SECFan413

There is no defense of that effort, but if you look at the totality of his career, its hard to say that guy didn't have heart - despite his many other shortcomings. The guy led Bama to an SEC Championship, never missed a game despite taking lots of hits running the ball, and by all accounts handled being benched in the USF game as well as could be expected.

Good: Talty has been much more consistent, Hill's quickness, the LBs, all the new guys, and the ability of the defense to actually look mean - the last couple of years there were a lot of games where they would be in position to make plays but let the offensive player dictate the contact. This year they are swarming better and flat out hitting.

Bad: The inability to line up and run a pass play. The best pass plays always feel like busted plays or a quick pass to RCW. I thought they'd be able to hit more open plays down the field. Hopefully that is not wanting to put everything on film just yet, but it feels like that's going to be an issue all year.

It’s rather striking how many more games Bama has played than most of the other top teams.

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Arkansas is the only Division I team in the last 30 seasons to score 115+ points with fewer than 10 turnovers but still lose. Division I teams had been 247-0

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Kind of hard to believe there’s been nearly 250 times teams have scored 115+ points in the entirety of college basketball let alone the last 30 years.

Florida would half their amount of points if these refs would call moving/illegal screens…it’s embarrassing how bad these refs are in letting that go

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A few G League players have recently returned to college basketball due to evolving NCAA rules, notably Thierry Darlan (Santa Clara), London Johnson (Louisville), and Abdullah Ahmed (BYU), with ex-Alabama player Charles Bediako also temporarily reinstated, signaling a new trend of players choosing developmental pro leagues before college, challenging traditional pathways and eligibility norms.

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Not to mention you’ve guys like Tyon Grant-Foster who is 25 playing for his 5th team in 8 years, yet there’s hardly been anything negative said about that

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Grubb and Deboer both are in over their head. Its obvious they do not understand big-boy SEC football. Until Deboer leaves, Bama is going to be soft and run stupid finesse offense.

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They were literally playing for the conference championship against a team they had already beaten on the road. They got there playing one of the toughest schedules in the country.

You can fault them for lack of adjustments but to suggest they are in over their heads is asinine.

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have top seed Ohio State beating Georgia while #2 Indiana defeats Alabama.

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Ohio State and Indiana would each have 2 or more losses with either Bama or Georgias schedule.

Both teams are good but have no resume to suggest they are better than any top SEC school right now

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They used the big block letters "Crimson Tide" in the endzone;

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Pretty sure it was “ALABAMA” in white letters through the 90s. It was pretty basic and no color background.

Judging by the number of free defenders on almost every run, I’d say the run schemes aren’t the greatest.

You’ve got OL and TEs not holding their blocks or getting to the next level too, but there does not seem to be a concerted effort to establish the run game. Rather it appears to just be used as a means to setup the pass at this stage.