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Commentary: A Five-Point Plan to Fix Amateur Athletics by Jess Nicholas | TideFans.com Editor-in-Chief It’s a difficult path to follow, the stilted steps taken over the past few years to attempt to rein in the out-of-control nature of, primarily, the major NCAA college sports of football and...

https://news.tidefans.com/2026/05/16/commentary-a-five-point-plan-to-fix-amateur-athletics/

Draft past, and the Draft yet to come for 2026 Alabama by Jess Nicholas | TideFans.com Editor-in-Chief Alabama finished with 10 selections in the 2026 NFL Draft, tied with Texas A&M for second-most of any school behind Ohio State, although 7 of those 10 came on the third day of the draft...

Yeah, sorry ... was thinking about Waldrep going back to center, where he was last year behind Brailsford and VanDeMark.

https://news.tidefans.com/2026/04/26/draft-past-and-the-draft-yet-to-come-for-2026-alabama/

RCW had a really solid day. Looked more fluid going after balls and there were no issues with his hands that I saw. He apparently is also going to return KOs.

A-Day wrapup: More than just a QB show, with work still left to do by Jess Nicholas | TideFans.com Editor-in-Chief It’s hard to fathom the Alabama Crimson Tide hosting an open quarterback competition and it not being the biggest story point of A-Day, but that’s where the 2026 Crimson Tide...

Props to former TideFans.com staffer Chris DePew for double-teaming the analysis with me today: https://news.tidefans.com/2026/04/11/a-day-wrapup-more-than-just-a-qb-show-with-work-still-left-to-do/

I'm not sure why I left him out unless it was because of how late he was added to the roster. I expect him to be somewhere around Chirgwin or maybe above him. Still sort of in "group 3" if that makes any sense.

2026 Roster Preview: Will Youth Serve Alabama? by Jess Nicholas | TideFans.com Editor-in-Chief Spring football practice is upon us, and the close of the 2025-2026 recruiting cycle brings about our annual first look at the team Alabama will take into spring practice. While the transfer portal...

https://news.tidefans.com/2026/03/08/2026-roster-preview-will-youth-serve-alabama/

We're going to make this our final portal post because we've got a full pre-spring roster discussion coming in the next few days that's going to make these sort of redundant. In addition, portal action has slowed down now to the point that adding a name every few weeks will be tedious. Overall...

Pittman is retired and I'm told isn't really interested in getting back into things, at least not now. The two names I've heard that I believe are the most involved are Vanderbilt's Chris Klenakis, who has ties to the Wommacks and also was Chris Ault's OC/OL coach during the time Ault invented...

I have to be careful of how I put things but if it were me I'd make a change in the RB coaching position as well.

Hearing Pringle is pulling out of the portal and heading back to Miami.