Everybody just has to readjust themselves mentally and understand every week is a toss up

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Going to be a long season

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Already has been. We're just another good team now. shite is hard.

Georgia is about as consistent a program as exists and they've already gotten shellshocked against us in a loss and were one first down away from losing to a 6-6 or 5-7 Kentucky team.

It just feels different this year with the last two games like we are going to lose but all of those games you posted felt like we would pull them out (except maybe the two Auburn road games)

Everything has made it feel that way, new coaches, better teams, portal, Nil, super conferences. Every team you play in the SEC now can beat you, doesn’t matter about record.

Go 2-1 the next three and win the rest we are sitting pretty.

Win the next three the bandwagon will be full.

First up, beat fricking Tennessee.

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Things, both for us and nationally, aren't nearly as consistent as they used to be. Teams are up and down, and you can't watch a team for 2 weeks and then translate that performance to the next. Clock rules ensure shorter games with less possessions, leading to closer games.

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All the aspects of the NFL that create so much parity implanted in a system where there is annual free agency for all players and less than 10% of the teams make the playoff is just a terrible product. I give it 3 years before the playoff expands to 32 teams and 8-4 probably gets you in. Too much parity with a 12 team field and you risk having half the participants be teams with no ratings draw.

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It is amazing how 20 years of programming from the GOAT was flushed the second he retired.

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Not sure why, we looked the same the same 3 seasons. This isn't a change in how we are playing, it's a change in how to watch the program and the game. Anybody pretending what we're seeing with penalties, on defense or with some of the immature behavior is some sort of brand be phenomena are whistling past the graveyard.

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We should all readjust and understand that the best football program in the country just might lose to Vandy or Carolina any given week ?

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Vandy and South Carolina should not have been toss ups. We played poorly. But Vandy and South Carolina are good enough to make games into toss ups when we play poorly. The next 3 games are against top 20 teams. It's also been shown time and again this season that finding a way to win games where you play like arse is a pretty important factor, and something that we did really well for the last 4 years. Because we played like arse against shitty teams A LOT.

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I respectfully decline this idea.

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This is also how you end up relentlessly shitting on a QB who will end his career with some of the best stats in program history, won at least 1 SEC title, multiple All-Conference/American awards and been a great leader for the program. Because it if isn't perfect it's trash and it sucks and it makes us sick to our stomach.


Everybody can do whatever the frick they want, but wanting to fire everyone and declare the DuBose era because we beat a bad team in a close game or, gasp, play poorly for 2 straight weeks sounds like something I'd prefer not do. And acting as if this all of a sudden showed up this season is silliness. Stats are clear - this isn't new behavior from the program. This behavior began in 2021 and was embedded into this programs DNA before DeBoer even stepped on campus. We've been sloppy and up and down for almost 4 seasons now.

The robotic, murderball, every game the same era of Alabama football ended with COVID.

We're 5-1 and ranked in the Top 10. We have everything ahead of us. If we got 8-4, then yea it'll be time for evaluation and some hard talks. We aren't there right now. Football is a long season and teams change - 1,000 examples of that throughout the years.

Finally a voice of reason on this board

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To me it feels different because the self inflicted wounds the last few years were largely penalties and too much BooB and Golding, but this year organization and time management frick ups have been added to the pile.

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Guys who played or coached college football have either hinted, or directly pointed out in detail serious issues with the defensive schemes and coaching. Culture and attitude issues began under Saban, but serious coaching issues were still rare.

He had some questionable coordinator hires and letting a Tenn receiver catch 5 TDs in one game was an epic coaching failure, but the attention to detail and a scheme that flat out didn’t work wasn’t the problem.

That said, our offensive scheme is actually improving from last year and trending back towards Sark/Kiffin play calling (still needs tweaks and Milroe to be a better decision maker).

Every teams first string (22) players are going to better than in the past. NIL and the portal have done what they were designed to do. Level the playing field. Successful teams will be those that can develop depth the best.

SoG, I agree with your takeaway, but reject the premise that NIL and the transfer portal has injected a bunch of parity into the sport.

Just last year there was so little parity in conference play, an undefeated “power conference” team didn’t make the playoff. And there were 7 teams undefeated or 1 loss P4 teams after conference championships.

Time will tell, but my opinion is this is more of a one off due to there not being elite QB play rather than a return to the BCS era level of parity. Conference realignment may also give the appearance of more parity just by consolidating the best teams, so they have to play each other (Oregon vs Ohio State).

The low point of CFB parity was probably late 2010s because the best teams Alabama and Clemson also had good NFL QBs - Tua, Hurts, Lawrence, Watson.

I believe it comes down to qb play.

BAMA got exceptional qb play for the most part in 3/4 first 4 games. Luckily the one was USF.

The last two he's been subpar. He's turned it over as many times as he's scored.

Tejas has two great qbs.
Oregon's qb played well at home vs OhioSt.
OhioSt's qb played well in that game but made a bone head play to end it, but he didn't get called for OPI.
Miami. The list goes on.


Great qb play is always going to be the key to winning. Not good, Great. When Milroe plays Great BAMA wins.
Period. The defense is good enough. It isn't great, but it's good enough.