re: Ty Simpson staying.

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The QB battle last year came down to Milroe winning the team with his leadership and intangibles. Him taking the WRs to Florida and spending time with them put them firmly behind him. Simpson spent pretty much no time working with his teammates, but rather working on himself. Simpson was also somewhat immature, and when he would make a mistake in practice, he would over compensate and couldn't just move on. Buchner really did neither, but came in with an attitude that he would win the starting spot, even though he was only told he would have a chance to compete, so he never got any support from his teammates. He didn't make the mistakes in practice Simpson did, and that put him ahead. Milroe had half the team ready to run through a wall for him, so that gave him the start spot. Buchner not caring to develop any chemistry with his teammates was a large reason for the lack of effort from anyone when we played USF. It was also why the effort increased with Simpson in the game, because quite a few players did not care for Buchner at all.

He said Simpson realized what happened and how it happened and took a smart route. The entire year he has spent time developing relationships with the second string, primarily Hale, Miller, Hayes, Alilen, McVay, Formby, Young etc, and has spent a lot more time hanging out with a lot more players this year.

He thinks there will be a QB battle in the spring, because Milroe is losing a lot of the guys who were really behind him to graduation and the draft and with one of Saban's big focuses being winning the team, Ty has made that a lot closer already. Not saying he will overtake Jalen, just that Ty has been much smarter with his approach and stopped making it so much about improving just himself, and that Ty has closed the gap significantly with the team.

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Has anyone else heard similar?

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No, but it is definitely believable, and kind of echoes what we have heard and seen over the last year.