re: Kudos to Greg Byrnes.

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Let it play itself out. DeBoer will be out in 2 years tops if a championship of some sort isn’t on in Tuscaloosa.


Too soon we forget getting left behind Bear Bryant’s good boys like Perkins, Curry and Dubose. Alabama isn’t invincible. There was only a stretch of 7 years where you could say Alabama was truly elite amidst 35 years of mediocrity.

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Good luck finding a coach who's going to deliver a national championship every 3 to 4 years when you're running off coaches who have a grand total of TWO fewer regular season wins than Kirby "the Saban clone" Smart (since taking the job here) as well as more 12 team playoff wins and owns the head to head record.

That's a good way of bulldozing your way right back into another 35 years of mediocrity.

I can't even imagine what Gene Stallings must have endured back in the day...

SI.com posted their ranking of the UA athletic programs for 2025-26. Link to the write up is below if you want to read their rationale.

Ranking the 2025-2026 Alabama Crimson Tide Teams

The majority of Alabama programs reached the NCAA postseason during the athletic calendar, but which stood out about the rest?

1. Softball- 56-9 (19-5 SEC)
2. Men's Cross Country
3. Football- 11-4 (7-1 SEC)
4. Men's Basketball- 25-10 (13-5 SEC)
5. Baseball- 42-21 (18-12 SEC)
6. Gymnastics
7. Women's Swimming and Diving
8. Men's Track and Field
9. Women's Cross Country
10. Men's Swimming and Diving
11. Women's Track and Field
12. Women's Basketball- 24-11 (7-9 SEC)
13. Soccer- 11-9-2 (4-6-0 SEC)
14. Men's Golf
15. Volleyball- 14-13 (5-10 SEC)
16. Rowing
17. Women's Tennis- 13-12 (4-11 SEC)
18. Men's Tennis- 12-17 (3-11 SEC)
19. Women's Golf