re: The biggest difference in Alabama 2011-2020 and Alabama 2021-2022 is not being able to

Alabama has lost games and bounced back. 2011-2020 is a much larger span than 2021-2022. If you are going to be fair in your comparison, you have to wait a bit longer to draw your conclusions. If next year we are back in the top 4 and the year after that we win a national title - your comparison would be incorrect. But if we lose two and three games a season over the next couple of years, you have a point

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It’s three posters, Jet, Korean, and UGA Alum. No one else really starts threads about Bama.

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I wasn't talking UGA specific. It's the whole board

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some bama fans will admit it, many others won't, but losing kirby/cochran did far more damage to their program than I think they want to come to grips with.

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Pruitt had equal if not statistically superior defenses to what Smart had at Alabama. The decline hit when Golding took over.

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their defensive recruiting, and their overall attitude as a program has not been the same the last 5 years as it was the first 10

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Alabama has been the top recruiting school in the country over the last 5 years so this isn’t statistically true.

UGA can be ultra elite without it having anything to do with Bama being ultra elite or slightly down.

Bama did a horrific job recruiting and developing OL and DL for about 2-3 years and it’s only now returning to elite status. When you can’t run power or affect the QB without blitzing it changes every facet of your gameplan.

None of that has anything to do with UGA, Kirby Smart or anyone else other than as a comparison to where Bama is relative to their past benchmarks.

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Alabama has been the top recruiting school in the country over the last 5 years so this isn’t statistically true.

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You're correct, which is why I made sure to say "defensive" recruiting and not just recruiting in general. Look at the DLmen and linebackers from 2008-2016 (kirby's recruits) compared to the ones from 2017-now. It's not really even all that much of a conttest between them.

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Bama did a horrific job recruiting and developing OL and DL for about 2-3 years and it’s only now returning to elite status. When you can’t run power or affect the QB without blitzing it changes every facet of your gameplan.

None of that has anything to do with UGA, Kirby Smart or anyone else

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I slightly disagree there. Sure, bama is bama and many of your shortcomings lately are squarely on BOB and golding sucking. But look at the classes richt used to pull in compared to the ones kirby does. It's logically burying your head in the sand to ignore that some of these megastuds kirby has gotten the last 5 years are guys that used to go to bama instead, but now aren't.

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2021-2022- Alabama lost or had close wins with 5 teams that finished unranked in the final poll. (2020: A&M L, UF W, LSU W; 2022: Ole Miss- W, A&M- W)

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LSU Bama 2020 was not close. I was there. It was miserable

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The last two years has been similar to LSU under Miles

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It absolutely fricking is not

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Can they win a title? Absolutely. Still one of the handful of teams that has a roster that can do it. But there's more to fix here than just replacing players lost to the draft. And that's different.

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Outside of lsu Stephen and Willy who says anything different?

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I know my fellow bama brethren well and if you're like me you are just sitting back watching the trash talk patiently and just waiting for them (rival fans) to mess up and then unleash holy hell on them. Can you imagine how many threads have been bookmarked and how many response threads there will be?

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Lol, that post is the definition of cringe.

Georgia fans blaming other teams for having a cushy arse schedule.

My excuse is it was one game. We were lucky to get out with a win.

But it didn't happen often. The more it happens, the more likely you are to lose a couple at some point.

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Whats your excuse for UGA being on the ropes with less than 5 mins left to play vs a team that only won 3 SEC games in 2022 ?

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It’s three posters, Jet, Korean, and UGA Alum. No one else really starts threads about Bama.

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I've started posts about LSU, Tennessee, Florida, Auburn, Arkansas, Miss. State, South Carolina, Kentucky, probably others but I can't recall.

At least my obsession is spread out.

I missed the rule where we can only start posts about our own team. Where is that one?

Probably the reason this one gets heat is it's not really a trash talk thread as much as it's trying to give objective data as to why Bama is different than the way they've been in the past. The weekly win is no longer a given.
It's also why Georgia has been able to win two titles the last two years. Four close wins or losses. One to an unranked team. Two to top 5 teams. One to a top 10 team.

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2 national titles in 3 years

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Did you copy and paste this from last year?

And I stated that they could win it this year, though many seem to be writing them off and not including them as a playoff team.

My post was more to point to what that is. Since the playoff started, there hasn't been one year where they haven't been on the vast majority of preseason playoff predictions. They are missing from a lot more than they ever have been. Just pointing to the why.