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Posted on 1/11/19 at 8:38 pm to Xignals
Posted on 1/11/19 at 8:38 pm to Xignals
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.
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.
Posted on 1/11/19 at 8:41 pm to phil4bama
Hey Phil...what you just said was industrial-grade, pussified horseshite.
Posted on 1/11/19 at 9:25 pm to phil4bama
Defense has and will always win championships. You can punt on third down, win by a safety and leave with a ring. A hole in scheme or personel can be exploited to the tune of 14 points. Which they did, give them points on turnovers which we did and you get what happened Monday night. There is no new way, they just played and coached like we usually do. They done pulled an us on us. I would rather have Sabans son in law coaching than Dabo. frick Dabo, watch what happens when shite goes sideways.
This post was edited on 1/11/19 at 9:28 pm
Posted on 1/11/19 at 9:27 pm to phil4bama
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But we need Dabo Swinney in Tuscaloosa right now because he will soon be lost forever to us.
What in the name of Gumby's Green Dick makes you think that Dabo would come to Alabama now, and that there's a closing window of opportunity for getting him? This is a farcical invention in your own mind.
Dabo has now been in Clemson MUCH longer than he was in Tuscaloosa, and there's no logical reason to assume that his heart still lies in Alabama enough to make him want to leave that job.
Dabo is diety there. Let it go, hoss.
Posted on 1/12/19 at 7:07 am to phil4bama
I loveve dabo but if we are being honest, he doesn't face good teams weekly or even monthly. Obviously he can be anybody but with that soft arse schedule he has easy st to playoffs. He is peaking while the rest of the ACC is just having a contest on who can suck the worst.
That's the reason his approach works is because he is so far above his conference that he can make it fun and have time off. Do that in the sec week in and week out and the results might not be the same. We truly don't know if he can sustain the grind of the sec. It's killed many coaches
That's the reason his approach works is because he is so far above his conference that he can make it fun and have time off. Do that in the sec week in and week out and the results might not be the same. We truly don't know if he can sustain the grind of the sec. It's killed many coaches
Posted on 1/12/19 at 9:05 am to phil4bama
lol you're just another nancyboy. Get up from the fetal position and start acting like a bog boy! There are boys that want to become men in this world and there are boys and men that like things the Saban way!
Including Gene Stallings who has always said THE FUN IS IN THE WINNING!!! GOOHWTBPS and stop acting like a barner snowflake!
Including Gene Stallings who has always said THE FUN IS IN THE WINNING!!! GOOHWTBPS and stop acting like a barner snowflake!
This post was edited on 1/12/19 at 9:08 am
Posted on 1/12/19 at 10:04 am to phil4bama
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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.
Do you mean the way charlie weatherbie prevented the birth of the dynasty on 2007?
Or maybe you mean how kyle whittingham aborted it in 2009.
What about nick saban getting hit the gut with a bag of frickin oranges in the 2010 iron bowl?
And let us not forget back to back crushing losses in the "kick six" and against oklahoma. Oklahoma beat our fricking asses and after the "kick six", every dipshit sportswriter in the country had gus malzahn pegged as the new big dog of SEC football.
Hugh freeze gutted the dynasty in 2014 and 2015. I mean who the frick loses to ole miss, right? How shameful was all that shite? Those were the "nick saban can't adjust" years.
And finally, what was the narrative after losing to ohio state in 2014? That's right, nick saban is slipping on defense and Alabama can't beat a third string quarterback.
Alabama has suffered humiliating defeats under nick saban and on big stages before, this isn't new. The only way nick saban doesn't adapt, just as he always has is if he quits.
Panic when he retires, not before.
This post was edited on 1/12/19 at 10:07 am
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