re: Some of you just need to log off until spring ball starts

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Oh for sure. He's a FOG shithead whose life will lose all meaning without Alabama football.

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He's a Falcons fan now

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After seeing what’s happening, I’m dumbfounded that Alabama didnt have a better plan.

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I'm not. Byrne knows how to identify and hire coaches in an efficient, professional manner, which is admittedly more than many ADs can say, but beyond that I don't think he's good at his job.

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After seeing what’s happening, I’m dumbfounded that Alabama didnt have a better plan.

It’s the Wild West out here and we had zero plan, even though the coaching search went really well.

You simply have to pony up and keep a select few core players in times like this. If Downs, Bond, and pick about 4 others are in on things from the very start of this and the messaging is positive and leadership is on the same page, there’s no way it reaches this chaotic point.

Paying some HS kid millions in hopes he pans out is a far cry from having a fricking plan and paying your guys to keep the program pointed in the right direction.

We had no plan and now it’s uncertain if we have a functioning football team Idk if I can be convinced that it has to be this way.

You know how firms are hired to help out during mergers and shite? How does a program like Alabama not have something like that in place for HC departures nowadays?

Did they even halfway ponder if it was the worst possible time for Saban to step down?

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Sorry for the 2nd long post.


I hate when I type a long post and it’s at the of the previous page.

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He's a Falcons fan now

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Rage quitting on Alabama just to turn to the gold standard in football ineptitude? I mean frick dude at least go with a serious outfit like Pittsburgh, Green Bay, or San Francisco. The Falcons are like the South Carolina of the NFL.

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SummerOfGeorge

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Sadly, I have but one upvote to give. But know that I would give more, had I the opportunity.

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There definitely was a plan. Go out and get the best coach available. I think we did that.

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There is WAAAAAAAAY more to it nowadays with NIL and transfer portal and timing.

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As for retaining the roster I mean what can you do except meet with them and hope they're on board with the new direction of the team?

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We got outbid for every transfer we wanted to keep? That doesn’t even sound possible lol. We might not be Texas aTm but we aren’t broke af.

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Definitely, when my court schedule isn’t packed. Just wish we could have done it when Surge was still around. It would have been awesome. Man I miss that guy. He would have been nuking threads left and right.

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Absolutely let me know when, I believe you have my email.


Surge would being going apeshit right now. I can’t even imagine.

He was tired of F with NIL and players and their mothers with the hands out.

Read this article about Tom Izzo and how he is trying to manage NIL.

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Izzo believes Saban, 72, got out for a lot of NIL and portal-related reasons. They met as coaching pups in the 1980s, when they were still finding their place in their respective sports.

"At the end of the day, the kids are the ones who are going to lose," Izzo said re: NIL legislation and the transfer portal and little resistance to multi-time transfers with immediate eligibility. It's a maxim he's been sharing for a few years now with anyone who will listen.

FWB native. Was one of only two to attend FWBHS in the 80’s who were brave enough to wear Bama gear Moved to South Alabama years ago but FWB is always home.

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However, it's becoming more clear that Saban really did go to work one day and found that hiring another round of coaches was just too much and, in a moment of clarity, he said frick it.

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And that means a few days after the transfer portal closed, Saban opened up our entire roster to the country. A country who would do ANYTHING to see us never win another game ever again.

There is NO doubt programs are erring on the side of overpaying a little bit to get our guys. Adding a ~#3WR is nice for FSU. Raiding our entire roster no matter what player it is is good for EVERYONE.

It did not have to be that way.


How’d the players find out? I’m a wildly chaotic breaking news situation where they all had hundreds of calls and texts from family, friends, and teammates? And recruiters from other schools promising who knows what?


How, in today’s CFB, are the players not notified FIRST? And how is there not a serious effort to sit down the core guys and come up with a plan? Incentivize the plan and message moving forward. Get the whole core you have onboard preaching a positive message and a look to the future as the organization, that is on the same page, looks for the new coach.

Of course players will leave. Some already had before Saban announced.

But whatever we did was not a plan. There doesn’t seem like a single thought was put into anything other than frantically trying to throw money at a player after the snowball was out of control down the mountain.