re: Suppose Kiffin leaves after this season, who do you think we realistically hire?

Heard a sports personality this morning say that he thinks NS made Kiffin give him a minimum of a 2 year commitment before he would hire him. So unless a major power 5 job opens up I think at least one.

why would we want someone like Chad or Cliff with the kind of fun and gun chit tht they run. Don't ever want at bama

some of you make bad comments. Jim is a president of a college nd his good days are long past him. Wow. Really?

Realistic? No. In my book it is ideal. I miss throwing to our tight ends and running back screens. Mac will get a big job somewhere. Shoot maybe Florida.

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im Tressel so he could make his coaching comeback too while we keep winning.

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You'd want to return to Tressel ball at Bama? Yeah, he's traditional and conservative, hallmarks of Bama's history, but with Saban opening things up offensively with his last two hires, I'm not sure anyone would really want to take that full step back in that direction. A happy medium seems to be working just fine.

Jeff Tedford

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That style of offense was in use the last time Alabama went undefeated for a National Title with a Heisman winner to boot.

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I grew up watching that style of play. It's one of the main reasons I love watching football, so I'm not suggesting y'all (or Saban) would ever want to scrap it. But I'd be curious as to how many Bama fans wouldn't prefer the more balanced system you've started to develop over the last 2-3 seasons. You had all-time great O-lines over the period of Saban's titles, but O-line talent is hard to predict and one mediocre run-blocking year and you start losing games you should be winning. What Saban is doing is giving y'all more options, so if the run game is flagging, the pass game can pick up the slack. I would even suggest that y'all lose the game against LSU without Kiffin's involvement in the offensive system because your o-line simply isn't the perfect storm of impossibly effective run-blocking you had a couple years ago. You're better at pass pro now than you used to be, and that's a good thing, I'd say. One of the Bear's best qualities is his ability to adapt, and CFB is changing even faster now than it did back in his day. So Saban's adapting.

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My thing is maybe the different talent on the team each season should shape the style of offense that is used. Who's to say that Bama's offense should be the same every year even when one style would fit the personnel better than whichever one was used the year before? Hell, it could even be two different variations of a run-oriented offense, with one being predicated on zone-reads and the other being based on i-formation runs and play-actions.

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I agree completely. That's the thrust of what I'm saying. Kiffin (and Nussmeier, even if he had major issues) are in the position to allow for that flexibility. What Saban's doing with the defense -- bringing in smaller, speedier players to counter the au courant spread variations and HUNH, for instance -- new schemes are doing with the offense. You get a top-notch dropback passer? Now you can utilize him to the best effect. You get...the name escapes me, that great dual-threat y'all have coming in...you can adjust for that. You have the next JPW? You can establish the power run or go with split backs or even use the Wildcat that worked so well under McElwain. And so on. The reason Bama wasn't really known for great receivers prior to Julio (not to diminish the greatness of ones like Prothro, who was a true pleasure to watch) was that the offensive schemes were limited, and in the evolving landscape of football, you can't afford to stagnate. As I said before, that ability to adapt was one of the Bears greatest attributes.