ALABAMA FOOTBALL - SCRIMMAGE #2 (April 9, 2011)

*Stats include all 11-on-11, situational, red area, goalline, coming out, 2-minute

 

PASSING LEADERS

A.J. McCarron - 19 for 40, 255 yards, 4 TD, 0 INT

Phillip Sims - 19 for 34, 232 yards, 2 TD, 1 INT

RUSHING LEADERS

Trent Richardson - 13 rush, 44 yards

Dee Hart - 13 rush, 41 yards

Jalston Fowler - 10 rush, 23 yards, 2 TD

Eddie Lacy - 8 rush, 22 yards, 1 TD

RECEIVING LEADERS

Darius Hanks - 6 rec., 131 yards, 3 TD

Trent Richardson - 6 rec., 87 yards

DeAndrew White - 5 rec. 85 yards, 1 TD

Marquis Maze - 5 rec., 73 yards, 2 TD

Brian Vogler - 4 rec., 36 yards

Corey Grant - 2 rec., 34 yards

Harrison Jones - 2 rec., 22 yards

Brad Smelley - 2 rec., 21 yards

Michael Williams - 3 rec., 17 yards

 

FIELD GOALS

Cade Foster - Made: 50, 30; Missed: 48, 58

Jeremy Shelley - Made: 43, 25; Missed: 30

 

DEFENSIVE LEADERS

Dont'a Hightower - 10 total, 3 TFL, 1 sack

Courtney Upshaw - 7 tackles, 1 TFL, 1 sack

C.J. Mosley - 7 tackles, 2 PBU

Robert Lester - 6 tackles, 1 TFL, 1 PBU

Mark Barron - 4 total, 1 PBU, 1 sack

DeQuan Menzie - 4 tackles, 1 PBU

Trey DePriest - 4 total, 2 TFL

Ed Stinson - 4 tackles, 1 TFL

Dee Milliner - 4 tackles

Quinton Dial - 4 tackles, 1 sack

 

SCORING

Maze 2-yard pass from McCarron - PAT Foster, good; Lowery 51-yard INT return; Shelley 43-yard FG; Foster 50-yard FG; Hanks 68-yard pass from Sims - Foster PAT, good; Hanks 18-yard pass from McCarron - No PAT attempted; Foster 30-yard FG; Hanks 7-yard pass from McCarron, No PAT attempted; White 18-yard from Sims - PAT Shelley, good; Lacy 3-yard run; Fowler 2-yard run; Fowler 1-yard run; Shelley 25-yard FG; Maze 36-yard pass from McCarron.



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Here's the TS article about the scrimmage


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TUSCALOOSA -- Nick Saban wants his defense to sharpen its teeth and bite hard.

He wants his tacklers to hook onto ball carriers and drive them into the ground. He wants the defensive front to win its battles.

Generally, Alabama's coach wants to see consistency in everything from toughness to tenacity.

The Crimson Tide's next test comes today at Bryant-Denny Stadium in the second of three spring scrimmages, which is closed to the public.

"We all know that there's going to be practice on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday," Saban said. "So they should look forward to those days with a positive energy and attitude about what they want to accomplish individually and collectively ... to improve and get the most out of every drill."

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This is an ongoing story.  So far, it looks like most of the activity in public view has been via twitter.

So here's the twitter pages from Bylaw Blog, EliteScouting, and the one article I have found so far.

Bylaw Blog

Elite Scouting

Article from Team Speed Kills Blog



Now, there's a CBS story up with the NCAA e-mail.



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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - The No. 1/1 ranked Alabama softball team (37-2, 12-1 SEC) will head to Baton Rouge, La., to face off against the LSU Tigers (22-12, 5-6 SEC) in a three-game Southeastern Conference weekend series. The two teams will begin the three-game set on Friday, April 8, with first pitch slated for 6 p.m. CDT inside Tiger Park. Game three will be televised live on ESPNU with coverage starting at 1 p.m. CDT. Beth Mowins and Jessica Mendoza will call the action in the series finale.

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TUSCALOOSA - The Alabama football practice field has become a dense constellation of stars. The spring roster features twice as many four- or five-star players (50) as three-star players (25), according to Rivals.com ratings.

Since junior running back Trent Richardson arrived in 2009, he has seen the Crimson Tide's talent level rise significantly.

"We've got a lot more talent," said Richardson, one of seven five-star players on the current roster.

"But toughness? I wouldn't say we've got more toughness. We had a really tough team my freshman year. We had Rolando (McClain), we had Mike Johnson, we had Colin Peek. Even though he was kind of skinny, he was still tough."

The dense concentration of blue-chip players could be reflected in improved depth on a team that seemed thin in spots last season.

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The first of the three game series is Friday at 6pmCT.  It will be broadcast on CSS and ESPN3.

The standard was a lofty one for Alabama’s offensive line.

When you’re as dominant and as good as the Crimson Tide were up front in both 2008 and 2009, any kind of drop-off seems like a steep one.

That’s what happened a year ago.

Alabama certainly didn’t play poorly on the offensive line, but it also wasn’t up to the standard the Crimson Tide set the previous two years.

Injuries to center William Vlachos, right guard Barrett Jones and right tackle D.J. Fluker hurt their continuity, but nobody’s making any excuses.

The bottom line: They just weren’t as dominant up front and weren’t able to dictate to teams what they were going to do offensively.

“I think last year we didn’t quite form an identity at all or the way we wanted to form it as a power running team,” said Vlachos, who was plagued by an injury to the ball of his foot. “That’s what we are and what we will be. It’s on our shoulders to take the reins as far as that goes and establish that.

“We need to get our attitude back, competing relentlessly and dominating the guy in front of us. That’s the name of the game. We’re looking forward to establishing that identity and getting the edge back.”

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The NFL draft is sometimes called the biggest crapshoot in the world, but it doesn't have anything on college recruiting out of high school.

Sometimes the ranking agencies hit the nail on the head, as was the case with wide receivers Julio Jones and A.J. Green being the top of their class as 5-star recruits.

Other times they whiff, such as ranking current floundering Texas quarterback Garret Gilbert at the top of his class as a 5-star, or Mark Ingram as the No. 17 back in the nation.

Some Alabama Crimson Tide players are right about where we expected of them out of high school, while some are not, and others are total shockers.

Here's a look, in no particular order, at where our favorite—and a few not-so-favorite—athletes started.

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