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Congratulations to Mark Ingram - the Saban Era's first CFB Hall of Fame Inductee!
Posted on 1/14/26 at 7:14 pm
Posted on 1/14/26 at 7:14 pm
Our first Heisman Trophy winner and the 2010 BCS National Championship Game's offensive MVP.
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Posted on 1/14/26 at 9:19 pm to RollTide1987
Should be the start of a ton of Saban Dynasty guys.
Weird thing is...Julio Jones, maybe Saban's most important recruit, doesn't meet the criteria for the college hall of fame.
Weird thing is...Julio Jones, maybe Saban's most important recruit, doesn't meet the criteria for the college hall of fame.
Posted on 1/14/26 at 10:04 pm to Chad4Bama
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Julio Jones, maybe Saban's most important recruit, doesn't meet the criteria for the college hall of fame.
What are the criteria?
Posted on 1/14/26 at 10:06 pm to imjustafatkid
Have to at least be a first team consensus All American at some point. Julio was 2nd Team AA.
Posted on 1/14/26 at 10:12 pm to Chad4Bama
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Have to at least be a first team consensus All American at some point. Julio was 2nd Team AA.
Wow. That is outrageous.
ETA: Not the requirement. The fact Julio wasn't first team is outrageous.
This post was edited on 1/14/26 at 10:13 pm
Posted on 1/14/26 at 10:19 pm to imjustafatkid
Greg McElroy was his quarterback
Posted on 1/14/26 at 10:23 pm to imjustafatkid
He just didn’t put up big enough numbers thanks to the system he played in
But Julio will be in the Pro Football HoF
But Julio will be in the Pro Football HoF
This post was edited on 1/14/26 at 10:24 pm
Posted on 1/15/26 at 3:50 am to Diego Ricardo
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Greg McElroy was his quarterback
A lot of people like to throw shade at McElroy, but he was a very efficient QB - especially in his senior year when Julio had his best statistical season while at Alabama.
In 2010, McElroy completed almost 71% of his passes and threw just short of 3,000 yards. At the time his numbers were single season records for an Alabama QB. I think he also set the single-season school passing TD record with 20 that year.
Posted on 1/15/26 at 3:53 am to RollTide1987
Not only that, but his tiptoeing the sidelines during the SECCG for the first down will always be legendary to me.
Posted on 1/15/26 at 6:30 am to hwnd
What GMac did in the SECCG was great but he was a limited thrower. We never took advantage of Julio’s 1 v 1 deep threat like we could have.
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Posted on 1/15/26 at 7:04 am to Chad4Bama
It is the dumbest thing.
Posted on 1/15/26 at 8:24 am to 1BamaRTR
Julio didnt actually develop all the way until the NFL. He got much faster when he started training for speed.
Hes a true freak of nature just like Derrick Henry.
Hes a true freak of nature just like Derrick Henry.
Posted on 1/15/26 at 8:25 am to Kerrygold
Same reason Namath and Stabler can't be in the College Football HOF.
And Will Reichard
And Will Reichard
Posted on 1/15/26 at 8:28 am to RollTide1987
Damn did not realize that Ingram there was gap between Antonio Langham and Mark Ingram for Alabama players in the College Football HOF.
Posted on 1/15/26 at 11:29 am to Diego Ricardo
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What GMac did in the SECCG was great but he was a limited thrower. We never took advantage of Julio’s 1 v 1 deep threat like we could have.
We were also a run first, play action oriented offense for all three of Julio's seasons. In 2008 we had Glen Coffee and Mark Ingram in the backfield, in 2009 it was Mark Ingram and Trent Richardson, and in 2010 it was Mark Ingram, Trent Richardson, and Eddie Lacy. Not to mention we had unsung heroes such as Roy Upchurch and Jalston Fowler rounding out the RB room in that era.
Julio drew a lot of attention because our two other WRs were Marquis Maze and Darius Hanks. While both of them were good in their own way, they weren't gamechangers at the position. Defenses thus did their best to take away Julio on obvious passing downs and made us beat them with Maze, Hanks, Dial, or Smelley.
Posted on 1/15/26 at 11:37 am to RollTide1987
Also, I think Julio was banged up 2/3 years on campus.
Posted on 1/15/26 at 12:57 pm to Diego Ricardo
I know he was banged up for much of 2010 and he still finished 2nd Team All-American despite his injuries.
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