re: Spring Football News & Info

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As the Alabama football team left the field last Saturday after the A-Day Game, divided into a Crimson team and a White team, the annual reality of four months without college football set in. There will be some scrimmaging in August as preparations for the 2019 season enter their final phase, but the next time that UA takes the field with fans and bands, cheerleaders and sideline reporters and all the other accoutrements, it will be the final day of August, in Atlanta, against Duke.

That’s when I realized that I knew virtually nothing about Duke, aside from having Alabama alum and former Ole Miss head coach David Cutcliffe on the sidelines. (Many Alabama fans recognize him less for either of those career stops and more for a long tenure at Tennessee, when he was a Phil Fulmer assistant and Peyton Manning’s quarterback coach, or the other team way around if you prefer.) I know that they play in Wallace Wade Stadium. (Kentucky does not play in Bill Curry Stadium and Texas A&M certainly doesn’t play in Dennis Franchione Stadium so Wade certainly has the most success of any coach who expatriated himself out of Tuscaloosa.)

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