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Man... this really hurts. There is no coming back from this. This is our reality now.

Posted on 10/17/26 at 6:05 pm
Posted by crimsoncoded94
Georgiana
Member since Aug 2025
3587 posts
Posted on 10/17/26 at 6:05 pm
Alabama is officially a middle tier SEC team until we can find a coach good enough to handle the SEC.
Posted by Jimmyboy
Member since May 2025
2423 posts
Posted on 10/17/26 at 6:06 pm to
Not gonna happen. You had your time and now you must suffer
Posted by BigSneezy
Member since Nov 2020
6150 posts
Posted on 10/17/26 at 6:07 pm to
It sucks to live in a poor state.
Posted by crimsoncoded94
Georgiana
Member since Aug 2025
3587 posts
Posted on 10/17/26 at 6:08 pm to
Buddy yall suck too
Posted by Dallaswho
Texas
Member since Dec 2023
3839 posts
Posted on 10/17/26 at 6:14 pm to
There’s no magic coach that can overcome NIL realities.

Bama is one of 5 or so teams that can get talent a little cheaper and more efficiently than the rest of us so they have an advantage, but it’s not insurmountable anymore.
Posted by The Eric
Member since Sep 2008
25458 posts
Posted on 10/17/26 at 6:15 pm to
You guys would have never skipped a beat if you had just swallowed your pride and gotten Kiffin instead. But no…. He had too much baggage so you went with a Pacific Northwest softie.
Posted by 304tiger
West Virginia
Member since Jan 2022
3267 posts
Posted on 10/17/26 at 6:16 pm to
This is your new reality without Saban
Posted by DesScorp
Alabama
Member since Sep 2017
10841 posts
Posted on 10/17/26 at 6:17 pm to
Never really understood the Deboer hire.
Posted by GeekedUp
Virginia
Member since Jun 2009
3237 posts
Posted on 10/17/26 at 6:17 pm to
UGA too. Horrible. Should quite the program
Posted by higgsBoson
Democratic Party
Member since Jan 2012
1631 posts
Posted on 10/17/26 at 6:19 pm to
quote:

Never really understood the Deboer hire.


I always felt it was weird to hire a non-Saban tree flavor of the month from a different region.
Posted by BigSneezy
Member since Nov 2020
6150 posts
Posted on 10/17/26 at 6:22 pm to
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Buddy yall suck too


We shall see Saturday. I like our chances.

My only question is will you fire your coach if we beat you?

I think you have to everyone else does when it happens.
Posted by WilliamTaylor21
383 Hoosier Daddy Lane
Member since Dec 2013
40423 posts
Posted on 10/17/26 at 6:23 pm to
quote:

Man... this really hurts

Posted by Stidham8
Member since Aug 2018
10767 posts
Posted on 10/17/26 at 6:23 pm to
Your time is over. Saban gave more money under the table to stack his rosters with more talent than everyone else.

That’s no longer a possibility even if Saban was still there.
Posted by Lynxrufus2012
Central Kentucky
Member since Mar 2020
20612 posts
Posted on 10/17/26 at 6:27 pm to
They got $ 500,000 out of it.
Posted by GnashRebel
Member since May 2015
9023 posts
Posted on 10/17/26 at 6:44 pm to
quote:

You guys would have never skipped a beat if you had just swallowed your pride and gotten Pete instead


FIFY
Posted by SidewalkTiger
Member since Dec 2019
76453 posts
Posted on 10/17/26 at 6:45 pm to
If they'd have hired Pete, they'd just have a shite defense instead of offense
Posted by alajones
Huntsvegas
Member since Oct 2005
36145 posts
Posted on 10/17/26 at 7:54 pm to
Every SEC team is a middle tier team now. It’s a whole new world. It’s like the 80s all over again.
Posted by TurdAndChavis
Member since Aug 2019
258 posts
Posted on 10/17/26 at 7:56 pm to
Hahahaha
Posted by captainFid
Never apologize to barbarism
Member since Dec 2014
11917 posts
Posted on 10/17/26 at 8:11 pm to
quote:

Alabama is officially a middle tier SEC team until we can find a coach good enough to handle the SEC.

I don't buy it. Personally, I'd bet if tOSU played in this league they would have suffered more losses than just Texas.

We'll finish the season, then post and bowls... then beat our chests again for being the stronger conference after comparing bowl records in January.

While tOSU cakewalks through to the B1G championship.

We've make it the absolute hardest for differentiating superiority inside the conference w/ cannibalization and injury.
This post was edited on 10/17/26 at 8:44 pm
Posted by tigerfoot
Alexandria
Member since Sep 2006
62037 posts
Posted on 10/17/26 at 8:15 pm to
quote:

SEC team until we can find a coach good enough to handle the SEC.
no such person. And the SEC isn’t special any longer.

Pray you get smart olayers that can learn schemes in a year.

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