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Reggie Ragland get into it with Nikhai Hill-Green on the Tide's mentality and coaching against Indiana

Good for Ragland. Cignetti has said a million times that he has the shortest practices in P4, but only recruits guys that he thinks truly “love to play football.” And he clearly has an eye for guys that have an abnormal love for football and all of its details.

Bama needs to get talent, but only if that talent truly loves football. That kind of talent gets themselves extra time in the film room and is hyper-focused during those shorter practices.
 
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M Squires said:
Good for Ragland. Cignetti has said a million times that he has the shortest practices in P4, but only recruits guys that he thinks truly “love to play football.” And he clearly has an eye for guys that have an abnormal love for football and all of its details.

Bama needs to get talent, but only if that talent truly loves football. That kind of talent gets themselves extra time in the film room and is hyper-focused during those shorter practices.
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It seems the only green players love today is the spending kind.................green grass not so much
 
Evil Crimson Dragon said:
It seems the only green players love today is the spending kind.................green grass not so much
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Indiana just won a national championship with below average financial resources in their own conference.

And it’s not just that they were below OSU, UM, Oregon, USC, and Penn State; teams like Michigan State and UCLA spent more on players this past season.

Cuban didn’t make his first IU football donation until October 2025.

CKDb can do this; he’s got the scheme, plenty of financials, and the talent. Just needs to clean up locker room leadership.
 
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While I'm 100% behind a change in the OL coach, I'm not sure the revamp is a 1-year process. It takes a while for the five parts to jell into a single unit. I'm not expecting a well-oiled machine until maybe late in the season. Maybe.

Regarding a possible coaching change, and absent the wheels coming completely off or an off-field incident bad enough to void the buyout, I just don't see it. I'm expecting a rebuilding 8-4 / 9-3 kind of year which will have some fans pretty exercised. But I don't think the heat on DeBoer from anyone that matters would be up.

Depending on exactly when the annual stepdown is triggered, his buyout would be between $50 million and $60 million. Then there's the buyout of whoever we hire into the vacant chair. Then there's the perpetual passing of the hat for pay-for-play over and above the revenue sharing.

Who would realistically come, and represent the stone-cold guaranteed upgrade necessary to justify all that?

Additionally, I hear all the time that Alabama doesn't have the money to compete for HS or portal recruits with UTw, aTm, UTe, Michigan, Oregon, etc., etc., ad infinitum.

We don't have the money to do that, but we do have the money to make a coaching change? How does the arithmetic work?
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Saying year 3 is another rebuild year seems odd to me. Year 3 should be his year even in pre portal times. Don’t think Bama can afford a coaching change. Or that Bama needs one. But year three in the portal era should be his team no excuse. Every team is going through this so saying o line needs time to gel is true for everyone. most if not all teams is basically new players. Why are you saying this staff gets the excuses of time to gel and rebuild year in year 3? What year then should they be held accountable for their players and no more rebuilding?

I get they don’t have the NIL to really compete and each Bama will fall further behind in money but they should show they can put a better coached product out. Especially on offense since he is an offense guy.
 
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Coach D said:
Saying year 3 is another rebuild year seems odd to me. Year 3 should be his year even in pre portal times. Don’t think Bama can afford a coaching change. Or that Bama needs one. But year three in the portal era should be his team no excuse. Every team is going through this so saying o line needs time to gel is true for everyone. most if not all teams is basically new players. Why are you saying this staff gets the excuses of time to gel and rebuild year in year 3? What year then should they be held accountable for their players and no more rebuilding?

I get they don’t have the NIL to really compete and each Bama will fall further behind in money but they should show they can put a better coached product out. Especially on offense since he is an offense guy.
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I agree, year three SHOULD be the year in which things come together. However, how things have fallen for Alabama, we're going to be starting a first time QB with next to ZERO game experience and will be very young and inexperienced at a lot of positions. That is not a recipe for an 11-2 to 12-1 type of regular season. I don't foresee a coaching change unless we get blown out again three times and appear to be getting physically handled. I just don't see how he can survive those things for what basically amounts to three straight years of that happening.
 
M Squires said:
Indiana just won a national championship with below average financial resources in their own conference.

And it’s not just that they were below OSU, UM, Oregon, USC, and Penn State; teams like Michigan State and UCLA spent more on players this past season.

Cuban didn’t make his first IU football donation until October 2025.

CKDb can do this; he’s got the scheme, plenty of financials, and the talent. Just needs to clean up locker room leadership.
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Definitely need to rearrange the culture there
 
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