re: Damien Harris, not a DeBoer fan.....

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Guys like Damien Harris are why Saban coached. He saw more guys like Malachai Moore on his team and lost his love for the game. He forsaw games like Saturday happening more often with younger kids too obsessed with what can i get for myself money wise than what can i do for my team.

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I think you are missing the real reason, the transfer rules being put forth like they were stops any discipline a coach might lay down, because a guy will just say, he coach I will transfer. That is why Saban left, not only paying players, but having to recruit them every year, and there can be no REAL DISCIPLINE with these rules.

I stated in 2020 this would destroy CFB.

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What most, like me, have railed against are all the idiots on here that were and some still are saying that Alabama will suddenly be a .500 team.

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Have never read a post here that said that.

Must've missed it.

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I think you are missing the real reason, the transfer rules being put forth like they were stops any discipline a coach might lay down, because a guy will just say, he coach I will transfer. That is why Saban left, not only paying players, but having to recruit them every year, and there can be no REAL DISCIPLINE with these rules.

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It goes both ways. DeBoer can sit Malachi. It's not like Malachi is a difference maker.

How do you miss all the TN Tygah, William Taylor, Draconian Sanctions, LSU Patrick and Nicholas tiger posts?

You seem to have a VERY selective memory, I notice it in a lot of your posts.

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Not at all. In 2010 when UA was coming off a NC our defense made Garcia look like the top pick in the draft and we heard the same thing.

The other issue is play like that after beating UGA the week prior as the underdog hosting the game. But I guess the lost to Vandy also really exposed UGA as well as being a pretender.

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No. When you are at your best you can beat us. We can also beat you. The problem here is the standard was dropped. You've got a much wider gap in your floor to ceiling play now on any given week. DeBoer is great at getting his team up for big games. But his past has shown he has a problem getting them to play solid football when facing bad teams at times. Dude for the Athletic wrote an article on it. In his two years at Washington he struggled several times with 3-9 type teams despite coaching teams that went to the playoff or played in NY6 bowls.

This is a better Vandy team, but they wouldn't have had a prayer vs. a Nick Saban team 2008 to 2023.

Nothing wrong with the offense by the way. But the offense can't operate unless they are on the field and your defense didn't give them the opportunity very much in this game.

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Can't argue with anything he just said tbh.
But also man, DeBoer is stepping into an impossible situation replacing Nick Saban.

People keep flippantly calling Saban "The Goat."
Okay let's actually understand this: Saban is the greatest football coach of all time, in the history of the game. Nobody is going to follow that up. We're going to see a dropoff. Period.

The former players are gonna call him out. The current players are gonna call him out. Yeah, let's just understand it now, DeBoer isn't the greatest of all time, but he is a great coach. Let's let him do his thing without coming at his throat for one SEC loss

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While the NIL and Free agency is causing problems for all and caused Saban to say frick this shite, I just want to point out that when Saban came to Alabama, he was not "The Goat". He became "The Goat" at Alabama.

DeBoer has all he needs, the rest is up to him.

I think the problem most people have is that we already have the NFL. Many of us like having college football and the NFL to choose from. We don’t want the NFL and the NFL Developmental League.

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Penix made the guy and it could not be more obvious

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If you watched Washington games last year, Deboer made a lot of games against closer than they needed to be. His game management and clock management at the end of games was maddening. And he played with fire on more than one occasion against bad football teams

Arizona - had 31-17 lead late in 4th quarter. Arizona turns it over on downs. What does he do? Throws two incomplete passes, calls another pass play but Penix gets sacked, and only burns 31 seconds off the clock. Arizona then drives 90 yards to score a TD to make it a one possession game. There was still a minute on the game clock. The fortunately recovered the onside kick

Arizona St - Arizona St was BAD (3-9). But for an untimely pick 6 in the 4th quarter, they lose that game.

Stanford - was also BAD (3-9). It was a 35-33 game until Stanford was stopped on 4th down deep in their own territory with a couple minutes left in the game.

Oregon State - hung on by the hair on their chin 22-20. Stopped Oregon St on 4th down around midfield to basically end the game.

Washington St - also a BAD team (5-7). It was a tie game 21-21. Washington got a first down and had the ball on the Washington St 21 yard line. Washington St only had 1 timeout left. Penix throws a deep pass incomplete on first down, should have been picked off. Then he takes a sack on 2nd down for a loss of 9 yards. They fortunately get out of there with a game winning 42 yard field goal.

Utah - took them until a late 4th quarter pick to pt that game away. Won 35-28.

Kinda nuts, they had 8 games decided by 1 score last year, and hat doesn't even include the Stanford game. Their pass defense was horrible, 120th in the country. We're seeing the same type stuff at Alabama. Ryan Williams saved him from an embarrassing choke last week, and he got burned by Vandy 2 days ago.

He didn't say one wrong word.

I was concerned when I heard CKdB had moved to morning practices, since, you know, we don't play games in the morning... Asked someone connected and he said, "the players love it." Just shook my head.