If you are a Bama fan, you’ll want to read the whole Ivan Maisel profile piece on Brodie Croyle, Alabama’s talented by oft injured leader. For those less interested, you’ve got to at least see the money quote from the article by offensive coordinator Dave Rader.
“He loves to play football. Out of 10 players, there aren’t three who love it like he does.”
What exactly does that mean? Is that a compliment? I mean saying your quarterback has such fire that he’s in the top 30 % of football players is a strange.
Brodie Croyle has top 30% heart and fire.
Orson’s going to the beach, but he’s got to tell you how much he can’t wait.
Gunslingers thinks Beano Cook is firmly in the applesauce and Depends stage of his life. Fish, barrel, bullets, all right here.
Arglhhg…Doc Blanchard…pills…single wing…aghlyrghh…
Rob Spence, the offensive coordinator who merited the most “mad scientist” comparisons of any new coach in the offseason in previews and puff pieces, looks like he’s a good ways along in his rebuilding of Charlie Whitehurst at Clemson. Or almost there, at least:
Charlie Whitehurst has been around long enough to see a good thing.
And Tuesday night, at the beginning of the team’s two-hour scrimmage, the senior quarterback said he felt the offense “really clicking.”
“We went down the field; we really couldn’t be stopped,” Whitehurst said. “We sputtered there about the 5-yard line, but that was hopefully what we’ll see.”
Okay, so Spence hasn’t reminded Charlie that you DON’T want to sputter at the five yard line. But did you see the guy last year? The “all-FG” offense would have been a better approach than the nightmare they put together for Whitehurst on offense. Trauma victims need time to heal, according to the experts.
Don’t forget that Clemson added Vic Koenning, the architect of Troy’s blackout defenses of the past few years, too. Between him and Spence, Bowden looks to be following in the tracks of another sketchy CEO-type coach, Tommy Tuberville, who switched out OCs and DCs in hopes of finding the right combo. Eyes on Bowden to see if he gets as lucky as Tuberville did.
Looks crazy, right?
It is a little stale (as FSU has now been allowed to keep the Seminole mascot), but worth a read nontheless if you missed it when it was new like I did. Check here for more.
Junior Paul Thompson has been named as the starting quarterback for Oklahoma’s opener against TCU. He better get out of the gate quickly because in my experience the fans are overly hard on the older player if their is a blue chipper with no experience competing for the job.
Loading ...
