OK, So How Do We Fix It?

Defense. Fire Golding, sure. But who do we go after? No one on this staff. Anyone we get will be like Golding was at the beginning of the year. Unknown. Firing Golding (and I'm all for it) is not the sudden cure for this team. And not only will we be starting all over again we also take another hit in recruiting. We need to bite the bullet and throw the bank at a proven DC and offer them HC money in my opinion. But even then, who?

Special Teams. I still don't understand how you have too many men on the field for a punt return. Not only is that on the coaches but as a player how do you mess that up? If you're not on the punt team get off the field. But aside from that our kickers are killing us. This is not a kicker issue. I personally watched Adam Griffith kick 40 and 50 yarders in high school. Routinely. All of a sudden he comes to Bama and he misses everything. The grad transfer that hadn't missed until he came to us. Our kicker now who was the #1 kicker in the nation all of a sudden starts kicking the ground. Theres a pattern there.

No Swag Where'd it go? Where are the alphas? Name one player on this team that could "buck up" to McClain, Collins, Barron, etc. I still see Diggs getting dragged 8 yards for a 1st down against LSU. Where are the head hunters? Are we just not recruiting these guys anymore? Are we missing out of them? Is it a coaching philosophy that changed? What happened to making his arse quit? Where is Barrett Jones and McCarron going at it in the 4th quarter of the BCS title game up 28 points because they demanded perfection the entire game? Where the hell did Alabama football go?


I'm not the fire Saban and the decline has started crowd. I lived through the Shula years and remember when I would have killed for a season like this. But I also see this team for what it is and understand we've progressed from those teams. The one thing that stands out to me that Saban himself has said he's tried to calm down some in the past few years. Not get so heated. I think by doing that he has started to demand less. If it's intentional or not I don't know but that's my opinion. Kiffin was a successful coach but Saban stayed on his arse. Daboll, albeit not a great coach, but Saban stayed on his arse. How many times have we seen Saban on Golding's arse? I can't think of any. As a matter of fact tonight was one of the few nights I saw him chewing coaches asses and it took a game losing penalty on the last play to bring it out.

Anyone who says fire Saban or that it's time to move on is a complete fricking idiot and I take no pause in saying that. However we need some changes (and some better luck with injuries) but realistically what are they?