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They are walking into a team loaded with talent and actual real coaches this year.

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Sad to see the Mike Shula era come to an end.

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This is Lane Kiffin's time to become the new GOAT.

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Your bias obviously entered the Rant at least 5 minutes before you started to type this drivel.

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You're really invested in the 1980's. How old are you? 85?
And, I was friends with football players when.I was a student at Auburn. They were friends with guys at Alabama, LSU, Tennessee, Georgia. They all got paid.

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You missed my point, Grasshopper; you have zero understanding of barner history back to the most successful decade of football for you guys. Now you know. And you're certainly welcome.

As far as all the other drivel you speak of, I think Lee Marvin in the Dirty Dozen said it best: " Yeah, but you let them see you do it."

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That said, their defense, like in 2024, had lapses and struggled with the pass rush and ultimately got their teeth kicked in by UGA and Indiana to close the season out - Ty and defense-caused turnovers late really saved them in a ton of games throughout the year

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How many times has BAMA put at least 40 points on Georgia? Those aren't defensive lapses? Defense just wasn't it last season. You run, you control the sticks, and you control TOP and field position. Being physical enough to do those simple, fundamental things completely changes down and distance and the red zone. A bonus it certainly changes defensive schemes on 3rd down. Like beating the hell out of your QB.

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What's that story? I wasn't alive then.

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Well, Grasshopper, let me regale you with a tale straight out of Ripley's Believe It or Not.

Once upon a time, there was a lifelong BAMA coach who idolized his Head Coach so much he imitated everything he said and everything he did to be a great football team. At a moment of weakness and poor judgment, he went to a rival school of all rival schools. But still being basically clueless as the man with the plan, he also copied, carefully, every offensive and defensive formation and harvested some of the coaching staff, including past players. Let's go ahead and call that team BAMA Lite. Just think Kirby Smart and Georgia if this tale is still too impossible to comprehene.

Suddenly, BAMA LITE becomes an SEC and national power and wins games on a level never before seen on the Plains of mediocrity. But alas, all good deeds never go unpunished, and soon the BAMA LITERS realize the head coach is not half the man he idolized so much. Suddenly, on his replay shows, the Great Imitator starts coughing uncontrollably when big games show up on the schedule, and his teams start choking on all big games, even going for a tie in the biggest of all moments against Syracuse rather than a win that would have finally brought pigskin glory he craved so much. Very un-BAMA-like, don't you think? And then something happened that defied all his mentors' comparisons and ambitions.

The dude started paying his players, and one of his cubs decided to record the whole thing for 60 minutes. The BAMA LITE hierarchy just can't put out the NCAA fire, and the Great Imitator is finally let go. I have to stop here and just say, with a sense of pride and a little karma, as a young lad, I got to see his last imitation in the 1992 Iron Bowl on Turkey Day. Ironically, BAMA wins 17 to 0 and goes on to win the NC.

The great Imitator gets a field named after him in Nowhere, Alabama, and goes off into the sunset with a 5th of something always at his side to ease the pain of what could have been. A cautionary tale indeed.

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If I were an ag I would actually be stoked he gave that response....

The only way to fix a problem is to be honest about it being a problem

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That's the kind of head coach response that speaks volumes. TAMU wants to pick up where they left off, not hope to get back where it all ended. He's a problem down there, and with just a little better quarterbacking in big game moments, he would have been a bigger problem in the playoffs last season.

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Grubb is one of the best offensive minds in the sport.

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OL talent wasn't Grubb's problem; execution was. The guard play was just pitiful on a historic level. A new OL coach later, we shall see. But the game within the game for BAMA fans this season will be along the offensive LOS.

There was a way Ole Miss could have kept both coordinators had they gone the OC route as head coach. Just that simple. I think it would have kept the program on the same identity with players and coaches, portal and recruiting.

I like Charles Davis. He keeps his bias to himself and is always upbeat about the players.

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I couldn’t be happier with AG from what I’ve heard out of him so far.

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"Hope springs eternal." So it mostly means you are alive and have a reasonable amount of mental activity. He's supposed to be a disciple of Heupel, but in the 2 seasons we've played USF, he didn't really remind me of Tennessee's bomb away approach.
Same Go-Go offense, puts a ton on the QB for the running game, and a decent defense, but not a great recruiter. That may change, cause it better.

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If you cant prove to me that Deboer is really trying to fix the line play then stop the silliness. No amount of QBs will fix getting abused.

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It's not like Kalen DeBoer coached the Joe Moore Award-winning offensive line in 2023. Get a life, dude.