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re: Tray Matthews Transferring

Posted on 6/4/14 at 8:35 am to
Posted by Prettyboy Floyd
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Posted on 6/4/14 at 8:35 am to
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I'm not sure if you paid attention to Saban's arrival at Bama, but there was some serious purging going on then. Coaches who come into poisonous environments tend to try to clean house. I look at our secondary as kind of a mini version of that. Neither JHC or TM were purged without cause.


If we have that kind of turn around and the environment becomes a winning one that would be great. I am all for it and maybe that is the line of thinking by the coaching staff. That being said, Bama had growing pains.
Posted by WG_Dawg
Hoover
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Posted on 6/4/14 at 8:38 am to
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If we have that kind of turn around and the environment becomes a winning one that would be great. I am all for it and maybe that is the line of thinking by the coaching staff. That being said, Bama had growing pains


Correct, they went 7-6 their first year and lost to some pretty bad teams, including louisiana-monroe. Can you imagine if that happened to us?

But as you said, he changed the culture. Our culture now, I imagine, is going to be similar if not essentially the same as it was undef VanGorder. Fun time is over, people are going to respect if not downright fear our defensive coaches. Willie was the 180 degree opposite wanting to be pals with everyone, and while grantham had the right hard nosed attitude, he didn't have the on field results to back it up (in addition to not being very good at his job).

What we had from 01-04 was an absolutely perfect dynamic, something that bama has had since 2008. It looks like we're getting back to that, which is good.
Posted by Crowknowsbest
Member since May 2012
25890 posts
Posted on 6/4/14 at 8:39 am to
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If we have that kind of turn around and the environment becomes a winning one that would be great. I am all for it and maybe that is the line of thinking by the coaching staff. That being said, Bama had growing pains.

They did have growing pains, but those seem pretty trivial now. It's worth it to get the culture right.

You don't build programs by keeping shitty people around in the hope that they don't cause too much trouble.
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