Recent content by graydogg85

There are some reactionary takes on here, but it’s also true that this team has some issues that need to be corrected. IMO, our offensive line play made this game and the SECCG non-competitive. The inability to sustain drives eventually caused a very good defense to just wear out. For those of...

I agree. I think the people pushing this narrative about the Michigan job are (wrongly) convinced that Alabama views CKD as an abject failure at this point and that we are ready to run him out of town. I think that’s the primary driver of the smoke around Michigan and Penn State. Which is...

On the Michigan boards, some of them are still absolutely convinced that CKD takes the Michigan job if Bama loses to OU tomorrow. There’s a lot of banter about Michigan waiting on tomorrow night’s result before moving forward in their search. Maybe I’m just naive, but on two occasions this...

Oh, I agree. Not advocating for the full-bore Leach offense. Just noting its similarities to our scheme. We aren’t ever going to be a team that routinely pounds the ball 40 times a game for 250 yards under DeBoer, but we need to get to a level where the run game is at least respectable. I...

I sincerely hope there’s nothing to this and that CKD sticks around. That said, here are the only reasons I can think of that he might make this move: 1) It’s closer to where he grew up, and he spent time as OC about 8 miles down the road in Ypslanti. 2) Courtney Morgan is a UM alum. 3) It’s...

IMO, the offensive and defensive lines have more bad recruiting revaluations than other position groups - and I mean across college football. I think it can be inherently difficult to evaluate because human beings that are 6’5, 300+ pounds and reasonably athletic are rare in general, and...

Look, yesterday was no fun. I don’t know whether this team makes the playoff. I’m not sure they can get healthy enough to make a run if they do. This was still a very good season for a second-year coach navigating the SEC in the NIL era. We won 10 games, beat all of our rivals, were the first...

Yeah, the PSU community seems to think those are the only two viable options at this point. There’s a handful of them that still seem to think DeBoer is a legit option and that the AD is just waiting until the end of the season, or at least until after this weekend. There’s been some pushback...

I was perusing their message boards out of sheer curiosity. Their fans were all-in on making a run at DeBoer if we lost the Iron Bowl, but they seemed to have moved on. A lot of them wanted Chesney from JMU but it looks like UCLA has hired him. There’s a prominent poster on Black Shoe Diaries...

Moot point because we’ve been told repeatedly by people with connections that it’s not happening under current UA leadership. Too much bad behavior from Kiffin during his time in Tuscaloosa. There was a reason he didn’t even get a call when CNS retired. Coaching aside, I would argue that he’s...

Totally agreed on paper. The problem is that these metrics were very similar in ‘21 and ‘23, and it took 4 OTs and a highly improbable hero play, respectively, to win those games. In fact, you could make a solid argument that our ‘21 and ‘23 teams were better than this season’s team. This game...

Ok, fair enough. I think if you look at collective career performance, CKD again was the correct choice. I preferred CKD to Norvell at the time, but I wouldn’t have been disappointed with Norvell. His FSU teams had gone 3-6, 5-7, 10-3 and 13-1 after inheriting the mess Willie Taggart left, and...

In terms of personnel, this Auburn team reminds me of South Carolina as far as teams we’ve faced this season. Athletic QB, questionable offensive line, underutilized skill players, a nasty defensive line and a secondary that can be had if you can hit the throws. Auburn has been less...

The point with Norvell is that no one would have thought it was an idiotic hire in January 2024. He was 23-4 at FSU the two prior seasons and had just finished an undefeated regular season with a conference title. We have the benefit of hindsight now, of course. At the time, he would have been...

Yeah, the mainstream media narrative that DeBoer was handed the keys to a Ferrari and turned it into an F150 misses the mark. Saban’s 2021 & 2022 teams were 8-4 or 9-3 teams without Bryce Young. Heck, the 2022 team still lost 2 regular season games. 2023 was perhaps his strongest front-to-back...