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re: During these trying times, Lane Kiffin still good at trolling Alabama
Posted on 8/12/20 at 9:38 am to bamameister
Posted on 8/12/20 at 9:38 am to bamameister
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Kiffin chose him over Jake Coker. Jake came into the Florida game when Sims got dinged and promptly drove the length of the field for a TD. He looked more than capable and just as advertised by Jimbo Fisher. The next season, it was Kiffin who was still messing with the QB spot when he allowed Cooper Bateman to try out for the next Blake Sims role. Coker had performed well vs Wisconsin and really up to the Ole Miss game. That was Kiffin and it's the visions in his head of what he wanted to see
If I remember right, ( Boz probably has more first hand knowledge about it) Blake was elevated for his leadership qualities by the team leaders council at the time.
Saban Usually has the final say about the starting qb but he also takes input from the team leaders on such decisions.
Blake won that job not only with talent but his character, integrity, leadership abilities and sacrifices he made for the team through out his career.
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Posted on 8/12/20 at 10:30 am to hwyman108
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If I remember right, ( Boz probably has more first hand knowledge about it) Blake was elevated for his leadership qualities by the team leaders council at the time.
Saban Usually has the final say about the starting qb but he also takes input from the team leaders on such decisions.
Blake won that job not only with talent but his character, integrity, leadership abilities and sacrifices he made for the team through out his career.
So everyone seemed to have input on who would run the offense but Kiffin. Strange indeed.
Kiffin was keen on reinventing the offensive wheel at Bama. He should have been, it was the reason Nuss was asked to look elsewhere. Kiffin even went as far as visiting some camps who were serious about the spread. Who could know what that product would look like at Bama until Kiffin matched scheme with personnel? In Kiffin's mind, it looked more like Sims than Coker. A year later it apparently still did with the "great experiment" he conducted vs a Hugh Freeze Ole Miss team that had already gotten the best of us a year before.
Lots of things bugged me about the 2014 team. Mostly, offensive identity. I still don't believe we put the best team nor the best gameplan on the field that year with the studs we had on that team.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 10:47 am to bamameister
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So everyone seemed to have input on who would run the offense but Kiffin. Strange indeed.
Of course Kiffin had a lot of input. But the buck stops with Saban in the end.
With Saban it’s widely known it’s just not about talent, it’s how you handle adversity as a qb.
But there’s no doubt about Kiffin’s talent.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 1:28 pm to bamameister
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it was more a QB getting tentative and tight in a hugely emotional game. It's happened to all our QBs in big games. Well, maybe not Tua.
Perhaps you missed that time we played LSU in 2019?
Posted on 8/12/20 at 1:36 pm to CrimsonTideMD
I mean he had a fumble and pick but threw for over 400 yds... 41 points should have been enough to win
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