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

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

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.

Bull shite.

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. Bull shite. 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 bull shite.

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.

-- 3rdDown&Golding

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Happy Friday, everyone. News is still pretty slow, and probably will be until after National Signing Day when the coaching carousel can really get to spinning. We’ll open today with the cool Jalen Hurts tribute video from the football marketing folks...

Since there’s nothing else to talk about, we might as well beat this assistant coach thing into the ground. It has now been confirmed in multiple places that Pete Golding was actually calling the defense in the playoffs, and had been as far back as October.

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"After some early struggles during the season, Saban stripped Lupoi of defensive play-calling responsibilities and handed them over to co-defensive coordinator Pete Golding, according to sources. Saban had poached Golding from UT-San Antonio in the offseason in part to alleviate concerns about Lupoi’s inexperience with the secondary and as a play-caller. Still, word is Lupoi seemed overwhelmed during practices and didn’t totally grasp situational play-calling. While he was still heavily involved in the defensive game-planning, there was no question Golding taking over play-calling represented a demotion of sorts for Lupoi barely into the start of his defensive coordinator stint. Additionally, it was clear within the program how much Saban valued Golding, especially given he fended off other schools including Ole Miss in order to keep Golding at Alabama. It gave Lupoi reason enough to look for a soft landing place once Alabama’s season ended."

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