re: 2013 Alabama Football Recruiting Thread - DH Decommited from UGA

Lulz

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Congrats, go ahead and add him to LSU's commit list then...

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Congrats, go ahead and add him to LSU's commit list then...

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thanks bama is gonna have another killer class. It won't be a huge loss.

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Provide physical presence inside while coming off the bench for a few minutes a game. Hopefully toughen up Jacobs while pushing him around in practice.

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It took me a second, but I now see what you did there.

I think it all depends on how quickly he absorbs the playbook. Both Mosely and DePriest got to play as freshman largely because they were quick learners and demonstrated to the coaches that they wouldn't blow their assignments. I think that's just as important as physical attributes.

Max Browne to USC. Shocking, I know.

I'm going to feed you a bunch of Bananas. It will constipate the crap IN you.

TUSCALOOSA _ Even though the University of Alabama football team might have its biggest starting offensive line ever, the unit as a whole got noticeably bigger Wednesday with the addition of an early enrollee.

Freshman Alphonse Taylor looked a little different in white Wednesday.
Alphonse Taylor, who is listed as 6 foot 5, 340 pounds, switched over from nose tackle and worked with the second unit at left guard.
“Yeah, big man,” starting left guard Chance Warmack said. “I’m so excited for him playing guard, man. He’s an exciting player. He knows a lot already. Came in with a positive attitude. Just want to take him up under my wing and help him as much as I can.
“He’s a really powerful guy, really big guy. He’s gonna be really special someday – sooner than you think. So I’m looking forward him, we’re all happy for him being on our O-line.”
While Coach Nick Saban called both that move and Brent Calloway to H-back a “trial,” the offense line has been in a numbers crunch this spring. With Arie Kouandjio still recovering from knee surgery, assistant coach Jeff Stoutland only had 10 players, and Chad Lindsay has been limited the past few days after taking a shot to the head.
Still, with essentially four returning starters, Alabama could have a really good line this season.
“Just because you're big doesn't mean you can't be athletic, and just because you're little doesn't mean you are,” Saban said. “I would rather have big, athletic guys.”
That seems to be Stoutland’s philosophy too, as he already had a reputation for liking really big linemen before arriving at Alabama last year.
“Coach Stoutland brings a lot of intensity to the table in terms of getting the offensive line as a whole to just be physical,” Warmack said. “That’s the main thing that he tries to coach is physicality, up front, personal, smash-mouth football. I love that about him. He’s going to get it all out of you.”

Robert Lester and his teammates are already preparing for teams like Michigan.
Getting a head start
Saban likes to use part of spring to get a head start on new opponents, and different things the team will see in the fall, and this year is no exception.
“This is our first year, being introduced to Missouri, Texas A&M, and we’ve never seen them play before,” safety Robert Lester said. “It doesn’t hurt.”
Alabama will also open the season against Michigan, a former rival for Saban when he was coaching at Michigan State, Sept. 1 in Dallas.
“Sometimes that creates a little bit of confusion with younger players, but we'd much rather have the confusion now so there's a little better resource when we have to play these people that we're unaccustomed to some of the things that they do,” Saban said.
Another Jones to keep up with
Christion Jones has fared better the last couple of weeks and ended up leading receiving corps with seven catches for 83 yards and two touchdowns in last week’s scrimmage.
“I actually had a meeting with him because he got off to a little bit of a slow start this spring, and was trying to do everything perfectly. Really hadn't played receiver that much and was trying to run everything exactly right,” Saban said. “I said, 'Look man, just play fast.'”

After a bit of a rocky start, Christion Jones has settled in at wide receiver.
According to teammates, though, Jones is just as entertaining off the field and does an impersonation of special teams coach Bobby Williams that blows away Robert Ezell’s of Saban – which is really saying something.
“Funny guy,” Warmack said. “In the game of football, you need all the elements to do well. Sometimes you have to have a little bit of play in it. Without having fun playing the game, if you lose out on having fun, what are you playing for, you know?”
The Evil Knievel of coaches?
Saban said he wished Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino a quick recovery following his motorcycle accident over the weekend, but outside of telling players to avoid doing dangerous things doesn’t have a team policy against them.
“I love motorcycles,” he said. “I loved motorcycles when I was a kid. I was not allowed to ride a motorcycle when I was a kid. My best friend Charlie Anderson had a Triumph, and I mean that thing was hot. Where my dad's service station was, there was a long straightaway and they used to race.
“Every time no one was looking I'd get on Charlie's Triumph. I took it to my girlfriend's house and she lived on the side of the mountain and there was a curve and the water was running across the street and a dog was chasing me down the street. I hit the water on the curve and I slid out. I didn't get hurt, didn't hurt the bike, just slid out. My Dad found out about that and that's the last time I've been on a motorcycle.”
While Saban had a huge grin on his face telling the story, he also disclosed that his need for speed hasn’t gone away.
“I still waterski. I ride them jetskis as fast as they'll go and every two years I get the fastest ones they make to replace the last ones. Every year, Miss Terry has a fit, but that's just the way it goes. There's not very many things that I like to do, so ... I try not to be stupid but I'm not going to not do things that I enjoy doing.

"I like to go fast."
“You could hit with a golf ball, and I like playing golf too.”
Tide-bits
Saban on the new kickoff rules: “We did some research with NFL teams to kind of see what they learned from it last year and how they had to adapt to it and what they had to do. It'll be interesting to see if there's a lot more touchbacks or more teams just running it out from deeper trying to gain field position.”
Warmack on left tackle Cyrus Kouandjio’s development: “Cyrus is a very, very interesting player in terms of increasing his level of play in short periods of time. Like he’ll have something that he needs to learn one game, one practice, and he’ll get it (snaps fingers) so fast that you’ll forget you even taught him something. So he’s picking it up so quick it’s amazing. For him to be so young and play to the level he’s playing is incredible. He’s playing better than I did when I was a sophomore.”
Saban liked the team’s effort Wednesday after not liking what he saw Monday coming off the scrimmage: “I thought three years ago, Florida started out No. 1 and everybody thought they were unbeatable. Our team kind of improved as the year went on. We had an opportunity to play them and did well. The next year our team didn't improve very much and we lost three games. A lot of people asked at the end, how did you lose three games? (Shrugging) We didn't improve. Last year, our team improved and that's why we had an opportunity to do what we did at the end of the season.”
Lester on if he could imagine Saban going full speed on a jetski: “I really can’t. The only action I see with Coach Saban is when he’s chewing someone out on the field.”

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