re: I’ve been team Tua, but...

He was the qb.

1 of 13 3rd down conversions.

Zero points on two short field turnovers.

99 plays to 66.

Who do you think your kidding.

Steve Sark, sorry bud. Steve panicked when Bo went down plain and simple. Went away from our strength.

Yes. In another thread I clearly said it was after he committed. Unless his attitude about it has changed, it makes no difference if he said it this time last year or a week ago. My guess is that after this season he will talk with Saban and see where he stands. My further guess is that Saban will reassure him, as he obviously suggested when Tagovailoa was being recruited, that he'll have a chance to be the starter next season. In that case, I suppose Tua will go through spring training and see how it shakes out.

It's just not like it used to be. The blue chip athletes want to play now. I don't blame them. I said last year that Barnett would transfer if he thought he wouldn't have a real chance at Alabama, and I've seen enough of Tagovailoa to know he's way the hell better than Barnett.

“It gets me excited that Coach Saban does stick with his claim that the best will play in every situation,”

“In a year, in a perfect world I still believe I’ll be at Alabama if everything works out the right way.”

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spare me and us the greatest prospect in Bama history hyperbole

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But I never said that. Talk about hyperbole, yours is a very good example, or you're just slinging shite and hoping something sticks.

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One thread starter declares Hurts starter for life.

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You may mean me. Although I said until he leaves.

If Jalen keeps progressing you may need to pay close attention to who we recruit this and next year before you proclaim Tua the starter.

If we get a taller version with Tua's quick release. Jalen's running and physical strength. IQ of a coaches son and quality character. The grit of a kid like Coker. How do we make him sit?

Too many ifs? I got more but what's the point. Not many are gonna change their opinions, especially if they've invested a great deal telling everyone why Tua may leave for more playing time.
I'm just enjoying that we have good quarterbacking.

So if Jalen throws for, say, 250 yds/3TDs and runs for 80-100 and another TD; but we lose a shootout then Tua has the job? Is that what some of y'all are saying?

I was as skeptical as anyone about the kid before the season started. It's obvious that the kid has grown both in the physical throwing of the football as well as the mental aspects of the position.

I would posit that the punt returner position has made more errors that could possibly lose us a game than our QB on 1/20th the opportunities. Damn sure hasn't made any plays to win us a big game. Yet I don't see near the angst over who'll be muffing punts in the Iron Bowl.

Things are getting a bit twisted here. In reality, we have a few Hurts zealots calling for a special status for a particular player, “starter in perpetuity.”

It is amazing how Hurts is allowed years to “develop”, while every off the mark Tua pass draws its on thread.

In realty, there is no anti-Hurts sentiment. It’s more like an anti-Tua hysteria. And I don’t get that because they are both Bama guys.


I reject that a starting quarterback has to “do something to lose his status” or else remain the starter. In fact, I don’t even know what it means. But when we go along and acknowledge that a national title might make Jalen untouchable practically speaking, there is even an uproar at that, as though nothing would justify an off season completion, even a loss to Auburn.


And I called Tua the best Bama qb prospect in history and I’m standing by it. This is not Barnett. It’s not AJ. And it’s not just another frosh QB. And with all respect, those who continue to discuss this topic from that perspective, that Tua ain’t nothing special, are quite honestly in for a rude awaking. I just hope it’s not watching Tua raise a Heisman as a USC Trojan while we just miss titles every year under Hurts.

My hope and conviction is that Saban knows damn well what he has in Tua and has planned for an all out competition this coming spring and fall all along. I’m sure he feels Hurts is the best option to win it this year. But have know doubt that Saban doesn’t crown or christen players or declare them untouchable as some do on message boards. And he will not let this great qb prospect slip through his hands out of some misplaced sense of loyalty.

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YStar

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You have a pathological need to make things personal on here. No one is trying to insult you or steal anything from you by favoring one player over another. Take it down a notch.

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River_City_Tider

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Dude, post less!!