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Nick is the one who hired the guy we still currently have because under Cochran, we were having too many major injuries. Nick went a different direction with the S&C program and we've sacrificed strength and power for not having as many major season ending injuries.

But there's no doubt that in the latter part of Saban's tenure and the first two years of DeBoer's, our team, especially the offensive line, isn't anywhere as phsyical as years past. The common denomiator is we have the same S&C when it started declining under Saban and the first two years of DeBoer.

Who cares? Lol, I mean really.

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Was Alabama just not willing to give him a decent offer to return?

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He was wanting to turn pro more than he wanted to come back. He was more than welcome back to Alabama and it wasn't about the money. After his dad got all first round grades from the NFL teams his decision was made. The QB class this year is weak and there are teams needing qb's. Whereas next year, the QB class coming out is stacked compared to this year's. They made a business decision.

We're all doing it. Dabo was just the first coach to put a school on front street and send evidence to the NCAA. My guess is, a lot of coaches are waiting to see what the punishment will be and if it's of any significance, you'll see a ton of programs being turned in, including your's and mine. It's the wild, wild west right now and the majority of schools worth a crap are doing whatever they can get away with.

No, to make it Shula 2.0 DeBoer wouldnt have made staff changes at all.

If the kid from South Carolina comes back I'll throw his name in there. I think his name is Stewart. The dude is a dog.

Yep, I agree with everything you said. No one expected him to replicate what Saban did but not look like we have in some games. He's got his third year to show improvement and possibly a fourth year if year three shows promise.

I think its smart going to two people working with the OL. The NFL does this because it gets more one on one coaching for the players.

Goodman wakes up everyday thinking of crap to criticize Alabama about. He's a dbag.

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f you listened to what he said he also said both Indiana and Miami needed a lot of those "IF's" to go there way. So we aren't so far away to be pessimistic

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Yep, he said that, to acknowledge the fact that any NC team has to have some "if's" fall their way, regardless of how good they are. That's always been the case.

But that doesn't contradict his points about some of the things he's seen on tape that if we don't get fixed, are going to keep us from winning a NC. It's not like we were a few unlucky bounces from playing for a NC. We've had an OL issue for two years now that got worse from year 1 to year 2. Some believe it's coaching, some believe its player type, some believe it's DeBoer's philosophy and some believe it is a combination of all of it.

At this stage no one knows for a fact what's caused the offense to not have any physicality to it, not be able to run block and basically get handled by defenses who are more physical than they are. But regardless of the why's, it's hard to argue that these things have existed in our program for two years under DeBoer. I don't think anyone WANTS the guy to be fired. I would hope everyone would want him to succeed. But getting out physicalled in football is a major bad red flag and that's exactly what has happened to us on offense for two years. Regardless of the why's, let's all hope that element gets fixed.

Yeah, then you didn't hear it after the second year. After the last two years there are even more questions. Bad comparison.