What's your minimal expectations for Bama this year in Coach KD's second year? No more than two regular season losses and make the playoff?
Question: What's your minimal expectations for Bama this year?
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Worst case scenario: we drop a couple we should win (like we did with OK and Vandy last year.)
Best case scenario: One loss and a chance to play for the conference championship and the playoffs.
I can't pick an outcome until I see the team play. There's just too many unknowns.
Best case scenario: One loss and a chance to play for the conference championship and the playoffs.
I can't pick an outcome until I see the team play. There's just too many unknowns.
Be prepared to play every week. This goes for Coaches and Players.
Have Discipline on the field and eliminate unsportsmanlike behavior.
That’s it.
If they can do that I think they’ll be in the Playoff picture in November.
Have Discipline on the field and eliminate unsportsmanlike behavior.
That’s it.
If they can do that I think they’ll be in the Playoff picture in November.
16-0 national title. Go Big or Go Home. I’m a Bama fan, gotta live up to the perception.
If I had any clue on the level of command Ty Simpson has of the offense, I could give a more definite answer. The problem is, that is a big unknown at the moment. On a scale of 1-10 if Simpson has a 5 to 6 command of the offense, then my minimal expectations drop. I'm looking at an 8-4 regular season. But if he's got an 8-10 command of the offense, then the worst I think we should do in the regular season is 10-2.
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It's the same SEC schedule as last year, but I think South Carolina, Oklahoma, LSU and Auburn will all be better than last year. It might not necessarily be reflected in the records of all those teams, but I think they will be better teams. I think Missouri, Vandy, and Tennessee will take a small step back. All of that to say, that I think my minimal expectation is that we go 10-2. I do think 9-3 will be a disappointment with the talent we have, but I don't think it will be, nor should be, a death sentence for DeBoer.
This is it. I'm past the point of no return on expectations. NC or bust. So they need to step it up...all of em.
No CNS, the portal and NIL. I have zero expectations anymore. I will watch Bama but they have ruined the game of college football for me.
Best case, 10-2. Georgia and LSU possible losses. Worst case, 9-3,... Fingers crossed for best case scenario.
Probably 9-3. Anything worse would be a failed season. Hopefully 10-2 or better, because that would guarantee playoffs, but there's a chance 9-3 would get us in. It would've gotten us in last year if Clemson hadn't beaten SMU, so a 9-3 team will make it at some point. But let's not play those games, and just hit double digits so we don't leave any doubt.
Floor for me would be 9-3 and I really would not be heartbroken about it. BUT my heart says 10-2 and a playoff run. That's what I'm counting on. RTR
I think maybe 11-1, 10-2, Georgia will be tough, South Carolina will be tough, Tennessee and LSU are not beating us at home, also everyone is talking about Simpson, he will be fine, seems no one in the country brings up Saying at Ohio State, Stockton at Georgia or Manning at Texas, they are first time starter, we will be fine
Minimal expectations? GO UNDEFEATED and WIN THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. Why would I expect less?
This is where I stand... We have a brutal schedule. We should be in the playoffs at 10-2, can skip the worthless SEC title game and get healthy, and hopefully have everything ironed out to make some noise in the playoffs.
9-3 is the floor though. With this roster we shouldn't go under that. If we go under this without major devastating injuries... We have to question DeBoer.
11-1 is probably our ceiling... I can't see Nick Saban reliably going undefeated with the schedule.
Going into last season, I had the team going 9-3 with losses to UT, OU and either UGA or LSU. I wasn’t too far off, though I was banking on OU being significantly better than their final record ended up.
My gut for this year’s team tells me 10-2. I have a harder time picking the losses but knee-jerk would be UGA and South Carolina. However, I would not be shocked to see us win those two and lose some head scratchers like Mizzou and OU. Honestly, OU has reloaded their roster and coaching staff enough to be pretty dangerous this season. I won’t believe the LSU hype until I see it, as Kelly has yet to field a truly competent defense down there, but they could be awfully good as well and could trip us up.
Everything Jess has said indicates that DeBoer gets 3 years absolute minimum. The administration doesn’t want to replicate what they’ve seen at AU and other places. I think he’d still be safe for another season even if we fall to 8-4 or 7-5 in 2025, which I think is unlikely.
Ultimately, anywhere from 12-0 to 8-4 will not shock me. This team has the roster to run the table but QB, which is huge in today’s game, is still a question mark until it isn’t. If we had a proven QB, I think I’d confidently say 11-1.
If I’m being honest, I’ll be satisfied with this season if we get to 9 wins, and two of those wins are UT and Auburn. I’ve said it before, but my undergrad years coincided with Shula’s tenure and I cut my teeth in the Dubose era, so 9 win seasons still feels pretty good to me. I never lost sight of that during the absolutely outrageous success we enjoyed with Nick. That was pretty much always going to be limited to his tenure IMO, and I’m not sure how much longer even he could have sustained it.
One huge box I would like to see us check is to get a convincing win against AU in JHS. One gripe I always had with the Saban staff is that they never seemed to take that rivalry as seriously as they did UT and LSU, and it showed. I hope this staff handles that differently. Manhandling AU last season after looking like a 5-7 team the week before against OU was encouraging. Saban’s teams would have come out flat against AU on the heels of a performance like that IMO.
My gut for this year’s team tells me 10-2. I have a harder time picking the losses but knee-jerk would be UGA and South Carolina. However, I would not be shocked to see us win those two and lose some head scratchers like Mizzou and OU. Honestly, OU has reloaded their roster and coaching staff enough to be pretty dangerous this season. I won’t believe the LSU hype until I see it, as Kelly has yet to field a truly competent defense down there, but they could be awfully good as well and could trip us up.
Everything Jess has said indicates that DeBoer gets 3 years absolute minimum. The administration doesn’t want to replicate what they’ve seen at AU and other places. I think he’d still be safe for another season even if we fall to 8-4 or 7-5 in 2025, which I think is unlikely.
Ultimately, anywhere from 12-0 to 8-4 will not shock me. This team has the roster to run the table but QB, which is huge in today’s game, is still a question mark until it isn’t. If we had a proven QB, I think I’d confidently say 11-1.
If I’m being honest, I’ll be satisfied with this season if we get to 9 wins, and two of those wins are UT and Auburn. I’ve said it before, but my undergrad years coincided with Shula’s tenure and I cut my teeth in the Dubose era, so 9 win seasons still feels pretty good to me. I never lost sight of that during the absolutely outrageous success we enjoyed with Nick. That was pretty much always going to be limited to his tenure IMO, and I’m not sure how much longer even he could have sustained it.
One huge box I would like to see us check is to get a convincing win against AU in JHS. One gripe I always had with the Saban staff is that they never seemed to take that rivalry as seriously as they did UT and LSU, and it showed. I hope this staff handles that differently. Manhandling AU last season after looking like a 5-7 team the week before against OU was encouraging. Saban’s teams would have come out flat against AU on the heels of a performance like that IMO.
Playoffs or bust. And just “making the playoffs” isn’t good enough.
I don't really know honestly. I know some people on the inside and some say we are undisciplined beyond belief. But some of the veterans are trying to take the reigns to bring the new guys up to speed on how things ought to work. So we'll see. Leadership will be key this year.
