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My goodness....we barely lose to the (now) #4 team in the county in their place....after basically stinking up the joint, giving the ball away, making stupid penalties, and lose three starters to injury. Our kicker has a rough day......and we still barely lose.....

And some of you are acting like we will be lucky to make it to the Citrus Bowl.....

Really? Gee whiz, are you all that pessimistic about every element of your life? Or just Bama football?
 
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CajunCrimson said:
My goodness....we barely lose to the (now) #4 team in the county in their place....after basically stinking up the joint, giving the ball away, making stupid penalties, and lose three starters to injury. Our kicker has a rough day......and we still barely lose.....

And some of you are acting like we will be lucky to make it to the Citrus Bowl.....

Really? Gee whiz, are you all that pessimistic about every element of your life? Or just Bama football?
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If you're referring to my post, and I'm not sure how you couldn't be, then your reading comprehension is off.
 
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CajunCrimson said:
My goodness....we barely lose to the (now) #4 team in the county in their place....after basically stinking up the joint, giving the ball away, making stupid penalties, and lose three starters to injury. Our kicker has a rough day......and we still barely lose.....

And some of you are acting like we will be lucky to make it to the Citrus Bowl.....

Really? Gee whiz, are you all that pessimistic about every element of your life? Or just Bama football?
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Sorry if my comment came out wrong. I'm not saying we deserve to be outside the top 10. I was just pointing out that #2 seems awfully high. The sky is not falling.
 
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JessN said it better than I could. He wrapped my thoughts up very nicely in this post in his post game thread.

JessN said:
If Alabama is truly about championships, then 1-/2-loss seasons that end outside the playoffs are basically failures.

You can lower your aim a bit and say, "Well, we had a strong year, won double-digit games (albeit not as big a deal as it used to be; it's possible to go 10-4 now, which is a winning percentage of 71.4%), etc.," but the fact remains that if you're going to be about competing for championships, you actually have to do it.

On top of that, Alabama is sitting third, fourth in the SEC West at this moment in terms of how the program looks. Auburn is in a better spot. Ole Miss just put itself in a better spot. Mississippi State may be in a better spot. LSU and Arkansas obviously aren't, but who knows about Texas A&M. When you start talking about the divisional race and the team is suddenly in the middle of it rather than on top of it, it begs the question of whether you're really "the king" anymore to a neutral observer. What happened in 2009-2012 might as well be taught in a history course as fast as interest moves these days.

The only question that matters, then, is not what you did, but what you're going to do, and how you're going to go about doing it. I'm trying not to ring the alarm bells yet because too many people just look at the last five years of total W-L records and aren't open to considering that something is wrong. But I see other programs that are now recruiting just as consistently as Alabama is, and getting better results on the field afterwards.

You could argue that Alabama has won x-number of "recruiting national championships" in a row, but those things matter absolute zero. Anyone in the top 15 is capable of winning a championship on talent. There is almost no difference between the No. 1 class and the No. 10 class; people in my industry have done a very good job hyping it and getting fans stirred up, but if you can maintain a five-year average in the top 15 of classes nationally, you have just as good a shot to compete for titles as Alabama does.

So the question going forward is will the coaches not only be able to identify the problem, but do they have the talent to change it, or the will to change it? We've got to have an honest discussion about special teams and tight ends at some point, for example. They're the two worst-performing units on the team and they're both coached by the same guy. But that's not the only issue. I'm not sure when is the time to get deeper into this, really. I just think now that if you're looking at the season with a neutral eye, you see Alabama losing 1-2 more games and not being in consideration for the Final Four.
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CajunCrimson said:
My goodness....we barely lose to the (now) #4 team in the county in their place....after basically stinking up the joint, giving the ball away, making stupid penalties, and lose three starters to injury. Our kicker has a rough day......and we still barely lose.....

And some of you are acting like we will be lucky to make it to the Citrus Bowl.....

Really? Gee whiz, are you all that pessimistic about every element of your life? Or just Bama football?
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I have run a fun Crimson Tide page on Facebook now for five seasons. The ones who are pessimistic are pessimistic about every element of life -- almost to a man. Sad to say. I was letting myself get that way to be perfectly honest and had to say enough's enough. Contrary to the saying, football is NOT life.
 
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theballguy said:
I have run a fun Crimson Tide page on Facebook now for five seasons. The ones who are pessimistic are pessimistic about every element of life -- almost to a man. Sad to say. I was letting myself get that way to be perfectly honest and had to say enough's enough. Contrary to the saying, football is NOT life.
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yep, i ran across a few (in my family) who were non-stop hand wringing about the bcscg against notre dame. the only thing they wanted to talk about is how we might lose. personally, i follow bama football because i enjoy it, and joy <> angst :)
 
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