BAMA: Downs’s father basically just said Bama got the death penalty with Saban retirement

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quote: "It's essentially a new football program."

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Really is in some sense. I wouldn’t say death penalty level but definitely setting the program back at least 2 year in recruiting.

i thought the bammer brand and program was bigger than just saban?

Saban had no plan. He basically said it in his interview. The players felt insulted. This is not rocket science.

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Either no one wanted to follow Saban and declined the opportunity and Byrne was stuck with DeBoer or Bryrne really fricked this up.

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This is why you have to either hire a Saban disciple or a phenomenal recruiter. The number one priority should’ve been keeping our current team together.

When your girlfriend needs space after you lose your job.

Nobody better to tear down Bama than the one guy they revered

Saban brought the Dynasty down with him

Signing with and playing for Alabama when Saban was the HC provided NFL potential players an estimated 7-8 spot higher draft pick than they would have had elsewhere, according to some data. Anyone with eyes could see that if you played at a high level under Saban at Alabama you were going to make it to the NFL and when you did most likely several rounds higher than you would have otherwise. That is not the case today....it may prove to be but as of 1/18/2024 there is NO data to suggest that a new coach would retain that level of success for individual players. That data DOES exist for UGA under Smart and maybe 2-3 other coaches. Not at the same level...Saban made it happen for more often...but it does exist at other places and arguably Kirby Smart may be the best in CFB at it right now. If a major factor in playing for Alabama was being coached by Saban it'd be foolish to assume the next guy will have that kind of ability...to develop and highlight strengths in games with lots of eyes on them and up your draft stock. It may well happen, he may be better than Saban, but the data is inconclusive at Alabama for the moment while it is pretty well established in Athens and a handful of other places...

most LSU fans feel this because after O ran us into the ground after 2019 and got let go...we were down to between 36-39 players on scholarship and some of those were former walk ons who were given scholarships.

i mean it was so bad that we had to have a WR play qb in our bowl game

luckily we hired BK who was able to salvage the last two years but he had to do so with a defensive coaching staff he had to piece together. Luckily he got denbrock, sloan and hankton for offense and they were able to put together a great plana nd help the day to day stuff along with frank.

we are just now recovering fully and still have problems at certain positions and just now able to build the coaching staff as BK wanted

Bama will experience many of the same things. look at the exodus from A&M etc. KD will have to build staff from previous stops and then he will have to somehow stabilize the program and then in like 2 years build the staff as he sees fit to actually win at a high level in this conference. if he cant.....they will be looking for a new coach in years.