It just feels different this year, doesn’t it?
As Spring Practice begins, the Alabama Crimson Tide finds itself in a familiar position — rebuilding, revamping, reloading. Graduation, professional careers, and coaching departures have become as much a rite of Spring as winning 12 games and inking great recruits has been throughout the season.
At the same time, ‘Bama finds itself in an unusual position too, one that newer Alabama fans may have never even experienced: It comes into 2019 fresh off of a blowout loss of historic proportions. That bleak January night where the Tide bumbled its way to a 44-16 loss was the worst of the Saban era.