re: Why was last year a down year for Alabama?

Out of all of Saban's "good years", this could be considered a bad one yes. Even when our 2008 lost their last 2 games, they weren't expected to do great so that wasn't necessarily THAT bad. The 2010 team beat he dog shite out of MSU in the bowl game so it was bittersweet. This year just ended terribly after a mildly good and very stale regular season.


So yeah, frick this past year. We're going in dry this year.