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Posted on 3/20/25 at 10:37 am to InkStainedWretch
Posted on 3/20/25 at 10:37 am to InkStainedWretch
There is no benefit in naming a starter early. They should be trying to foster competition. The team had bad competitive character last year and I think it was because the new staff was in crisis mode trying to just keep the roster together. Nobody was being pushed quite to the degree they needed because they didn't want people to bounce. However that lack of competitive development showed up against 3 opponents they should have beaten but didn't really respect enough.
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Posted on 3/20/25 at 10:47 am to Diego Ricardo
Fair point
Posted on 3/20/25 at 12:12 pm to InkStainedWretch
Posted on 3/20/25 at 12:31 pm to Diego Ricardo
i think you pick the starter but keep a competition going for the backup. hopefully we will be up enough early in games this year that the backup qbs can get it. give both other guys snaps as the QB2. we need game reps for all of them, and maybe that keeps them more invested than being stuck at QB3, and then we deal with the QB controversy next year. we need at least viable QBs for the season
Posted on 3/20/25 at 12:34 pm to narddogg81
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Posted on 3/20/25 at 1:31 pm to Bear88
Posted on 3/20/25 at 1:43 pm to Sl0thstronautEsq
Posted on 3/20/25 at 2:04 pm to Diego Ricardo
Posted on 3/21/25 at 10:19 am to Diego Ricardo
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There is no benefit in naming a starter early. They should be trying to foster competition. The team had bad competitive character last year and I think it was because the new staff was in crisis mode trying to just keep the roster together. Nobody was being pushed quite to the degree they needed because they didn't want people to bounce. However that lack of competitive development showed up against 3 opponents they should have beaten but didn't really respect enough.
I agree wholeheartedly. Since 2020 we have not had the sort of competitive nature in the team that we had before. I'm not saying they didn't compete, they certainly did. They whipped Georgia, but lost to Vandy the next week and the loss to Oklahoma and the bowl game was nothing short of a disgrace to the memory of Alabama football. I never saw a team crap the bed like that under Shula. You would have to look to the Dubose era to find a team playing that badly. Competitive teams go to scorch earth every week. They don't care who the opponent is. They are in the way.
We need to get that mindset back no matter what the cost. Talent won't win a championship without the killer instinct. the killer instinct won't win a title without talent. We actually have talent enough to win, we need the instinct and you don't get that way by coddling players egos to keep them from bailing on you. If they want to leave. They know where the door is, but while you're here you better not disgrace that Script A on your uniform.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 10:43 am to slammer66
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I never saw a team crap the bed like that under Shula
Posted on 3/21/25 at 11:08 am to RollTide33
When you conciser the scholarship limits and the considerable gap in talent on Shula's teams vs now I don't recall a Shula team failing to show so completely. They played hard, they just weren't talented and from a technical standpoint not well coached.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 4:57 pm to slammer66
Bama had good starters on offense and defense during the Shula years. Trouble was, there was ZERO depth. I mean ZERO. I felt like the drop off in terms of talent was massive between the 1st and 2nd team.
Those teams played hard but it seemed like we just ran out of gas in the 4th quarter way too often. Defense started getting gashed badly in the 4th.
Of course, some of the coaching was suspect too. Just a desperate and awful situation.
Those teams played hard but it seemed like we just ran out of gas in the 4th quarter way too often. Defense started getting gashed badly in the 4th.
Of course, some of the coaching was suspect too. Just a desperate and awful situation.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 6:41 pm to Amarillo Tide
Shula had a lot of his best players that got major injuries.
Croyle, Prothro, Castille, Britt, Mathis, ...
Croyle, Prothro, Castille, Britt, Mathis, ...
Posted on 3/21/25 at 6:54 pm to slammer66
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When you conciser the scholarship limits and the considerable gap in talent on Shula's teams vs now I don't recall a Shula team failing to show so completely. They played hard, they just weren't talented and from a technical standpoint not well coached.
Pretty much the definition of "revisionist history" when you have to glorify the Shula years to make your point.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 7:18 pm to slammer66
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I don't recall a Shula team failing to show so completely.
I remember too many.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 8:31 pm to CapstoneGrad06
Frannie didn't recruit ol at Bama. Bob Connelly was the anti-Jeff Stoutland too.
Posted on 3/22/25 at 11:32 am to Crimson Wraith
JB Closner getting injured in 2005 was a major factor in how that season ended.
Posted on 3/22/25 at 2:54 pm to bamatide07
This Shula and Fran talk has really put me in a dark place 
Posted on 3/22/25 at 10:35 pm to CrimsonBoz
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We have a really good problem in the QB room right now. It’s a full on battle.
Any details as far as strengths and weaknesses?
Obviously im very happy to read (and reread) the “good” excerpt of that quote, I’m just a bit shocked that it’s that tight given the experience lead Simpson has.
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