re: Golding needs to go.

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So how would you describe the 127 defenses that finished the year ranked below us in SP+ total defense?

[It's a rhetorical question. Your opinion means less than nothing to me.]

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Not sure reality means much to you, period. So, there is that "Rainman." You are now most adamant we should all feel warm and fuzzy about this Golding defense with your ESPN stats, when the reality is, when we played anyone with an SEC pulse, we often got walked down the field for 4 quarters.

Here's a better stat and works just fine with what Alabama fans actually had to live through this season.

Leading up to the LSU game, Alabama’s opponents had the lowest winning percentage in Power 5 football. Power 5 football "Rainman." Due to crappy scheduling, our entire credibility in SOS was coming down to LSU and Auburn on the road. They were the only 2 teams left with any type of winning %. That's fine, they were also our hated rivals anyway, beating these guys to get where we want to go is kinda what we do anyway.

BUT, when it came to year's Alabama closeup we promptly lost both games. Gave up a total of 913 total yards and 94 points. The only 2 teams with a winning pulse, much less our hated rivals, and that was the best this DC could do.

You can throw out here all the FYI and FPI bull crap stats you want. The Bama fans who had to watch these games know what they saw for 4 quarters. We were the ones wiggling and screaming in our man caves. And against the "Big Boys," it often looked like amateur night. That ain't Alabama!

No amount of ESPN hocus pocus is going to change what we saw in our biggest SEC/Rival games this season. Nor that it cost us an SEC and playoff shot. Nor the fact that it was Pete Golding who dialed up those defensive gems "Rainman."