Monthly Archives August 2014

Lane Kiffin Alabama, Stress for New Coach

Lane Kiffin Alabama, Stress for New Coach

Lane Kiffin Alabama New Offensive Coordinator at the Helm Where is the ship SS Saban going? Alabama won their season opener against West Virginia, 33 – 23, but you would have never known it to look at new Alabama offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin at the end of the game. When the clock ran out Saturday night Kiffin, looked as if he had just traversed the Rocky Mountains, landed a helicopter in Iraq, or completed a 13-game football season, when he actually just beat an unranked team from the Big 12 conference in the season opener in the controlled conditions of
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Alabama Quarterback 2014 Blake or Jake

Alabama Quarterback 2014 Blake or Jake

Alabama Quarterback 2014 Jake or Blake, that is the question For the first time in three years, Coach Nick Saban is faced with a question of who will be the starting Alabama Quarterback 2014.  At the top of the competition are 4-year Tide veteran, Blake Sims versus the few-weeks-on-campus Florida State graduate transfer, Jake Coker.  The depth chart released this week lists both men as co-starters at QB for the West Virginia game.  Add to the mix a new offensive coordinator, former USC head football coach, Lane Kiffin, and you have quite the puzzle for the West Virginia coach, Dana
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Coach Saban Makes No Excuses

Coach Saban Makes No Excuses

Coach Saban Makes No Excuses The Sugar Bowl, a Consolation Game for The Tide If your team won back-to-back National Championships the two previous football seasons, was playing to make history by winning a third, going into the last game of the regular season undefeated and playing a rivalry game, tied up with one second left on the clock only to miss a field goal and lose the game in a fluke play, then I guess you are in a position to judge whether or not the Sugar Bowl was a consolation game for Coach Saban and The Crimson Tide
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