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[shipley00]

You always get so much from Cecil's articles.

In fact, Saban went on to say that he’s never had a team that faced quite the set of circumstances that Alabama now faces at running back. Demetrius Goode was lost for the year before the year really began. Glen Coffee is suspended. Roy Upchurch is injured. Jimmy Johns hasn’t been able to settle in at any position (although Saban did say that Johns was a possibility at tailback for the Louisiana-Monrie game). So Alabama is left with Terry Grant and Jonathan Lowe, who had only been working at running back for the last four weeks or so

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[Guest]

i still think that jimmy johns and terry grant would be a nasty duo. the true meaning of thunder and lightning.

 

[Swamptick]

i still think that jimmy johns and terry grant would be a nasty duo. the true meaning of thunder and lightning.

I like it. I like it alot!

 

[moreno_iv]

I think this quote may be the best quote out of the whole article:

The point, though, isn’t just that Alabama isn’t tailor-made for a particular formation. The point is that in order to be successful, a coaching staff has to make those decisions early on, settle on an offensive philosophy and then practice in order to make it work. It doesn’t mean that you can’t make adjustments, but it does mean that switching philosophies every other week isn’t likely to be successful. (See the Crimson Tide’s 2000 season for an illustration.)

Usually, the wise move at this point in the season is to keep trying to improve what you can do – not do something entirely different. In other words, the grass might look greener in the I-formation, or the run-and-shoot, or the wishbone – but there probably is a good reason for not jumping the fence and changing pastures.