Shula days are here, again.

100%.

This was an epic failure on Byrne’s part- the definition of clusterfrick.

Unranked. Check.
Losing record since 2006. Check.

Yeah, this is pretty much tell me you're too young to remember Shula without telling me you're too young to remember Shula. Try Mike DuBose blaming God for loses while playing park the sub with his secretary. Those were the salad days.

The influx of negative, overreacting posts on here by posters I’ve never seen before is suspect…

It’s definitely feeling like a return to the Debose era. The bright side of the Shula era (apart from winning 10 games that one time) was that we were plucky and would be in games, but wearing down in the 4th due to lack of depth. It also brought in the Saban era…

With Dubose we were constantly lost, special players could cause us to have a good year, but we’d quickly crash down after that. There were times when you could tell the other team was better, and we wouldn’t even try. The Dubose to Fran to Price to Shula string felt like it took forever (probably because it occurred during the peak of my formative football watching year, 8-17). I remember watching Game Day and just hoping that Alabama would even get mentioned in passing. I also remember one time Lee Corso saying the Alabama was dead and Bama fans just had to accept that we were no longer relevant, maybe somebody can find that clip somewhere between 2002 and 2005.

Shula's teams at least cared and fought hard. They were undermanned because of NCAA penalties. His teams were worned down in the 4th QTR. The 2025 team and coaches are any a negative league all their own.

It is dangerously close to being a reality. We are about to be left behind Nebraska style once again unless they find answers FAST. I can't believe this is really happening. Hell I knew we would take a step back after CNS but never imagined a full on collapse.

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That era we were guaranteed dead for at least half a decade.

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Unless we can come up with $60M in a hurry, we’re about to be guaranteed that, now.

And, then, even if we do come up with $60M, well, that was $60M that could have been spent on NIL. Or building a basketball arena. What’s going to happen to NIL money if we pay out what we can get to a fricking $60 buyout?

Total, complete, epic fricking clusterfrick failure by Byrne. That’s just the reality, downvotes notwithstanding. Ya ain’t gotta like it, but that’s what it is.

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Unless we can come up with $60M in a hurry, we’re about to be guaranteed that, now.

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I know this seems pie in the sky, but we could hire a killer DC, throw some money at some OL and DL talent, have another good recruiting class and be in very good shape almost immediately.

Back in that era, there were no such options. 5 year probation, two year bowl ban and we were down to 64 scholarships. We couldn't even bring in enough guys each year to fill half the outgoing roster. No coaches would even consider coming to town unless they had very limited options otherwise.

Shula would have still been coach in 2007 if he’d done what his boss asked him to.