re: Notre Dame's and Bama's BCS practice schedules

I remember Barrett Jones talking after the SECCG and I compared it to what the ND guys were saying after their USC game. Jones was like "we're going to enjoy this victory for awhile and then when we do get back to work we'll start on fundamentals. The NC game is so far out there we're not think about it for awhile." The ND players were saying things like "we're so pumped about playing for the NC. We're going to use all of this time off to get ready for the biggest game of our lives." I think they probably peaked in mid December. Our guys we're still working on fundamentals. Saban has the layoff thing down pat. And I don't think he really had it right until after the 2009 NC game. I thought our guys were not ready for that game but fortunately neither was UTx, otherwise they score 2 TD's in the first 10mins and Colt doesn't get hurt. But Saban learned how to do it. I bet he analyzed in detail what went wrong and redesigned how to do the long layoff.