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Alabama Football will conduct a somewhat different A-Day game Saturday afternoon. There will still be a Crimson team and a White team. The winners will again eat steaks while the losers will eat beans. The ESPN college football hype machine will broadcast as usual.
Many other things will be different. Normally the A-Day game is a powerful recruiting tool for the Alabama Crimson Tide. It might be again this year, but not without having to surmount very restrictive limitations. All recruits must attend without any financial assistance from the school.