re: So is it safe to say Golding is staying?

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On BOL, multiple people with connections inside the program were also indicating that Saban had essentially shifted DC responsibilites (game planning and play calling) from Tosh to Golding in the latter part of 2018. Boz didn't just make that up. And Boz isnt the only "insider" to indicate that Golding has had family matter distractions significant enough that it might even result his own desire to step down or away from the high expectations and demands of being Bama's DC.

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And they were all full of shite.

I don't really care where the shite starts. It was easily debunked with common sense.

You are a perfect example of a short memory on here.

If I need to remind you how badly Mack Wilson and Dylan Moses struggled than we can just end this discussion here because you're either not even trying to be objective or your memory would have me remind you about the most known and mundane things.

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Then shite, why don't we just start more freshmen throughout the season so they can develop into All-Americans that much earlier?

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When the need arises that's exactly what we've done and have always done. Rolando McClain to Hightower to Jalen Hurts to Julio Jones, Calvin Ridley to Amari Cooper to Milliner, to Barret Jones to Jonah Williams to on and on it goes.

Golding seems to be the only coach that needs a do-over though. Playing 4* and 5* freshmen are tough stuff.

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Rolando McClain was the only freshman to start in the front seven in 2007.

Dont'a Hightower was the only freshman to start in the front seven in 2008.

Julio Jones was the only freshman to start at receiver in 2008.

Barrett Jones redshirted.

Amari Cooper was the only freshman to start at receiver in 2012.

The point is obvious...freshmen have always played at Alabama under Saban. But they've played around veterans. Never before have we had so many freshmen starting/heavily contributing on defense.

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The last time Alabama won a national championship in 2017, Bama played 17 true freshmen during the season. Including 6 true freshmen on the offense in the 4th quarter and OT vs Georgia.

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? They took other jobs. Saban encourages that doesn’t want guys sticking around that aren’t committed. If Golding is committed and he finally has a healthy cast he may be decent.

Who was? Who was plain bad?

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That's the other thing.

Golding already called basically half of the previous year when we got beat by Clemson and Auburn.

Now we need to see him a third time to ensure he really isn't that great? No thanks.

In the end I hope Saban is slow playing this until signing day.

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This rumor about Golding calling the plays the previous year is total bullshite.

If it were true, it would have come out in the media by now with a real source. But I am supposed to believe that he called plays all that time, and yet it was never reported or leaked in that time?

It was kept secret for months and months, and is still not discussed now? Not a single player or person inside the institution has ever made a public statement to the effect.

Alabama switches defensive play callers and nobody notices? It would have been a huge story and yet the only peep is on message boards.

bullshite.

The funny part about it all is that it was said as a way to promote Golding, but yet the end of the season was the reason why we all wanted Tosh gone. I accepted the rumor at first and was pissed off that Golding was hired if he was response for the defense against Clemson. It was fricking horrible, not a single bit of pressure on Lawerence all night long. 3 man rushes, frick that shite. And everyone here thought it was great that he was already calling plays.

But it doesn't make sense if you really think about it. Not only for what I mentioned above, but you are telling me Saban rewarded Golding with the DC job after that shite show? I don't see how. Looked very clear to me that he basically found Tosh another job after it, and promoted a defensive mind he respected.

And then I looked at the play calling this year, and it's much more aggressive despite the injuries that limit what is available with younger/inexperienced guys.

Just like the lazy claims. bullshite. Saban is the man who fired Kiffin a week before the national championship game because he didn't put effort in. But oh yeah, he's keeping this Golding guy around who's so lazy it's the reason the defense isn't the best ever? frick no. If the guy was lazy Saban would have handled that shite before the season was even over.

So, either Saban promotes a guy to DC after calling some terrible games, then allows this guy to be super lazy and a bum on the staff, then apparently keeps him around another year because Saban just likes "lazy and goofy" people.

Or, Saban sent the guy who called that shitty Clemson game to the NFL to learn X's and O's as he needed, promoted the best defensive coach he could find to replace them. Then was basically just dealt the shittiest circumstances you could find with a ton of injuries, starting more than 50% freshman in your front 7 including both ILB. Yet still managed to finish with a defense 3rd in the SP+ and did well all things considered and Saban will keep him around.

It's pretty obvious which one I think makes more sense and which sounds like a pile of bullshite.

Prime example of why "Just ignore the insider" is impossible. Other people take the shite as fact and you still have to address it, no matter how crazy you must think Saban is to believe it.

So one guy was “plain bad” and so Golding clearly is? He had the worst supporting cast under Saban yet. Did you see Shane Lees PFF grade? It was like a 30 something. He was awful.