Nick Saban said some Alabama players didn't start out handling the prosperity of a second straight national championship particularly well. Some cut classes and, more visibly, four players were arrested and ultimately dismissed from school. Saban said things got considerably better once the offseason conditioning program started. "I'd say until we got into the offseason program and sort of got a handle on things, that we did not respond as well as we would like with this group," the Crimson Tide coach said Saturday after the team's first spring practice. "I think they've made a tremendous amount of improvement. I think we had more guys missing class, more issues. This was the first behavioral issue we've had with the guys that got in trouble in 5½ years. "Just a lot of little loose-ended things that when guys have entitlement, you see a little slippage." Read more http://espn.go.com/college-football...son-tide-open-spring-practice-rocky-offseason
