Posted on 04/22/2007 3:04:59 AM PDT by panzer_grey
CECIL HURT: Biggest A-Day changes visible to all
It was the best seat in the house – an enviable position when every one of the 92,318 seats in the house are full.
Nick Saban invited a half-dozen reporters to be “media coaches” for Saturday’s A-Day game at Bryant-Denny Stadium. In a wise move by Saban, that invitation didn’t involve any actual coaching decisions. Instead, it just gave those reporters (myself included) an up-close look at what we had really only gotten a far-away glimpse at all spring: the University of Alabama football team.
What was fascinating about the day wasn’t just the chance to watch the team on the field, although the game itself – won by the White team, 20-13 – had its revelatory moments. Blocking and tackling, catching and running, are pretty much the same, year in and year our, regardless of the vantage point from which you are watching. But a few things were obvious.
John Parker Wilson, as you’d expect from a quarterback entering his second year as a starter, has improved. He was, when you reduce things to their essential level, the difference in the game’s outcome, because he was able to make plays in the passing game that his backup, Greg McElroy, was not (McElroy’s game management was encouraging, though). The backs ran hard – especially Glen Coffee, before he was knocked out by a shoulder injury.
The tackling was sound. The kicking game looked promising.
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Gotta go. It's earth day. Going to build a bonfire and roast wienies and marshmallows to celebrate.
Roll Tide! Us Bama fans are LONG overdue for a good season!
Roll Tide
Especially when one of those losses is against Auburn.
Thanks! You can see some fans of other teams really showing their class in this thread, can’t you!
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