re: Facts people don’t want to hear

Dale has been banged up since early in the year.

Dale has been good I mean he is 18 years old playing in the middle of 3-4 defense that’s rough as hell now 35 lee complain away idc dude needs to be a fullback

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Big fact is we've got to recruit better and make better coaching decisions in game and off the field.

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I've said the same thing about recruiting and people laughed and yapped about our #1 recruiting classes. We have often suffered the last two years from players on defense being out of position, and that happened again yesterday. Recruiting great athletes isn't enough. You have to recruit guys whose football IQ is high enough to grasp the complexities of the defense, and then you have to coach them on the practice field. McClain and Hightower could do it. McClain commented after arriving in Oakland that their defensive playbook was much simpler than Alabama's.

"Saban said. “Based on the defense we called and the defense we were in, I thought we should be good. The quarterback pulled the ball down and scored a touchdown when the guy who had the quarterback didn’t take him.”

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Being young isn't an excuse. Rolando McClain could handle it as a freshman. So could Dont'a Hightower. Maybe some guys are overrated as recruits...you often don't know how good those high school opponents really are. More likely, we've done a bad job of coaching them when the get here.

And you're 1,000% right about Tua, regardless of what Saban said after the fact. Protecting him for the end of the season...Auburn and the playoffs...should have been the highest priority, and it was a foolish decision to put him back in against MIss. State, especially when he had already decided to take him out. He should have stayed with his first instinct.

I'm not as quick to throw Sark completely under the bus. Yeah, he made some bad calls, especially the second pick six, on first and goal. Just don't put Mac in a situation there where he can get you beat. Auburn's blitz was on him too fast, and he made a bad decision. It wasn't really a 14 point swing, because without the pick six, we don't get the Waddle TD KO return. But it was certainly a 7 point swing...instead of a TD for a TD, we'd have gained a TD. But Sark did manage to dial up 146 yards on the ground for Najee and 335 yards and 4 TDs for Mac. So it's not as if Sark called a shitty game all day.

I don't see this as the end of the run, or the beginning of a decline. For me, it seems a lot more like 2013-2014. Look at this two deep chart from the start of 2014, and you'll see some guys who were young and became pretty good in 2015-16, and you'll see some older guys who just weren't very good. I think we're in a similar place now.

Have you heard the one about the smart Bama fan that never sniffed a crimson jersey and couldn't handle the truth either. In the college game played today you better have some freshmen that can play and asap. Hell you will not have much of a SR class anymore because the best are leaving for the NFL. Talent isn't the only problem in Titletown. Without a doubt this is the worse defense since 2007 and the worst tackling team as well. Just a bunch of F grabbers.

Notre Dame punter is from Tuscaloosa

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Facts people don’t want to hear
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t Mizzou kicker from Alabama, McCann?

Isn’t Florida’s kicker Mcpherson from Ft.Payne, Alabama?

Notre Dame is from Tuscaloosa

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DeLong was the 4th rated punter out of high school, ranked 2 spots ahead of the Aussie at Auburn who is currently ranked 27th in the country with a 43.8 yard average, yet he lost his job to a walkon. DeLong didn't just arrive in Tuscaloosa and forget how to kick. There's a disconnect between talent in high school and performance on the field at Alabama, and kicking isn't the only position. But everyone who's watched college football longer than 15 minutes knows that we need to emphasize finding someone who can actually coach kickers.