What happened to our program?

Chip Kelly for OC and a quality qb with weapons

Nick retired on Wednesday. Greg Byrne had a spa day scheduled for Friday. He had to get someone quickly.

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He had to get someone quickly.

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And he got the best available coach on the market.

Not bad for a couple days work.

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I can’t prove this but I sense we’re really behind the learning curve and to be blunt we’re being outsmarted by schools like OSU.

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Outspent is partially it.

The rest is frankly we are in a transition period with a coach with a different philosophy on how to play the game. I don’t think DeBoer really had much of a clue before the portal closed as to what we needed.

I don’t think we are flat footed but the hard truth is that we aren’t going to be able to outspend the Ohio States and Michigans. Period. Coaching and development will be crucial moving forward if we want to win another national championship anytime soon.

Three weeks ago OSU fans wanted their coach fired

I, for one, am shocked and blind-sided by the fact that the greatest run in college football history didn't continue on forever, and Bama looks mortal.

bUt BuT wE lOoK aWfUl, nOt mOrTaL!

Yes, yes, l too am shocked we lost 4 games in year one of a new coach.

I don't think Deboer did a great job in year one. But, it was year one. If you're expecting a Saban level run, welcome to reality. I always said there would be a lot of shocked fans when reality set in. But, if you think Bama can be one of the top programs and have a shot to win it all in some years, there's still hope. We haven't seen DeBoer’s Bama yet.

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Coaching and development will be crucial moving forward if we want to win another national championship anytime soon.

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May be totally wrong but I think KDB is one of the ones capable of accomplishing this going forward . He is used to doing more with less ( although he just secured a top five recruiting class ) .

Both he and Terry were done with Pay for Play.

Terry said the recruit's parent(s) were only interested in how much money they would receive.

All those high ranked recruits on the roster actually made it worse to resolve yet made winning a little easier.

Saban was the GOAT football coach. He wasn’t capable of parting the Red Sea or dividing the fishes and feeding the multitudes like some in our fan base think.

Some people just don’t understand that the days of a coach showing the rifraff the door are gone.

Again, players essentially are equal partners to the coaches right now. I don’t like that, I don’t think the people who argued for giving the players a space at the money trough really expected unintended consequences to this extent, but it is what it is.

And no message board griping or threats by fans to stop watching is going to bring back the old way. The courts, even the “conservative” Supreme Court, are 100% on the players’ side, Congress won’t do anything but bloviate and any “college football commissioner” who’s named, by who I don’t know, would have zero power to change a thing because he’d still be bound by the court rulings that are in place.

The end game IMO will be a collective agreement where players agree to stay two years before going to the portal, but the schools in turn will have to guarantee those two years as well barring horrific misconduct by players, meaning a new coach won’t be able to come in and run people off. Which again puts coaches and players on equal footing because IMO nobody will touch NIL, it’s set in stone forever.

And the point of this early morning filibuster is that I am increasingly beginning to think that given our program’s unique culture and values and ways of doing things that are shared by a rabid fan base, and because our sugar daddies while well heeled by Alabama standards aren’t in the same solar system with a lot of other programs’ sugar daddies, we’re going to have a very tough although not insurmountable path moving forward in the new version of college football.