🏈 Fall Camp 2015 CNS / Player Media Updates: Aug. 6
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Day 1: Nick Saban's post-practice comments
August 6, 2015
Opening statement:
We had a very, very good summer with our players. The new rules allows us to meet with players a little bit each week and actually be on the field for some individual simulated type exercises. I thought the organization when the players did things on their own this summer, whether it be 7-on-7 or whatever, was very, very good. Because of the progress we made this summer, we usually do a split practice where we have the older guys practice in the morning and the younger guys at night so that we can spend total and complete time with the younger players for a whole practice. But the issue with that in the past has been that it really wears out the players, because you only have 50 players out there at a time and you don't have enough guys to actually share the reps. Some guys get too many reps and I always felt like that sort of created us getting some overuse problems on the first day. We felt like we had made some good progress with the freshmen. Basically we put the ones with the freshmen (today) on one end (of the field) so that we could spend the bulk of the time with them and actually practice the twos and the threes in a different spot so that we could spend a lot of time with those guys.
We've had good work so far. It was a good first practice. I think one of the things we've tried to create with our players is creating and establishing an identity as a team. The last couple of years we have not done very well in turnovers. We had a minus two turnover ratio last year for a team that won 12 games. That's almost unheard of. We gave up too many big plays. That's something we need to work on. We need to do a better job of getting off the field on third down. We need to play with a lot more discipline on special teams so that we can take advantage of some of the great skill guys that we have. Those are some the kinds of things that we're focusing on.
The big emphasis now for the young players is, who can show that they can go out there now and play winning football at their position and make a contribution in some way to the team? They way it goes, in two or three weeks we're going to have to sit down and see who is going to play this year. So it's really important those guys can learn, grow. Not that they're going to master their position in that time, but show they're worthy of us investing time in, because they can make a contribution to the team this year.
The (practice) rule is two days in shorts (and) two days on shells and then we can out the pads on.
Cam Sims (spring knee surgery), Raheem Falkins (summer surgery fractured leg) and Josh Casher (injured pec muscle working out/expected to return in a few weeks) are all out with injuries. Bo Scarbrough (spring knee surgery) is ready to practice on a limited basis in a black (non-contact) jersey.
On Bo Scarbrough's rehab:
I think he's ahead of schedule. He's having no contact practice. He's four months (since the injury), which most of the time is when they turn guys loose to cut and do all of those things, we certainly don't want to hit him. It'll probably be a while before he can play. I don't envision him playing in the first four games. He's suspended for the first four games anyway, but I don't think he'd be able to play anyway, because of the injury. Our target for him is to allow him to practice and increase his workload over what amounts to the next two months and hopefully by the end of September he will be able to make a contribution.
On Bo's suspension:
It's an NCAA thing. We have to respect what they say about amateurism. I don't really have the details of it. I shouldn't comment. It seems like every time I make a comment about something it gets taken out of context.
On if Kenyan Drake is able to work at running back:
Kenyan Drake is fine. How many times do I have to say that? I've been asked about Kenyan Drake since the first day of spring practice. He was full speed in the spring. He was full speed all summer. He's full speed now and I think he'll be full speed next week, God willing and nothing happens to him.
On the depth on the DL:
I think we have a good mix in terms of the diversity of the types of players we have. Some guys are athletic and can rush and some guys are big and physical and can play inside. I think you need that in our league, because we're going to play three or four teams that are I formation, two-back run teams, which we haven't seen a lot of in the last couple of years. We need a lot of big, physical guys to play against that. And we're going to play against spread teams where we're going to need to be more athletic. I feel like we've got nine or ten guys that can make a contribution. Every one of those guys have things that they can improve on. They all worked hard this summer and are in pretty good shape. That's a good start.
On rotating offensive linemen while trying to have continuity:
There's competition. I don't know how, if you put continuity before competition, how you allow anybody to ever beat anybody out. We've got some new players. We've got some players that were there in the spring. They're all competing. We don't have a depth chart. I tell the players that all the time. So it's up to every guy to go out there and prove that he can play winning football at his position. I don't think anybody has a position locked up. There's a lot of competition going on at a lot of positions. We're going to try to get the best players on the field first before we worry about having not the best players (but) having continuity.
On sophomore linebacker Rashaan Evans:
Rashan Evans is gaining knowledge and experience, which is helping him play with more confidence and consistency. I think he's going to be a real contributor situationally. We're hoping that he can develop the instincts at outside linebacker in pass coverage that he needs to to play that position as well.
On the unauthorized biography written about him:
I want to make a statement on something, because I thought you would surely ask. This will be the last time this will ever be talked about. So no one ever needs to ask me, because I'm going to tell you to pull it up on your little computer or Facebook or Twitter or whatever you do. I just want everybody to know I'm opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody. I think that's some person that you don't even know trying to profit by your story or someone else's. One of these days when I'm finished coaching at Alabama, I'll write an authorized book, because there's really only one expert on my life. And guess who that is? Me. There won't be any misinformation. There won't be any false statements. There won't be any hearsay. There won't be any expert analysis from somebody else. It will be the real deal. But I'm not really ready for that to happen. It's a little amazing to me that the timing of all this is happening is right when we're starting camp. I just want all of our fans to know that it's not going to be a distraction to us and it's never going to get discussed again. But because I'm not finished at Alabama, we're not writing any books yet. But when we decide to write an authorized book, it will have the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth ...if that's OK. Thank you.
Day 1: Nick Saban's post-practice comments
August 6, 2015
Opening statement:
We had a very, very good summer with our players. The new rules allows us to meet with players a little bit each week and actually be on the field for some individual simulated type exercises. I thought the organization when the players did things on their own this summer, whether it be 7-on-7 or whatever, was very, very good. Because of the progress we made this summer, we usually do a split practice where we have the older guys practice in the morning and the younger guys at night so that we can spend total and complete time with the younger players for a whole practice. But the issue with that in the past has been that it really wears out the players, because you only have 50 players out there at a time and you don't have enough guys to actually share the reps. Some guys get too many reps and I always felt like that sort of created us getting some overuse problems on the first day. We felt like we had made some good progress with the freshmen. Basically we put the ones with the freshmen (today) on one end (of the field) so that we could spend the bulk of the time with them and actually practice the twos and the threes in a different spot so that we could spend a lot of time with those guys.
We've had good work so far. It was a good first practice. I think one of the things we've tried to create with our players is creating and establishing an identity as a team. The last couple of years we have not done very well in turnovers. We had a minus two turnover ratio last year for a team that won 12 games. That's almost unheard of. We gave up too many big plays. That's something we need to work on. We need to do a better job of getting off the field on third down. We need to play with a lot more discipline on special teams so that we can take advantage of some of the great skill guys that we have. Those are some the kinds of things that we're focusing on.
The big emphasis now for the young players is, who can show that they can go out there now and play winning football at their position and make a contribution in some way to the team? They way it goes, in two or three weeks we're going to have to sit down and see who is going to play this year. So it's really important those guys can learn, grow. Not that they're going to master their position in that time, but show they're worthy of us investing time in, because they can make a contribution to the team this year.
The (practice) rule is two days in shorts (and) two days on shells and then we can out the pads on.
Cam Sims (spring knee surgery), Raheem Falkins (summer surgery fractured leg) and Josh Casher (injured pec muscle working out/expected to return in a few weeks) are all out with injuries. Bo Scarbrough (spring knee surgery) is ready to practice on a limited basis in a black (non-contact) jersey.
On Bo Scarbrough's rehab:
I think he's ahead of schedule. He's having no contact practice. He's four months (since the injury), which most of the time is when they turn guys loose to cut and do all of those things, we certainly don't want to hit him. It'll probably be a while before he can play. I don't envision him playing in the first four games. He's suspended for the first four games anyway, but I don't think he'd be able to play anyway, because of the injury. Our target for him is to allow him to practice and increase his workload over what amounts to the next two months and hopefully by the end of September he will be able to make a contribution.
On Bo's suspension:
It's an NCAA thing. We have to respect what they say about amateurism. I don't really have the details of it. I shouldn't comment. It seems like every time I make a comment about something it gets taken out of context.
On if Kenyan Drake is able to work at running back:
Kenyan Drake is fine. How many times do I have to say that? I've been asked about Kenyan Drake since the first day of spring practice. He was full speed in the spring. He was full speed all summer. He's full speed now and I think he'll be full speed next week, God willing and nothing happens to him.
On the depth on the DL:
I think we have a good mix in terms of the diversity of the types of players we have. Some guys are athletic and can rush and some guys are big and physical and can play inside. I think you need that in our league, because we're going to play three or four teams that are I formation, two-back run teams, which we haven't seen a lot of in the last couple of years. We need a lot of big, physical guys to play against that. And we're going to play against spread teams where we're going to need to be more athletic. I feel like we've got nine or ten guys that can make a contribution. Every one of those guys have things that they can improve on. They all worked hard this summer and are in pretty good shape. That's a good start.
On rotating offensive linemen while trying to have continuity:
There's competition. I don't know how, if you put continuity before competition, how you allow anybody to ever beat anybody out. We've got some new players. We've got some players that were there in the spring. They're all competing. We don't have a depth chart. I tell the players that all the time. So it's up to every guy to go out there and prove that he can play winning football at his position. I don't think anybody has a position locked up. There's a lot of competition going on at a lot of positions. We're going to try to get the best players on the field first before we worry about having not the best players (but) having continuity.
On sophomore linebacker Rashaan Evans:
Rashan Evans is gaining knowledge and experience, which is helping him play with more confidence and consistency. I think he's going to be a real contributor situationally. We're hoping that he can develop the instincts at outside linebacker in pass coverage that he needs to to play that position as well.
On the unauthorized biography written about him:
I want to make a statement on something, because I thought you would surely ask. This will be the last time this will ever be talked about. So no one ever needs to ask me, because I'm going to tell you to pull it up on your little computer or Facebook or Twitter or whatever you do. I just want everybody to know I'm opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody. I think that's some person that you don't even know trying to profit by your story or someone else's. One of these days when I'm finished coaching at Alabama, I'll write an authorized book, because there's really only one expert on my life. And guess who that is? Me. There won't be any misinformation. There won't be any false statements. There won't be any hearsay. There won't be any expert analysis from somebody else. It will be the real deal. But I'm not really ready for that to happen. It's a little amazing to me that the timing of all this is happening is right when we're starting camp. I just want all of our fans to know that it's not going to be a distraction to us and it's never going to get discussed again. But because I'm not finished at Alabama, we're not writing any books yet. But when we decide to write an authorized book, it will have the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth ...if that's OK. Thank you.
It would probably be easier for each presser to be in a separate thread. For instance, the subject matter he'll cover following a scrimmage will have completely different content than what we have here.
The way I have this set up is a person can edit their post as long as it's done within 30 minutes of the original post. I did that on purpose. I've seen cases where people would say something, then turn around and say "I've never said anything of the sort." In those cases I've seen them go back and edit their original statement.
I'm of the opinion if it's said and it's wrong just say "I was wrong."
I can easily edit the TI thread to update it if you like...but, if you wanted a different thread each time I've no problem with that either. Like Saban's pressers, Rodney and Gary cover different topics each week.
I need to include this in the "How to thread" but I'll drop this note for you here.
On video's, a lot of the time they'll give you the option to embed with the HTML code. Now, a lot of site are already built in so they are automatically parsed. Some aren't (like those from Al.com.)
To embed those videos the html needs to be pasted between this code:
Code:
[parseHTML] HTML code here [/parseHTML]
T&B
Member
I dont mind making a new thread everyday. As long as youre OK with it. Its gonna be a lot of threads. lol Dont want anyone to think the FNG is trying to take over the board. I used to create massive camp update threads at Woolly so it will be a nice change to see how daily threads will do instead.
Haha... now I cant re-rechange thread title. I'll figure this place out soon, sorry. Its gonna take a while to get used to the quote/edit functions here, but otherwise I really like the setup here.
Haha... now I cant re-rechange thread title. I'll figure this place out soon, sorry. Its gonna take a while to get used to the quote/edit functions here, but otherwise I really like the setup here.
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Any questions don't hesitate to ask. Someone around here will be able to answer them quickly.
I've still got a half of a dozen things or so to add to the "How To" thread ... not to mention some things I'm in the middle of configuring that will be new to the site.
No one is going to think that ... if it's news and it's about Bama PLEASE share it!!!
Gideon Swashbuckler
Member
@TerryP I understand what you're trying to do here by not letting a post be edited after 30 minutes, but is there a way to set it so the post can be added to, but not completely changed?
Like it would show
"Snout Spout said on 8/7 7pm: [Something completely stupid]"
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"Snout Spout added at 8/7 7:45pm: Yeah, I misread that, I don't know what I was thinking."
I've seen it like that in some forum software. That way the person gets a chance to post that they recognize their mistake. Otherwise, sometimes you see threads where even though they noticed their mistake 10 posts down, 12 people see their original comment and feel the need to correct them or tell them what an idiot they are.
Example: I misread the Minn AD thread title to where I thought the guy drunk texted someone that he didn't work with, much less a subordinate. I can only post lower down that I realized I misread.
@Snout Spout raises a good point about adding too. We often had contests or drafts or tourneys where the OP would update the thread for easy reference
That's a good point too.
@Snout Spout @Mr. Pink
The case scenario you put up isn't an issue. It's set up that way. There's a 60 minute window in place right now.
I'm open to changes that make things easier ... always have been. It's been my suggestion to others when they had similar questions to handle it like I did on the basketball thread about TFerg.
Last night just before 6PM my time I mentioned that some people had begun to speculate (based on tweets from AJ and some on the team) Ferg may have committed. Within the next two hours I'd had a few phone calls and was told he was expected to commit this weekend. So, I quoted my original post with the update using the "single line" quote function I mentioned in the "how to" thread.
As long as one clicks on the blue dot (beside thread title signifying new content) they'll be taken to the first new post.
The case scenario you put up isn't an issue. It's set up that way. There's a 60 minute window in place right now.
I'm open to changes that make things easier ... always have been. It's been my suggestion to others when they had similar questions to handle it like I did on the basketball thread about TFerg.
Last night just before 6PM my time I mentioned that some people had begun to speculate (based on tweets from AJ and some on the team) Ferg may have committed. Within the next two hours I'd had a few phone calls and was told he was expected to commit this weekend. So, I quoted my original post with the update using the "single line" quote function I mentioned in the "how to" thread.
As long as one clicks on the blue dot (beside thread title signifying new content) they'll be taken to the first new post.
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