re: Trolls on team board

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Alfie Solomons

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Your posts are always entertaining because I challenge myself to try and read them in Hardy's voice from Peaky Blinders, which is hard as shite to do.

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He could have hired Steele too and made them co-DCs and put it in Pruitt’s contract if the show cause comes then he is demoted to an analyst at reduced pay.

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Don't think this is an option. Pretty sure that if Pruitt is on staff in a coaching capacity when issued a show cause we get hit with sanctions even if he was demoted.

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I don’t think the style offense Rees will run is going to be high scoring

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I don't know why anyone thinks Rees is going to run a different offense than what Saban has had all our OCs run since Kiffin.

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Don't think this is an option. Pretty sure that if Pruitt is on staff in a coaching capacity when issued a show cause we get hit with sanctions even if he was demoted.

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The intent of a show cause is to make it harder for a coach to gain employment after it is issued, not prior to it being issued.

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I don't know why anyone thinks Rees is going to run a different offense than what Saban has had all our OCs run since Kiffin.

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Honestly I never considered that, wow that’s so much worse than I thought.

If Saban hired Rees to run the offensive like Kiffin and Sark did it’s an even worse decision than if he hired him to run the offense he was running at ND.

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I’ve made it obvious I am in the camp that thinks Saban could have done much much better with both of these hires, especially with the DC. I honestly do not believe these hires are upgrades and are lateral moves at best. And I find all this talk of “I’m beginning to like these hires” or “we will have to just wait and see how they do” or “how can you be upset they haven’t called a play for Alabama” talk ridiculous

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This is going to sound like I’m being an arse but I’m not. What makes you think Saban didn’t hire the best available? There is this mistaken perception that Alabama can hire whoever whenever they want and that is simply not true. So who would you have hired that you know would accept the job at Alabama?

Look I may get disappointed in a hire but it’s never directed at a head coach who has had the success That Saban has had. I mean what else could he possibly do to create a better work environment than what he has done at Alabama? If this is who was available and would accept the job then what else could possibly be done. Fans create false narratives based on their love for a school and believe it to be reality. Truth is no one but those inside the program and the individuals themselves know what transpired.

There are a couple of posters on here who used to be fairly level-headed and enjoyable, and are now (in my opinion) almost completely the opposite. It's almost as though their teenage child has gotten their account info and is posting as them.

I'm less than excited about the coordinator hires, as well, but Saban has forgotten more about football than I'll ever know, so I'll remain hopeful. I can still remember the message-board excitement when Saban first hired Steele (with folks having signatures like "Defense forged from STEELE!" and such). It's pointless to wring our collective hands over either hire until we see what sort of product they put on the field.

On the overall topic of trolls here: This is an LSU-based site at its core. In my opinion, LSU has maybe the greatest percentage of unhinged and on-the-fringe segments of their fanbase of any major school. Not all, by any stretch, but there's a lot of them. Since we're one of their chief rivals, they seem to delight in spending time mocking us and doing whatever they can to get under our skin. I don't really understand the appeal of that approach, but it's par for the course here.

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Saban didn't choose Steele over Pruitt. He chose him because Pruitt wasn't an option.

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Currently Pruitt is unemployed and does not have a show cause letter From the NCAA; dude is available.

Obviously Saban knows something, but maybe he just isn’t willing to make a risky move.

I am going to stop now, or at least I’m going to try. Again, I really hope I am proven wrong.

Shaft Willaims, succo? Sp?, socco? Those two guys do nothing but talk negatively about Alabama. There are others but ignore anything those two say

the vast majority of people in life do not like to be around other people who whine and complain all the time. That is just natural human reaction.

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