re: How would you categorize the Saban teams?

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2008 team probably was probably my favorite team. Even though they didn’t win any championships, that team built the foundation for winning championships. What Saban did with the 2008 team was remarkable to me. In less than a yr he almost built a championship team in one of the worst times in Alabama football history.

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They embodied the "make his arse quit" ethos better than any Saban team before or since. The team that established what Saban said in his opening conference: he wanted people to dread playing Bama.

Offenses and football in general has become more finesse oriented since then...and that's fine.

But the 2008 team just bodied people. And came up a little short.