Master of Pancakes

I'm gonna lead towards encouraging win. At the start of the year, a lot of people were worried about this game because it was the fifth game of a ridiculous gauntlet. We've been hit with a ton of injuries in those 5 games. Two of our best receivers in Brooks and Horton didn't play yesterday.

Everything that could have gone wrong for the offense went wrong for a little over 3 quarters, but they found a way to come back in the fourth quarter and win. You can point to most championship teams and find a game like yesterdays.

This team seems like they are accountable for poor performances and I think, and hope, we spend the bye week getting healthy and figuring out what we need to do to start peaking at the right time. We have not seen this team put together 4 quarters of their A game. I think the closest we got was Tennessee.

Regardless, this team just went 5-0 against a part of our schedule that a lot of people thought we would go 3-2 in and that's something to be encouraged about.

They are the worst broadcasting crew I've seen in a while. Rather have RG III's goofy arse calling our games.

I mean, if UT doesn't choke at the end of the game, that model would have been accurate having UT by 3.

No, but he doesn't need to play in the slot anymore.

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Playoffs every year. Bama is a playoff program. Any year we dont make it is a failure, especially with 12 teams.

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This is as reasonable an expectation as you can have in the current environment. Would we love to win a national title every year? Yes, of course. You can't win if you don't get in the playoffs. Making the playoffs is the expectation, not the end goal.

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Honestly, I’d say 3-9 is most likely. I’ve seen comparisons to the Shula years in terms of coaching but one gigantic difference is we had guys ( especially on defense) like Jarrett Johnson and Waine Bacon who genuinely cared and NEVER, EVER gave up on a play or a game.

I honestly don’t know if we have any guys on our defense who have those guys pride and heart.

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Shula coaching this team would not have lost yesterday. His teams played their asses off. Shula could have been a good to great coach here without the sanctions.

The defensive effort yesterday was atrocious and it forced Ty to have to play perfectly. Offense went away from the run game too quickly, we should have kept playing ball control instead of trying to get into a shootout with Gus.

Two ways to stop Gus: win first down and keep his offense off the field so that they can't get into a rhythm. We failed to do either.

I disagree with trying to diminish the importance of beating a rival. Nothing good happens when The Barn wins.

That being said, if you gave me that scenario at the start of the year, I take it 100% of the time. You always want the title. Otherwise, why play the sport?

Unless you're the Barn, then you just want the win over Alabama.

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To be fair ERAS doesn’t list out the full names of some programs. People also associate it with UAB because the full name is now University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine.

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That is a good point, but Residency and Fellowship are separate from the Medical School. You're still applying to University of Alabama Medical Center. I don't recall ERAS being used for medical school applications, but that was now 7 years ago for me and I've had to commit more important things to memory.

UA should not have ceded so much control. UAB and St. Vincent's declined in quality once Ascension took over. I hope for the sake of the city that the quality at both hospitals increases.

Also, as bad as Ascension was, they pale in comparison to what Tenet was doing to the Brookwood system.

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There is no way any good players will sign to 3 years in basketball. The NBA requires only 19 years old. They will all go to some prep school or G League or overseas.

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My proposed changes would be for football only. Basketball and baseball already have their own rules since the NBA and MLB have less requirements to enter the draft than the NFL.

The way to fix the current environment is simple:

1. Players now have 5 years of eligibility.

2. Once you sign out of high school, you are signing a contract to that team for the first three years. You cannot opt out to enter the transfer portal. JUCO players get one to two years, depends on when they transfer to their D1 school. Initial contracts are decided on by the schools. NIL opportunities are now incentive based and not in the original contract.

3. Once your initial contract is up, you are free to transfer, enter the draft, or opt in to stay at your original school for 1 more year. You can revisit your options at the end of year 4, BUT you only get 1 chance to transfer.

4. Any evidence of tampering places a salary cap on your school for the next 5 seasons. A violation of the salary cap further restricts the salary cap for the next two years. Further violations lead to accumulating restrictions.