This is my honest opinion on how the offensive depth chart will fall at this point. I will post defense and special teams later if feedback is good. If I think a player will transfer I will make a note. Feel free to cut me to shreds and have some fun with this. I will also make some notes on particular players on moves I expect them to make

Continue reading this post »

Alabama looks to be signing one quarterback in the class of 2012 and he may be the sleeper hit of the year. Alec Morris played in the highest classification of Texas high school football (AAAAA at Allen High School outside of Dallas). He led his team to 11-1 his senior season and 10-2 his junior year.

Of his 17 rushing TDs, many of them were near the goal line. At 6'3" and 235 lbs, I can imagine he is hard to take down in the trenches.

As for his passing, by NCAA QB standards, his senior season rating would be a 175.63.

What is it that makes the Alabama football experience so . . . intoxicating?

Truth be told, I hated the Tide growing up. It was as easy as hating the Yankees, broccoli, and authority. And yes, there was that stand in the schoolhouse door. It colored all my perceptions about the South, no pun intended.

At the cusp of adulthood I was a poorly traveled West Coast liberal, unaware that I was as blindly prejudiced as I'd falsely perceived nearly all Southerners to be. I basked in a California bubble, fancying myself worldly, when in fact I was provincial. Little did I know what the universe held in store for me.

Continue reading this post »

01: Einstürzende Neubauten - "Lets Do It A Dada"

02: TV on the Radio - "Shout Me Out"

03: Rodrigo y Gabriela - "Savitri"

04: Skrillex - "With You, Friends (Long Drive)"

05: Bassnectar - "Cozza Frenzy"

06: PJ Harvey - "No Girl So Sweet"

07: Phish - "Kill Devil Falls"

08: John Adams - "Nixon in China: News Has a Kind of Mystery"

09: DeVotchKa - "Sunshine"

10: Einstürzende Neubauten - "Wo Sind Meine Schuhe?"

Will Blackwell, LSU guard, interviewed at Senior Bowl:"I haven't talked to (LSU) Coach (Les) Miles," he said. "I haven't spoken with him. I'd be interested to see what he had to say but I haven't had any contact with him recently. I've kind of tried to stay away and keep my mind off of it. I've been at home in West Monroe and not in Baton Rouge. It has been tough to get a hold of him. I'm finished. He doesn't need me anymore."

Nick Saban at the Senior Bowl

Saban sought out Upshaw after practice. Upshaw stopped short of hugging Saban because he was drenched in sweat and he told Saban he didn't want to mess up his nice suit. Saban smiled and asked his former star linebacker if he had a good practice. Upshaw responded, "Yes, sir." Then he asked, "Do I look slim?" Upshaw said he wants to get down to 265 pounds, but he's not there yet. Saban smiled and said, "Yeah." Upshaw said, "I know I look slim, and it feels good, too."

Continue reading this post »

It appears that someone has hacked the payment database at bamastuff.com, the Alabama Book Store website. If you have ordered anything from there from August 1, 2009 to January 16, 2012, your credit card info may have been compromised. Note that this would have included BOTH national championship periods. Some forum posters have already seen fraudulent activity on their cards and others have received an email from bamastuff.com alerting them about the activity. While I have purchased some thing rather recently, I have seen neither to this point.

link.

Tuscaloosa native and University of Alabama graduate Bo Latham has produced an amazing song and video highlighting the 2011-2012 season and BCS National Championship game. This is arguably the best recap/hype video that has been released for Alabama fans in the Saban era. The link to the video and Bo Latham's Bandcamp site are below. Expect more music and video from Bo Latham in the near future.

Link: Alabama Football 2011-2012: "Number Fourteen".

You can download the song for free at: BoLatham.Bandcamp.com

ed.- bumped from the fanposts. good stuff.

First off, I'd like to say that what I love most about Roll Bama Roll is the amount of objective data and statistics that the site provides. The day RBR became my favorite website was the day I read my first Running Back Success Rates article. Something about the stats just speaks to Engineer in me. With that being said, this year with the Advanced Statistical Analysis (At least for the first half of the season), RBR became as awesome to me as FHM.com must be to 13 year old boys.

In an effort to repay all the joy that RBR has given me, and inspired by the Defensive Efficieny posts from last week, I've attempted to take a similar look at the contenders that seem to be thrown around as the best in College Football History (well modern era anyway), to see if Dre was right, and 2011 Bama was the "greatest defense to ever take the field."

First off, I have selected 4 contenders based on the talking heads commentary in the aftermath of the BCSNCG.

1986 Oklahoma

1988 Auburn

2001 Miami

2011 Alabama

The goal is to try and normalize for the fact that in the last 20 years the popularity of 7 on 7 camps and the spread offense has driven up the productivity of offenses in CFB. My goal is to compare how many points a team averaged, versus how many points it scored on these great defenses. The more points a team is held below their average, the better the defense has performed. Also I have only included statistics for games against FCS (Div I) competition (Because it is hard to get data for non FBS teams) Check out the stats and comments after the break.

Continue reading this post »

Bear Bryant-At the time of his death, he was the all time winning-est coach, last game he coached, he won against Illinois. The date was Jan. 26th, 1983, less than 60 days after he left the sport he loved. Penn State was National Champs in Bryant's last season, 1982. Joe Paterno. Also the winning-est coach at the time of his death. He also won the last game he coached, also against Illinois. He died Jan. 22nd, 2012, also less than 60 days after leaving the sport. In his last season of coaching, Alabama wins The National Championship.

chant from other fan bases because two morons who are UA fans, out of probably hundreds of millions over the last 180 years, did really stupid things? I would like all of our faithful readers to post here any highly disreputable fans or grads of any other college or university.

I will start with a student who attended my own undergraduate alma mater, dear old Spring Hill College in Mobile. SHC was founded by the Jesuits in 1830 and prides itself on providing its students with a top nnotch, liberal arts education amidst a socially responsible and ethical religious environment. However, that did not stop PATRICIA KRENWINKLE from being a student there. For the younger readers, Trish was a Charles Manson disciple and murderer.

My brother was a Deputy Sheriff in Mobile at the time of her arrest and said she was the most hirsute person he had ever seen and that she never wore ladies' undergarments of any type. Now, wouldn't it be reasonable to think that the murdering and hairy flashing were encouraged by or due to the guidance of the Jesuits or that they "attract" that kind of person?

If you know of any other similar illustrious grads or fans, please add them here. Also, my browser won't let me keep paragraphs for some unknown reason.