re: You guys are clearly missing Saban's perceived value to these players

Posted this in another thread but it fits here better.
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Reality check - Saban was the draw.

Some of y'all melting over the past five or six days need to wake up and smell the coffee. Hard fact, whether you want to believe it as someone who bleeds crimson or not - the MAJORITY of kids in our program don't bleed crimson. They came to Alabama because of one man. That man is gone. Save all your stuff about him still being there. He's not.

That doesn't mean DeBoer can't build his own great thing, but he's going to have to prove himself as a coach and relationship builder and then he will be the attraction. I know some of y'all want to believe that it's about love of school or pride in University, but it just isn't. The good news for DeBoer is, even with the departures, he's taking over a very good situation.

Kiffin MIGHT could have kept a couple of these kids based on having a prior relationship recruiting the South, but not most of them. Why? Cause Kiffin isn't Saban. Nobody is. The closest thing, as difficult as it is to hear, is the guy in Athens. That is probably the ONLY hire that could have mostly held this together.