The Good, the Bad and the Ugly…. Wolverine style!

RammerJammer14

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I don't agree with not pulling Milroe, but I understand why he didn't.

We have a team cancer and the treatment for cancer is horrific. Sometimes you radically cut it out (benching, kicking off the team) and it's a nice, clean removal. But, sometimes the cancer has woven its way into other organs, multiple lymph nodes, etc. and you chemically attack it (cleaning house), but that destroys the immune system as it attacks from within. The side effects of this are horrendous. Either option can heal, but either option can lead to death.

I've taken over groups with cancers many times in my career and how you deal with it is ALWAYS a crap shoot. Sometimes I've removed a kid and it's like a breath of fresh air rushed into the group. Sometimes I've removed one and multiple others followed him out. Sometimes you make their experience so bad that they remove themselves. Sometimes you just have to ride it out until graduation. No matter what you choose, you hope that you made the right decision and it doesn't tank your program.

It's obvious that I'm team DeBoer, for now, but yes I am frustrated after what I saw this season; however, I know that he knows more than I do. He knows the dynamic of the team. He knows how Milroe and LANK have infected the team way more than I do. I want to give him a chance to build his team. I want to see what he can do when he hasn't had to sit on his hands for a month while the rest of college football cherry picked our players. I want to see what he can do when he's had time to correct the mental/discipline issues from the past two seasons (because we can't forget how horribly undisciplined Saban's last two teams were). I'm going to give the guy a chance to do what he's always done: establish his program and win. In case we've forgotten who we hired, here it is:

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I’m not saying fire him today. But I don’t respect how he has managed this season and he has zero leash with me. Not that that matters. I give him a partial mulligan this season but he better show some kind of improvement next season and play for at least the conference title in year 3 or I’m done with him and his soft coaching style.
 
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B1GTide

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As I mentioned earlier, I recall a time when the Tide routinely ran wet-ball drills to help build confidence and skills during bad weather.
You ran them earlier this year before a game in which heavy rain was forcast and Alabama had no miscues. But Milroe is a head case. It wasn't wet balls. It was Milroe.
 

Rkharley98

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Good- defense played well enough to win. Band was great
Bad- overall team preparation, coaching
Ugly- always auburn
 

rolltide7854

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I can't find the thread or the post but I predicted before the season that Milroe would not be the starter by the end of the season. I was wrong but several suggested if that turned out to be the case then alot went wrong.

A few of us could see this train wreck coming even before the season knowing what we know behind the scenes.
I thought that Simpson would be starting by the South Carolina game. But he had a good game against UGA that seemed to give him a free pass the rest of the season. He had 6 games where he passed for less than 200 yards passing. In the last 6 games he only had touchdown passes against Mercer (2) until he had one against Michigan yesterday. with 5 picks.
 

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