phil4bama

It’s just not the same anymore. It feels so much like an NFL game now and I stopped watching them closely years ago. Sure, I’ll watch a game every now and then but it’s a long way from “must see TV” now. College sports is sliding quickly down that slippery slope. I heard on ESPN radio this afternoon where an agent for a basketball player at Kansas who is a top 3 draft pick was having conversations with an assistant AD at the game. The asst AD walked down to the trainer and whispered in his ear. Said player was taken out of the game for “cramps.” He appeared to have absolutely nothing wrong with him before the conversation, but Kansas was up by 20 and the agent was “managing the kid’s minutes.” This is what we have allowed to be created by everyone involved except us fans. We’re getting fed some artificial semblance of our favorite teams and everyone is getting rich at the expense of the game and fans.
I don’t get why nobody with any influence isn’t screaming from the rooftops that this isn’t sustainable over the long haul and the college sports system is cannibalizing itself and will eventually collapse. I hate watching this happen and I hate that my favorite pastime is being stolen from me and destroyed.

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Might be worth scraping together the money for this guy, assuming it’s not something crazy like him demanding $8 million.

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Hell, he’d be worth it from a culture aspect if nothing else.

So has anyone heard anything about whether there will be some staff turnover or not? I kinda thought that after the portal closed, there would be a few changes made.

If that’s the best crew of referees that Steve Shaw and the NCAA can put on the field for the most important game of the year, they should be ashamed of themselves. That game was almost unwatchable due to the number of non-calls on flagrant fouls. I get letting them play, and I have no problem with that. I don’t want every ticky tack thing called a penalty by the referees either, but when the outcome of a multitude of plays, and possibly the game itself are altered by allowing blatant violation of the rules without a call, they’ve gone too far. I’ve heard people say they’ve called it loose both ways so they have no problem with it. I do. If that game is officiated correctly, I am of the opinion that it wouldn’t have even been close, Indiana would’ve boat raced Miami. Maybe that’s one of the reasons the officials called it as they did to keep it close and an entertaining game so viewers wouldn’t tune out. Either that or they had money riding on Miami. And the most egregious area was the absolute elimination of pass interference in the postseason. That has to be addressed. The hand to hand combat on pass plays has to be addressed. This “no felony, no foul” policy cannot continue. This off season the officials need to re-emphasize no grabbing, no pushing off, no close is good enough. There’s enough problems in college football right now without games being decided by officiating that is clearly outside the lines.

Probably one of the most overlooked and underrated additions was the kicker from Marshall. I know Talty finished the year strong, but the Marshall guy appears to have more distance and maybe we won’t have to hold our breath on every FG try with him.

I expect it to be an open and very interesting competition for the starting kicker spot this spring and summer.

The staff did a good job plugging most of the holes and hopefully we upgraded at OL and DL but the thing is, we don’t know and we won’t really know until September. Some of you need to take a deep breath and slow down. Last year’s OL was lauded as a Joe Moore award candidate and we saw how that worked out. The portal is no different from regular recruiting; we probably got some dudes and we probably got some busts. Let’s just hope there’s more dudes than busts and we can improve on some things this fall. On the surface, they did a good job and we’ll see how good of a job they did against East Carolina.

Counter argument: Kapilovic didn’t come here with CKD. He should have no loyalty to him. Ditto Nunez and ditto Ballou. If you were CKD, would you keep coaches you didn’t really know and in essence, bet your future on them when their performance has been atrocious and obvious to everyone?

Even if you are being a nice guy and giving them a chance to line up another position, that conversation should have occurred right after the Indiana game and time should be running out soon.

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You're getting downvoted by the by the rah rah bootlickers but you're absolutely correct. A LT as large and athletic is Proctor is should be the cornerstone of a dominant running game, especially in short yardage situations. Think of the dominant LTs we've had through the last 15 years that were absolute bulldozers in the running game. Proctor just isn't that guy, be can't move anyone off of the ball consistently. That fact isn't up for debate.

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Agreed. Seems a lot of posters on here are STILL blinded by his potential and ignore his production. He had the physical tools to be among Alabama’s elite LT’s of all time. But he never connected that to desire and a mean streak. If you could have grafted Dickerson’s mean streak into Proctor, you would have had one of the top 3 LT’s ever at Bama.
It concerns me a bit that Brooks bio sounds almost identical to Proctor. Maybe he is just to be a depth piece/short yardage specialist this year as they work on his fundamentals.

We still haven’t addressed the 2 biggest needs for the OL: Kapilovic and Ballou.

Is DeBoer going to double down on these two and bet his job on them?

Friday is almost over and I haven’t heard of anyone getting a pink slip today, unfortunately.