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Alabama football player fighting eye-eating amoeba | AL.com-rbr
Last Monday, or only six days before his first A-Day game, Ryan's vision in his left eye had deteriorated to the point of legal blindness. He had been battling the amoeba in his left eye for months, and suddenly the amoeba seemed to be winning.
How bad?
Ryan's father was there in the doctor's office in Birmingham when his son couldn't read the first letter on the eye chart.
"But that's not it," Butch Parris said. "So, after he couldn't read any of the chart, the technician put her hand up in front of his face about two feet."
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rbr opWow. Certainly hope Ryan is able to beat this. We will be rooting for him.
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Alabama Football Preview: What Went Right This Spring -campusinsiders-rbr
Jonathan Allen’s return for his senior year gives the line a veteran star to build around, and a tough pass rusher with the bulk to be the ideal 3-4 versatile presence on one side. On the other former star recruit Da’Shawn Hand had moments when he looked like he’s ready to become the next big thing. All the tools are in place to be special – don’t expect any sort of a drop-off after losing Reed.
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Alabama Football Preview: What Went Wrong This Spring-rbr
The dominant offensive front that paved the way for Derrick Henry’s Heisman season was a shadow of its former self throughout the offseason. It’ll be better and stronger once Cam Robinson returns from a shoulder injury, but it wasn’t easy for the rebuilding offense to come remotely close to holding its own against the dominant Tide D with a patchwork line. Ross Pierschbacher is the one returning starter who saw a ton of time in the spring game, but is he going to stay at center or will he go back to guard
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rbr opMore on the OL here. I have a sneaking suspicion that the Pierschbacher move will stick. Saban likes having a veteran presence in the middle when possible.
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The Read Option-sbnation

A daily college football newsletter
by Jason Kirk
Saturday, more people gathered to watch an Ohio State practice than there were in total attendance for every Akron home game, per the NCAA's most recent attendance statistics, 2014's. The same goes for 19 other FBS teams and 115 FCS teams that year.
That's a lot of people at a spring game, and it makes the second time the Buckeyes have broken their own record in the department.
Why's this matter? It impresses recruits. Coaches say so (here's Georgia's), and so do recruits(here are Ohio State's).
As far as I can tell, these are the 10 spring games to ever claim 80,000 or more in the seats (Nebraska, Penn State, Tennessee and others often tend to come close):
2016Ohio State100,189
2015Ohio State99,391
2009Ohio State95,722
2016Georgia93,000
2011Alabama92,310
2007Alabama92,138
2010Alabama91,312
2009Alabama84,050
2013Auburn83,401
2012Ohio State81,112
(It might look from that like Kirby Smart's program rigged the numbers to land juuust enough ahead of his old boss' team and be able to claim the SEC record. There's no way there were exactly 93,000 in the house. But photos do show people watching the game while spilling out onto stadium concourses, and it was hard to spot an empty seat, so it seems fine.)
Head coaches from basically every conference have complained about the NCAA's satellite camps ban, with Mike Leach claiming only one Pac-12 school favors the ban. The Pac-12 voted for the ban, so ... ?
Anyway, the spring game stuff to know:

Recruits love the NCAA's new rule that allows coaches to text and Like and retweet and fav all day long. Recruits use emojis to explain how much they love this new rule.
The NCAA's not letting Marcus Lattimore join South Carolina's program, and Andy Hutchins fairly argues it's the right decision.
Bill C team of the day: Western Michigan, which just has one regional dragon left to slay.
Crootin'! This is annually a huge weekend, and four-stars made the calls for Georgia, LSU, Maryland, Mississippi State, Notre Dame, Penn State, Tennessee, USC, and Washington.
Draft stuff!

Texas-Texas A&M rivalry tracker update: the Aggies' new AD says he has "no objection" to resuming the series.
 
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