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This is Where the football season never ends! Bama News first, and foremost,
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The Tide won the SEC, the conference that has produced the past six national champions and stands poised to make it seven, but two awards? Indeed, just two awards, and it says a lot worth liking about this Alabama team. As billed, it truly missed the star power of other Nick Saban-coached Alabama teams, yet look where the Tide stands. This Alabama team proved it’s possible to stay on top after losing several stars on defense and a Heisman-finalist running back in Trent Richardson from a national-championship team. So much for the parity era. This Alabama team proved it’s possible to win a national championship and come back hungry and focused enough to play for another the next season. So much for the lessons of 2010, when the Tide lost three regular-season games after going undefeated in 2009. Perhaps this season more than any other, the Nick Saban recruiting and focus machine took hold. The players were good enough, even without proven stars, and the whole was better than the sum of its parts.


Anniston Star - Light haul of awards validation for ’12 Tide
 
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"I would be shocked if he comes back to pro football after sitting down with him. My son was in the program for a year so I was able to teach a lot of clinics with coach and I was able to sit down and talk with him. I also talked with him before last year's national championship game. For those on the outside who don't think he's enjoying this, they really don't know him." Carter also said he believes Saban's coaching style would be ill-fitted for the pro game, something he believes the coach is well aware of. "If you look at his roster the last four or five years, he's coaching a pro team. So why would he go to the pros when he can coach better kids at Alabama, have more control over the roster and face less skill at the coaching level than facing Bill Belichick on a weekly basis?"
Cris Carter says he doesn't buy rumors about Nick Saban's potential return to the NFL | al.com
 

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Saban joked that he "may not have eight minutes worth of information that will interest anyone" after an official from the Touchdown Club told reporters at The Raquet Club of Memphis they'd only have about eight minutes for questions. Then he joked that he looked "like a vagabond" with all of the wires sticking out of his pockets from the various microphones of the local television stations. He grinned from ear-to-ear when talking about his second-ranked Crimson Tide — especially when he was asked about his star center Barrett Jones, who grew up in Germantown and starred at Evangelical Christian School. "He's been an excellent community service leader on top of being a fantastic player for us," Saban said of Jones. "Our offensive line has done an outstanding job all year for us, and Barrett certainly contributes to that in a lot of ways because the center is the leader of the group."

Tide coach Nick Saban shows his softer side at TD Club of Memphis » The Commercial Appeal
 

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We're not taking into account the running backs going against opposing front seven's and the lines blocking for them here. Nevertheless, on a talent versus talent outlook, Notre Dame can't lose this running back battle by much and still win the game. If Alabama runs for 150 yards, the Irish have to get around 130 and make this matchup as much of a draw as possible. Easier said than done.
BCS Title Game Matchup: Running Back - One Foot Down
 

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The 6-foot, 205-pound running back rushed for 2,058 yards and 35 touchdowns while leading Lovejoy (Ga.) to the state championship game for the second straight year According to the report, there's a connection between Alabama and Lovejoy. Paul Gonella, the director of player personnel at Alabama, is a former assistant at Lovejoy. "He has known Travis the whole time," Hughes told the AJC. "When he was at Purdue, they were recruiting Travis like crazy. When he got to Alabama, I guess he brought Travis' name into the mix down there."


Is Alabama looking at Georgia Tech recruit Travis Custis?-al.com
 

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The tour was “around 11 a.m.” or “about 30 minutes before the news broke,” Danzey said. The 6-foot-3, 303-pound offensive lineman did not let Tuberville’s departure ruin his visit. “Everybody was going crazy,” Danzey said. “The players were shocked, too. We still had a good time at night, but it was crazy how he just got up and left out of nowhere and left people in the dark and in the shadow.”


Tuberville left recruits at dinner-247sports.com


CTT, a truly, class(less) act..
 

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Published on Tidefans.com | shared via feedlyBy Jess Nicholas, TideFans.com Editor-In-Chief Dec. 11, 2012 Jess nails it here. Nick Saban is in a no-win scenario, and it's one of his own making. He can't dispel the rumors because of the ill-fated comment he made to the south Florida media six years ago this month. Nor can he confirm his possible interest in taking another shot at success at football's highest level of competition because he's in the midst of preparing his program for a history-making repeat as BCS Champions. The distraction created by such "clutter" would be enormous.
Bama’s newest holiday tradition: Shooting down Saban rumors-ibleedcrimsonred.com
 

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In order for Maryland to be part of the shift, Loh knew he would have to convince the school’s influential donors and devoted fans. After all, Maryland helped found the ACC in the 1950s. Along with deep-rooted tradition, it could cost U-Md. as much as $52 million to the leave the league. Loh was already dodging phone calls from the ACC commissioner.“It’s money versus tradition,” Loh said in an interview. “Everybody knows there would be an outcry and we would have to deal with that. And, do we want to go through that outcry?”

Maryland to Big Ten: ‘It’s money versus tradition’-washingtonpost.com

 

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“Kevin Sumlin is doing a fabulous job of recruiting. I’ve recruited against A&M for years, and they’re making their mark in recruiting against all the Big 12 teams and any team that’s coming into the state of Texas. “With that said, I think they probably overachieved this year. Knowing the talent that they had with the quarterback that played and obviously was one of if not the best player in college football. But it kind of catches up with you. I think next year will be even tougher because teams will now see what they’ve done and who the quarterback is, they’ll gameplan in the summer, and it’ll be awful tough for them to repeat what they did this year.


TUBERVILLE ON TEXAS A&M: “AWFULLY TOUGH FOR THEM TO REPEAT WHAT THEY DID THIS YEAR"-MRSEC

 

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