For much of the game, this Alabama looked like nothing like the Crimson Tide we had come to know, a team that had been especially built to defy the bells and whistles of modern college football. Instead, they looked like a 21st-century squad, and this was both exhilarating and frightening, because if Alabama has now mastered this, too, what the hell are the rest of us supposed to do now?
Saban, in a move that almost seemed deliberately made to troll the Internet, hired ex-USC coach Lane Kiffin as his offensive coordinator.
:biggrin2:Through its first four games this season, Alabama has put up an average of 42 points and nearly 600 yards; the Tide are averaging more yards passing than they are yards rushing, even as they remain a work in progress. Cooper, the wide receiver, is essentially uncoverable. Sims, in his first year as a starter after playing behind fixture AJ McCarron, is getting better every week. And this is where it gets frightening, because Alabama still has three devastating running backs that helped the seal victory last Saturday, and because Saban still has more pure talent to work with on defense than any other program in America. So what happens when the Process melds with progressiveness? What happens if Alabama continues with this obscene offense, and gets it act together defensively?
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/college-football-alabama-goes-electric-20140922
There are some glaring mistakes in the article, imo, but I do love some of it...