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re: Good God ! Can Bama fans survive a 5 loss season?
Posted on 9/3/25 at 9:12 am to 1BIGTigerFan
Posted on 9/3/25 at 9:12 am to 1BIGTigerFan
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This implosion is way better than I hoped.
This week the SECRant has been like the Tiger Rant has been every week since January 2012.
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Posted on 9/3/25 at 9:14 am to Pettifogger
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someone in Saban's close orbit should take over
I would tend to agree, but playing devil's advocate, you could also end up with a Billy Napier situation (who I actually like).
I think we've shied away from the nepotism route as a direct result of Saban coming in and abolishing that system at Alabama, so for better or worse it probably wasn't happening this time.
In my very uneducated opinion, I really don't think we know what the current culture even is yet, and thus it's hard to navigate by most anyone. Just expanding on that, I'm also not sure anyone on Saban's staff (by virtue of them being hired by him) would've necessarily been adept at navigating this new NIL era either.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 9:15 am to captdalton
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This week the SECRant has been like the Tiger Rant has been every week since January 2012.
13 years and counting since Nick permanently broke an entire states mind and will.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 9:17 am to paperwasp
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I would tend to agree, but playing devil's advocate, you could also end up with a Billy Napier situation (who I actually like).
McElwain
Muschamp
Pruitt
Kirby is the only one that's come even close to replicating what Saban did. One assistant over what, 40 years?
Posted on 9/3/25 at 9:19 am to Roll Tide Ravens
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Not all of us are like the idiots who feel the need to call Finebaum.
I suspect most aren’t.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 9:20 am to EasterEgg
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Today's bandwagon and younger fans don't know anything else.
A diehard alabama friend that went to alabama and graduated about 10 years ago told his wife early Sunday morning that he was “done with football.”
Posted on 9/3/25 at 9:21 am to FLObserver
They deserve everything that they get.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 9:21 am to FLObserver
quote:I hope we find out.
Good God ! Can Bama fans survive a 5 loss season?
Posted on 9/3/25 at 9:23 am to SLCGumpFB25
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Kirby is the only one that's come even close to replicating what Saban did. One assistant over what, 40 years?
I mean no one is going to replicate Saban, but as directly contrasted to Napier, there's Smart, Kiffin, Sarkisian, Fisher, Cristobal, Lanning, Cignetti, Key, etc.
Any of which may have worked or may have failed spectacularly, but you have to consider them in the context of Alabama (and its resources) and not Indiana, for example.
By the way, I would've thought Napier would've succeeded here, but it seems I'm slowly being proven wrong.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 9:24 am to Roll Tide Ravens
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Not all of us are like the idiots who feel the need to call Finebaum.
No but y'all got a bunch of idiots in this place..... OR just a few idiots with a bunch of alters.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 9:25 am to captdalton
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January 2012
Makes me cry everytime you bring it up. Meanie!!
Posted on 9/3/25 at 9:25 am to paperwasp
I still wish we had gone for Kiffen. I really want to know what he did to make the powers that be that angry at him.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 9:26 am to Stidham8
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A diehard alabama friend that went to alabama and graduated about 10 years ago told his wife early Sunday morning that he was “done with football.”
I know a guy who graduated recently from Auburn that never got to experience a winning record the entire time he was enrolled.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 9:27 am to FLObserver
This post was edited on 9/3/25 at 9:28 am
Posted on 9/3/25 at 9:28 am to SLCGumpFB25
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I still wish we had gone for Kiffen. I really want to know what he did to make the powers that be that angry at him.
I do know, but hey, if things keep going in the current direction, you never know.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 9:28 am to EasterEgg
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That was far removed from the first dynasty. Today's bandwagon and younger fans don't know anything else
The longest any Alabama fan under the age of 60 has gone between national titles is 16 years.
The years between Alabama’s national titles since Bryant’s first in 61: 2 years, 7 years, 4 years, 11 years, 16 years, 1 year, 2 years, 1 year, 2 years, 4 years and counting.
So two things.
One, Alabama fans have been spoiled the last 20 years.
Two, Bryant had a seven year drought between his third and fourth titles. The drought between his last and Alabama’s next wasn’t much longer at 11 years. And it was almost much shorter. In 1989 Bill Curry’s 10-0 #2 Alabama team lost the Iron Bowl to #11 Auburn 20-30 which cost them a chance at another national title.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 9:32 am to Stidham8
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A diehard alabama friend that went to alabama and graduated about 10 years ago told his wife early Sunday morning that he was “done with football.”
That is awesome news. Maybe enough Alabama fans will be done with football that season tickets become a reality again for me like back during the mid 90s to mid 2000s.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 9:34 am to paperwasp
I need you to somehow anonymously relay this story to me please.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 9:34 am to captdalton
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16 years
That was a long stretch, and then Saban came along and dropped six more in the same span.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 9:36 am to paperwasp
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I know a guy who graduated recently from Auburn that never got to experience a winning record the entire time he was enrolled.
Sounds like his future trajectory as a fan is much better than alabama’s.
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