re: Alabama and their Dynasty Period...

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Some buddies and I were talking about football dynasties and I said certainly think Bama has been in one for a while, even though they lost last year.

The facts speak for themselves, Saban is a great Coach who surrounds himself with good coaches and other talented staff.

Bama has invested in great facilities and promoted their school and program the right way.

The most impressive thing to me is his recruiting and the type of players that Saban recruits. He has not fallen into the trap that he must have small speedy linebackers and linemen to defend the spread offenses like others schools and what Chavis got us in to.

Player like Ragland and Beckwith can play anywhere.
This is what was lost on Chavis and his recent recruiting style.

With that said, LSU is on the right track now, not exactly following the Bama model to a "T" but building our own defensive style in recruiting and carving out our own path.

Win or lose 11/7 Bama has been a great program, but we are coming on strong !

Should be a great game like always

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I think part of that is backwards. Saban did have the best strategy before the spread HUNH offenses reached the SEC. Then, he took a page out of Les Miles playbook when you guys played Oregon in 2011 and TAMU in 2012. LSU had moved to smaller but faster DL's to deal with the spread and HUNH style. If you didn't notice we got away from the Terrence Cody/Jesse Williams type huge and immobile NGs and went to faster and mobile DL's accross the entire line. And he built a system to rotate them in and out faster so he can keep fresh legs in and twitch pass rushers when needed. It took about 2-3 years to put all the pieces together but it's scary now. I've never seen us sack the QB this many times and they still stop the run better than everyone in the country.