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re: Spring games are pointless
Posted on 4/13/14 at 9:45 am to Cockopotamus
Posted on 4/13/14 at 9:45 am to Cockopotamus
Since Saban "revolutionized" spring games, if you want to call it that, that could never be more false especially in Alabama. Great times if you know where to look and what to do. And like the other guys in this thread have previously said, great times with the kids.
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Posted on 4/13/14 at 9:47 am to FourThreeForty
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Since Saban "revolutionized" spring games,
Posted on 4/13/14 at 9:49 am to brucevilanch
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Bro, I'm an Alabama fan. I'm all about some excuses.
Posted on 4/13/14 at 10:01 am to AUsteriskPride
Spring games are for three things. In order they are:
1. A reward for the players for the culmination of spring training. Something for them to look forward to in playing at the stadium in a fun game type scrimmage in front of the fans. Spring training is important from an evaluation and fundamentals standpoint. Spring training practices are often the toughest a player goes through. They involve a ton of full speed contact, a LOT more than during the season or fall camp because injury risk is not as big a concern and spring ball is about fundamentals, hitting each other and competition. The players need a reward and something to look forward to.
2. The fans. It gives them some football to talk about and sorta a game to watch and go to if they want. When I was a kid, my family and I went to every spring game every year. It was a lot of fun. My parents still have pictures of me from when I was as young as 4 years old on the field with different players at the spring game. One is with Bo Jackson which I was too young to remember, but love the picture.
3. It is a recruiting tool. This is especially true with AU and Bama where the fan turnout is big and we see which recruits decide to go where that weekend.
1. A reward for the players for the culmination of spring training. Something for them to look forward to in playing at the stadium in a fun game type scrimmage in front of the fans. Spring training is important from an evaluation and fundamentals standpoint. Spring training practices are often the toughest a player goes through. They involve a ton of full speed contact, a LOT more than during the season or fall camp because injury risk is not as big a concern and spring ball is about fundamentals, hitting each other and competition. The players need a reward and something to look forward to.
2. The fans. It gives them some football to talk about and sorta a game to watch and go to if they want. When I was a kid, my family and I went to every spring game every year. It was a lot of fun. My parents still have pictures of me from when I was as young as 4 years old on the field with different players at the spring game. One is with Bo Jackson which I was too young to remember, but love the picture.
3. It is a recruiting tool. This is especially true with AU and Bama where the fan turnout is big and we see which recruits decide to go where that weekend.
Posted on 4/13/14 at 10:16 am to AUsteriskPride
Spring games are NOT pointless. Just ask Nick Saban,the Alabama players and the recruits that were there when we filled the house with 92,000 plus for Saban's first ADay.
All practices at Bama are pretty much closed so you can get a look at players in a simulated game and get a little out of it. Think Blake Sims won't be going all out and every eye in the place won't be on him?
All practices at Bama are pretty much closed so you can get a look at players in a simulated game and get a little out of it. Think Blake Sims won't be going all out and every eye in the place won't be on him?
Posted on 4/13/14 at 10:31 am to antibarner
Please dont try to tell Bama fans that the spring game is just practice. It's all they got. Poor things. That's why 600,000 show up annually.
Posted on 4/13/14 at 10:33 am to antibarner
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Think Blake Sims won't be going all out and every eye in the place won't be on him?
He CAN'T go all out because contact and running are limited for the QB in spring games.
Coming out of our spring game Sumlin's first year, everyone was sure Showers would be the starter and that Manziel was most likely a career backup because Manziel wasn't allowed to scramble. That is the perfect summation of the pointlessness of spring games.
This post was edited on 4/13/14 at 10:35 am
Posted on 4/13/14 at 10:35 am to Cooter Davenport
It's not really pointless. It just shouldn't be taken so seriously.
Posted on 4/13/14 at 10:37 am to tigerfan in bamaland
Spring games are huge at Bama because it is the only time that a large percentage of their low-income t-shirt fanbase is able to afford entry into BDS.
Posted on 4/13/14 at 10:41 am to Cooter Davenport
Insulting the fanbase to compensate for your delicious butthurt
Keep it up, Coot.
Keep it up, Coot.
Posted on 4/13/14 at 10:46 am to Cockopotamus
No one takes them seriously. Its just a chance to see some football, as well as some younger guys fight for a position.
Posted on 4/13/14 at 11:03 am to Master of Sinanju
What? I bet on the game. It's the best competition we will face all year.
Posted on 4/13/14 at 12:50 pm to nc14
I saw Zach Mettenberger quarterback the Georgia Bulldogs at a spring game. Name me a regular season game where you could have seen that... :)
Posted on 4/13/14 at 12:51 pm to Cockopotamus
I just like them because it's the only football in April and I like football
Posted on 4/13/14 at 12:53 pm to AUsteriskPride
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The players and fans enjoy them. It's almost 5 months until the start of the season, so I'm glad we get a football fix, albeit "pointless".
This.
Posted on 4/13/14 at 12:59 pm to WarDawg
Sims will be going all out,as much as the rules allow. He wants to be the starter.
You go and enjoy the day,and hope everyone stays healthy.
And as far as these arrogant swine talking about "the poor" you need to give up your seats and let some people in there to help the team get a real home field advantage. You sit on your fannies sip your tea with a pinky sticking up and look down your noses at everyone else. You could do that at home.
Could ANY SEC team fill those 100,000 seat stadiums,make mega TV bucks and sell tons of merchandise without the so called "sidewalk alumni?" Could the SEC be the best without the money and TV ratings..... without them?
Hell no. At BDS you can't even get the frats to turn out and what number of them do leave. Saban had to threaten to take seats away to change that.
Programs of course need the money people. Without a doubt. But they alone are not enough.
You go and enjoy the day,and hope everyone stays healthy.
And as far as these arrogant swine talking about "the poor" you need to give up your seats and let some people in there to help the team get a real home field advantage. You sit on your fannies sip your tea with a pinky sticking up and look down your noses at everyone else. You could do that at home.
Could ANY SEC team fill those 100,000 seat stadiums,make mega TV bucks and sell tons of merchandise without the so called "sidewalk alumni?" Could the SEC be the best without the money and TV ratings..... without them?
Hell no. At BDS you can't even get the frats to turn out and what number of them do leave. Saban had to threaten to take seats away to change that.
Programs of course need the money people. Without a doubt. But they alone are not enough.
This post was edited on 4/13/14 at 1:01 pm
Posted on 4/13/14 at 1:39 pm to tigerfan in bamaland
3 in a row is what Bama's got.
Posted on 4/13/14 at 5:35 pm to Pavoloco83
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Spring games are a nice excuse to get on campus, drink a beer and watch something associated loosely with football. God made the sun dress for a reason and I like seeing them in the spring! Also a good chance for little money to take the little ones to a game like event so they can see what the deal is about.
Point taken. Can't say I disagree with any of that.
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