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This is what I looked at most are 4th and 5th year guys
Dude, step back from the ledge. And get over Lane Kiffin. He ain't gonna be offered.
This is happening in BB too..Calipari jokes about players having a wife and 2 kids at games watching in the stands! Multiple years in the game helps...strength, understanding, technique etc..and overall maturity...its a formula that works...I hope we get experience on the OL
Maybe we have the right coach and maybe we don't but if you fire him after just 2 years we'll be AU 2.0.
Force him to make changes? Sure. Changes are needed. We gotta get tough mentally and physically.
But if you fire him then good luck on our 7-5 or 8-4 seasons for a while after that.
And he is who? And what has he done where to make you think he'd be better?
And lastly, what in the world makes you think he'd come to Alabama to follow CNS?
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They gave up more points than we did to Georgia. We need their offensive coordinator.
I noticed their linemen seems more “in shape” then ours. We have a lot of dudes with belly fat.
IU Defensive Coordinator. Already makes $3 million at IU so he's not leaving for a G5 job.
It's not necessarily his on field stuff (though that's incredibly good). More his ability to evaluate talent and next level communicate and motivate.
Like I said, a hire like that at a ranked P4 program would blow up message boards, but Haines will be a guy that big programs say "Why didn't we?" five or ten years from now.
I kinda alluded to that in the other thread. I'm not so sure it's absolute weight since guys like Latham and Neal were massive, but also had very low body fat. Contrast that with our current LT who is both way heavier, but I would also bet carries a much, much higher body fat %.
Feel better now?
I pray my snark isn't too soon. I've respected your positions for quite a while; this one is an egg laid, IMO.
I'm chalking your post up to the need to vent. And I *truly* look forward to your future contributions.
Of the guys that play? Charlie Becker. Adedamola Ajani. Khobie Martin. Backup QB Alberto Mendoza.
That's it.
I’d take some explosive fast twitch 290/300 lbers over the 330/340 belly gang we have.
This is all fine and good and KD may not be a long term solution.
But don't pretend Saban never had bad losses. Don't pretend we didn't play like mess under his tenure here.
I remember a certain loss to SCeast under CNS, a major fail against an AU team (we were up by what? 3 scores? and AU came back and won) so don't pretend we didn't have some losses like that under CNS. And we still call him the GOAT (and he is).
Now, who says we didn't reach out to Cignetti (be it officially or thru back channels) and he said no?
Changes in the football staff are needed, for sure. But you can't pull the plug right now one way or another. Like him. Hate him. Willing to give him a chance or not he's gonna be the coach for at least another season.
Now, we got beat by a better team yesterday. Period.
And we're sitting here acting like the AU fans.
We lost. Get over it.
No, it doesn't feel good. It never does. Be it by 1 or 100.
Firing our coach will hurt our program more than him coaching our team another 3 years.
This.
Many of us have commented that Ty played hurt most of the 2nd half of the season. It seems he may have been playing *injured,* and that baffles me. I pray he gets great rehab, starting this week.
Mack came in looking like a HERO ... for three plays. Then he honestly looked as if he was in over his head.
I agree that the whole game -- especially with the kind of opponents we play -- cannot be put on the QB's shoulders game-after-game.
All analogies break down at some point but I’ll attempt it anyway.
I see 2026 for DeBoer as the pivotal type of year Bryant experienced in 1971. After two dismal years in 1969 (6-5) and 1970 (6-5-1) there was considerable grumbling about Bryant being too old and “the game had passed him by”.
Bryant looked at his roster, realized he didn’t have a QB in Terry Davis to run a pro passing game. He did have an All-SEC type RB in Johnny Musso. Bryant contemplated an offensive change, but didn’t do it in a knee jerk fashion. He took in council from the likes of Emory Bellard and Daryl Royal concerning option offenses like the veer and the wishbone. After spring Bryant was quoted as saying “I made the decision I was going to live or die with this wishbone thing”. Risky? Yep. But Bryant realized he he couldn’t consistently win “doing as he had always done”.
We saw a similar switch by Coach Saban by moving to a more open passing attack/up tempo on offense when the HUNH offenses begin to stress his defenses.
The point being is both Saban and Bryant realized that, when things aren’t where they need to be, the biggest risk isn’t the change itself. The greater risk is continuing to do what you’re doing and “hope” it works.
Coach DeBoer in two years is at a crossroad in my opinion. Something has to change. On both sides of the ball. It is abundantly clear his finesse type of game will not be consistently successful in this conference. And the change starts with him first. And his coaches. Will he do that? I guess we’ll find out in the next few weeks.
I see 2026 for DeBoer as the pivotal type of year Bryant experienced in 1971. After two dismal years in 1969 (6-5) and 1970 (6-5-1) there was considerable grumbling about Bryant being too old and “the game had passed him by”.
Bryant looked at his roster, realized he didn’t have a QB in Terry Davis to run a pro passing game. He did have an All-SEC type RB in Johnny Musso. Bryant contemplated an offensive change, but didn’t do it in a knee jerk fashion. He took in council from the likes of Emory Bellard and Daryl Royal concerning option offenses like the veer and the wishbone. After spring Bryant was quoted as saying “I made the decision I was going to live or die with this wishbone thing”. Risky? Yep. But Bryant realized he he couldn’t consistently win “doing as he had always done”.
We saw a similar switch by Coach Saban by moving to a more open passing attack/up tempo on offense when the HUNH offenses begin to stress his defenses.
The point being is both Saban and Bryant realized that, when things aren’t where they need to be, the biggest risk isn’t the change itself. The greater risk is continuing to do what you’re doing and “hope” it works.
Coach DeBoer in two years is at a crossroad in my opinion. Something has to change. On both sides of the ball. It is abundantly clear his finesse type of game will not be consistently successful in this conference. And the change starts with him first. And his coaches. Will he do that? I guess we’ll find out in the next few weeks.
A lot has been said about Cignetti using the transfer portal and his obvious success. I checked on 24/7 to see exactly what he has done in his 2 years at Indiana. In his 2 years he has brought in a total of 58 players from the portal. He brought in 5 players of this total
who were rated 4 stars, the remaining 53 were rated 3 stars and some were even rated NR(Not Rated). As been said our paltry number of portal players brought in have, for the most part, been non contributors. Somebody on this overpaid staff needs to get off their rear ends and aggressively work the portal. I would even consider bringing in an experienced QB who might have 1 year of eligibility to help transition to Russell.
who were rated 4 stars, the remaining 53 were rated 3 stars and some were even rated NR(Not Rated). As been said our paltry number of portal players brought in have, for the most part, been non contributors. Somebody on this overpaid staff needs to get off their rear ends and aggressively work the portal. I would even consider bringing in an experienced QB who might have 1 year of eligibility to help transition to Russell.
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The fruits of unlimited free agency. This was something structurally impossible to do just 3yrs ago.
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