re: For those who are ridiculously hating on Heupel and the amazing job that he's doing

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Suffice it to say, none of these 4 coaches inherited a situation as dire as Heupel's...

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In 2007, Saban inherited an offensive line that returned Chris Capps as a starter, and one of his supposed best offensive players who was selling blow in the parking lot of the athletic department offices. And don't let the fact that, albeit in a prison yard somewhere, DJ Hall is still catching passes against Tennessee blind you to the fact that he was a god-awful cancer.

Heupel had 5 players drafted his first year. That was 5 more than Saban had drafted his first year at Alabama. Yep...that's right...Saban had exactly zero players drafted his first year at Alabama.

Granted, it wasn't the same stage of his career, but if you think Heupel inherited a direr situation at Tennessee than what Saban inherited at Alabama, then you've likely been consuming too much of Jimmy Johns' product. And I don't mean sandwiches.