Keeping up with the Enemy (Spring Updates)

Here's a quick update on how our upcoming 2008 opponents are approaching Spring Practice.

• Georgia Southern - A former Bama wide receiver is trying to catch on at GSU. In broader news, the defense dominated Friday's scrimmage.
  
  
• Central Michigan - CMU is expected to have a potent offense and a weak defense this year, but they struggled to gain first downs in Saturday's scrimmage.
  
  
• South Carolina - Spurrier is thinking about transitioning some of the play calling over to his son this season. I have no idea how that could be bad for Georgia. In other coaching news, the Gamecocks are chatting up their new special teams coach.
  
  
• Arizona State - 16 penalties for ASU in their first scrimmage of spring. Beyond that, they are focusing on their redzone offense.
  
  
• Alabama - Bama had their second scrimmage on Saturday. RollBamaRoll has more thoughts. Most interesting to me was this article about the offensive progress from the B'ham news.
  
  
• Tennessee - The Vols are half way through Spring, and (like most teams) their defense is dominating the offense. In fact, Vol QBs threw 4 INTs with Crompton (3) leading the action.
  
  
• Vanderbilt - Vandy's spring practice is over. In their "Black and Gold" game, the team's top two QBs from last year combined for 25 total yards (6 passing, 19 rushing). So they've got that going for 'em.
  
  
• LSU - LSU may have found a tailback. Richard Murphy burned up the final LSU scrimmage with 197 yards of total offense. The QBs (not named Ryan P.) also put up strong numbers.
  
  
• Florida - Meyer is taking it easy with his QBs this spring. The Palm Beach Post also has an update on the Gator RBs.
  
  
• Kentucky - Rich Brooks and the Wildcats are just getting started with Spring Practice. They tested three new QBs in the first scrimmage with overall positive results. More importantly, they may have found a go-to receiver.
  
  
• Auburn - Auburn's "A-Day" was two weekends ago. Some video highlights are on Youtube courtesy of AuburnSource.com. They are clearly going to throw it a ton, and I say good for us. Auburn is scary when they go "old school whip your ass tougher than you Pat Dye style football." Throwing the ball all over the yard with a QB who slings 1 hoppers right and left in this video ain't scaring me.
  
  
• Georgia Tech - As I said earlier, the AJC reported that Tech had 14 fumbles in their 130 play scrimmage. If you fumble over 10% of the time, you're going to struggle to beat anyone. Jacksonville State included. If GT lost to JSU (cock-a-doodle-doo), my dad says that the US Navy would have to send an armada of battle ships down the Chattahoochee River to protect Paul Johnson from the nerd onslaught.

Obviously, we're not playing Michigan, but I thought this article on the Spread Offense was interesting. It's an interview with Gary Danielson discussing the spread
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If you see other articles of interest, feel free to link them in the comments section.

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