Bear Bryant Challenge: Alabama 2011

Ben E Lou · 08-08-2005, 07:07 AM

PRELIMINARIES

LINKS

Alabama Crimson Tide 2004
Alabama Crimson Tide 2005
Alabama Crimson Tide 2006
Alabama Crimson Tide 2007
Alabama Crimson Tide 2008

Alabama Crimson Tide 2009

Alabama Crimson Tide 2010

Atlanta Falcons 2005-_____

PERFORMANCE TO DATE

Year	Team	Record	Rank	Recr	Perf	Acad	TV	Don	Tick	Average Attendance	GPA	Score
2010	Alabama	10-3 (0.769)	18	14 (19)	71 (18)	71 (34)	95 (3)	64 (19)	91 (12)	83,800 (100.0%)	3.17	1753
2009	Alabama	11-2 (0.846)	17	6 (47)	73 (17)	71 (43)	95 (3)	91 (8)	89 (15)	83,800 (100.0%)	3.20	1791
2008	Alabama	11-2 (0.846)	14	22 (16)	77 (14)	62 (58)	98 (2)	77 (12)	90 (14)	83,800 (100.0%)	3.09	1868
2007	Alabama	11-2 (0.846)	9	24 (53)	87 (9)	60 (76)	97 (3)	93 (6)	88 (15)	83,800 (100.0%)	3.10	2037
2006	Alabama	10-3 (0.769)	13	2 (74)	81 (13)	47 (86)	86 (7)	93 (10)	89 (14)	83,800 (100.0%)	2.90	1782
2005	Alabama	10-3 (0.769)	17	19 (39)	78 (17)	42 (85)	97 (4)	88 (19)	92 (10)	83,800 (100.0%)	2.84	1812
2004	Alabama	9-3 (0.750)	16	16 (31)	77 (16)	26 (79)	84 (12)	81 (34)	90 (13)	83,800 (100.0%)	2.81	1688

OPENING SEASON COMMENTS

Heh. The War Chickens are suspended from post-season competition for rules violations. That's a joke, as they haven't BEEN to postseason competition for quite some time.

Heh. The Good Ol' Boys have come through in a big way. The regents have agreed to construct what will be the largest stadium in college football, a 108,700-seat monster that will open in 2014! Nice!

DE Ike Murray, who had ACL Damage, has left the team due to his injury.

ACADEMICS: 61 reputation, 15th overall ranking. We improve 4 more points in reputation, and 8 more spots in ranking. Very nice. We're in the Top 10 in four major areas now.

PRESTIGE: 85. We lose one point.

STAFF

No changes.

OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR

Harvey O'Reilley

Age: 46

Play Calling: Pretty Good

Avoid Injury: Excellent

Rehab: Very Good

Congeniality: Terrific

QB: Lousy

RB: Good

Receivers: Excellent

OL: Very Good

K: Fair

I-Formation. 3 years

DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR

Eugene Story

Age: 51

Play Calling: Very Good

Avoid Injury: Terrific

Rehag: Fair

Congeniality: Pretty Good

DL: Terrific

LB: Terrific

DB: Decent

SCHEDULE

Week	Opponent	Scheduled
1	Akron	Home 2011
2	OPEN
3	at Miami of Florida	Away 2011, Home 2012
4	Southern Mississippi	Permanent
5	at Florida	Permanent
6	Vanderbilt	Permanent
7	at Mississippi State	Permanent
8	Louisiana State	Permanent
9	OPEN
10	Arkansas	Permanent
11	at Tennessee	Permanent
12	OPEN
13	Mississippi	Permanent
14	at Auburn	Permanent
15	Conference Championship	Reserved

Both Florida and Tennessee on the schedule once again this year, but no USC or UGA, so that's helpful. Florida has the best-looking squad in the SEC--and maybe the nation. QB Brent Dinkins could make a run at the Heisman this year. He's got a great TE and two very good WR's in his arsenal. LSU looks like they could challenge us for the SEC West title. They've got a 20/100 QB named Lamar Raymond who just came off his red-shirt year. He could be an NFL star one day. USC and Tennessee both look like they have the potential to upset Florida.

ROSTER

(Starters bold-faced and underlined, red-shirts appear red and italicized.)

QUARTERBACKS (SCOUT: Good)

Player	#	Pos	Elig	Current Estimate	Future Estimate
O'Neal, Isaac	5	QB	SR(RS)	49	64
Coleman, Glenn	17	QB	JR(RS)	27	53
Griffin, Todd	13	QB	SO(RS)	24	53
Pritchett, Bryant	15	QB	FR	17	60
Romund, J.R.	14	QB(WO)	SO(RS)	15	39

Tough decision to make here. Coleman has much better green bars than any other of the QB's, so I give him the start initially.

BACKS (SCOUT: Excellent)

Flowers, Max	46	RB	JR(RS)	81	100
Collins, Seth	34	RB	SR(RS)	65	74
Pannell, Max	23	RB	FR	39	63
Stone, Alonzo	20	RB(WO)	8	43	51
Ross, Casey	27	RB(WO)	8	9	9
May, Jim	24	FB	SR(RS)	86	86
Ainsworth, Victor	41	FB	FR	22	63
Patton, Wendell	30	FB(WO)	JR(RS)	31	37

Flowers is coming off of a nice season, and appears poised to become a national star over the next couple of years, and Collins ain't exactly chopped liver as a backup. The red-shirting Pannell looks like he should have a strong future, too. at FB, May is an outstanding blocker and very good runner

RECEIVERS (SCOUT: Excellent)

Branch, Tim	94	TE	8	54	68
Puckett, Johnnie	84	TE	SR(RS)	40	60
McCray, Trent	87	TE	FR	28	69
Whiting, Lester	93	TE	SO(RS)	28	76
Hansen, Cory	89	TE(WO)	JR(RS)	20	54
Dunlap, Preston	8	WR	8	78	88
Buggelli, Richie	1	WR	SR(RS)	71	71
Palmer, Burt	2	WR	SO(RS)	52	99
Sprincz, Timothy	82	WR	JR(RS)	39	65
Coles, Stanley	81	WR	FR	23	70
Fleming, Horace	80	WR(WO)	8	5	5
Arnold, Ian	9	WR(WO)	8	4	10

Plenty of depth at TE, but none are anything special. Dunlap and Buggelli are both proven commodities, and Palmer, who'll be WR3, looks like a true stud in the making.

OFFENSIVE LINE (SCOUT: Pretty Good)

Palkowski, Tyrus	51	C	JR(RS)	45	65
Hausermann, Lance	58	C	8	44	87
Nixon, Jesse	55	C	FR	21	69
Norris, Julio	57	C(WO)	SO(RS)	19	50
Stokes, Fred	60	G	SR(RS)	61	70
Walters, Ethan	61	G	SO(RS)	47	71
Curtis, Leslie	70	G	8	46	63
McCormick, Tito	73	G	JR(RS)	36	69
Gordon, Quentin	79	G	FR	15	74
Schwartz, Frank	69	G(WO)	SR(RS)	22	48
Clodfelter, Marvin	74	G(WO)	SR(RS)	5	5
Osborne, Gary	67	T	JR(RS)	56	64
Birk, Bernard	62	T	SR(RS)	23	83
Freeman, Broderick	66	T	SO(RS)	21	54
Hickman, Blake	71	T	FR	19	82

The starting offensive line is nothing to write home about, but the youngsters are might have some promise.

KICKING GAME (SCOUT: Terrible)

Greene, Emmanuel	12	P	SR(RS)	76	76
Roberts, Lawrence	11	P	FR	41	71
Brady, Roman	16	P(WO)	8	31	33
Greene, Daniel	3	P(WO)	SO(RS)	0	24
Parker, Ellis	6	K	SO(RS)	30	83
Cote, Brent	19	K(WO)	JR(RS)	13	30

With a "Terrible" scout, and neither Greene nor Parker seeing any action last year, the kicking game is a bit of a crap shoot this year.

DEFENSIVE LINE (SCOUT: Excellent)

Baughman, Duane	95	DE	SR(RS)	73	73
Tubbs, Johnnie	98	DE	8	28	55
Stedman, Edwin	97	DE	FR	14	76
Kennedy, Freddie	75	DE	SO(RS)	12	38
Cook, Kendall	63	DE(WO)	SO(RS)	8	19
Landon, Edwin	76	DE(WO)	FR	6	24
McKinney, Terry	96	DT	8	63	71
Emmons, Isaac	90	DT	SO(RS)	26	49
Winslett, Isaac	72	DT	SR(RS)	25	44
Harmon, Van	91	DT	JR(RS)	10	58
Huffman, Walt	92	DT	FR	10	76
Limon, Lenny	77	DT(WO)	SO(RS)	18	21
Carnahan, Julio	65	DT(WO)	SO(RS)	8	20

Baughman and McKinney are the obvious strengths here. We need one or two other guys to step up.

LINEBACKERS (SCOUT: Terrific)

Linquist, Jorge	53	ILB	JR(RS)	35	80
Barker, Bernard	50	ILB	SR(RS)	33	53
Seinfeld, Roy	45	ILB	SO(RS)	26	99
Woodford, Clyde	56	ILB(WO)	8	39	56
Sapia, Donald	48	ILB(WO)	FR	10	10
Raymond, Quentin	52	OLB	SR(RS)	79	79
Whetstone, T.J.	43	OLB	JR(RS)	59	75
Farrell, Mitchell	54	OLB	SO(RS)	31	53
Hampton, Earl	42	OLB	8	23	56
Nelson, Vincent	59	OLB	SR(RS)	21	60
Harden, Irv	40	OLB	FR	9	67
Flowers, Ike	99	OLB(WO)	8	22	28
Abreu, K.C.	64	OLB(WO)	SR(RS)	6	6

Of course, graduates Andy Copeland and Vince Heck will be missed, but this bunch isn't exactly chopped liver, especially if Seinfeld can live up to his billing. With him having so much potential, and there being a pretty small current talent gap, I decide to give him the start at MLB from Day 1.

SECONDARY (SCOUT: Decent)

Boesiger, Richard	38	CB	SR(RS)	69	69
Quinn, Ethan	37	CB	JR(RS)	48	92
Durham, Burt	21	CB	8	45	62
Marte, Stanley	31	CB	SO(RS)	38	85
Nugent, Lincoln	33	CB	FR	18	53
Horner, Gene	44	CB(WO)	JR(RS)	37	37
Key, Matt	22	S	8	44	72
Everett, Shane	47	S	SR(RS)	32	45
Treu, Grant	28	S	SO(RS)	27	71
Lofton, Bernard	35	S	FR	19	61
Mascorella, Lenny	32	S(WO)	JR(RS)	25	69
Fregoso, Paul	25	S(WO)	8	8	8

I feel very good about my current CB situation, plus both of them will return next year. The safeties are a bit of a concern.

OVERALL ROSTER THOUGHTS

This looks like it could be a rebuilding year. With early-season games at Miami and Florida, we should find out pretty quickly what we're made of. If we get spanked in both of those, look for some younger kids to get the chance to play and develop.

Ben E Lou · 08-09-2005, 06:34 AM

WEEK ONE

RECRUITING UPDATE

Schollies to offer this year: QB, RB, TE, WR, G, T, DE, DT, OLB, CB, S

Walk-ons to induce: RB, FB, WR, C, T

Worth noting early: The #2 player overall, and #1 QB in the nation, Robert Moe, is from Franklin, LA, only 339 miles from Tuscaloosa. I visit his home the first wek, and it turns out he's an Acad/Dist guy. I'm rated 72 in his major. I'm going to make a run at him.

OTHER SEC ACTION THIS WEEK

Notre Dame 17, USC 10

Iowa 24, Ol' Miss 10

LSU 38, UNC 25

Arkansas 38, Troy 16

OUR GAME: Akron (0-0) at #11 Alabama (0-0) (-7) [TV2]

Well, we won, but this one was wayyyyyyyyyy too close for comfort, considering the level of the opposition. For starters, QB Glenn Coleman separated his shoulder on a QB Draw on the 2nd play of the ball game and will miss around 5 weeks of action. Isaac O'Neal replaced him and didn't exactly inspire confidence with a four-interception performance. RB Flowers, of course, was a bright spot, carrying the ball 24 times for 131 yards and 3 TD's to lead us to a 38-35 win. We actually trailed this one at the beginning of the fourth quarter, too. The defense gave up 333 passing yards, but did come up with 3 interceptions. All in all, this did nothing to assuage my concerns that this might just have to be a rebuilding year.

POST-GAME INJURY REPORT

(*--new injury this week)

*QB Glenn Coleman, separated shoulder, Out, 5

08-09-2005, 06:34 AM	#2
Ben E Lou Morgado's Favorite Forum Fascist Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC	WEEK ONE RECRUITING UPDATE Schollies to offer this year: QB, RB, TE, WR, G, T, DE, DT, OLB, CB, S Walk-ons to induce: RB, FB, WR, C, T Worth noting early: The #2 player overall, and #1 QB in the nation, Robert Moe, is from Franklin, LA, only 339 miles from Tuscaloosa. I visit his home the first wek, and it turns out he's an Acad/Dist guy. I'm rated 72 in his major. I'm going to make a run at him. OTHER SEC ACTION THIS WEEK Notre Dame 17, USC 10 Iowa 24, Ol' Miss 10 LSU 38, UNC 25 Arkansas 38, Troy 16 OUR GAME: Akron (0-0) at #11 Alabama (0-0) (-7) [TV2] Well, we won, but this one was wayyyyyyyyyy too close for comfort, considering the level of the opposition. For starters, QB Glenn Coleman separated his shoulder on a QB Draw on the 2nd play of the ball game and will miss around 5 weeks of action. Isaac O'Neal replaced him and didn't exactly inspire confidence with a four-interception performance. RB Flowers, of course, was a bright spot, carrying the ball 24 times for 131 yards and 3 TD's to lead us to a 38-35 win. We actually trailed this one at the beginning of the fourth quarter, too. The defense gave up 333 passing yards, but did come up with 3 interceptions. All in all, this did nothing to assuage my concerns that this might just have to be a rebuilding year. POST-GAME INJURY REPORT (--new injury this week) QB Glenn Coleman, separated shoulder, Out, 5 __________________ The media don't understand the kinds of problems and pressures 54 million come wit'!

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