re: No more whistling past the graveyard

What sucks is watching Bama 2.0 in Athens and we’ve done a 180 from it.

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Here’s what what we’re basically asking from Coach Saban:

- Almost a total staff overhaul including not missing on the right coordinators

- Rebuilding the culture/mentality

- Managing a roster with a ton of turnover

- Maintain the standard of recruiting

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Point 1 will take care of points 2 and 4 if the right hires are made. Point 3 is just the new reality of college athletics and is going to exist for all programs regardless of any other factors.

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It seems some of us cannot wait to get to this stage.

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The product on the field this year has provided adequate justification this has already occured.

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Here’s what what we’re basically asking from Coach Saban:

- Almost a total staff overhaul including not missing on the right coordinators

- Rebuilding the culture/mentality

- Managing a roster with a ton of turnover

- Maintain the standard of recruiting

We’re asking him to do all of that when other programs have caught up to us and we are on the verge of an SEC with two additional blue blood programs. He’ll also have to do it while the narrative that Alabama is in decline will be louder than ever.

Not to be blunt, but if Saban pulls that off it would be the biggest accomplishment of his career relative to the circumstances. That’s a mighty big ask for someone who is 71 and is starting to show it. This “reset” will be much different than 2010, 2014, etc. That’s why Saban will have to really consider a lot of things at the end of this season because it will take everything left in the tank to pull it off.

Of course if anyone could do it it’s Nick Saban.

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That pretty much sums it up

Cajun, I wouldn’t be at this point you mentioned if it hasn’t been pointed out ad nauseum for at least 2 years that things aren’t ok and need fixing. 2020 masked a lot a problems on defense with Sark pushing the buttons on perhaps Alabama’s greatest offense ever. But Golding has been a problem ever since his hire. He has his moments against overmatched teams but he also has shown time and time again when facing the best offensive minds in the game that he is clearly outclassed. And it gets worse every season. His defense is not evolving but the opposing coordinators get a little more dialed in on his same old calls and packages every season. And ILB has suffered greatly since he became position coach for that group. One of our greatest strengths has become probably our biggest weaknesses.

BOB is what everyone said he was: an NFL mind trying to run an offense that needs first round talent at every position to be successful. And not very creatively at that. His play calling is random, uncoordinated, disjointed, and not cohesive. We might as well have a monkey drawing plays out of a hat. The results are the same.

So please, someone, tell me the last time you saw CNS get pissed off at one of these clowns and rip them a new one. He had no qualms tearing Kiffin and occasionally Sark a new a-hole on national television. Kirby used to get his fair share too. I’m really concerned Saban has become Mack Brown and is just a figurehead to parade the recruits in front of to smile and shake hands with.

And while we sit around waiting for the inevitable, Kirby has built a vintage Alabama clone in Athens and IMHO, Napier is laying the foundation for another one in Gainesville. That’s going to be hard to swallow, having 2 knockoff programs beating our brains out by playing Saban’s game.

That last play debacle was infuriating.
It wasn't even a really good play call, tbh. I mean, no LSU fan would agree now that it wasn't, because it ultimately worked, but had Bama been disciplined, had all the players on the same page, that pass is not complete for the 2 PT conversion.

I was stunned that no timeout was taken since we clearly had no idea what to do. We were running players in and out, it looked like tbe Tennessee LSU game from the Les Miles / Derekk Dooley era.
Even if you had all the right players in, it is worth calling time out, just so you can see their lineup

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We don't need play calls that take 25 seconds just to get everybody lined up. It's time to get back to basics.

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We have to have the lowest average seconds left on the play clock in the nation. It seems every other play the ball is snapped at :01

Insightful OP.
It all comes down to this for me… Saban USED to despise losing, he would spend an entire off season to skullfrick the opposition the next time they played, or hire a consultant just to game plan for the next meeting.
Now he seems ok with it…I’m sure it bothers him, but definitely not enough to chew asses, like he once did, and make wholesale changes…like he once did.

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I agree with changing coordinators and every assistant if that’s what is needed.


But frick this shite

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I’m done with Saban and Alabama football unless


Talk about the definition of a fair weather fan.

Saban is not going to fire both coordinators during the season and tell our fans he is going to make some wholesale changes.

I agree he should say things aren’t working, but I’m not going to threaten that I quit unless x and y happens.

We have been on the greatest run in the sports history. From 2008-2021, fourteen seasons that have seen football change in a 100 different ways in that time frame. It has to end eventually. Whether it already has or not we will only know with hindsight.

If it has ended, we witnessed the absolute greatest to ever do it.

The Saban era will eventually end. And the next one will undoubtedly not be as great as this one is/was.

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Well said

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The fact that our last two seasons have hinged entirely on two players (with one being a transfer) is a massive red flag with respect to the state of our program

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Will Anderson was an absolute stud last season, as well as Dallas Turner. Our D was solid and absolutely contributed to our success.

The problem is is that they were supposed to be even better this season, and somehow they have mostly gotten worse.

I feel like I've watched the defense the entire season just waiting and waiting and waiting for someone to make a play, take the ball away, terrorize a QB, ANYTHING.

But, clearly this defense just doesn't have "the stuff." Disappointing.