re: Ecstatic Bama won, but I still think DeBoer = Mark Richt

Looking at his records I think he absolutely would have put at least two big trophies in the case in today’s setup and we might have played hell beating them in a rematch in 2012.

People who use Richt as a punch line are showing their ignorance.

Ain't no way I'm reading all of that

But I think the comparison between the two is apt. BK 2.0 is another one. I've been saying this all along and get belittled for it - but we had a tyrant and we hired Andy Griffith

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maybe go eat shite

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Accusing someone of being Mark Richt isn't that bad of a criticism in an environment with a 12 team playoff anyway.

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I totally agree.

I expect CKD to keep us relevant, and in the hunt for a playoff slot, but I'll also be shocked to see one of his teams win a title. That's been my point here.

Alabama is not good on offense or special teams. Kinda hard to be a title contender when a majority of the team is playing subpar football.

I truly believe Bama could blow the doors off Indiana, and then turn around and get embarrassed in the next round. The lack of any kind of consistency outside the defensive side of the ball is alarming IMO, and that is the responsibility of the HC. DeBoer for whatever reason is not putting a consistent product on the field.

If your standard for eliteness is Saban, there will never be another Saban at Alabama because no Saban can function as he did here in today’s college football landscape, which is not changing no matter how many people wish and hope Donald Trump or Nick Saban or some knight in white armor is going to come riding in to restore all that is righteous and holy about the sport.

Saban needed total control, to be a tyrant as Pastor Mike described it, to make his process work and no coach can have total control over mercenary free agents. Kirby doesn’t. Kiffin doesn’t. And no, DeBoer doesn’t. It is what it is.

That need for total control is why Saban ran back to college football after Daunte Culpepper got nose to nose with him when he was with the Dolphins and called him a sawed-off MF and threatened to beat his arse and Saban had to stand there and take it.

You’re pining for an elite coach, you need to be worrying if we can keep up with the nouveau riche moving forward in NIL because that’s a whole lot more relevant to us remaining a force than whether we have another Saban as coach.

Haha this will go over well

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All I know is Kiffin will pillage the free agent market and build an offense better than DeBoers probably as soon as next season.

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That's cool. How many playoff games or power 5 championships of any kind has Kiffin won again?

Before Kiffin came to OC Bama, I had said to my wife that I didn't like Kiffin, he's a prick. When Saban hired him, wife said, I thought you said he was a prick.

Well, he is our prick now.

I have always thought Kiffin was a frat boy with the emotional maturity of a teenage girl at that time of the month. I’ve never thought he was this maniacal play calling genius dialing up sure-fire calls certain to blow games open.

I’ve gotten downvoted here for this but I have never worshipped at the altar of the almighty coordinator, offensive or defensive. It frustrated me last week how people were quaking in terror of what Brent Venables was going to do to us when we should have been focusing on what we were going to do to Brent Venables.

Re>DeBoer, I will give you this … I am much more legitimately pleased with him in the home stretch of this season than I was at the end of last season, and I also think he seems more comfortable on the sideline and more fired up (although he’s never going to be a screamer and a butt kicker like Saban) but I need to see a big jump in 2026 and the running game must be improved.

One big reason “we haven’t seen his full offense yet” is that it has to have an effective running game to work. We’re never going to run the ball 60 times a game anymore, we weren’t with Saban, but Washington had a 1,200-yard rusher who scored a crap ton of touchdowns in 2023 even though the offense absolutely revolved around Penix and the receivers, and they got to play for the big trophy.