Recruiting season is complete. It’s time to grade the classes, and we start with the Alabama Crimson Tide. We take a look at the needs for the Tide and grade how effectively they filled them.

Wait until you hear what LSU tight end Deangelo Peterson said about Alabama’s linebackers and safeties:

Alabama’s defense is ready to make a run at the West and a National Championship. This group is ultra-talented and is full of play-makers.

Alabama got started this past week with fall camp, and I’m sure Nick Saban is already yelling at them as we speak. Here are three hot issues in fall camp for Alabama.

It’s a foregone conclusion among the media that Alabama should win the SEC Championship. But as we all know, it just doesn’t work like that. What if Alabama underperforms again and only wins nine regular season games in 2011? How will the fan base react?

Check out photos are from the 2011 SEC Media Days featuring Alabama Head Coach Nick Saban and players Trent Richardson, Mark Barron and Dont’a Hightower.

Good linebackers are one of the reason the SEC is the best defensive conference in America. Here is a look at the top 10 linebackers in the SEC.

The Butkus Award watch list was announced, and the SEC had nine representatives on it. Three on the watch list are from Alabama – Dont’a Hightower, Nico Johnson and Courtney Upshaw. Here is the complete list of the Butkus watch list from the SEC: Ryan Baker, LSU Jon Bostic, Florida Jerry Franklin, Arkansas Dont’a Hightower,
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The Lombardi Award is given annually to the nation’s best lineman. Eligibility for the award is limited to “down linemen, end-to-end, either on offense or defense, who set up no farther than 10 yards to the left or right of the ball, and linebackers who set up no farther than five yards deep from the
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The Bronko Nagurski is an annual award given to the nation’s best defensive player. The SEC led the way as far as the total number of players from one conference on the 2011 watch list with 19. Clemson’s Da’Quan Bowers won the award last year. Here are the SEC players on the list for 2011:
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