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The Crimson Tide football team gave fans their first chance to see this year’s lineup in Saturday’s match against the West Virginia Mountaineers. Take a closer look at the biggest standouts with these Gameday Moments.
The Culverhouse School of Accountancy was ranked eighth in the nation, 15 places higher than last year’s ranking. The program was ranked second overall for a school of its size.
The United States has one of the highest drinking ages among highly developed countries. For international students, the adjustments can be tough to make.
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Defense struggles in season opener Crimson Tide defeats WVU Mountaineers 33-23 By Kelly Ward and Sean Landry | CW Staff
DeAndrew White and Landon Collins celebrate after Collins tackled WVU’s Jordan Thompson during a punt return in the second quarter. CW / Pete Pajor
Baylor last season. He passed that mark with a 143-yard perAlabama’s defense wasn’t at its best formance with nine catches Saturday. He had against West Virginia. Between the miscues a long 29-yard reception on the first drive of of the secondary and the defensive line, the game and one touchdown. the Crimson Tide didn’t look like a team Alabama had no answer to White in junior that only gave up 28 net cornerback Bradley Sylve. yards rushing. “I think, at times, the coorHowever, it did look like dination between what the a defense that gave up 365 We had a game plan coming secondary was doing and yards receiving. what the linebackers were in, and it didn’t quite work, “We just have to get doing and what they were all familiar with the game supposed to do was not exactbut in the second half we plan and we just missed ly what it should have been,” on some of the personsettled down. Alabama coach Nick Saban nel packages, but we got said. “But these are all things the win, so that is all that that we’ve executed before. — Landon Collins — matters,” junior defenThey’re all things that we can sive back Landon Collins learn from. They’re all things said. “We had a game plan that we’re capable of doing.” coming in, and it didn’t quite work, but in the Junior cornerback Cyrus Jones picked up second half we settled down.” some slack, including a pass breakup on secThe Mountaineers’ senior wide receiv- ond-and-goal in the fourth quarter. He was er Kevin White had a career-high day named one of the Alabama coaching staff’s against Alabama. Since he transferred defensive players of the week. to West Virginia in January 2013, his high SEE TIDE PAGE 9 w 130 yards on seven receptions against was
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Fine art WHAT: Alabama National Juried Exhibition WHEN: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. WHERE: Sella-Granta Art Gallery
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Alabama soccer (2-1-1) opened this past weekend with its first away win of the season, sweeping Austin Peay 5-0 on Friday. It followed the win up with a 2-2 draw against Middle Tennessee on Sunday. The game went into double overtime before becoming a draw. This is the first time since the 2012 season that
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Alabama has played to a draw. The last time the Crimson Tide tied was to Vanderbilt. Alabama returns home this week to face off against No. 2 Virginia and Jacksonville State on Sunday. Compiled by Caroline Gazzara
CORRECTION On Aug. 28, the article “DePriest suspended for opener” was incorrectly credited to Sean Landry. The article was in fact written by Nolan Imsande, a staff reporter. On Aug. 28, the article “What to do Labor Day weekend” was incorrectly credited to Henry Barnes. The article was in fact written by Henry Barnes and Alessandra Delrose, both contributing writers. The Crimson White regrets the error and is happy to set the record straight.
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Manderson partners with Georgia Pacific By Emily Williams | Staff Reporter
The Manderson Graduate School of Business has relationships with many businesses, but each year one stands apart. The school annually gives the Partner of the Year award to recognize a company that has supported the school in various ways, like sending guest speakers, participating in school events, conducting mock interviews and hiring students for internships or full time positions. Georgia Pacific, an Atlanta company that manufactures and distributes paper products, is the 2014–2015 partner of the year. “Georgia Pacific was a company that was very valuable to us over the past year in terms of what they were able to provide in the way of internship opportunities for students, project experiences for students and also full time jobs,” said Brian Gray, associate dean of the Manderson Graduate School of Business. “We see them as a valuable corporate partner.” Gray said the graduate school is always looking for good job placements for students and Georgia Pacific tries to hire the best new employees it can find. He said
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their relationship is mutually beneficial. Scott Harper, director of procurement at Georgia Pacific, said last year Georgia Pacific hired four UA graduates for fulltime positions and four for internships. He said the company recruits both graduate and undergraduate students. “We’re partnered with Manderson to provide us with future leaders,” he said. Manderson partners with several corporations throughout the year, Gray said. Previous winners of the Partner of the Year award include Regions Financial Corporation, Procter and Gamble, BBVA Compass and Cigna-HealthSpring.
Each year prospective business students eagerly await their admission into the University’s Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration, and with good reason. The College was ranked 29th among public business schools in 2013, according to Bloomberg Businessweek. The college hires a range of instructors, whose experiences vary from corporate to doctoral, and each offers unique teaching approaches. “It’s always good, in my opinion, to apply real world examples to concepts,” said Dan McCormack, a Culverhouse instructor with 35 years of corporate experience. McCormack now teaches courses like Introduction to International Business and International Marketing.
Daniel Bachrach, a Culverhouse professor and doctor of organizational behavior-human research management, said research can help students develop systematic thinking processes. “Insight into the nature of work processes emerges through an in-depth training experience that is designed to prepare future researchers and teachers to think about the business equation at the intersection of theory and practice,” he said. Bachrach spent one year as a doctoral student consulting for a company where he developed a statistics program, and the following year he became a professor. “I think the awesome part about Culverhouse is that they offer both [types of professors], and I think that having both perspectives as a student makes it a stronger education,” said Amanda Fenton, a junior majoring in finance.
Business school ranks higher in recent surveys By Ben Jackson | Contributing Writer
The University of Alabama’s undergraduate and masters accounting program was ranked eighth in the nation by 33rd Annual Professor’s Survey in the “Public Accounting Report.” The new ranking jumped 15 spots since 2013, marking this the undergraduate program’s highest ever ranking. The doctoral program ranked 12th, and the program as a whole ranked second overall for a school of its size. Lisa McKinney, a lecturer in accounting, credits the success to two main points. “Our research and our doctoral program are two of the leading factors in what contribute to a nation-wide perception of our program being great,” McKinney said. She said the Annual Professor Survey is an opinion poll based on how professors across the nation perceive a program. Only individuals with a college email address can vote. McKinney said the University’s program won over enough support that it ranked fifth on the list of “Undergraduate Accounting Programs Most Frequently Voted No. 1 by Professors at Other Schools.” “All of our tenured faculty and tenure track faculty are getting published in tier one and tier two accounting journals,” McKinney said. “Professors across the nation read these papers, which influences their voting. Then our doctoral students go out to other universities and vote for us because they are proud of Alabama and the program we have here, and furthermore they impress other professors at those universities who in turn vote for us.”
With an average of three new students per year, the doctoral program can devote many resources to student development . Gary Taylor, director of the accounting doctoral program, said he is especially proud of the work the department is doing. “The Ph.D. program has really improved in the past few years,” Taylor said. “The faculty members working with our Ph.D. students are tremendous. We have a great Ph.D. committee. They all do a phenomenal job with our Ph.D. students, both with their research but also in their willingness to work with the students. We’ve created a number of specific programs to help students, like our speed-interviewing system. In the doctoral program, all members of Beta Alpha Psi are guaranteed interviews with every firm.” Student development programs are not unique to the Ph.D. level. The department is introducing the Accounting Pathway Program to all students this year to focus on soft skills like networking, interviewing, dressing professionally and appropriate workplace and dining etiquette. Rich Houston, director of the Culverhouse School of Accountancy, said the new program is a great example of the school’s commitment to student support. “The recent success is not a result of something new, rather it’s a reflection of what we’ve been doing right for a long time,” he said. “We have an incredible faculty that is willing to work with students to help develop them. As we move forward in the future, that ‘student service’ mentality is something we are going to keep at the forefront of our decisions so that we continue attract great
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students to our undergraduate, masters and doctoral programs.” This commitment to students is a mentality shared by everyone in the department. It also helps the team to keep its goals in mind and not let great rankings keep them complacent. “Rankings are great, and that means you get even better students and everybody is happy,” McKinney said. “What they may not show, and what is important to us above all else, is the quality of the product we’re delivering to the students and supporting them. So rankings are important, but we understand that they’re not everything.”
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Editor | Patrick Crowley Letters@cw.ua.edu Tuesday, September 2, 2014
GUEST COLUMN | ORGANIZATIONS
Dialogue and action key for progressive campus organizations By Cassidy Ellis | Guest Columnist
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Think about life after college before it arrives
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The cliché phrases abundant in life, while unexciting and lacking on the surface, quietly reveal great and potentially terrifying truths. The one cliché incessantly told to college students is that college is about discovering your interests and passions; it’s about discovering who you are; it’s about becoming who you think you want to be in life. I’m fairly certain every student on a college campus is tired of hearing that banal phrase and would prefer to gorge themselves on Netflix and Chipotle (with guac) rather than ponder about their future. I warn you, though: By not thinking about your future and not heeding the advice of that cliché by exploring your interests and passions, you will not be the person you want to be, living the life you dreamed of in class. Around 83 percent of college graduates in the spring of 2014 had jobs upon walking across the stage. That statistic does not take into consideration whether the job is full-time or part-time, low-paying or high-paying, or in a field they are actually interested in. The sad truth
is the vast majority of employment to help any and all UA students in after college is for extremely low- any capacity they can. pay with horrible hours in fields Engage with your peers who that are wholly irrelevant to what have had internships in areas that you studied. interest you and learn from them. Imagine studying an academic Learn how the job and internship area that you think will be doing application and interview process for the rest of your life and are works, how the resume needs to be enamored with and constantly formatted and how the interviews call your parents about and refuse at X company differ from Y compato talk about anything else on ny. Make a concerted effort to actuThanksgiving because you don’t ally think hard about what induswant more buttered rolls or cran- tries excite you and where you want berry chutney, you to be in the future, want to recite your and go out and study notes from work for it. Every all your awesome hour you spend The process of classes so far – binging on Netflix, discovering and landing and then doing some other stunothing related to dent is calling that dream career it at all and woncontacts, sending is not easy. dering what the resumes out and hell happened. stealing that job I call that a from you. nightmare, and The process more and more college students of discovering and landing that are living that out right now, but dream career is not easy, and that does not necessarily mean it should not be easy. Do not be it should happen to you. Really afraid to fail in this endeavor and think introspectively about what utilize all available resources on you actually want to do in broad the UA campus. I truly believe strokes and explore industries that there are immeasurable rewards – cater to those interests. Utilize pecuniary and personally – for the Career Services Center and putting forth concerted effort ask them to connect you to alum- in thinking about life after colni in fields that interest you, and lege and preparing for it in every shoot them an e-mail with a nice possible way. “Roll Tide” as the farewell – seriously, do it. Alumni are extremely Patrick Crowley is the Opinions generous with their time and want Editor of The Crimson White.
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I would like to start out by saying that I wholeheartedly agree with the majority of the points made in Samaria Johnson’s article, “The University must provide support for black students, not just words.” However, I find – as I often do in Johnson’s pieces – that there is something essential missing. Johnson’s article critiques the University’s lack of response to the racism that is rampant across campus unless it’s good for PR, rightfully acknowledges the necessity for an Office of Diversity or Black Student Resource Center, yet misguidedly critiques the formation of new student organizations aimed at increasing diversity. She doesn’t, however, say what students should do instead of forming these new organizations. Student progressives and progressive student leaders on this campus are all too often horribly apaI’m calling on thetic until some big student leaders and scandal occurs that gets their organizaprogressives across tion media attention. campus to mobilize. However, the conversation that erupted after last fall’s sorority exposé has been continuously ongoing, though it has become less “en vogue.” As students at this great University, we know the administration and the SGA will not work with us unless we cause a national newsworthy scene, and, if they act, it is only for the benefit of their own public relations. Progressive students now have to take the conversations that have been going on since last fall and evolve them into a campus-wide movement to combat the apathy in our administration/ SGA and within our own progressive community. It’s not enough for Samaria Johnson to critique the administration or to continuously criticize student organizations that are actively attempting to inspire change, and it’s not enough for these progressive organizations to merely talk about change without taking any action. I’m calling on student leaders and progressives across campus to mobilize – to start campaigns and coalitions with one another to force the administration into listening to us. An Office of Diversity is necessary, and, like Johnson stated, we’re one of the only SEC schools without one. The administration must take proactive steps to ensure that all students feel safe on campus, but as I’ve said, they’re not going to do it unless we push them. I commend Johnson for regularly critiquing the administration and their lackluster performance in regards to the issues faced by minorities. However, it’s time for all of us to stop only talking and start taking action. In the words of Maya Angelou, “Nothing will work until you do.” Cassidy Ellis is a graduate student in gender and race studies.
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OPINIONS Tuesday, September 2, 2014 COLUMN | DISABILITIES
We need dynamic optimism to cure disease, not simple acceptance
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Robinson Staff Columnist
One of the greatest promises of the “millennial” generation is our belief in the nearly unlimited potential for curing diseases and disabilities that have been with mankind since Adam. This is a basic but greatly overlooked aspect of what we can expect in the future. One day soon, the ALS challenge will look quaint. The power of social media and generosity will be supplanted by hard science and procedure. Hope will yield to reality. This future is basically seen as a forgone conclusion in our media and culture. The zeitgeist says that we will eventually cure paralysis and bring sight back to the blind. So it will be. It’s inherently optimistic and full of hubris. Like Icarus, we can too often fly close to the sun in our dreams and visions of what tomorrow can bring.
Instead of fearing failure, we should endeavor to land on the sun and harness it. I believe in this future. No human being should have to go through life as an observer in a foreign field; all should have the chance to thrive. Call me an idealist if you must, but I prefer “21st century realist.” And I’m not alone. Our generation believes in a sort of dynamic optimism, which has been fueled in the crucible of life experience. Many of us have experienced the wide reach of disability and disease–either in our own lives or in those close to us. Parents blindsided by cancer, uncles withered away from AIDS and best friends who injected their bellies with insulin at lunch. But wait, it gets very complicated. You see, not everyone views the future the same way. Allow me to focus on one particular developmental disability – autism, for the remainder of this column. “Autism isn’t an illness in need of a cure,” Ari Ne’eman, the president of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, said in a New York Times Magazine cover story recently. It’s important to know that Ne’eman is autistic,
Instead of fearing failure, we should endeavor to land on the sun and harness it.
although he is incredibly high-functioning and was even appointed by President Obama to serve on the National Council on Disability. He is also a “millennial,” born in 1987. His organization doesn’t believe that we should try to cure autism, but should instead learn to embrace it for what it is and adapt. I understand this view and think we should be more understanding and accommodating as a society. The Americans with Disabilities Act is too weak, for example, and our educational system is ill-equipped to truly educate developmentally delayed youths–and many normally functioning children too, coincidentally. No doubt Ne’eman is part of autism, one side of the story. But my brother is another side of the story as well.
He is not nearly as well-adjusted. His path in life is harder to hoe and more uncertain. And while I salute Ne’eman for his success, I also reject his group’s views as unworkable and offensive. I think of all the different people that I’ve met with developmental disabilities. I think of their families and the immense struggle that life can be for them. I also think of Eagles’ Wings, the Tuscaloosabased non-profit that hopes to house 30 disabled adults, some of them children of elderly people with few alternatives. But mostly, I think of my hero. When I’m back home, I go to my brother’s room before going to sleep every night. Sometimes, I’ll nudge him a bit in the wide darkness to wake him and bend down to whisper. “We are brothers. We are the same.” He pauses for a second, deeply thinking about what it means. He repeats it back as I cross the darkness out of the room. Rich Robinson is a senior majoring in telecommunication and film. His column runs weekly.
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Freshman punter JK Scott started his Alabama career Aug. 30 with a 62-yard punt against West Virginia. Running backs Derrick Henry and T.J. Yeldon accrued over 100 rushing yards each, and wide receiver | Pete Pajor Amari Cooper recorded his third straight 100-plus yard game.
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8 Higher American drinking age affects nightlife Editor | Reed O’Mara Culture@cw.ua.edu Tuesday, September 2, 2014
By Francie Johnson | Community Engagement Manager
Many American teens and young adults spend years anticipating their 21st birthdays, but by the time they order their first legal drinks, their peers in other parts of the world have been legally drinking for years. America’s higher drinking age can provide an obstacle for international young adults transitioning into American culture. “In Tuscaloosa I didn’t [go] out very often,” said Ole Honsel, a 20-year-old from Germany who spent four months in Tuscaloosa working for Mercedes. “It’s boring to go out if you can’t drink. I was drinking at home with colleagues.” Germany has some of the least restrictive drinking laws in the world. German teens can legally drink beer and wine at 14 years old, when accompanied by parents or legal guardians. At 16, Germans can legally drink beer and wine without supervision, and at 18, they can legally drink spirits. German nightlife culture differs from American nightlife culture in more ways than just the drinking age, Honsel said. “In Germany, the drinking culture is much better,” Honsel said. “At every pub we only have a small selection
of beer, but these beers are tasty. In Tuscaloosa, the beers I tasted didn’t taste [good].” Rachel Solino, a senior majoring in Spanish and international studies, spent the spring semester of her sophomore year studying abroad in Barcelona, Spain. She also completed a month-long service learning trip in Cusco, Peru, over her 21st birthday. Both Spain and Peru have a legal drinking age of 18. “Their culture [in Spain] is just different,” she said. “They stay up later, so they have dinner at about 10 and so they don’t go out until about 2 a.m., which I know here, in America, is usually when bars are shutting down, but that’s when the night really gets started.” The United States is one of seven countries worldwide with a legal drinking age of 21. Solino said the higher drinking age influences the role of alcohol in America, especially among college students. “It’s something that we can’t have for so long, we want it more and it will play more of a role in the night life,” Solino said. “[Abroad], it’s not that important. It’s just kind of an accessory to the fun they’re having, it’s not a means to the fun.” The cultural significance of being
able to drink legally often extends beyond the act of drinking itself. Many consider their first legal drink to be a rite of passage, or a step into adulthood. When that sense of adulthood suddenly gets taken away, it 14: beer and wine under parent supervision can be disheartening. 16: beer and wine without supervision “In America you 18: spirits without supervision just feel like a little kid when you can’t drink at the age of 20,” Honsel said. “It’s not the best feeling, trust me.” Even though she spent only a few months being able to drink legally, Solino expressed a similar sentiment. “I had mentally prepared myself that whole four months knowing that it would end, but there were times when it was difficult,” Solino said. “It felt like I was more mature there because I CW / Belle did have that kind of freedom, Newby, but then I came back and it Photos kind of felt like ‘Oh no, you’re Courtesy of Amazon.com still too young.’”
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COLUMN | FILM
‘Boyhood’ provides fresh spin on cliché coming-of-age film tropes
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Growing up is hard to do, and it never fails to be one hell of a ride. Rarely has a movie been able to truly capture this spirit without dipping into clichés. However, one film currently in theaters, while not completely cliché-free, manages to cover it all. Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood” is a transcendent and emotional film that will go down in history as one of the most ambitious movies ever made. “Boyhood” follows a young boy, Mason (Ellar Coltrane), from ages six to 18, as he navigates the ups and downs of growing up. Filmed once a year for 12 years with the same cast against the picturesque backdrop of Texas, the film is a daring experiment in structure. “Boyhood” portrays aging through subtle edits and cultural references aside from the obvious, visual aging, which makes the process extremely moving to audiences. But this story is just as much about the kids. We see them dancing to “High School Musical” and lining up at “Harry Potter” premieres, but we also see them reeling in the aftermath of their first breakups and tumbling through the front door after curfew. We see them as they explore drugs, alcohol, romance and the question of what they want to do with their lives. While the film is aptly titled “Boyhood,” it could easily go by a different name because it is, at its core, the story of a family. The chemistry between the actors is
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Editor | Kelly Ward Sports@cw.ua.edu Tuesday, September 2, 2014
BY THENUMBERS 528| Yards of total offense for the Alabama Crimson Tide 130| Yards recieving by Amari Cooper 126| Net yards rushing for T.J. Yeldon 113| Net yards rushing for Derrick Henry Total yards for Blake Sims, with 250 yards passing and 42 yards rushing, 292| completing 24 - 33 with 1 interception.
Amari Cooper caught the first pass of the new season. CW / Pete Pajor
New offense shows promise under Sims, running backs TIDE FROM PAGE 1
“I think I played alright,” Jones said. “I definitely have a lot more work to do just like everybody else on the defense, so I think I’m just going to take it with a grain of salt and keep on striving to get better each week.” Collins also picked up slack in the secondary. He had a team-leading eight total tackles, including a solo. The defense didn’t measure up to what has been in recent years, but it was missing experience in senior linebacker Trey DePriest, who was sitting out due to an NCAA infraction, leaving a fairly inexperienced group facing a fast-paced offense. “Not having a quarterback that has any experience, not having a linebacker who ever played before that is out there playing against a fast-ball, no-huddle group that had to call the defenses and get the defense lined up, I just thought that there were a lot of critical positions, ... that we were going to get tested at based on who we were playing and the quality of team
A A B + C that they had,” Saban said. The defense was tested. It gave up 393 yards in total offense but only allowed West Virginia to convert five of 14 third downs. “It’s very frustrating. It’s all mental,” Collins said. “We knew we needed to make the stops and get off the field, but we just didn’t do it enough.”
Alabama’s offense succeeds under new leadership Alabama’s first possession on Saturday could have been any possession from the 2013 season. Sims threw 24 yards to receiver Amari Cooper, followed that with a 7-yard pass to the junior, handed the ball to Derrick Henry and, two plays later, to T.J. Yeldon. The ball went to the same players it usually had, for the usual result: significant yardage. This Alabama offense, however, is different from its predecessor. Sims started at quarterback for the first time in his Alabama career after backing up AJ McCarron for three seasons. The fifth-year senior wasn’t perfect, but he was able to extend plays with his speed in ways that Alabama hasn’t been able to do in recent years, sidestepping on-rushing
POSITIONGRADES RUNNING BACKS T.J. Yeldon and Derrick Henry both rushed for more than 100 yards.
OFFENSIVE LINE The offensive line held up under pressure, giving Sims time to throw. When West Virginia did break through, it was Sims, however, who avoided the sack.
WIDE RECIEVERS Amari Cooper recorded a third straight 100-plus yard day. Christion Jones dropped a pair of passes, including a wide-open chance near the goal-line.
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QUARTERBACK Blake Sims had 250 yards passing and 42 yards rushing. He had a .727 completion rate. His single interception robbed him of an A.
SPECIAL TEAMS The 100-yard kickoff return spoiled the day for special teams. Adam Griffith was 4-for-4 on field goals with three over 40 yards. JK Scott made his debut with a 62-yard punt.
DEFENSIVE LINE The defensive line shut down the running game, but couldn’t control West Virginia’s screen passes and short gains.
Bradley Sylve’s coverage of West Virginia’s Kevin White left much to be desired. Cyrus Jones and Landon Collins picked up some of the slack.
defenders with relative ease. That mobility helped Sims go 24-for-33 for 250 yards – numbers that could have been higher if not for a set of uncontested drops by Alabama receivers. “Blake did a good job in the game,” Saban said Monday. “He had a couple of open guys that he missed and a couple of good throws he made that were dropped. ” Sims was the new face for a new offensive playbook for the Crimson Tide. Under offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin, Alabama’s offense showed a number of new looks Saturday, and reached a level of productivity rarely seen from Alabama offenses in recent years. Alabama recorded 538 yards of offense on 82 plays in the season opener, nearly 80 more yards and 20 more plays than its season average from 2013. Yeldon recorded 126 yards and two touchdowns on 23 carries, while Henry accrued 113 yards and a touchdown on 17 carries, marking the first time Alabama has had a pair of running backs run for over 100 yards each since October 19, 2013, when the Crimson Tide hosted Arkansas. However, the junior said Alabama can polish its offensive performance. “No one panicked,” Yeldon said of
T.J. Yeldon ran for 126 yards on 23 carries with two touchdowns in Saturday’s game. CW / Pete Pajor
his team’s performance. “We just went out there and played. It was definitely a team effort, and we can definitely improve a lot.” Saban said the team planned on relying on its stable of running backs all along. “I like the way both guys played,” Saban said. “As long as we can keep them healthy and they both stay healthy, that’s probably how we’ll play.”
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If you already have a ticket to this week’s home game and plan to attend: 1. Access MyTickets by logging into your myBama account at mybama.ua.edu or under the student app on UA’s mobile app. Check to make sure that access to the game has been placed on your Action Card between 1 p.m. on Sunday and 4 p.m. on Wednesday by going to mybama.ua.edu or the UA mobile app. 2. You should see a balance of “one� for your upper or lower deck ticket assignment. 3. If you don’t see a balance of “one,� call 205-348-2288 during normal business hours as quickly as you can.
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Use your ticket! Students who do not use tickets assigned to them will receive 2 penalty points for each game their ticket goes unused. Students who receive 3.5 or more penalty points will not be able to purchase postseason tickets for this year and regular season and postseason tickets for fall 2015.
If you already have a ticket to this week’s home game and want to donate your ticket to the ticket bank or transfer to a speciďŹ c UA student: 1. Access MyTickets by logging into your myBama account at mybama.ua.edu or under the student app on UA’s mobile app. Check to make sure that access to the game has been placed on your Action Card no later than 4 p.m. on Wednesday. Call 205-348-2288 during normal business hours if you do not show a balance of “oneâ€? for your upper or lower deck ticket assignment. 2. While you are in MyTickets, follow the instructions to transfer a ticket to a speciďŹ c student or donate it to the ticket bank. 3. If you transfer your ticket to another UA student, both you and the student you are transferring the ticket to will receive an email that the balance has been transferred. 4. The student who receives the ticket – from you or the ticket bank – must log in to his/her myBama account to conďŹ rm that his/her account has a balance of “one.â€?
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You will need both the name and myBama log in ID of the student you are transferring the ticket to. Both name and myBama log in IDs are case-sensitive, so use the name as it appears on the Action Card.
If you already have a ticket to this week’s home game and want to upgrade it to general admission for a non-UA student: 1. Access MyTickets by logging into your myBama account at mybama.ua.edu or under the student app on UA’s mobile app. Check to make sure that access to the game has been placed on your Action Card no later than 4 p.m. on Wednesday by going to MyTickets. 2. Go to the Ticket OfďŹ ce in Coleman Coliseum between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday – Thursday. You will need to bring your Action Card and the money required to upgrade the ticket. 3. Access to the game will be removed from your Action Card, and you will be issued a paper ticket for either upper or lower bowl seating as based on current ticket assignment. Only 3 upgrades to general admission are allowed for the season.
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If you do not have a ticket to this week’s home game: 1. Access MyTickets by logging into your myBama account at mybama.ua.edu or under the student app on UA’s mobile app and follow the instructions to place your name on the waiting list for the ticket bank. Place your name on the waiting list as early in the week as possible to receive a ticket, since donated tickets are assigned on a ďŹ rst-come, ďŹ rst-served basis, based on the upper or lower deck ticket donation. 2. Make sure you can be reached by email until the beginning of halftime of the game. If you would also like to receive cell phone notiďŹ cation on Game Day, update the cell number in your myBama account: Log on to myBama, select the student tab, select personal information, select address and phones, make the appropriate changes and save. 3. If you are notiďŹ ed that you have received a ticket, you must attend the game or immediately log in to MyTickets to donate the ticket back to the ticket bank no later than one hour before kickoff. 4. If you don’t go to the game or donate the ticket, you will receive 2 penalty points. 5. Use your ticket! Students who do not use tickets assigned to them will receive 2 penalty points for each game their ticket goes unused. Students who receive 3.5 or more penalty points will not be able to purchase postseason tickets for this year and regular season and postseason tickets for fall 2015.
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If you donate your ticket after 5 p.m. on Wednesday, you’ll receive a half-point (.5) penalty. You can donate a ticket to the ticket bank until one hour prior to kickoff of the game.
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If you get a ticket, you will receive 2 penalty points if you do not attend the game or donate the ticket to the ticket bank or transfer the ticket to another UA student. You may donate a ticket until one hour before kickoff.
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If you have not used, donated or transferred your ticket by the beginning of halftime, you will receive 2 penalty points.
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Use your ticket! Students who do not use tickets assigned to them will receive 2 penalty points for each game their ticket goes unused. Students who receive 3.5 or more penalty points will not be able to purchase postseason tickets for this year and regular season and postseason tickets for fall 2015.
You can take your name off the waiting list by logging in to your myBama account, clicking on MyTickets channel on the Home tab and following the instructions to take your name off the waiting list for the ticket bank. If you receive a ticket, your name will be automatically removed from the waiting list.
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If you donate your ticket after 5 p.m. on Wednesday, you’ll receive a half-point (.5) penalty.