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Title: "All Four One: Deep Alabama backfield has no problem sharing the wealth"
Post by: Chechem on September 03, 2012, 06:00:11 AM
http://www.al.com/alabamafootball/index.ssf/2012/09/all_four_one_deep_alabama_back.html

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Nick Saban’s methodology is simple and practical.

The results, if applied to a pool of participants who aren’t completely willing to buy into it, could lead to a few unsavory side effects. General unhappiness, jealousy, discontent and frustration, to name a few.

But if it’s conducted with a group of players as seemingly unselfish as Alabama’s running backs, it works as it did in Saturday’s 41-14 Cowboys Classic rout of Michigan.

By the time freshman Kenyan Drake put the finishing touches on Alabama’s 232 rushing yards with his first career carry, Eddie Lacy, Jalston Fowler, TJ. Yeldon and Dee Hart stood on the sidelines, each having touched the ball at least eight times...