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DeBoer and staff's strength is starting to show
Posted on 10/14/25 at 3:56 pm
Posted on 10/14/25 at 3:56 pm
Player development.
Look at the youth contributing and playing very well.
Riley, Carrol, Lottie, Dijon, etc.
Look at the youth contributing and playing very well.
Riley, Carrol, Lottie, Dijon, etc.
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Posted on 10/14/25 at 4:21 pm to crimsoncoded94
Young DL are coming along nicely too
Posted on 10/14/25 at 4:46 pm to SECSolomonGrundy
Our staff wasnt developing players last 2 years under Saban. Not blaming Saban, I think he had to step back due to age and couldn't do as much
Posted on 10/14/25 at 4:58 pm to crimsoncoded94
Idiot.
Posted on 10/14/25 at 5:07 pm to LATIDER
? Huh
Posted on 10/14/25 at 5:09 pm to LATIDER
He’s not an idiot. Saban says this himself in an interview with Ryan Clark. The last year he had to do more than ever and it damn near killed him. Couldn’t develop like he wanted because he was holding everything together due to not having good assistants.
So no. Not an idiot.
So no. Not an idiot.
Posted on 10/14/25 at 5:44 pm to RescueT
Yup. Saban spends a lot of time with the DBs but he never personally developed every player even when he was 55. We just had bad staffs near the end of his career. 2021 fell short due to the lack of WR development. 2022 fell short because each coordinator fricked up royally in one of the two losses.
This post was edited on 10/14/25 at 6:15 pm
Posted on 10/14/25 at 6:05 pm to crimsoncoded94
Saban has said multiple times the reason he retired is his age started to effect his abilities to land the recruits he wanted and hire the assistant coaches he wanted.
Posted on 10/14/25 at 6:38 pm to mistaken4193
The Process also became a watered down version compared to what it was at the beginning of the Saban era. Players in the early years of the Saban era had to endure the consequences of their actions, and often came out on the other side a better player/man because of it. The free flowing transfer portal gave the prima donas a quick and easy route out. This is why our mental and physical toughness dwindled towards the end of the Saban tenure.
Posted on 10/14/25 at 7:15 pm to Hawaiian Punch
Blah blah blah. Op is not talking about Saban. Why y’all keep bringing up old shite?
Posted on 10/14/25 at 8:10 pm to RescueT
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Saban says this himself in an interview with Ryan Clark
I'd love to see that interview. Do you have a link?
This post was edited on 10/14/25 at 8:10 pm
Posted on 10/14/25 at 8:14 pm to Hawaiian Punch
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The Process also became a watered down version compared to what it was at the beginning of the Saban era. Players in the early years of the Saban era had to endure the consequences of their actions, and often came out on the other side a better player/man because of it. The free flowing transfer portal gave the prima donas a quick and easy route out. This is why our mental and physical toughness dwindled towards the end of the Saban tenure.
Nailed it, best explanation of what happened the last few years under saban. You know they tried everything for years to stop saban , they made rules about recruiting, changed rules to make offenses faster with no huddle, saban would just change like a chameleon and use their ways to make bama more dominant. Then they let players transfer without sitting out, then started paying players and it took a couple years to see the results but it finally pushed him over the edge. He couldn't build men without discipline, he couldn't create discipline without consequences. So his players got soft and he couldn't take it anymore.
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