My fear going forward.

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On paper Alabama has had the best recruiting classes in the nation, but now the core if the team signed with Alabama when they were already on top. No one is left that winning was not expected for.

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Speak English, champ.

I think he is talking about the 08 and 09 classes being gone now.

The last players who signed with Alabama when they had not yet won a championship just played their final game. Those were only fifth year seniors. The players we have on the team going forward have only seen Alabama win it all more often than not. Some of these players, while extremely talented, might not have the competitive edge to win it all.

And none of those guys playing their last game today played in 08 or 09.

You have to be extremely lucky to win a national championship. Even more so now going forward with the Playoff.

It's a natural cycle of many programs. A new coach comes in, motivates and develops good players into great players. Additional great players are brought in and they become part of the building process. Everyone is hungry and everyone is on board to build the program. A whole bunch of winning takes place and when those guys who were around for the initial building phase are gone, that entitlement/complacency sets in.

I'm hoping Saban's drive is the X-factor that prevents it from happening to us. Next year is a going to be a huge year for this program...we'll either start our decline or we'll regroup and take another step towards a new run. Got a lot of work though.

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I hope so too, remember, it ate Urban Meyer up and chewed him out.

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Granted Urban Meyer refused to dance with what brought him there. He was known as a Spread Option coach but completely abandoned his offenses principles because apparently Tim Tebow despite being the size he was couldn't consistently execute his offense.

I mean Urban's passing game was always simple but Urban won two national titles. And if Cam doesn't buy a stolen laptop then likely that dynansty continues or even improves. Especially since Cam has turned out to be a better passer than Tebow. And he executes the zone read better than Tebow. Looking back I can't remember what Tebow actually did at Florida to get his hype/awards. He wasn't actually running much if any option in a so called "spread option" offense. But I have a copy of Urban's utah playbook. Alabama's passing game is super complicated compared to Urban's. His passing game consists of "You run a Post you run a cross".

Urban Meyer may be one of the biggest frauds that lucked into talent to ever coach the game of football.

I hate all of this talk about motivation. Why didn't the sting from the AU game motivate the players to perform? Fact is until Saban changes his defensive schemes, we are going to have a lot more of these losses. We need to realize that our complex defense based on checks in and out is not successful against HUNH spread teams. With more teams going this direction, we either have to change our gameplan or get left in the dust.

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No one is left that winning was not expected for. I have seen this seem pattern before in several teams (USC, Miami, etc.) as they start off winning with less talented teams but lose with more "talent" but less heart.

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I told some coworkers this morning that I want some 3 star players that want to be 5 star players instead of 4 and 5 star players that think their 10 star athletes.

The loss wasn't about complicated schemes. It was about offensive turnovers and bad offensive playcalling. Granted, there was some bad playcalling and execution on the defensive side, but the offensive players and staff deserve most of the blame for last night's loss.