Man, so how bad is it at running back at Alabama, with Bo Scarborough going down with an ACL injury? This bad:
Three of the five remaining running backs behind Henry and Kenyan Drake on Alabama’s spring roster are walk-ons. Another — DeSherrius Flowers is a true freshman. The other — redshirt freshman Ronnie Clark — has rotated between defensive back and running back during his Tide career and is coming off of an Achilles tendon injury he suffered last year.
No, that’s not as dire a situation as Aaron Murray faced handing off at mid-season in 2013. But it’s still amazing to consider how much of the incredible depth at the position Saban had built has melted away… without resorting to roster management.
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I don’t think anyone is worried about who’s behind Henry & Drake. That’s like worrying about the Todd Gurley & Nick Chubb backups.
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After last season, we should all be cincerned about backups.
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Drake is coming off an injury, too.
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That’s why you have to keep bringing those stud rbs in. we went from gurshall to grouglas in the blink of an eye and it cost us at least 2 games that season. Even now, we have to have concerns about chubb going down, because marshall, Michel and Turman have all had major injury concerns. it’s not far fetched to imagine tae crowder and brendan douglas battling for snaps this november.
The Bama situation reminds me of when usc got like 5 5* kids on the same roster and Joe McKnight was the only one who made a blip on the radar in college.
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Yeah whatever happened to Joe McKnight? I’m not getting too worried about Sony right now. But Marshall is snake bit on a Kreg Lumpkin level.
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One would suspect Bama will be able to field a team October 3.
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Mark Richt is losing control of Bama’s roster management
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I thought our “terrible” S&C program was the only reason ACL injuries occur. I guess other programs have them, too.
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Saban can’t oversign anymore so the program is coming back to earth. Compare the 2010-2011 versions of Bama, LSU, vandy and S. Carolina to current state, direct result of oversigning
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I hope you are right.
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Did I miss a rule change? What happened to stop the oversighing?
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oversigning
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The SEC passed an anti-oversigning rule a couple of years ago. I don’t recall the exact limits but it sure as hell keeps teams from signing 35 and then cutting 10 like Bama, Ole Miss, South Carolina and some others were doing.
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Another reason I wish we’d kept JJ Green around. He was a far better RB than DB. Considering Michel, Marshall and Turman were all injured or coming off injuries at the time he transferred (to gtu of all places), I’m surprised we didn’t put up more effort to keep JJ.
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