Is is possible the talent isn't being developed as it has been in the past?

We have recruiters as position coaches that don't know how to develop players.

I have been saying this...

It has been talked about here this week and for at least the last two years. With the coaching turnover and having coaches that aren’t good at developing at the college level it has definitely hurt us.

Maybe we’ve missed on recruiting too. Looks like we did at QB for this year at least.

The talking heads only talk about today, not what it takes to build elite football teams year after year.

That too, losing Cochran hurt too. All the things are adding up.

I said this on the rant as well. We are getting the talent so all this NIL or transfer crap is not hurting us as seen with the class rankings. They are just not getting developed by the position coaches.

If you go back to some of the best Alabama teams and look at the staffs, there will be several future college head coaches and at time a few past college head coaches. Some of those "high end" assistants could not even get on the field as coaches, they were among the office scouting/self scouting group.

Look at today's staff. How many of those guys look to be future head coaches like Kirby, Lanning, Kiffen, Sark?

Hearing he was still repping with 1’s.

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One additional issue, If a coach makes the move to Tuscaloosa, how long would he be there before Saban retires? Why leave a good possition for a possition that may lack the stability that would justify the move?

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Who on this staff will be moving on to get a head coaching gig?

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I mean, this staff is just not very good. Saban has done a poor job of recruiting and retaining effective coaches the last few years.

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I think Pate is spot on with this but even the root of this problem (IMO) is that Coach Saban has a problem getting really good assistants to come to Bama anymore. Why?

Because as great as CNS is and it looks great on the resume that you coached under him, he has such a reputation of being a 24K hard *** at all times that a lot of really good coordinators and assistants have taken the attitude of "thanks but no thanks".

He's had to resort to bringing in guys who's career were in the toilet or came from schools that no one has heard of, or haven't really done much:

Pete Golding from UT San Antonio.

Joe Cox from UNC Charlotte

Holmon Wiggins from Virginia Tech

Doug Marrone-fired from the NFL and out of work when hired (HORRIBLE coach)

I understand hiring in any field is, to a certain extent, a bit of a crap shoot but you kind of have to wonder how is it very few really good assistants are willing to come to Tuscaloosa anymore?

My theory is that most good assistants out there anymore take the notion that it's not worth the squeeze working for Saint Nick. I know some will get mad at me saying that but that's my opinion.

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Whether it's Saban being hard to work for, Saban just selecting for the wrong attributes / misevaluating coaches, all of that or something else, I definitely think we have a pretty significant lack of actual X's and O's and developmental coaching talent on the staff... and that seems like a trend that's been heading the wrong way for a while. This is a hot take, I guess, but, looking at the staff, there are really only two current coaches I wouldn't want to be without: Saban himself (obviously) and T-Rob (the number I'd like to see move on is higher lol). Don't get me wrong, I don't think all the others are flat out bad and, in fact, think many are pretty decent, but, when I look at it from a "is this coach helping make us as good as we possibly can be?" standpoint, the others just don't seem like they move the needle.

I mean, Saban is definitely due all the deference and leeway in the world when it comes to shaping this program, but it seems like something's amiss with the staff. It would be interesting to know what goes on in our coaching searches. Like, trying to look in from outside the black box, candidates seem so surprising and disparate and their candidacies seem to take such odd paths that it's really hard to piece together any sort of guiding principles to it all.