i argued with you about Harsin quite a lot in the early going, and i’m not ashamed to admit you were 100% correct about him and i was 100% wrong, so you will always have the benefit of the doubt from me.

however, saying something totally unproven like this

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DeBoer is a great coach, and he will remain a great coach at Alabama.

causes me to reconsider.

DeBoer may be a great coach, but all we know for sure at this point is he’s a good coach who caught lightning in a bottle with a Heisman candidate at QB playing in a conference that was in the process of self-destructing.

and to emphatically state that he will “continue to be great” at Bama is wishcasting.

i feel like he’s a very good HC who came into a situation unlike any he’s ever imagined, without any clear plan for taking on the job, without the complete confidence of the people who hired him, and with the GOAT ex-HC keeping an eye on him from his “office in the stadium”.

no matter how lofty your expectations, that is in no way a recipe for success.

i guess time will tell.

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Posted by 3down10

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Posted on 1/20/24 at 11:26 am to FearlessFreep

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causes me to reconsider.

DeBoer may be a great coach, but all we know for sure at this point is he’s a good coach who caught lightning in a bottle with a Heisman candidate at QB playing in a conference that was in the process of self-destructing.

and to emphatically state that he will “continue to be great” at Bama is wishcasting.

i feel like he’s a very good HC who came into a situation unlike any he’s ever imagined, without any clear plan for taking on the job, without the complete confidence of the people who hired him, and with the GOAT ex-HC keeping an eye on him from his “office in the stadium”.

no matter how lofty your expectations, that is in no way a recipe for success.

i guess time will tell.

Ok, do you think he will have better or worse talent while at Alabama? If he is able to do that much with less talent, why would anyone expect him to do worse with more talent?

I'm not a time traveler, so maybe he ends up sucking. But I certainly don't see anything that foreshadows it.

Having Saban on campus is a positive, not a negative. If it becomes a negative, Saban will leave on his own. He's not selfish like that.

I've been an Alabama fan for half a century. The expectations have never changed. I know what bad years look like, still the same expectation even if it's obviously far from reach.

And it can't be much worse than replacing Bear, or going through the early 2000's. The bigger worry is probably boosters being stupid again.

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