re: What % of the blame goes to the coaches?

I would have to agree with this point of Saban seeming detached sat night. Maybe he realized we were not prepared properly for the game and now it was too late to do much about it. I never saw Saban get angry or upset when every Alabama fan in the stadium was distraught and mad.
Hardly saw him in offensive or defensive huddles or even trying to exhort his players. Was wondering "why the indifference?". Never could figure it out.
He said he was just trying to think how he could best help the team. Guess he never got the answer

I certainly don't mean to imply that he didn't care about the game but it was just my impression from watching him on the sidelines during timeouts and commercial breaks.

By the way I place 100% of the blame on coaches. Our players have talent whatever they did not do yesterday was because the coaches failed to extract it out of them.

The fake FG call is one of the worst calls ever. Hell, with our kicking game, Clemson was watching for a fake on our PAT attempts. Just terrible.

All losses are always 100% on the coaching staff, in particular, the head coach. Coach Saban knows he owns this one. Nobody is perfect, Dabo beat his arse last night and more importantly the week leading up to in preparation and game planning. He will learn and move forward and be a better coach next year.

1. Pick 6 on Tua. Even he said so.
2. Offensive play calling seemed fine. Shredded them between the 20s like we were supposed to.
3. Needed to go with Jacobs more. He was the hot hand and they didn’t have an answer for him.
4. Damien Harris has to be able to muscle his way in from the 1. He got multiple attempts.
5. Same for Najee
6. Fake FG was foolish. Had Fletcher made any attempt at blocking the tackler, and had we instead just done a direct pitch to the kicker, he has a lane to at least make a legitimate go of 6 yards. Watch it again.
7. Jeudy didn’t sprint on the 2nd pick. If he does he probably draws PI. Possibly catches it for a TD. We’ll never know.
8. Ross beat our secondary straight up. That’s on the players. Saban can’t cover the WRs for them.
9. Should’ve had more of a rotation to keep DL fresh and generate pass rush. Depth was a glaring issue as we were gassed relatively early in the game.
10. Coaching turnover is a real issue that hurts programs. Our talent is better than most and hides this. If Clemson experiences even half the coordinator changes, I don’t think they’re even in the playoffs every year like us. But that’s a hypothetical because they haven’t. So it is what it is.

Personnel and play calling is on coaches.
Execution is on players.
Saban will take the blame because that’s his job, but as a program, we failed miserably.

Change my mind.

He still didn’t even bother to sprint and it was about two steps ahead of him

But agree to disagree