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KrAzY3 said:
One bright spot is the fact that Saban will still have an office and some involvement. In a perfect world, DeBoer would have been Saban's OC for a couple years (imagine him instead of BoB as OC), and in doing so he'd really be integrated into the region and the way Alabama recruits and so on.

Saban is a recruiting genius. He's a defensive genius. If he stays in his lane (no gameday stuff, no offensive stuff), he could go a long way in helping DeBoer maintain what Saban built.

I'm not of the mind that Saban needs to get out of the picture completely, he's the greatest college football has ever seen. Anything he wants to dabble with will be improved, or as the case may be maintained.
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Absolutely spot on. Our new coach is not just walking into a unstable situation. Nick will be there as counsel on everyone and everything. If it were any other coach you'd think he couldn't resist keeping his reign on the program but Nick Saban is a different breed. I think this can really be a wonderful situation for all parties involved.
 
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Special K said:
I hope all of you who were fretting about the search - how GB was botching it, how all of our players were going to transfer, how we were going to lose every recruit we have, how we were going to have to beg Lane Kiffin to take the job, how we were going to get so desperate we'd have to hire Tommy Rees, blah blah blah - will realize now that this is not 2006. With what CNS built, this is a gold mine even if you do have to follow the GOAT.

Nobody we hired was going to be able to fill Saban's shoes. But this moved very quickly and decisively, and outside of kidnapping Kirby Smart at gunpoint I think Byrne knocked it out of the park.
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Let's just wait and see on that one, people are saying their hearing a bunch of players are considering the portal.
 
It will be interesting to see what players he could bring along too. Washington had the best offensive line in football last year and it was only 1 senior the rest were 2 juniors a sophomore and a freshman. The freshman was a center which could be a guy that we could use with us a little short there.
 
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BamaInCummingGA said:
If they are leaving because they fear JM won't be qb next year then let them leave.
This is a good coaching hire and he will have Bama playing good ball.
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I agree to a degree, we need the elite athletes on the field to win the games, but we don't need fence riders. You're either in or your out ya know? Isaiah Bond needs to realize that he'll actually do better under DeBour's offense anyways, the guy had 3 1,000 yrd receivers. Bond was 2nd in receiving with only like 680 yards or something like that.
 
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It would be baffling to me why anyone not already buried in the depth chart would even consider a transfer. Does it suck to lose the GOAT? Sure. Do you really think you'll get a better opportunity with another program compared to helping a new coach who put his last team in the natty put a new stamp on the program? If so, I might have a bridge to sell you.
 
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Gallowglas said:
It would be baffling to me why anyone not already buried in the depth chart would even consider a transfer. Does it suck to lose the GOAT? Sure. Do you really think you'll get a better opportunity with another program compared to helping a new coach who put his last team in the natty put a new stamp on the program? If so, I might have a bridge to sell you.
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maybe, but if I am a D guy, I do want to know who the coordinator is, and what alignment we'll be running etc. For most, there is very likely a good fit. For some D-lineman, it might not be.
 
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I know the recruiting thing is the biggest complaint but there just isn’t a lot of good players in the Northwest part of the country. The state of Washington has had 19 4 or 5 star players the last 3 years combined coming out of high school. The state of Alabama has had 64 4 or 5 star players in that time span never less the 20 in a season. The state of Oregon is even worse with just 7 total in 3 years. The state of Idaho has had 2. If you want some better recruits you have to try and bring some California guys up there but most of those guys are more then 700 miles away from home if they are coming up there so you are gonna need to pay them some serious money and not sure Washington is doing that.
 
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Gallowglas said:
It would be baffling to me why anyone not already buried in the depth chart would even consider a transfer. Does it suck to lose the GOAT? Sure. Do you really think you'll get a better opportunity with another program compared to helping a new coach who put his last team in the natty put a new stamp on the program? If so, I might have a bridge to sell you.
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There is definitely some guys that might not fit in the scheme if he brings in his style of offense and defense so I don’t have a problem if in 2 weeks you realize your strengths don’t match with the scheme he wants to use.
 
One of the good thing is teams won't have a blueprint on how to play us. We haven't fooled anybody in a while. We've just had better athletes. But everybody pretty much knew what we were going to do. That will change with DeBor. By necessity he will have to be more creative to achieve the position Bama is accustomed to. He won't match Saban's recruiting success. He will have to do it a different way, but I'm looking forward to some fresh ideas.
 
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