...'personalities on campus'...

people that want to do it their way and not buy into the process because they think they are premadonnas.

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Any idea what he's talking about?

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Maybe something having to do with this possibly?

"The thing about the freshmen that I think people have a hard time understanding -- I don't even think the freshmen understand -- none of these guys have played under the ... what it takes from an intensity standpoint, a mental focus standpoint, week in and week out to prepare for a game and be able to go out and execute in a game," he said. "I call it casual. They're so casual about how they go about things because they don't know any better. It's not because they want to be or intend to be, but they've just never done it any other way. They've never had to pay attention to detail, they've never had to study film and say, 'OK, when they get in a bunch pass, what are they going to do?' ... They just think they're going to line up and cover the guy. Technique's not important because that's what they've always been able to do.

"It's a little bit of a work in progress with these guys, first of all to get them to grind through the season to be able to continue to stay focused and have the kind of mental focus that you need day in and day out and the carryover you have to have. You can't practice everything every day, especially in the offensive line and especially in the secondary. They've got 1,000 formations and receiver locations and every time you're going to do something, it's going to be affected by what they do.

"If you can't remember what we did last week, and now that presents itself again -- and most people that we play do different things against us; we don't see what we practiced all the time, we see something different -- if you don't have guys that have a good foundation and an understanding and basis for what they need to do, they struggle. And then when they don't have success, they get frustrated. That's what you deal with when you have young players."

Saban's answer ended with optimism about both Jackson and Smith, who have already set themselves apart from some of Alabama's other freshmen based on the fact that they're regularly playing.

"Those two guys have shown a lot of maturity," Saban said. "More maturity than most in being able to handle that."

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people that want to do it their way and not buy into the process because they think they are premadonnas

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Sounds right.

I cant imagine that Saban is worried about the Asian Sax Girl on the quad.

If Reuben and Dee were causing problems they wouldnt be playing, even in mop up time.

Wasn't the question asked about Eddie Jackson not playing as much and then Saban expanded to talking about freshmen in general or am I making stuff up?

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I think hes just talking about freshmen in general, no matter the class.

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I think so too. I heard the interview last Thursday and he was just talking about the challenges freshmen face. He didn't sound upset or anything.

Not sure if its related or not but several of the younger players namely Drake and Cooper but several others went dark/deactivated their Twitter accounts at around the same time a few months back. Oddly enough they both returned to regularly tweeting in the past few weeks also at around the same times.

It may be a stretch but I wonder if it is related especially with Drake having been openly suspended for the first game and Amari has seemed "off" but has improved lately.

Jackson was playing so well to frick everything over like he has. Hopefully he can make his way back so Fulton doesn't do anything but Scout team.

This Asian girl used to chill on the quad quite often and play her saxophone to people walking. It was nice.