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re: Milroe was Sabans biggest mistake at Alabama.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 7:43 am to TrendingRight
Posted on 10/21/25 at 7:43 am to TrendingRight
He had skill, but very little football acumen. I don't think he could turn his back to the defense and still recognize what was going on
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Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:10 am to TrendingRight
Sometimes the 16 year olds that you offer just don't pan out. Look at Arch Manning.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:18 am to TrendingRight
So you are arguing that a 4 star recruit who was the #12 rated highschool QB, who finished 6th in Heisman balloting and made it to the national championship game in Saban’s final season, was Saban’s biggest mistake ever?
That doesn’t seem correct.
That doesn’t seem correct.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:21 am to TrendingRight
Saban had a couple of blind-spots. The worst was wanting a dual threat QB no matter what. He lost games (and almost lost several more) sticking with the dual-threat instead of the better true passer on the bench.
One of his other blind-spots was sticking with an upperclassman longer than he should have when he had better proven talent behind that player.
One of his other blind-spots was sticking with an upperclassman longer than he should have when he had better proven talent behind that player.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:23 am to Sabans straw hat
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What does that have to do with the argument given? Simpson is better than Milroe and should've been the starter
Simpson is better this year than Milroe was last year.
But in real game time the previous two seasons Simpson did not look better than Milroe. The stats bear it out. If Simpson had lit it up when he made it on the field it would be much easier to argue that he should have started over Milroe. But reality is that, for whatever reasons, Simpson looks like a completely different QB this season than he did when he got a chance to play the two previous seasons.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:25 am to TrendingRight
I was at the Mizzou game, and I kept asking how in the world Milroe started over Simpson.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:25 am to Two0Five
Milroe panicked on the last play vs Michigan in the playoffs. He could at least have tried to beat that one guy to the left, but instead ran straight into a pile of defenders. The snap never hit the ground, as some Milroe sympathizers claim.
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Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:26 am to TrendingRight
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Don't know why. Saban had lots of other options but recruited Milroe probably because he could run the ball
We circled back to Milroe after Drake Maye flipped to North Carolina right before the pandemic kicked off.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:26 am to TommyM
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His biggest mistakes were Pete Golding and Bill O'Brien.
True. I also think that O’Brien didn’t do much to develop Milroe and Milroe was a player with raw talent that needed a lot of development.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:28 am to captdalton
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Simpson looks like a completely different QB this season than he did when he got a chance to play the two previous seasons.
Because he never got a real chance to prove himself last season. He is much better than Milroe, and he ddn't get this good over a few months.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:31 am to makersmark1
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I imagine in HS Milroe was unstoppable.
He threw for 1,136 yards and 13 touchdowns his Senior year.
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During his high school career, Milroe tallied 3,825 passing yards, 559 rushing yards, and 53 total touchdowns leading Tompkins to over 30 wins in three seasons.
So, not really unstoppable.
This post was edited on 10/21/25 at 8:32 am
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:48 am to TrendingRight
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Milroe was Sabans biggest mistake at Alabama.
Tua messed Saban up.
To be fair, if Milroe was his worst mistake, that was not a terrible mistake.
Milroe prison-raped Georgia and LSU and if we got past Michigan, that mf has a NC ring.
This post was edited on 10/21/25 at 8:50 am
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:55 am to AlterDWI
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We've been over this 1000x. He was the fallback plan after Drake Maye decommitted. Please list all these other great last minute options Saban passed on.
Thank you for clarifying this...again. Anyone who follows Alabama recruiting knew Milroe wasn't really in Saban's plans because he wanted Drake Maye. When Maye backed out there wasn't anyone else for Saban to turn to so Sark brought in Milroe.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 9:11 am to BLG
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The snap never hit the ground, as some Milroe sympathizers claim.
lol "Milroe Sympathizers"
it was a bad fricking snap dude. One of several in that game.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 9:53 am to Tigahtildeath
Right. And firing Lane when he did was a mistake. It cost him a natty.
OP was about mistakes Saban made.
OP was about mistakes Saban made.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 9:54 am to RollingwiththeTide
Maybe. I certainly think their chances were better.
But I think the Lane distraction and Saban firing him when he did was a huge distraction to the team. And Kiffin could have called that game. And won it.
But I think the Lane distraction and Saban firing him when he did was a huge distraction to the team. And Kiffin could have called that game. And won it.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:34 am to Gideon Swashbuckler
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But I think the Lane distraction and Saban firing him when he did was a huge distraction to the team. And Kiffin could have called that game. And won it.
Hindsight is always 20/20. The semi-final game against Washington was one of the worst called offensive games I've ever seen, and I think that Saban saw that something was rotten in Denmark, and though that if Kiffin were to call the NC game against Clemson like that then it would have been a disaster.
Kiffin was kind of out of control during this time period. I have it on good authority that he continued that behavior well into his stint at FAU.
This post was edited on 10/21/25 at 10:37 am
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:41 am to Funky Tide 8
Idk. Didn't need anything exotic to beat that UW team.
But maybe you're right.
But maybe you're right.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:52 am to NWLA_Bama
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When Maye backed out there wasn't anyone else for Saban to turn to
After being committed for almost nine months, he royally fricked us by decommitting in March of 2020, right when covid hit.
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March 6, 2020
Alabama quarterback commit Drake Maye has reopened his recruitment and de-committed from the Crimson Tide and flipped to North Carolina. The four-star quarterback from Charlotte (N.C.) Myers Park had been a UA pledge since July of 2019.
Maye's father, Mark, played quarterback in Chapel Hill, and his older brother, Luke, starred on the basketball team.
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Coronavirus unexpectedly altered the spring contact and evaluation periods. As a result, college football coaches enjoyed less than one month in 2020 to recruit on the road and/or host prospects on campus (until March 12). That’s far less time than they would normally have with high school players, and the uncertainty surrounding the dead period had coaches “essentially panicking.”
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:56 am to Funky Tide 8
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lol "Milroe Sympathizers"
it was a bad fricking snap dude. One of several in that game.
And it wasn't just that game. There were several low snaps throughout the season that cost Bama sacks or fumbles. How it hadn't been corrected by January is mind boggling.
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