re: Coaching Changes for Alabama(Analysts edition!!!)

Yeah, I could be wrong but I've been feeling BO'B with the clearly superior offensive talent Bama has is going to wreck some folks up pretty badly.

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I used to read RBR and those SBNation team blogs a lot back in the day, and most of them (not all) were filled with guys who wrote well, did interesting work and had good back and forth with the other team blogs during game weeks and things. He, on the other hand, basically prided himself in being a Grade A dickhead. Then he'd have, shocker, emotional reactions to all sorts of stuff.

Just always seemed like the most typical "counter-culture brah" guys ever, and it drove me fvckin nuts. The rest of the site was great, but he ran it, so his shite would always end up popping up and it was awfu

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so kind of a Clay Travis light, except Travis is a Vol homer.

Whew. I haven't read his content till this, but what a jerk.

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I used to read RBR and those SBNation team blogs a lot back in the day

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Same here. I was actually one of the OGs when it was just Todd writing at RBR. As soon as I read Eriks hit piece, and saw the racism angle, I knew why he had a problem. He has an unreasonable amount of anger dealing with race.

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Erik Evans from RBR posted his treatise on why BOB is a bad hire: LINK

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He has multiple factual errors and other selective, i.e., misleading, statements. E.g., talks about him being a 9-7 coach (is that supposed to be bad in the NFL? It's better than Coach Saban, though IMO, Coach Saban did a good job in context.). Well, in the 2 years before his termination he was 10-6 and 11-5 which he omits. He HC'ed them to their greatest success as a franchise. Made the playoffs in 4 of the 6 years as HC, coming in 2nd in another year. Had one outlier year of 4-12, maybe injuries, IIRC. He did it with pedestrian QBs, which is an understatement.

He also majors in some minor issues.

He's a genuine Bama fan and smart in a sense, but appears to me to be somewhat full of himself and almost always pessimistic.

There may be some truth to some of his complaints but there are enough factual errors and shaky conclusions that he is easily dismissed.

O'Brien has a far better resume than Sarkisian, though that doesn't mean he is a better OC, play caller, play designer. CSS was fired after 2 years as NFL OC. Many Bama fans lamented his hiring. I was enthusiastic - the same with Kiffin.

In one year O'Brien turned Matt McGloin from a painful looking QB (looked like a bad HS QB) to one who played and started a little in the NFL. The transformation was incredible - the stats were better but not reflective of the improvement. You had to see the before and after. I cared nothing for PSU and knew nothing about O'Brien but for some reason had noticed how pathetic McGloin was and then saw the change and was amazed.

In the comment section a poster refutes Evans' last year observations about Watson's improvement, primarily related to the yawning chasm of difference in the defensive opposition between the two periods, which of course Evans omits. Really if one looks at the differences intelligently, it could construed as a testimony to O'Brien's coaching superiority. But IMO, the sample size and differences are too small to mean much either way. Btw, Watson praises the QB coaching he got from O'Brien and expresses his gratitude.

If it's a bad hire, which is always conceivable even if unrelated to any of the charges leveled by the poster, CNS will correct it.

Oh, did anyone think O'Brien was likely to stay more than 2 years? Sarkisian did not, Daboll was here for one year, Locksley one year, Nussmeir 2, Kiffin almost 3 and tripped up on the way out the door costing Bama a NC and Kiffin is a hero?

Lol I don’t read that site but I see the dudes loves to use hyperbole to try and make points

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one that will affect the program perception for years

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FFOR YEARZZZZ! Lol even if BOB isn’t good this dude is clueless. It’s saban that’s the consistency. Not OC’s.

Eta and lolz at this one:

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When you’ve had as much success as he, it is easy to ensconce yourself in a bubble of your own making and ignore any countervailing wisdom or opinion

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Yeah saban has put himself in a bubble. He hasn’t changed anything, like the offense or anything. Still just going off his success from early Bama. He just ignores countervailing wisdom from dumbass fans

That dude is a character. He definitely likes to hear himself talk and has an agenda

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He has an unreasonable amount of anger dealing with race.

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That's conflating issues. I would hope we all abhor racism but that has nothing to do with being an attention seeking "anti gumping is my drug" a-hole.

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Bruce followed up his tweet about the Jets with Pruitt was talking to several teams including the Giants. History with Judge...maybe Saban makes a call.

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LINK ]Sources: Ex-Tennessee coach Jeremy Pruitt to be defensive assistant with NY Giants (espn)

We're done.

HC: Nick Saban

OC/QB: Bill O'Brien
RB: Robert Gillespie
OL: Doug Marrone
WR: Holmon Wiggins
TE/ST: Jay Graham

DC/ILB: Pete Golding
DL: Freddie Roach
OLB: Sal Sunseri
S: Charles Kelly
CB: Karl Scott

*Job Advertisement:
Several off-field analysts wanted. Only former HC's (college or pro) may apply.

I like this staff.

FAU hiring Mike Stoops as defensive coordinator