Re: We've Got Ourselves a Kicker Guys
And I guess we can make this as big of a deal as we want as well. Going by the letter of the law, no, the people shouldn't have said a word about the practice. Even if their spouses at home (who maybe weren't able to go) or neighbors wanted to know. But I think injecting some common sense into the situation would more thank likely lead us to believe our staff and administration isn't so stupid, that they're going to take a total stranger's word to not leak important information from a practice they were allowed to watch. I just don't believe our staff would put the team at that kind of risk. Again, I think they would rather nothing be leaked but if something is leaked it will be nothing of value to our competitors.
This. If they were trying to keep any big secrets (and I frankly don't think they are) you sure as heck wouldn't have gotten to see anything. I mean, it's not like the year Coach Bryant surprised everyone with the wishbone. I think Saban hates the "horse race" kind of stuff between players and hates answering questions about it: "Uh, Coach I see that UAINTN threw three interceptions in the scrimmage. Could you describe each one of those, whose fault it was, how you can continue to run him with the 1s given your emphasis on ball security and the fact that Bamabuzzard threw for three touchdowns with no INTs in the same scrimmage?"
I don't think opposing coaching staffs are going to learn much from message boards, now matter how great this one happens to be. If that is how they are scouting, then they are going to get what they deserve. If any opposing coach is suddenly shocked and better prepared by finding out from Tidefans that Kenyan Drake is very talented and that there may be a game plan to get him more touches or that when Blake Sims is in the game we may have more designed QB runs, then they aren't going to be coaching long any way.
I don't think the coaches have any concern over general comments -- kicking game looked good, player X had a sack, player Y had a long touchdown run. But the more specific the details get, the more I'm concerned that the people who are privileged to go run the risk of messing it up for everyone.
I'll say this. I have been privileged to see a scrimmage. It was fun experience and I'm glad I went. I did not disclose any details on message boards. Given how that scrimmage was run, I now pay hardly any attention to stats from scrimmages except for made/missed FGs and just slightly if there are punting distances. The circumstances of every play can vary so wildly and how/what they do so different from a game that you have to be careful. Example: In the scrimmage I attended (not this year) the quarterback fumbled the center exchange, he booted the ball, the defensive end scooped it and headed for the end zone, the rb gave chase and might have caught him, but Coach stopped the play, had the ball reset, and made them run the play again. How did that get listed in the scrimmage stats? I have no idea. So if your idea of a scrimmage at BDS is that it runs like the A-Day game, that is not my experience.