TUSCALOOSA | At the
University of Alabama, they don’t consider spring to arrive with the first robin, the moment in time when the sun is positioned directly over the Earth’s equator, or even the start of baseball season.
It’s the arrival of spring football practices, and congratulations, you made it. Beginning Thursday, the Crimson Tide will hold 15 practices over the next month, but in a twist will not conclude with A-Day on April 12.
Due to Tuscaloosa hosting the U.S. Olympic Team Triathlon Trials on April 19, coach Nick Saban bumped things up. The team will practice twice before next week’s spring break, restart on March 24, and hold its final spring workout after A-Day on April 15.
For an idea of what to expects, all one has to do is turn back the calendar a year to Saban’s first spring on the Capstone.
“Everybody has an opportunity to compete,” Saban said at the time, which will likely be echoed during his pre-spring practice press conference today. “Obviously for, I think, a depth chart at this point is for administrative purposes only, you know? We’ve got to put a group in there and another group’s got to go against them. So somebody’s got to show up to do that organizationally. We have not made evaluations.”
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03-12-2008, 07:12 AM
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