According to Mike Griffith Alabama is a second tier football program

Ole Man Dan

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I hope Griffith and other pundits all claim Alabama is second or third tier. That kind of rat poison is music to my ears.

Back in the day everybody wrote about what a looser CGS was and how Alabama was washed up... Didn't happen.
 
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BamaInBham

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Program? Ignorant. But Alabama is not the team to beat in 2024 in the SEC and is not Georgia’s biggest threat. That would be Texas.
Texas loses more starters than Alabama, according to how you want to count them. Like Alabama, they have promising replacements for most positions (E.g., IMO, Alabama will be better at RB next year even though they lost their starter and primary backup - all because of Haynes. (IMO, he was criminally underused, especially in the Mich game. If they ran him substantially more they would have likely won the game.)). IMO, UTx has nothing for the 2 big-time DTs they're losing - IMO, a big loss; Alabama loses nothing approximating that loss, IMO, still the most important position in a program other than QB.

Thus, it is a stretch to say that UTx is a bigger threat than Alabama, but that's not even the main point which is that disregarding Alabama as a genuine threat in the SEC or even nationally is stupidity and/or wishful thinking. Yes, there are many unknowns, they could fall on their face, but the odds are they won't because there is still a great deal of talent and a proven high-end game strategist and tactician who has also, by every indication, significantly upgraded Alabama's staff in terms of instruction.
 

TideEngineer08

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Program? Ignorant. But Alabama is not the team to beat in 2024 in the SEC and is not Georgia’s biggest threat. That would be Texas.
We'll see.

I don't know what we will be because of Coach Saban's retirement. So I won't say one way or another on us. But Texas? Well that's a huge unknown. The SEC is a massive step up from the Big 12 of the past 10 years.

As for Mike Griffith, I don't know who that woman is.
 

bamamc1

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We'll see.

I don't know what we will be because of Coach Saban's retirement. So I won't say one way or another on us. But Texas? Well that's a huge unknown. The SEC is a massive step up from the Big 12 of the past 10 years.

As for Mike Griffith, I don't know who that woman is.
The last time I saw Texas play, they lost to our current coach. :) :)
 

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My advice to all True Bama Fans when he is on the radio turn him off and boycott Finebaum if you have to find your favorite music to listen to.
 
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I like the comments. Anybody that does not realize Alabama has been the premier southern football team since the 1920's needs their head examined. Pat Dye said it best. No matter what Auburn does they will never catch Alabama. I blame a lot of this ignorance to the age of people that witnessed Alabama play during the years we were on crippling sanctions. Tennessee, Auburn, LSU and Florida were the teams that hammered us the most during that time. Heck Dubose jumped up and won the SEC between the sanctions beating Florida twice for the title. He did have two of the best players ever in Samuelson and Shaun Alexander. As a side note during the sanction periods I do not think Alabama was whipped physically, except by Auburn and LSU, and that was on more than one occasion. Auburn always called the dogs off in the fourth quarter and LSU pounded us the the last play. The only reason the Alabama - Auburn record is not more lopsided is because they did not play for a thirty year period when Alabama was one of the top teams in the nation. That's my story and I am sticking to it.
 

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