season that was capped by total annihilation of the Tim Tebow led [...]
San Jose coach knows Tide
Comments OffMike MacIntyre’s team will be one of the heaviest underdogs on the college football schedule the weekend of Sept. 4 when San Jose State visits the University of Alabama in the season opener for both teams. But if the Spartans were to forge a stunning upset, it wouldn’t be the first time MacIntyre has been [...]
