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re: Interesting tid bit on average age of Indiana starters..
Posted on 1/10/26 at 7:54 am to cmayes56
Posted on 1/10/26 at 7:54 am to cmayes56
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Interesting tidbit I just read: 70% of the starters at Indiana are 5th or 6th year seniors . Average age of starting lineup is 23.2 years old.. thats the average?? Now do Oregon ; 40% of starters are 5th or 6th year players Average age: 22.3 years old And finally lets compare Alabama: 25% of starters are 5th year Srs, no 6th year starters Average age of Starters? 20.8 years old All I know for sure.. is 24 year old me would have kicked 20 year old me’s butt??????? Miami? 22.6 years old on average.. might be a good game next Monday night
If the board gets what it wants, we will be starting a true sophomore at QB next year (assume 19 yrs old) and at least 1 true sophomore on the OL. Next year will be ugly, but the same ignorant fans will be calling for DeBoer’s head.
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Posted on 1/10/26 at 8:03 am to BamaBravesPackers
Weinke was 28 when he won the Heisman at FSU, but he played minor league baseball for several years in the middle there somewhere.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 8:05 am to Night Vision
Didn't watch the game. Sounds like Lupoi still can't manage a defense.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 1:10 pm to Night Vision
Age and experience is making all the difference in both College Football and Basketball. It took Cignetti 5* years to pit together the team he has and it will take him another 4+ years to put a team like this on the field. Some remnants will remain next year but nothing like what he has today.
Transfer portal, Covid extensions, court rulings and billionaire money have made minions into thinking they are new dynasties. What a joke. Tradition is not so easy to build or overcome.
This is a new but cyclical era and we’ll have to wait for the dust to settle down. Unknowns May win a couple of National Championships, Georgia Tech and Colorado come to mind, but normalcy will return. Count on it.
Transfer portal, Covid extensions, court rulings and billionaire money have made minions into thinking they are new dynasties. What a joke. Tradition is not so easy to build or overcome.
This is a new but cyclical era and we’ll have to wait for the dust to settle down. Unknowns May win a couple of National Championships, Georgia Tech and Colorado come to mind, but normalcy will return. Count on it.
This post was edited on 1/10/26 at 1:11 pm
Posted on 1/10/26 at 1:20 pm to BamaBravesPackers
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we will be starting a true sophomore at QB next year (assume 19 y
Tua won us a Natty as a freshman. Pretty sure Jay Barker did as well, but was carried by the defense and running game.
Bryce Young threw for nearly 5,000 yards and 43 touchdowns his sophomore year and won a Heisman
I understand it’s not an ideal situation, especially if the offensive line is young, but trust me when I tell you, we do not need to waste the quarterback talent that we had on the bench for another season. A really good quarterback can hide a lot of flaws. Just like Bryce Young did
Posted on 1/10/26 at 1:45 pm to FoTownBam
3 of the 4 semi finalist had a senior, RS senior, or super senior quarterback. Oregon seems to be the worst of the 4 and they had the 3 year player at QB. In this era where the goal is to shorten the game and make all the clutch/leverage plays, experienced and quality QB is a premium. If you’re going to go far with a young QB these days, they’re going to be an absolute can’t miss prospect for the pro teams.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 2:32 pm to FoTownBam
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Tua won us a Natty as a freshman. Pretty sure Jay Barker did as well, but was carried by the defense and running game. Bryce Young threw for nearly 5,000 yards and 43 touchdowns his sophomore year and won a Heisman I understand it’s not an ideal situation, especially if the offensive line is young, but trust me when I tell you, we do not need to waste the quarterback talent that we had on the bench for another season. A really good quarterback can hide a lot of flaws. Just like Bryce Young did
I’ll try to say this kindly, but if you don’t see the difference in today’s game vs. CFB when Bryce or Tua were playing (let alone Jay Barker), I’m not sure what to say. The entire game changed in the last 2-3 years.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 3:05 pm to BamaBravesPackers
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The entire game changed in the last 2-3 years.
Sure the portal has changed the landscape, but good players win football games. That’ll never change. To act like age and experience is the only thing that matters is foolishness. Coaching matters and talent matters. The games Bama lost this season was be because we got out coached. What I think im hearing from you is you’d rather have Ty Simpson back next year than a sophomore Bryce Young. That’s dumb
Posted on 1/10/26 at 3:19 pm to FoTownBam
At Bama we HAVE to get good coaching. We can't buy 5 star talent at every position so the coach has got to coach-up what he has. And Deboer is never going to be the guy that can do that, to the Bama standard.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 4:01 pm to FoTownBam
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Sure the portal has changed the landscape, but good players win football games. That’ll never change. To act like age and experience is the only thing that matters is foolishness. Coaching matters and talent matters. The games Bama lost this season was be because we got out coached. What I think im hearing from you is you’d rather have Ty Simpson back next year than a sophomore Bryce Young. That’s dumb
Really? I watched Bryce hold the ball too long with wide open receivers all the time. Did Bryce have the worst running game at Bama in 50 years supporting him? Did Bryce play at a time when parity was the strongest in the history of CFB, against some of the strongest defenses in the country, and still pass for 3500+ plus yards with a 28:5 TD to Int ratio?
Bryce was awesome and I’m rooting for him in this game, but playing a true sophomore 1st year starter at QB in CFB today is a guaranteed no NC season. Yes, I’d rather have a healthy Ty, projected 1st rounder, as an experienced QB rather than a true sophomore 1st year starter Bryce on next year’s team (unless we’re giving up on 2026 and building for 2027, then give me Keelon or the hypothetical sophomore Bryce).
Edit: No one thought Joe Burrow, Mendoza, etc, etc, were going to be as good as they were after their 1st years starting. Even Heisman winners usually have pedestrian 1st years starting. Julian Sayin played a horrible schedule on a team that outclassed almost everyone they played or his numbers would have been much worse. Ty easily could have had a monster year next year if we could have fixed the run game and given him a modestly improved OL. 3500+, 28TDs, 5ints against our schedule while hurt was a very good performance for a first time starter.
This post was edited on 1/10/26 at 4:10 pm
Posted on 1/10/26 at 7:55 pm to 1BamaRTR
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Teams made up of veteran transfers is the formula everyone is going to try to emulate
Which is exactly what Kiffin has done better than any coach in the SEC. Find a way to hate on that fact Kiffin haters.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 9:39 pm to BamaBravesPackers
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Yes, I’d rather have a healthy Ty, projected 1st rounder, as an experienced QB rather than a true sophomore 1st year starter Bryce
If you believe this, then there’s nothing else I can do to help you
But I value your opinion anyway and we still love ya brother
When Keelon leads us to a Natty next season, I won’t be mad at you then either
Posted on 1/11/26 at 11:39 am to cmayes56
I haven’t read anything in this thread but I ran across this tweet and I think it applies from the thread title.
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If tweet fails to load, click here.Posted on 1/11/26 at 8:08 pm to TizzyT4theUofA
That’s perfect
Posted on 1/11/26 at 8:18 pm to BamaBravesPackers
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If the board gets what it wants, we will be starting a true sophomore at QB next year (assume 19 yrs old) and at least 1 true sophomore on the OL. Next year will be ugly, but the same ignorant fans will be calling for DeBoer’s head.
Next year is DeBoers year to make his case for why he should keep the job. Results are required, no matter who he listens to.
Posted on 1/11/26 at 11:51 pm to FoTownBam
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If you believe this, then there’s nothing else I can do to help you But I value your opinion anyway and we still love ya brother When Keelon leads us to a Natty next season, I won’t be mad at you then either
If you believe you’re smarter and better at football then the college coaches willing to pay Ty 6+mm to come back, the NFL experts projecting Ty in the first 2 rounds, the ex-college QBs that have broken down tape on Ty and have consistently all season said he is doing elite QB things, and somehow are even such a football savant that you know Ty’s impressive statistics for a 1st year starter against our schedule is actually fools gold, well, I guess I can’t help you. But, you’re entitled to opinion anyway. Good luck with that.
Posted on 1/11/26 at 11:53 pm to imjustafatkid
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Next year is DeBoers year to make his case for why he should keep the job. Results are required, no matter who he listens to.
What “results” are required? Expecting him to do something not even the greatest coach of all time could do sounds pretty silly. Saban couldn’t win in 2026 with a 1st time starter, either.
Posted on 1/11/26 at 11:59 pm to BamaBravesPackers
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Saban couldn’t win in 2026 with a 1st time starter, either.
DeBoer chose the starting QBs the past 2 seasons. No one else did that for him.
Posted on 1/12/26 at 12:02 am to imjustafatkid
Is it basically win a NC every year or it was a failure ?
Posted on 1/12/26 at 12:03 am to Bear88
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Is it basically win a NC every year or it was a failure ?
Huh? This will be 3 years.
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