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BCS National Championship Game: Neither Saban Nor Miles Is the Most Important Coach
It's tempting to try to boil the BCS National Championship Game down to Nick Saban vs. Les Miles. College football head coaches tend to end up with cults of personalities around them, and certainly The Process and The Mad Hatter have a couple of the biggest ones out there. No matter how good they...
The SEC Coaching Carousel Scorecard
With the regular season well in the books and the bowl season full upon us that means the annual coaching carousel is in full swing. Keeping track of it all can be a bit confusing in a normal year but throw in the prospect of keeping track of new programs due to conference expansion and it's almost...
Alabama Coordinators Possibly Going Elsewhere
Alabama's run of success under Nick Saban has been nothing short of remarkable. Also remarkable is the fact that he hasn't lost his coordinators in the process. Typically a team cannot sustain that high level of success for more than a couple of years before the assistants begin spreading their own...
Trent Richardson Dominated, but How Did A.J. McCarron Do?
Saturday night in Gainesville was the Trent Richardson show by just about any measure. He rushed for a career high 181 yards with an average of 6.24 yards per carry. The rest of the team averaged just 4.24 yards per play when Richardson didn't touch the ball. All three of Eddie Lacy's non-garbage...
Deep Analysis: Alabama Gets One the Easy Way
Overall, what did this game have to tell us? It confirmed what everyone should have known before the season: Alabama is a legit national title contender, and Florida is not. Anyone paying attention from, oh, the NFL Draft and onwards should have been able to tell you that. Beyond that point, it...
The Process by the Numbers: Part III - Running Man
Over the past two days we've looked at how Coach Saban's defense is aimed at getting opposing offenses off the field (Part I is here and Part II is here). What the numbers seem to be showing us is that Alabama's defense begins by shutting down the running game and subsequently creates ideal...
A Comparison of SEC Coaches Salaries for 2010
In putting together the list of Alabama's football coaches salaries last week, I kept stumbling across stories that compared the Crimson Tide pay rates with one or another teams in the conference. The problem was none of those reports were at all consistent and it was pretty hard to discern if the...
Alabama Coaching Salaries
"I don't hire anybody not brighter than I am. If they're not smarter than me, I don't need them." - Paul W. Bryant The ability of a head coach to succeed in college football often has less to do with what players he puts on the field than the coaches he assembles to lead them. The sheer size of a...
Things To Freak Out About for 2010: Coaching Attrition
Last December, as Alabama was preparing for its first National Championship game in a generation, the future of the team's Frank Broyles Award-winning Defensive Coordinator Kirby Smart was very much the center of debate. From the moment Georgia showed beleaguered DC Willie Martinez the door last...
Sprints Hopes None of Its Assistant Coaches are Looking for Other Jobs // 12.14.09
ASSISTANT COACH SHUFFLE Alabama OC looking for a head coaching jobAt least two schools interest Jim McElwain, who has done a fine job at Alabama. The best bet right now appears to be San Jose State. If McElwain is hired by the Spartans, UA coach Nick Saban would be in search of his third...
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