Latest Bama News 8/22/2016 Thru 8/28/2016

kyallie · Aug 26, 2016

[FONT=&quot]barn boogers name its starting quarterback-rbr[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Sophomore Sean White has won the starting quarterback job at Auburn. "It will be important he'll have a good full week just working with the ones," Auburn coach Gus Malzahn said Thursday. White beat out Jeremy Johnson and John Franklin III for the starting job. The team was alerted Thursday. "Jeremy had a very good fall camp. He's much improved," Malzahn said. Malzahn did not name a second-team quarterback. Auburn opens the season against No. 2 Clemson on Sept. 3 at 8 p.m. CT.[/FONT]

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Ah, another year of watching a pocket passer try to run an offense that needs a running QB to thrive. Good times.[/FONT]

kyallie · Aug 26, 2016

[FONT=&quot]Dropped weight helping Giants’ Landon Collins play faster - Big Blue View/rbr[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Listed by the Giants at 6-foot, 225 pounds, Merritt said the 2015 second-round draft pick is down to a svelte 216 pounds. "Landon is taking care of his body," Merritt said.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]"I told him, ‘If you want to become one of the elite safeties in the league you are going to have to at least get between 212 and 216.’[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]He texted me this morning, it is funny and he said, ‘Coach, I am at 216’, I said, ‘Great. Keep it up.’ "[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In Saturday’s preseason game against the Buffalo Bills, Collins forced a Jerome Felton fumble at the goal line that prevented a Bills touchdown and resulted in a turnover. He also sliced into the backfield several times to disrupt running plays.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]"Landon has been a breath of fresh air versus the young man from last year because he understands the defense a little more being in his second year, so he is communicating, he is taking charge out there as well as Darian (Thompson), so I am very happy with Landon and where he is mentally," Merritt said.[/FONT]

rbr op[FONT=&quot]Landon's issues in the NFL have been similar to those in college. He is nothing short of outstanding against the run, but pass coverage is tough for him. He should improve in this area with experience, but in any case has a bright future as an in-the-box strong safety.[/FONT]

kyallie · Aug 26, 2016

Coaching cribs: SEC West

Video: After Tony Romo goes down, Dak Prescott comes in; throws TD pass to Jason Witten

Report: Eric Berry 'plans to return' to the Chiefs this weekend

Every SEC East team's last signature win

kyallie · Aug 26, 2016

Report: Auburn defensive back Stephen Roberts arrested Wednesday night-sds

kyallie · Aug 26, 2016

THE COUNTRY'S BEST CFB PREVIEW IS HERE

by SBNation.com Staff

kyallie · Aug 26, 2016

The Read Option

You know Canada, Germany, and Japan have American football leagues, and you know about players from Australia, Polynesia, and West Africa. You know about the international world championships of American football. And you know the NFL’s been trying to make London happen forever, along with Mexico City and Toronto.
But did you know 2016’s season-opening game, Cal vs. Hawaii in Sydney, isn’t the first game between American colleges in Australia, let alone anywhere near the first college game played outside the United States?
Canada, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, and the United Kingdom have college leagues for American football, so there’s technically college football happening all over the world anyway. But if we just look at times American colleges have played games elsewhere, we have a map like this, spanning from the 1870s in Canada to this year’s games in Sydney and Ireland (Boston College-Georgia Tech in Dublin):
(In case this interactive map is eaten by the email monsters, here's the article version.)
There’s been a steady trickle of these games since the 1874 Harvard-McGill series, whichMcGill still claims included the first-ever football game, snubbing 1869’s Rutgers-Princeton. They went dormant for a while after World War II, but a five-game European tour between Texas A&M-Kingsville and Henderson State re-sparked the fad, which included a long-running bowl-ish game in Tokyo until 1992.
Ireland’s about to have hosted four games since 2010, the glorious Bahamas Bowl exists now, and any sort of a success in Sydney will probably mean more games in the Pacific. So Cal-Hawaii won’t be anywhere near the first or last of these games.
Where next? Well, Texas' former AD wanted Mexico City, the Pac-12 wants to spread itself all the way to China, and there's talk of the Big 12 expanding all the way to Connecticut.

Elsewhere!

Wait, why are we doing this thing in Australia anyway? Here are four reasons.
Bill C’s final returning experience rankings now have Louisville at No. 1. Hmmmmmm!
So Alabama really might start a true freshman QB? Yep, and here’s why that’s terrifying for the SEC.
The NCAA asked some SEC West players to snitch on Ole Miss. Oh, that will definitely go fine for everyone involved and have no repercussions whatsoever at other universities.
UNC’s head coach defended his hire of the disgraced Tim Beckman as a volunteer, and then Beckman left pretty much hours later.
Michigan State has hijacked and modified a beloved Michigan slogan. Just tweet, Jim Harbaugh. Go ahead and just tweet what you’re thinking about this.
The new Playoff rankings schedule is out, and yeah, they’re gonna plunk a top-25 show right in the middle of Election Night.
If the Oakland Raiders move to this golden basket in Las Vegas, UNLV might luck into a huge stadium upgrade.
I don’t know why all these coaches are giving their opponents the most precious of secrets and surrendering gigantic tactical advantages by naming their starting quarterbacks*, but TCU’s going with Kenny Trill, Auburn picks a guy who wasn’t very great last year over the guy who had the good JUCO game last year, Virginia Tech chooses an interesting JUCO transfer, andWisconsin picks a fifth-year senior over a freshman.