re: Enos GONE to Miami Hurricanes....

Boz, you're awfully quiet. I'd like to hear our resident insider's scoop on this. You can't spin this positively IMHO. Nobody in modern college football can keep retooling his staff every freaking year and maintain elite status. He's done it so far, but it can't continue.

Here's the cold, hard truth that we don't want to face, myself included. Dabo Swinney may have just singlehandedly crumbled the Dynasty in 60 minutes of total destruction Monday night. But not because of the game, but what it revealed.

A good arse-whipping every now and then isn't a terrible thing. It grounds and refocuses everyone on the goal and is the best damn cure in the world for complacency and for smoking out the malcontents. We're seeing some of that and it's to be expected and actually welcomed. But here's the collateral damage that may cause a paradigm shift in college football.

Everybody talks about the Process and about Saban and everybody knows it works. It still does. But the Process is hard, it's cold, it's mean, and it's all business all the time. It's no fun. Not for the players and not for the coaches. Hell, it's not even fun for Saban but it's all he knows. So even though everyone would disparage Saban for his methods, they did so begrudgingly because the results speak for themselves. He's the GOAT.

But now there's this new kid in town. And he's gone 4 rounds with Saban and he's held his own: winning 2 and taking Bama to the brink in one of the losses. And he's got his own Dynasty in the making and he's having fun and he's self deprecating, and his players and his coaches love him. He's working hard too, but not the same grind Saban demands. And it's working just as well. In short, he's shown there's another way. You don't have to be a miserable human being to be a legend. And people are taking notice.

What the other poster said is not so far-fetched. You can't fire Saban (obviously) and you can't force him to retire or even tell you when he plans on it. You certainly can't jet-gate him. He's earned the right to finish his career when and how he wants. But we need Dabo Swinney in Tuscaloosa right now because he will soon be lost forever to us. And while Saban's way will still work, it won't work as well. Clemson is gaining a leg up on us and with each passing day, the gap will widen ever so slightly. You can deny it if you want, but you're whistling past the graveyard if you do. There's now a better way, Dabo's way.