Stats From Alabama's 2013 A-Day Game

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle”

- Sun Tzu, The Art of War

The 2013 rendition of A-Day is in the books. I'll present some raw stats and an initial opinion or two here, and we'll follow that up later with some more in-depth analysis.

These stats are from www.rolltide.com and www.al.com.

White Team Quarterbacks

AJ McCarron

19/30 (63.33%) for 223 yards (7.43 yards per attempt), 1 TD, 2 INTs, Passer Rating 123.44.

Phillip Ely

2/4 (50.00%) for 8 yards (2.00 yards per attempt), 0 TDs, 0 INTs, Passer Rating 66.8.

Parker McLeod

1/2 (50.00%) for 19 yards (9.50 yards per attempt), 0 TDs, 0 INTs, Passer Rating 129.8.

Crimson Team Quarterbacks

Alec Morris

10/18 (55.56%) for 141 yards (7.83 yards per attempt), 0 TDs, 0 INTs, Passer Rating 121.36.

Blake Sims

5/10 (50%) for 52 yards (5.20 yards per attempt), 0 TDs, 2 INTs, Passer Rating 53.68.

Cooper Bateman

1/3 (33.33%) for 3 yards (1.0 yards per attempt), 0 TDs, 2 INTs, Passer Rating -91.6

Luke Del Rio

2/3 (66.67%) for 38 yards (12.67 yards per atttempt), 0 TDs, 0 INTs, Passer Rating 173.07.

White Team Running Backs

T.J. Yeldon (Dixie Howell Award Winner)

15 carries for 69 yards (4.60 yards per carry), 1 TD (plus 7 catches for 60 receiving yards, 8.57 yards per catch).

Crimson Team Running Backs

Kenyan Drake

8 carries for 33 yards (4.13 yards per carry), 0 TDs, (plus 4 catches for 18 yards, 4.50 yards per catch).

White Team Receivers

Kenny Bell

3 catches for 71 yards (23.67 yards per catch), long of 40 yards, 1 TD.

Christion Jones

3 catches for 55 yards (18.33 yards per catch), long of 50 yards.

Crimson Team Receivers

DeAndrew White

3 catches for 62 yards (20.67 yards per catch).

White Team Defenders

Landon Collins

5 tackles.

Nick Perry

Two INTs.

Crimson Team Defenders

C.J. Mosley

9 tackles, 1 fumble recovery.

Tana Patrick

8 tackles.

Vinnie Sunseri

1 INT returned 86 yards for a TD.

HaHa Clinton-Dix

1 fumble recovery, returned 55 yards for a TD.

Special Teams (Combined)

Cade Foster

1/1 on field goals (29 yards ), 2/2 on extra points.

Adam Griffith

2/2 on extra points.

Cody Mandell

7 punts for 338 yards (48.29 yards per punt).

Official Attendance

78,315.

Initial Opinions.

I think that attendance figure is a little optimistic. I was there, and thought the crowd looked about 70k, and was probably down to ~40-50k by halftime.

Rather pedestrian performance from AJ (certainly by his own standards), and the other quarterbacks looked pretty bad, to be honest. Blake Sims took a huge step back today, and Morris looked better, in my opinion. Maybe that's why he got to pass 18 times?

I'm surprised by the relative success of throwing the ball, vice running the ball, in all three scrimmages thus far. Are we a passing team this year?