re: I Hate Watching A Fading Coach

Honestly, I'd say its not how he treats players these days. But how he is handling coaching. 5 years ago he would have never put up with some of the boneheaded coaching errors by coordinators. Now, well BOB was given a second year and we've seen the inconsistencies of Pete

Sure we may have missed a few recruits, but this is still a very talented team and good coaching can mask some of those shortcomings. We don't have that in some areas. BOB's inability to gameplan or exploit mismatches is mind-boggling

The team played sloppy undisciplined ball today... And most of last season, tbh. This isn't what we have been trained to accept... Now that we speak up about it and try to hold the coaches accountable, some of y'all want us to just shut up and accept a win while playing like garbage?! Hell no. That's not what this program USED to be about. Remember the old make his arse quit speech?! We haven't been that team in a few seasons. We need to get back to that mentality, because Georgia is. Hell, Kentucky and Tennessee are working towards it.

The players are a reflection of their coaches. The coaches failed today, but superior talent won, in spite of the crappy coaching.

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Yea let’s fire his old arse.

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Ms. Dramatic, who said this?

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performing to our standard.

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I hope some of you had to much to drink.

I’m a fan because I enjoy the game and it’s entertainment. I post here because I enjoy it and it’s entertaining.

This team is attempting a 3 peat as SECChamps and trying to make the CFP championship game for the third year in a row, and hopefully winning 2 out of 3.

I knew the WR corps was going to be a problem unless someone really stepped up, which they failed to do today.

I was more optimistic with the OL, but they were not very good today either.

I knew Texas was much better than most on here believed, and a Vegas point spread doesn’t mean a thing other than setting a differential that will get half the ignorant public masses to bet on one team and the other half on the other team.

I thought we would win by 7-9 points, but we have no deep threat so far. Bond dropped a pass that hit him right in the hands and Prentiss made a mistake on a route that caused the pass to be behind him. Both would have been big first downs. Those are correctable.

Last year, I think Saban did one of his better coaching jobs by winning the SEC and making the playoff with that OL and the injuries we had. I’m optimistic that he can get us there yet again.

I disagree totally that a loss is what we needed. Sometimes you can grow more by overcoming in a situation like today. Sometimes maybe a loss is, but just because fans spend hours upon hours on message boards obsessing about a sport doesn’t mean they know which situation will cause a team to grow the most.

The thread started from a perspective that Saban is fading.

Has he lost a step? Probably, he’s 70. But he’s still better than almost every coach out there.

I agree with George, the concerning thing is it did feel like Florida or LSU from last year, but I will enjoy the drama of how another college football season unfolds watching the best who has ever done it coach Alabama.

Saban is not above criticism, but the sky screaming in this thread which followed a divisive OP implying that Saban was now Paterno or Bowden at the end of their tenures makes some of you look like what fans of other SEC teams call Bammers.

Lay off the ganja!!

It happens every year. I think people have unrealistic expectations sometimes like we want everything to be perfect every game. This is the second game of the season not the sixth or seventh game.

Ricks didn't play...

some serious melodrama in this piece of shite thread

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This was in a loud, hostile environment. I was in the stadium. It was deafening.

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If only there was a way to practice in a loud environment...

I think there is a truth to both sides of this coin. It is evident that coach is aging and has probably lost a step. Unfortunately, time waits for no man. With that said, aside from maybe 2-3 schools in the country, every AD in the power five would drop their guy for ours right now. I honestly believe that Saban has coddled the coordinators a bit too much because he values continuity in a higher regard at this stage in his career. We as fans have gotten so spoiled and entitled under this historic run, that sometimes I think we forget to sit back and enjoy the ride. 8-10 years down the road, good Lord willing, we will look back at these times and smile realizing that as fans, we were apart of the greatest run of all time coached by the greatest coach of all time. Take a step back from the ledge and take it in. Chances are pretty good that no once coach is gone, no one will ever feel like we have felt ever again.