re: Enos GONE to Miami Hurricanes....

Boz, you're awfully quiet. I'd like to hear our resident insider's scoop on this. You can't spin this positively IMHO. Nobody in modern college football can keep retooling his staff every freaking year and maintain elite status. He's done it so far, but it can't continue.

Here's the cold, hard truth that we don't want to face, myself included. Dabo Swinney may have just singlehandedly crumbled the Dynasty in 60 minutes of total destruction Monday night. But not because of the game, but what it revealed.

A good arse-whipping every now and then isn't a terrible thing. It grounds and refocuses everyone on the goal and is the best damn cure in the world for complacency and for smoking out the malcontents. We're seeing some of that and it's to be expected and actually welcomed. But here's the collateral damage that may cause a paradigm shift in college football.

Everybody talks about the Process and about Saban and everybody knows it works. It still does. But the Process is hard, it's cold, it's mean, and it's all business all the time. It's no fun. Not for the players and not for the coaches. Hell, it's not even fun for Saban but it's all he knows. So even though everyone would disparage Saban for his methods, they did so begrudgingly because the results speak for themselves. He's the GOAT.

But now there's this new kid in town. And he's gone 4 rounds with Saban and he's held his own: winning 2 and taking Bama to the brink in one of the losses. And he's got his own Dynasty in the making and he's having fun and he's self deprecating, and his players and his coaches love him. He's working hard too, but not the same grind Saban demands. And it's working just as well. In short, he's shown there's another way. You don't have to be a miserable human being to be a legend. And people are taking notice.

What the other poster said is not so far-fetched. You can't fire Saban (obviously) and you can't force him to retire or even tell you when he plans on it. You certainly can't jet-gate him. He's earned the right to finish his career when and how he wants. But we need Dabo Swinney in Tuscaloosa right now because he will soon be lost forever to us. And while Saban's way will still work, it won't work as well. Clemson is gaining a leg up on us and with each passing day, the gap will widen ever so slightly. You can deny it if you want, but you're whistling past the graveyard if you do. There's now a better way, Dabo's way.

Nick Saban is my coach as long as he has breath in his lungs and wants to coach in Tuscaloosa.

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Prevatt, we'll have to just agree to disagree. I know that post isn't going to be popular. But change seldom is.

ETA: I like Saban, I've got nothing against the man.

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I'll be civil, and say that in order for your opinion to be a sane one, Bama under Saban would have to have been showing obvious and concerning signs of decline. 14-1 in his last 15, and 55-4 in his last 59 with 2 Natties, and yet another #1 recruiting class ain't it, and one bad loss due to red-zone inefficiency and more coaching turnover ain't nearly enough. Not even on the same side of the galaxy as enough...to warrant running the man out of town.

Additionally, where's your desire to fight? Why are you so keen on running to the enemy rather than rallying the troops to right the ship? It reeks of disloyalty and cowardice.

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I’m just saying the invincibility of the Empire has been cracked.

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Dude, what are you talking about?

Bama was never and has never been invincible. We were just awesome. And guess what? Some other teams, one in particular, are finally getting their acts together and properly challenging us for supremacy.

And to that I say, "Good."

I miss being the hunter.

Defense has and will always win championships. You can punt on third down, win by a safety and leave with a ring. A hole in scheme or personel can be exploited to the tune of 14 points. Which they did, give them points on turnovers which we did and you get what happened Monday night. There is no new way, they just played and coached like we usually do. They done pulled an us on us. I would rather have Sabans son in law coaching than Dabo. frick Dabo, watch what happens when shite goes sideways.

I don't care for you.

Dear mrs igit, But it hasn't hurt recruiting and regardless of how demanding Saban is to work for they keep lining up to work for him. Enos thought he could get more money but Saban said otherwise so "he gone."

Saban isn't perfect but he's just finished the greatest 10 year run in football history...down vote that captain of petersville

I loveve dabo but if we are being honest, he doesn't face good teams weekly or even monthly. Obviously he can be anybody but with that soft arse schedule he has easy st to playoffs. He is peaking while the rest of the ACC is just having a contest on who can suck the worst.

That's the reason his approach works is because he is so far above his conference that he can make it fun and have time off. Do that in the sec week in and week out and the results might not be the same. We truly don't know if he can sustain the grind of the sec. It's killed many coaches

No coach should take precedence over the health of the program. When a coach becomes bigger than the program, the program eventually suffers. We've gone through this before.