JoylessMurderball

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News flash. It’s CFB. Fans are going to be passionate and fanbases at any major school are pretty much the same. Some LSU fans had buyers remorse Saturday.

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You think so? How many other transfer players had to put out the statement below after committing to a school?

“Let them know I know my ranking isn’t the highest and I don’t expect them to respect me yet, but I am ready to work and earn the respect.”

He's not wrong. Alabama has the most entitled fanbase in the country and it's honestly embarassing to see how folks act on here, at games and on twitter.They act like every year was murderball and that shite has been gone for 6 years. The loudest ones are the ones who arent season ticket holders and arent donating every month to yea alabama either.

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Sorry, but I can’t let this one go. This is an ignorant perspective of college sports. Non-D1 sports are not simply glorified high school.

D-3, lowest level above jr college. The guys who play D-3 are guys who were one of the best if not the best player on their high school team and all their teammates swore they were good enough to play D-1. In baseball, this guy hit 5 or 6 home runs as a senior. Pitchers have a fastball in the range of 82+. Basketball players often can dunk a ball are 6”4’ + and have really good handles. Both sports’ junior varsities can generally compete well with a junior college team even though only the junior college gets credit for a win, so the D-3 team will substitute very liberally and get a lot of guys playing time. Their varsities will rarely even sweat against a junior college team.

D-2 guys hit 8-10 home runs senior year in high school and a pitcher’s fastball goes 86+. Basketball players are a jump in size, athleticism and talent. They will handle a D-3 squad. High school teams stand no chance against a D-2 team. Their players are older, stronger and more experienced.

D-1. Most of their high school teammates believe they are a sure big leaguer some day soon. Hitters exceed 10 homers their senior year. Pitchers are 88+ for smaller programs, at least 90 for most, and mid to upper 90s quite often. Basketball players are often draft worthy players and superstars. D-2 schools don’t stand a chance against them.

Don’t despise lower level college sports. They are much, much better than you think.

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You're using baseball and basketball to argue football? I'm not arguing that Mt Union wouldnt beat any high school team, but I have personal knowledge of the school that he played at and the time he did. Buford, and Thompson any many other top HS teams would give them everything they wanted.

There is a massive difference in Residential vs Commercial Construction.

I voted for this.

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I can tell you for a fact if I was a top transfer lineman I wouldn’t go somewhere with a bad line coach.

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I’m glad you weren’t in the portal then!

In all seriousness I’d say having an OL coach at all no matter how good they are is better than not when it comes to a tight transfer window.

Damn. There was a whole lot of bitching and moaning on this board the past few weeks about CKD not firing him fast enough for some of yall roll tide willies. It’s almost like you shouldn’t fire your OL coach when the portal is open so that you can fill your OL needs. There are too many of yall to list by name so hop on in here, say you’re sorry and give the man his props.

Why aren’t you keeping that same energy about this staff getting “outspent by Ole Miss, The Midwest and the Big 10”? Don’t flip now.

This staff has filled needs across the board and half of the people in this thread bitching and moaning are either quiet or are switching up now. Some of yall have way too much Roll Tide Willie in yall.

If this staff lands the USCe kid than there better be a line at the door of people apologizing.

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Just looked at them for last year.

Texas Tech, Ole Miss, Oregon, Miami, and Ohio State were in the top 10. Indiana was 13. A&M was 16.

You're right. There's no correlation between the transfer portal and on-field success.

Furthermore, where did I say that Deboer needed to win a natty or he'd be fired? Nowhere. You pulled it out of your arse.

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You think 7 out of the top 25 proves success? Or what about 4 out of the top 25 the year before?

You said if it didnt work out this year you dont know if he will get a chance to fix it. Please tell me what you meant by that then. What would be fixing it in your mind because he can only go to the 3rd round of the playoffs or Natty to improve on this year.

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This season is going to tell us a lot. Deboer still is buying into being a HS recruiting program primarily. There are many dangers in operating that way, namely being you end up with an incredibly young roster MOST years.

If it doesn't work out this season, I don't know if Deboer will get a chance to fix it. It's hard to imagine Ole Miss having more to throw around than us, but they also are philosophically going about this a different way.

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Yeah man. How about you go look at ON3's team rankings for the portal the last two years and tell me how it worked out for those teams that were ranked higher than Alabama. Auburn and LSU both were in the top 10 last year and were terrible. Ole Miss got lucky that Chambliss caught fire and they hit on Lacy and they still only made it 1 round further than Alabama, but yet Deboer is going to be fired if he doesnt win a Natty this year?

Edited to add this- This staff has stated repeatedly they value transformation over transactions... Alabama is not going to spend on the open market like other teams because the vast majority of the time it doesnt workout and they dont have the money. Great HS recruiting is the only way Alabama stays at the level they are at and you just hope you are able to keep the main core pieces of the team. This staff has recruited top 5 in that area and hopefully they can get enough pieces to fill in around that core. They have also not lost one truly difference maker off last years team.