Question for those smarter than me...

be happy. I can promise Saban has a plan. In fact I think we may have actually “let” a few go today (such as Patterson and Teague) to bring these guys in under the 85 limit. By the way- Grant is out of here now.

Now Ole Miss- that is one problem waiting to happen.

work out in the end.

But he won’t carry the ball again so he might as well go

ITs going to be interesting to see how it all works out. Just expect to get some hatters over here crying shannanigans..

will work it out, just like last year. He will sift through the players that he inherited and make some changes there. Soon enough he will have “his” players in place and then things will really ROLL.

Besides the blind faith talk.

Here is sort of a look at the numbers, as I know them:
-As you say we have 11 seniors
-We also have two juniors who left early for the draft (Coffee and Andre) 13 total players leaving the program
-We actually enrolled 23 players out of last year’s class, amazingly enough
-We are thus able to count 2 scholarships towards last years class (Warmack and Carpenter).
-We gave three walk-ons who are on full scholarships this year (King, Fitzgerald, and Tiffin). I have no idea how they work out as all of them will be 5th year seniors. I would assume they would stay on scholarship, but not sure.
-In this year’s recruiting class itself there are at least 3-4 guys who are potential academic casualties (Sentimore, Bowman, Lacey, and Woodson to name a few). Obviously, a few of them will not qualify, unfortunately.
-I think being relatively conservative that leaves us 9 scholarships to come up with by August. We all know there are a few players who sustained injuries and have not seen much playing time this season, a few will unfortunately be given the option of a medical scholarship, I believe we gave out about 5 last year.
-Then of course, we are going to have transfers. Some players who we thought would see more playing time, have seen none. I am not going to really speculate on who that might be, but I am sure we can all think of at least 4-5 players who might be a candidate.

Again, this is just my guess, and this does not even take into account what you might call Black Swans, like a Jimmy Johns incident (knock on wood). Obviously I am hopeful that no one will doing anything stupid this year, but as we have seen too often players can be capable of making mind numbing decisions from time-to-time.

not for running Grant off…but it may be best for him. He didn’t hardly play this year and with TR and Ingram plus we have some new backs that redshirted or grey shirted last year like Matchett and Preyear. Plus, this Jeramie Griffin kid looks pretty good too. And who knows about Upchurch. If he is able ot make a come back he will play.

I just ask you if Terry Grant knew he was going to get 25 carries all year in mop up rolls would he stay? I think not. And it is not like he is going to go to DB or WR— we are loaded there as well. He just seems to be the odd man out.