Fire Sumlin now and you are basically flushing the whole season down the toilet. I think they will wait until closer to mid season to get rid of him.
You have a point here - because they ARE still well alive in the SEC hunt.
No, they ain't gonna win it, but they're still alive.
A lot of people forget this detail, but it's true: when DuBose resigned in 2000, it was right AFTER the UCF game and right BEFORE the LSU game (Saban's first LSU-Bama game but he was on the other side of course). Part of what went into that decision was this: if DuBose had by chance won out against LSU, Miss State, and Auburn - we would, in fact, have won the SEC West with a 6-5 record. That was actually mentioned DURING the broadcast - that we were still alive in the race.
THAT was a BIG part of why the action had to be taken when it did. If it had not happened and Dubious had won out, it would have made Mal Moore look like an idiot and exposed him to all the, "Just as he got it going again and won the division, Alabama fired him. They have unrealistic expectations."
It was - literally - the smart move at the time. I realize that DuBose technically resigned, but does anyone here actually believe he wouldn't have been fired after the UCF loss anyway?
So ATM MIGHT do that themselves.