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The first whistle at Alabama football spring practice blows on Monday, and it’ll be a historic exhale; a relevant marker in new coach Kalen DeBoer’s takeover from legendary coach Nick Saban. It’s been DeBoer’s program for six weeks now, but Monday is nevertheless an anxious day of newness for every player — perhaps less so for the four who played at Washington last year — from how practices are run, to the demeanor of a mostly new coaching staff, to the on-field installation of a vastly different offensive system.
DeBoer’s staff will get its hands on the clay, so to speak, for the first time — what’s left of an SEC Championship team, along with early-enrolling freshmen and eight incoming transfers — and begin shaping the block into the 2024 Crimson Tide. So what tops the priority list? A quick look at five areas that could use an accelerated pace:
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The Crimson Tide’s returning starter at quarterback helped to spearhead the internal effort to hold the roster together when DeBoer was hired in mid-January, so buy-in from the playmaking veteran isn’t in question. That’s a fine first step for the critical three-way relationship between DeBoer, Sheridan and Milroe, but now comes the execution phase: installing an offense that’s nothing at all like the one Milroe ran a year ago. While DeBoer has said the offense will be tailored somewhat to the talent on hand, Milroe can at least expect this much from an adjustment standpoint: he’ll be asked to get the ball out of his hand much more quickly in DeBoer’s system than he did in 2022. There will be plenty more for Milroe to learn this spring, but if he…
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Author : The Tuscaloosa News
Publish date : 2024-03-01 20:32:43
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