re: It ain’t over

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Firing Grub would be a start but like most problems, there is more than one variable to address.
- New coordinators both sides

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A new S&C coach is a must. Our OL gets manhandled.

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- more NIL funds to address obvious talent deficiencies

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Gordon Gecko famously said "A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place."

As an investor, I'm not putting my hard earned money into stock of a company with an incompetent CEO running the company into the ground. On a personal level,I'm never donating my money to go into the bank accounts of football players, and certainly not when they can take my money to Knoxville or Baton Rouge next year. I'm sure as hell not going to pay players when the coaches are incompetent.

He gotta place Hill on the shelf after mess too

I think our entire passing game was predicated on RCW and Brooks being able to take the top off the defense. Without RCW, Brooks is more one dimensional and can be nullified by the safety always positioned over him.

We really need to become a run heavy and TE passing attack team based on the talent we have available. However our OC does not have the disposition to commit to the run anymore.

I would not go ahead and count aTm, LSU and Auburn as a win. All three of those teams are games that are the exact type of games DeBoer soils his pants in. We could win those games but we could just as likely lose all three as well. At this stage, it is a 50/50 shot in those games.

I'm not keen on getting into the playoffs and then getting beat in either round 1 or 2. So, it is pretty much over for this season.

It was like we didn't even try.

Next weekend I'll probably just let Chicken do the auto-scoreboard and do some in-town trick-or-treating with my grandkids.

The process was all Saban and no coach will ever repeat what he did in TTown.

And it was not like we were a great program prior to Saban arriving. From 1993(the year after winning the NC) over the next 14 years we had 4 10+ winning seasons, 5 losing seasons, and 2 7-5 seasons.

To many on this board seem to think because we are Alabama that the standard Saban created should be the norm. It was not before nor will it ever again be that way.

I do expect a better product on the field than what we are getting but I also have realistic expectations.

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And it was not like we were a great program prior to Saban arriving.

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I wasn’t around for it, but are we forgetting Bear Bryant? Growing up that’s all I heard about! How amazing a coach he was and the championships. It’s always been what Alabama aspired to have. It’s why Saban was also so hyped, it was Alabama’s chance at having another GOAT.

The Fat Lady is about to sing.

The bad period to which you referred was not normal pre-Saban Alabama. It was due entirely to unfair and draconian scholarship reductions, with the threat of more hanging over their heads. Only Alabama could have won an SECC and had 4 10 win seasons during those 12 years from 96-07.
- Alabama has won more NCs (5) with coaches other than Bryant or Saban than any other historical SEC program has in total (LSU is 2nd with 4).
- 5 different coaches have NCs at Alabama
- Alabama has won SECCs (8 titles in 52 seasons) without Bryant or Saban at a faster rate than every SEC program except UGA, who’s rate is only slightly ahead of
Alabama’s without Bryant or Saban
- only UGA, UT and LSU have more SEC titles in 94 years than non-BryantSaban coaches at Alabama have in 52 years
- 7 different coaches have won SECCs. (That’s not counting Wade, Alabama’s 3rd greatest coach, who won 3 NCs in his 8 years. He put the South on the college football map with his 3 performances (2-0-1) in the Rose Bowl against all odds. It was the only bowl of note in the country. He won 3 NCs and 4 Southern Conference titles at Alabama. He went to Duke after the 1930 season, 2 years before the SEC was formed in 1932. He had a good career there and took Duke to 2 Rose Bowls in 16 years and lost both. But it wasn’t the same as Alabama.
- Alabama has 5 coaches (Wade, Thomas, Bryant, Stallings, Saban) with an 80+ winning % (5 years or more since 1916), the rest of the historical SEC has a combined 3: Neyland, Spurrier and Meyer. So without both Bryant and Saban, Alabama has as many coaches with a winning % of 80+ as the rest of the SEC combined.

No one else compares.

Having said all of that, though history still matters some, the landscape has changed dramatically.The past will have even less effect on Marcel Reed Saturday than it has had in the past.

Anyway, how much will you be donating to the 68 million dollar buyout?