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Posted on 1/17/24 at 2:57 pm to UASports23
Posted on 1/17/24 at 2:57 pm to UASports23
He got the challenge.
I don't think fans are expecting NCs out the gate...we just want to field a competitive team and maybe make the 12 team playoff in 2024. Maybe.
I don't think fans are expecting NCs out the gate...we just want to field a competitive team and maybe make the 12 team playoff in 2024. Maybe.
This post was edited on 1/17/24 at 2:58 pm
Posted on 1/17/24 at 2:58 pm to Alfie Solomons
Add Linguist and the front page is right. I guess.
I’m not even convinced that the guys we are hiring right now will be here in August.
I’m not even convinced that the guys we are hiring right now will be here in August.
Posted on 1/17/24 at 3:00 pm to Woody4daTide9
I don’t know anything about Linguist.
Posted on 1/17/24 at 3:00 pm to Chad4Bama
Here is Marquis Maze a few moments ago
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It’s some great news coming to ttown here soon
Posted on 1/17/24 at 3:01 pm to Woody4daTide9
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Greg Byrne says Nick Saban’s official role in the program is as an advisor.
He confirms that he does now have an office in Bryant-Denny.
He also confirms that Nick has been talking to recruits and current players throughout this process, and that DeBoer is fully embracing this.
Posted on 1/17/24 at 3:02 pm to Alfie Solomons
Buffalo head coach. Think he coached at Indiana when deboer was there.
Co DC with Wommack. But that’s just what I’ve read here
Co DC with Wommack. But that’s just what I’ve read here
Posted on 1/17/24 at 3:05 pm to Woody4daTide9
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Greg Byrne said he was serious about splitting up the staff to each contact chunks of players on the roster.
He said he even sent out messages to each of the players’ parents himself.
Posted on 1/17/24 at 3:06 pm to UASports23
This one is cringeworthy...
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Alabama AD Greg Byrne says he spoke with former Alabama QB Joe Namath during the coaching search for feedback.
Posted on 1/17/24 at 3:07 pm to UASports23
About F time
We need a 3 point shot at least.
The best PR Bama could get is the Williams kid to say he is locked in to the Tide. Take some of the money that was on the safety and the LT and split between all the current players on the roster and the rest to Williams.
We need a 3 point shot at least.
The best PR Bama could get is the Williams kid to say he is locked in to the Tide. Take some of the money that was on the safety and the LT and split between all the current players on the roster and the rest to Williams.
Posted on 1/17/24 at 3:10 pm to UASports23
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Greg Byrne said he was serious about splitting up the staff to each contact chunks of players on the roster.
He said he even sent out messages to each of the players’ parents himself.
Maybe I'm not reading between the lines on this one. What does this quote mean?
Posted on 1/17/24 at 3:10 pm to JoseyWalesTheOutlaw
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Take some of the money that was on the safety and the LT and split between all the current players on the roster and the rest to Williams.
I hate over-paying a HS recruit who has yet to play a single snap... but it could be worth it for the positive PR alone. Who knows what's to come. I'll stay cautiously optimistic and cautiously pessimistic at the same time... can't be disappointed
Posted on 1/17/24 at 3:12 pm to cdur86
Puts down the idea of players not being contacted.
Posted on 1/17/24 at 3:23 pm to UASports23
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Alabama athletics director Greg Byrne reacted Wednesday afternoon to several high-profile transfer portal departures from the Tide since Nick Saban's retirement, including the team's two top 2023 freshmen in safety Caleb Downs and offensive tackle.
"You absolutely don't like it. You don't like it for the team," Byrne said on the Paul Finebaum Show. "Alabama is such a special place. The investment we make in our young men and young women across the board for our sports, and what we do from an academic support, medical support, mental health, nutrition -- across the board -- is as good as any place in the country.
"We've had young men and young women transfer in here from many prominent universities, and say, 'My gosh, I had no idea how good I was going to get treated at Alabama compared to where I came from.' And we had young men and young women who have transferred out of here and have called back and said, 'I don't know how well I had it at Alabama.'"
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Alabama spent almost $200 million on its athletic department during its most recently reported fiscal year, according to The USA Today's database. The Knight-Newhouse project provides a more detailed breakdown on the department's spending.
"We understand why young men and young women at times explore their options, and we try to be very transparent and honest with them during that time," Byrne said. "That's the best thing we could do. We say it with all good intentions and the truth, that we think this is the best place in the country for a student-athlete to come to school and compete at the highest levels, in everything that they do."
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Separate from the athletic department is Yea Alabama, the third-party collective that organizes NIL deals for players. Byrne wore a Yea Alabama lapel pin to Kalen DeBoer's introductory news conference Saturday and wore a Yea Alabama pullover on Wednesday's appearance on Finebaum.
"NIL is part of it," Byrne said. "We have been very -- try to be aggressive with our NIL approach. It's reality. I'm wearing my Yea Alabama pullover right now. Which we've had almost 1,000 new members since we announced Coach DeBoer. We have to continue to get people to sign up and be a part of that, because it's the reality of what we're facing.
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"Coach Saban did such a great job of continuing to adapt to what the realities of the world are. We are going to continue to do the same thing. If a young man goes into the transfer portal, we try to be very transparent with them and talk with them through that and be strategic with them. And at the same time too, we won't certainly fault somebody if they're interested in it. But we're also very confident that this is the best place in the country, by far, for anybody to go to school."
Byrne said Saban remains involved in contacting his former players about their futures.
"He is going to be an advisor for us," Byrne said. "He and I talked this morning. He's been very helpful, trying to talk to the young men that he's recruited here and again, say, we're in a really good spot going forward."
Posted on 1/17/24 at 5:45 pm to UASports23
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Kalen DeBoer continues his Crimson Tide staff shake-up and overhaul. After securing a commitment from David Ballou to remain as Alabama's director of strength performance for the football program, DeBoer is now set to add another FBS head strength coach to his staff; but this is where this one gets interesting. Sources tell FootballScoop that Matt Shadeed, Kane Wommack's director of strength for the South Alabama football program, is making the move to Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Shadeed, who has very deep SEC roots, having logged previous stops at Ole Miss and LSU; additionally, Shadeed has worked at Southern Miss and Baylor all on the strength side of things, is slated to work more with the coaching staff and player development. Specifically, we are told Shadeed will not be a "strength coach". Although his official title is to be determined, the position has been described to us as "working directly with Kane, with a focus on evaluating and developing players". Sources told FootballScoop earlier this week that Ballou had elected to remain with Alabama; he has past history with both DeBoer and Wommack, after the trio all shared time at Indiana University.
Posted on 1/17/24 at 7:17 pm to UASports23
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South Alabama will hire Major Applewhite to replace former HC, now Alabama DC Kane Wommack, per
@PeteThamel.
Good news for us. They don't take Roach.
Posted on 1/17/24 at 7:19 pm to UASports23
What’s the deal with Rees?
Posted on 1/17/24 at 7:20 pm to UASports23
We finally held on to someone.
Posted on 1/17/24 at 7:22 pm to Alfie Solomons
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What’s the deal with Rees?
Rees is expected to find a job somewhere else
Posted on 1/17/24 at 8:15 pm to UltimaParadox
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What's the deal with Rees?
He's not very good. Saban only hired him because he couldn't get Grubb.
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