Recent content by Ole Man Dan

SEC Football is evolving, the National trend is away from the West Coast Offense, throw the ball all over the field, and back to a Tough Guy smash mouth football. I fail to see top rated High School Running Backs showing much interest in a team that passes the whole game. If we expect to...

Well said.

Alabama deserved being ranked higher. I'm not sure we should have been ranked in the top 10, but 21 was slander. If I was doing honest rankings I would have rated Alabama 12-15 due to the late season collapses. We had injuries and in some cases coaches called plays that put us in poor...

Many years ago I was in charge of city security at a big Wrestling event. I arrived early and saw a Cadillac pull into the lot with 3 men inside. It was a sniviling Wrestling Promotor and 2 big name Wrestlers. They were involved in a GRUDGE MATCH that night. Need I say more... They put on...

If Coach DeBoer fails to make changes... He needs to be fired. $70 Million is a lot, but we can do so much better. It starts with attitude. It starts with training. It starts with strength and conditioning. It starts with coaches expecting nothing less than our players performing at their...

I disagree. If we have a 12 team playoff or a 16 team playoff, I want the playoffs to be the top teams. I'm against giving spots to conference champions of any stripe. I'm also against giving anyone a BYE. When the playoffs start they include everyone in the playoff... Yes, my idea is to...

I'm one of the guys who has advocated for playing mean and nasty. I want our players to be physically TOUGH. I WANT OUR COACHES TO BE HARD AND TOUGH TOO. No more Mr. Nice Guy... Football is a tough sport. I want to see tough guys dominate the opponent. I don't like being one of the...

The difference is TRAINING. We need someone with a reputation in Highschool or Someone with a reputation at another college... THEN we need a OL coach who is mean and nasty, someone who will push them harder than they have ever been pushed. We need our entire coaching staff to be mean and...

Some of the big money NIL companies should make pay for play commensurate with performance. NIL should be paid on a month to month basis... The one liner... 'Pay for play' needs to be applied.

GOOD. We didn't have anything good. THE BAD. see above. THE UGLY... That was a terrible excuse for a game. Our coaches were terrible too. That's the nicest thing I can say about a game where we showed NO EFFORT, NO COACHING, NO TOUGHNESS. IT WAS EMBARRASSING.

I hope catching the ball is his plan, if not maybe he will leave and we can replace him with someone who can catch the ball. We don't need another bench warmer. We need players who can run, block, and catch the football.

With all the injuries TY has had, My blame would fall on our coaches for not benching TY and trying # 2.

Advice borrowed from Mario Cristobal... Play hard, Play tough, Play with Violence. I didn't see anything like that out of Alabama. Probably why we got our butt stomped. That and our coaches were really bad. LASTLY... Alabama was soft... We need to hit the weight room like Scott Cothren was there...

I too suffer from CKD Derangement Syndrome. AND I've been a Grumpy Ole Man for a long, long time. I'm forced to say we played 3/4 of a good game. I was shocked when we came back from 17 down. BUT We still aren't as physical as we were during the Saban tenure. Whither you liked Scott or not, he...

why are we still in the NCAA?