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Alabama football OL suggests that discipline was lacking last season


Happy Friday, everyone. The women scored an important road victory last night, and did so in convincing fashion.

Nye led Alabama (19-5, 6-4 SEC) as one of four players to score in double figures. Sarah Ashlee Barker finished with 18 points, 10 rebounds and five assists, while Essence Cody (16 points) and Zaay Green (15 points, six assists) also scored in double figures. The UA starting five of Barker, Cody, Green, Nye and Karly Weathers combined for 78 of Alabama’s 84 points.

Barker and Cody dominated the paint as the duo combined for 19 rebounds, including three blocked shots from Barker.

Liv McGill led Florida (12-12, 3-7 SEC) with 22 points, six rebounds and six assists.

With three of the final six games against unranked foes, the ladies are now well positioned to finish above .500 in an always brutal SEC.

Roq Montgomery went on the Bama Standard podcast and told some things that Kalen DeBoer may not have cared to make public.

“You can’t be late to workouts no more,” Montgomery explained to The Bama Standard. “No more jewelry. No more necklaces. None of that. It’s not a fashion show. It’s football.

“Shoutout to Coach [Dave] Ballou, our head strength coach. He’s not playing that shit. Excuse my language, but he’s just not. If somebody late — we had a few people late, I’m not gonna throw nobody under the bus — if somebody late to workouts, everybody got 15 up-downs on Ballou’s whistle. And then whoever late got to push a plate and do their workout, and 15 up-downs. Like, no jewelry, no nothing.

“Any team that has won before us, nobody was doing none of that. So why start doing it now? It’s a lot of stuff that happened last year, but we ain’t won a championship since 2020, so it’s like what the hell we doing? That’s not ‘Bama football.”

It’s great to hear that some much needed discipline is being instilled, but quite curious that he seems to be suggesting that showing up late to workouts and focusing more on bling than football was accepted last season. If that is the case, hopefully lessons were learned that will pay dividends this season.

DeBoer and Ryan Grubb issued statements about the reunion.

“Ryan Grubb has been someone that I have trusted for a long time and adding him to our staff only improves the quality of coaches we have here at Alabama,” DeBoer said in a statement. “He is one of the best offensive minds in the country, and I can’t wait to see what he brings to our organization moving forward.”

Grubb said he is “thankful” to work with DeBoer again and “be a part of an offensive staff that I am very familiar with,” likely referring to Nick Sheridan and JaMarcus Shephard, who were on the Huskies’ staff with Grubb and DeBoer.

“I am confident that our staff will be able to put the team in the best position to win each time out,” Grubb said in a statement. “I know and trust that this group of coaches and players will work tirelessly to meet the standard that has been set here at Alabama, and I can’t wait to get out on the field with them.”

You can bet that Grubb wasn’t put in front of reporters for a reason, but he will eventually be asked about his quick exit last year. Staying in Seattle for a NFL job should be easy enough to understand, but he will be asked.

A familiar name won the NFL Defensive Player of Year.

According to Next Gen Stats, Surtain was targeted on only 10.9% of his coverage snaps this season — the lowest rate among 83 cornerbacks with 300 or more coverage snaps.

Surtain also didn’t allow receivers to catch many of those targets. He gave up only 306 receiving yards as the nearest defender across 516 coverage snaps, translating to 0.6 yards per coverage snap, which was the second-fewest among the same group of cornerbacks.

And Surtain wasn’t just covering anybody. He was going against the best of the best virtually every time out. He guarded the likes of DK Metcalf, Mike Evans, Garrett Wilson, Jakobi Meyers, Jerry Jeudy, Ja’Marr Chase and more — and Surtain didn’t allow more than 50 receiving yards in a single game this season.

That is quite the list of conquests for young Patrick. Hard to imagine a more deserved award.

Last, it will be interesting to see how y’all feel about this. No additional commentary is necessary.

“I just think if we’re going to compete with Texas, Tennessee and Florida, who have no income tax, we’ve got to make sure Kirby Smart and Brent Key at our two major universities have the tools in their toolbox to be able to compete for these five-star athletes,” Beach told CBS Sports. “That’s all this bill does, is help Georgia and Georgia Tech be competitive with states that do not have an income tax.”

Beach said he wasn’t approached by anyone affiliated with Georgia or Georgia Tech. Rather, the idea came from an unlikely source.

“I had dinner at Lake Burton with Nick and Terry Saban and my wife and I and another couple, and he loves Kirby Smart like a son,” Beach said. “And he said, ‘If you want to help Kirby until they figure out all this in NIL stuff, one thing you could do is eliminate the income tax on NIL athletes.’ So I got the idea actually from Nick Saban.”

That’s about it for today. Have a great weekend.

Roll Tide.

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