Alabama needs a team that can dominate the opponent and/or be the aggressor.

Don't discount IQ.

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Going back and looking at his two years in Washington, it was rare to see a dominant victory. Most, if not all, good opponents were a needless struggle, with many one score victories.

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To be fair, Cignetti had a lot of struggle wins at James Madison. Saban did as well at LSU. I was willing to give Deboer a little time because the team he inherited had multiple struggle wins over awful teams the previous year, including a blowout loss to a team Deboer beat at Washington. But three blowout losses in year two is a serious red flag.

I think he gets two more years but if no progress is made next season, he may as well not even bother showing up for spring drills in 2027.

Bring back Brian Dabol as OC

He won a title in 2017 as the OC. He ran a balanced offense.

I wish Pruitt never left to go to UTenn

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They will fire him and just pay the 900K per month until someone hires him to offset that monthly amount.

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Pretty sure his contract doesn't have that offset option. If he's fired he's getting all that money regardless of whether he gets another job or not.

I agree. We're stuck with him for better or worse for the next two years. The financial reality is we can't afford to fire him before then. I know some of our fans assume Greg Byrne can just automatically come up with the buy out from our alums but that's simply not true. Yes, CKD would be paid monthly the rest of his salary but that's still a crap load of money any way you cut it.

IMO, the program is at a massive crossroads and to get the ship righted, CKD is going to have to make some massive changes in the program. Business as usual with the same cast of characters ain't gonna get it. 3-5 coaches need to be fired along with maybe Courtney Morgan and David Ballou.

The currently and old recruiting strategy of getting what we can out of the HS ranks and pick up a few guys in the portal cannot work anymore. Some of the guys we got in the portal were a total waste (e.g. Peter Knudsen, Jack Sammarco, Kam Howard, Brody Dalton). IMO, we need to bring in probably 20 guys from the portal each year who can play from Day One and make a difference.

Can and will CKD make those changes? I don't know but continuing with the same old tired practices would seem to me that he's got two years max before he's fired.

Devil’s advocate question: In an environment in college football where a weak sister with a sugar daddy can open their checkbook and buy a CFP contender in a season, is “dominating opponents” outside the Mercers of the world a realistic standard anymore?

I’ve been ragging on our fan base the last couple of days, and I am not doing that to argue with people or to be an a-hole. And I don’t think our standard should ever, under any circumstances, be short of excellence.

But from a lot of the conversation here, I think it’s obvious that much of our fan base doesn’t understand that for better or worse … and I think it’s mostly worse … this is a completely different sport, I mean 180 degrees different, than it was as recently as two years ago. And it’s not changing back to the way it was before.

Which means that a lot of stuff people think is “supposed to be,” is a given to the point of being a birthright where Bama is concerned, might not be anymore.

I posted this in another thread, but this is actually the year where Coach can purge the rest of the players that he doesn’t want i.e. the Saban kids that didn’t pan out.

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Devil’s advocate question: In an environment in college football where a weak sister with a sugar daddy can open their checkbook and buy a CFP contender in a season, is “dominating opponents” outside the Mercers of the world a realistic standard anymore?

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Dominating every opponent every week is most likely no longer realistic, but there are plenty of teams who still put the game away in the second half. I don’t see any reason why Bama can’t do that in at least some conference wins unlike this year.