Archive for Mark Barron
Former Crimson Tide beat report Ian Rapoport who now works with the Boston Herald covering the New England Patriots, did an interesting story on the Tide’s Mark Barron. Barron, who was the leader of the Tide defense this past year, explained to Rapoport why he choose the University of Alabama and how Nick Saban prepared […]
Bad news for former Tide safety Mark Barron, Barron had undergo double hernia surgery reports surfaced Friday. Bucky Brooks from the NFL.com said this will probably affect Barron’s draft status in April. Coming into this year’s draft, Barron was considered the top safety coming into the draft, now that is all in doubt. Read more […]
Several Tide Players up for The Home Depot College Football Awards
Posted by: tempadmin | Comments (0)ESPN announced yesterday the nominees for the Home Depot College Football awards which will be televised on ESPN December 8th. Here are just some of the awards the players will be up for: Maxwell Award (Best All-Around Player) • Andrew Luck, Stanford • Kellen Moore, Boise St. • Trent Richardson, Alabama Maxwell Football Club Defensive […]
The 2008 Alabama senior class which featured Julio Jones, Mark Ingram, Courtney Upshaw, Mark Barron, Dont’a Hightower and Barrett Jones, got the ball rolling so to speak for Nick Saban and the Alabama program. This senior class produced a national championship, Alabama’s first Heisman Trophy winner, several All-Americans and four first round draft choices with […]
Post season nominations keep coming in for the Alabama football team, earlier last week it was announced that several Tide players were up for the Lombardi Award and today, Mark Barron and Dre Kirkpatrick were named two of the 15 semifinalists for the Jim Thorpe Award. The Jim Thorpe Award is given annually to the […]
Senior safety Mark Barron was tabbed as the Jim Thorpe Defensive Back of the Week after his outstanding defensive performance in Alabama’s 27-11 win over Penn State. Barron had 7 total tackles along with an acrobatic interception and a recovered fumble. Earlier this week, he was names SEC Defensive Player of the Week. I am […]
Mark Barron led the Tide with seven tackles, an interception, and fumble recovery in Tide’s victory over win at No. 23 Penn State. Barron’s interception ended a Penn State drive at the Bama 9-yard line in the third quarter and the fumble recovery ended another drive by the Nittany Lions at the Bama 35. The […]
Hey everybody! Hope you had a great 4th of July! I know I did. I ate too much and took in the local fireworks here in Crossville. We had a great time & I hope you did too. Just looking at the calendar and seen that we are 60 days away from Alabama’s kickoff. What […]
Every team has an award ceremony for awarding the play of individual players following a football season. Alabama is no different. On Sunday night at the Cahaba Grand Conference Center in Birmingham, the team provided recognition to the individual players in 2010 that exceled on the field & in the classroom. Coach Saban addressed the […]
Alabama has announced its depth chart for starting the 2010 season. Notably, there were a few surprises in that the Sam LB is Chavis Williams. I would have thought that Nico Johnson would have broken into the starting lineup, but I am not at practice everyday… what do I know. Nevertheless, the LB crew must […]