There's a lot of experimentation going on with the team so the stats can be pretty deceiving. Christian and Cyrus Jones were both playing DB and both looked like they could develop there. CNS said that only one of them would make the move because of what they bring for the offense. Henry is everything they say he is, he didn't look like a freshman learning the playbook. I also thought that Bateman and del Rio has some promise, they looked pretty comfortable at QB and both have good arms. it was good to see all the injured back on the field, they semed to pick up where they had left off.

There is so much talent on the field, the level of competition at all the positions looks to be very good. One of the better highlights of the day was the 54 yd fg by the freshman kicker Griffith, it landed in the bleachers. Now he duffed his first two tries at it but this young man has a powerful leg and he needs to work  on his consistency. He could have been a little nervous, that's a long field goal.

The team worked on about every phase of the game and I thought they looked decent for no more practices than they have had but CNS had different thoughts. One player was removed from practice, I won't call any names. Per CNS it was because of the lack of productive effort. CNS used the blinking light analogy of the player and you don't ever want to be the blinking light. I did see one injury, Trey Depreist, it might be bad enough to end his spring practice. It was his foot or ankle.

ADay should be fun to watch this year with all of the young talent and I hope all of you can make it to the game.RTR!!

@CecilHurt Mal Moore, long-time University of Alabama athletics director, died this morning in Durham, N.C., at the age of 73.

God bless you, Coach.

I know it is still early in the season and we have not played the best SEC teams yet but I am very surprised how much our team has improved since last year.

We are hitting .260 as a team. We have some very good freshman in the lineup but our best hitters were with us last year. Ben Moore .310, Brett Booth .310, Austen Smith .301 and Kenny Roberts .286. One of my concerns with CMG last year was I could not see improvement as the season went on. Last years players are better this year and the freshman are getting better. I like what I see from our offense.

Defense we look very good. Brett Booth has really matured behind the plate. He is holding runners on 1st base this year. He has already throw out more baserunners than our team did all last year. The freshman trio of White (SS), Overstreet (2B) and Salem (CF) make us very good up the middle. We have a good double play combination and a guy who covers a lot of ground in center field. We have made 31 errors in 27 games. Compare that to 46 errors by our opponents. We are also making tough plays that were hits last year.

Pitching has been solid. I thought going into the year pitching would be our strength. So far we have a good weekend rotation of Sullivan, Keller and Turnbull. Castillo has been good as a closer. We have decent middle relief. We have a team ERA of 3.16. Compare that to our opponents 4.22.

It is a long season and we have a long way to go but  I like what I see from this team. CMG was on the hot seat this year. So far he and his staff are doing a good job.

This photo has been circulating, showing just how big Derrick Henry is, standing in front of Jalston Fowler, who is 6'1" and 242 lbs.  Henry makes him look small, although he is only about 2 inches taller -- it looks like he has added some weight since his stats came out.

Good article for reading. Now, if Notre Dame is going to practice with a bitter taste in their mouth for Alabama, all I can say is win all your games again and come meet Alabama again, and this time they will slap that bitter taste out of your mouth. maybe that will help. RTR!

I've read quite a bit about Bama basketball this week and some of the beatdown has been kind of hard to swallow. I will say that I've been kind of hard on them at times for the lack of production from their offense but maybe there are some reasons for the lack of consistency of the team this year.

We'll start from the beginning and maybe I can shed some light on why I think they didn't reach their goal this year. Personally I think it all started from last years team. Bama lost three players from that team that could have made all the difference in the world for them this year.

Mitchell was kicked off the team, Hankerson transferred for some reason, and Eblen decided not to play the extra year that he had. Mitchell, an All-American, was the main key to this team this year because he owned the baseline and anything around the goal and that is where Bama hurt the most this year. Hankerson gave the club some very good minutes off the bench, he had a decent shot from the outside. Eblen couldn't shoot a lick, but he could sure play defense.

Now let's look at what happened this year. The only senior on the team, Steele, gets hurt immediately and misses an extensive amount of games. Jacobs came in hurt and never had many quality minutes until the last few games of the season. Lacey goes down with an injury and misses some games, Releford goes down with an injury and misses some games, and Engstrom goes down with a knee injury and is lost for the season. Pollard was being counted on heavily but he showed immediatly that he needed some work and would not be a force on the team this year. Gueye is only a body on the floor playing hard but has very few skills to help the team.

I am really surprised they won as many games as they did but I am also surprised they didn't win even more games as well. There were some conference games that they let get away from them that could have made a big difference in their post season play but I can't be mad at them for losing them though, only disappointed. Now I might be mad about the Auburn game.

How good could this team have been had they had the other 3 players? I say they could have been a much better team than they were but what happened to those three are just bad breaks that go along with sports. This team played their hearts out for the most part but just came up short and I can't turn my back on them.

I'll be there Tuesday night cheering for them as though they were in the Big Dance, and I'll be there next season cheering them on in hopes of making it to the Big Dance. They have won twenty or more games the past three seasons, that is much more than they were winning before CAG came to Bama. There are brighter days ahead for this team. ROLL TIDE!!!!