2007 alabama team was a typical mike Shula team that was coached by nick saban. Our most talented players were dJ hall, brown, arenas, simieon,Andre,and rolando. That is not a lot of talent when you consider rolando was a freshmen and javy was a specialist. CNS won us 3 close games in which Shula would've lost with that same team. We would've probably been 3-9 with Shula because I don't think he would've been cool and collective against Arkansas, would've spotted that the ole miss receiver was out of bounds with under a minute to play, and wouldn't been aggressive enough to beat fulmer. You keep referencing the lsu game in your argument, but in truth we should've never been in position to win.
Their talent was leagues better than ours and the reason we were in it was mostly because les miles was playing loosy goosey against us. Had he ran Hester like he did in the first we probably lose that game by 17 even with us playing at our best. We only gained 254 yards against Bo pelini. The most telling stat is lsu's 3 turnovers. The reason that game feels the way that it does is because of caddell call, but that never happens if lsu plays smart. Les miles has played us better when we are expected to win.