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Yea, and Alabama could have used Derrion Reid, Jaden Bradley, Nick Pringle, Nimari Burnett, et al., even Mo Wague, but they don’t have them for various reasons - mostly, either money and/or fit. One can always whine.

They aren’t shooting well either.

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I’m def willing to start them. I watch every game so if the folks want it i’ll happily do it.

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Thanks

Do you check things out? Their running game was not atrocious but Grubb did not run the ball at the rate the HC wanted. They actually ran the ball a tad better under Grubb, 4.2->4.1, but the number of attempts were between 7 & 8 less per game.

As I stated elsewhere, Grubb probably should have been fired for not doing what his boss told him to do, though I don’t know what their agreement was upon hiring. But RG should have done what he was told.

It was obvious Grubb needed to be replaced but it was not because the “running game was atrocious” but because the philosophy of the HC and OC was incompatible and the OC was unable or unwilling to modify his approach to suit his boss.

Grubb and DeBoer’s philosophies are much better aligned meaning that the passing game is the focus and the running game is complementary. Nevertheless, it still needs to be functional, which all agree it was not in ‘25.

IMO, even if the OL is improved in’26, the RB’s will still be a big problem unless Crowell is what we think and is ready or Dear is ready and what we hope but haven’t really seen yet. In summary: IMO, the RBs were as big of a problem as the OL and shocking I know - maybe a bigger problem. That RB room is not good (forget ratings, think talent and possibly RB coaching. Burton Burns was one of the overlooked stars of Saban’s early staffs. Evaluation and instruction.) apart from hope, i. e., Crowell and/or Dear.

From ‘83-‘89 Alabama was nationally relevant much of the year in ‘86 & ‘89. From ‘90-‘96 nationally relevant in ‘91, 92, 93, 94, 96. From ‘97-‘07 relevant in only in 99 & 05. So it wasn’t 20 years but more like 10. Even then they peeked out from under the covers a couple of times. Then went on the greatest run in the history of the sport.

A run so dominant and indisputable that, though some are fair and even generous, e.g., Herbstreit and a few others, the national narrative continuously down plays it with “faint praise”, diversion, dismissal, and the occasional lie. They can’t bear the fact that those “backward rednecks down there” could be so successful in an endeavor so meaningful in American society, though in the grand scheme it’s meaningless.

Davis never was HC at Arkansas as Anderson was?

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Now the state is more like 70-30. But you are right that AU is working ever vigilantly to eat into the lead with only minimal success thus far. I don’t know if Alabama is complacent, lazy, naive, stupid or are gentlemen, but they seem to do nothing.

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You do that by buying all of the media and making Alabama look, very subtly, as bad as possible.

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Very, very astute observation. (I reject and even despise many of your comments. This doesn’t change that, but I guess I will have to pay closer attention to what you say in the future because you nailed it with that comment. Thanks.)

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…Mike Davis…

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I believe you are thinking of Mike Anderson.