Who is Saban's replacement?

[crimsonkelly]

Unfortunately, money does the talking for this generation.

 

[tidefan39817]

I’m starting a “Who do we hire after we fire DeBoer” thread.

only if he loses the first coin toss...

 

[BamaFanInTally]

Well he better get started quick because Bond aint the only Star going to the portal. It is beginning to sound like all the “we are brothers” talk this season was just that…talk.

“Until the transfer portal do us part”

 

[teamplayer]

isn’t he basically a younger version of Steve Spurrier? On the field, at least.

I seem to recall Spurrier winning championships before he did his talking.

 

[tidefan39817]

All we would have to do is blitz every play.

zone blitz...

 

[gtgilbert]

Well he better get started quick because Bond aint the only Star going to the portal. It is beginning to sound like all the “we are brothers” talk this season was just that…talk.

I've said it more than once; I think the 'team choosing' was a smaller, but more vocal part of the team than we might have thought at first.

 

[CoolBreeze]

Where are you seeing this? He has only started one year. If you go back and look people were saying the same thing about JH and right after all that chatter all he did was help recruit the best set of wide receivers we ever saw at Alabama. I say Alabama but in truth that group of Juedy, Ruggs, Smith and Waddle may be the best group of receivers in the history of college football. Not sure if you will ever see that again.

Guys are going to transfer in this new NIL era. Sad but a big bank roll speaks louder than QB play. Say what you want but Milroe and Bond have great chemistry. He rarely missed when targeting Bond.

I just watch games and observe. Did not mean to ruffle anyone's feathers but that is my observation. I'd prefer a QB that distributes the ball to the playmakers we have, which is his job. But hey, I will roll with anyone that they trot out on the field but I will make observations.

 

[Mystical]

He's a Heisman candidate at Bama, but I couldn't care less about that. I want championships.

We almost won a championship this year with Milroe sans a bad snap. Coach Saban said that last play had no throwing option to it. The play was designed to run to the left the bad snap threw it off. It made the right side of the offensive line look bad because they knew the ball was going left.

I will say again Michigan made every qb they faced look bad. Michael Penix may go in the top 10 in this draft but if they were basing it off of that Michigan game he wouldn't be drafted at all. Milroe made a huge leap during the year. I for one want to see the jump he can make over the summer having actually started a full year. One thing you can be sure of the locker will always pick the best player. They picked A.J over Star. Remember the players wanted Jake Coker in 2015 and the Coaches went with Cooper Bateman they quickly saw the error in that decision and went with Jake who won a NC. The players chose Jalen Hurts over Blake Barnett then turned around and chose Tua over Jalen. The point is the team wants to have the guy who gives them the best chance to win.

If Milroe comes back next year and has not improved and another player gives us a better chance to win I promise you the players are going to rally around that player. Milroe has been a great ambassador for the University. By all accounts he keeps his head down and causes no trouble. No police reports. No domestic violence issues. No crab legs stolen. Not sure why we would want a young man like that to leave. I personally don't want to face him next year with a offensive coordinator with some imagination. With the growth I saw this year I know he will be better next year.

 

[Cruiser]

Mark Schlabach just said Lane Kiffin was never considered because of the way he left in 2016. Because he was fired the Monday before a national championship game.

Bad choices and decisions have consequences. Where have I heard that before?

 

[Special K]

I hope all of you who were fretting about the search - how GB was botching it, how all of our players were going to transfer, how we were going to lose every recruit we have, how we were going to have to beg Lane Kiffin to take the job, how we were going to get so desperate we'd have to hire Tommy Rees, blah blah blah - will realize now that this is not 2006. With what CNS built, this is a gold mine even if you do have to follow the GOAT.

Nobody we hired was going to be able to fill Saban's shoes. But this moved very quickly and decisively, and outside of kidnapping Kirby Smart at gunpoint I think Byrne knocked it out of the park.

 

[twofbyc]

These days, the portal is rising in importance so fast it will eventually be the equal to recruiting. (Penix led the nation in passing yards). All KD has to do is keep top ten classes (how have Bama’s previous three classes fared?).
He’s a winner - winners gonna win. He will not be Saban 2.0. He will keep Bama in contention year in and year out. Bama got the very best coach they could get. Players are going to have to want to play for UA for a year or two until he develops relationships.
RTR

 

[TD7]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1745907073886437577

 

[bamaga]

I hope all of you who were fretting about the search - how GB was botching it, how all of our players were going to transfer, how we were going to lose every recruit we have, how we were going to have to beg Lane Kiffin to take the job, how we were going to get so desperate we'd have to hire Tommy Rees, blah blah blah - will realize now that this is not 2006. With what CNS built, this is a gold mine even if you do have to follow the GOAT.

Nobody we hired was going to be able to fill Saban's shoes. But this moved very quickly and decisively, and outside of kidnapping Kirby Smart at gunpoint I think Byrne knocked it out of the park.

I don’t know if anyone here posted that. Now , if that was said on social media maybe you should post it there.

 

[Bpilktree]

I sure hope the current players and the class just signed are happy. I hope Sayin is pleased especially.

Washington didn’t offer Sayin a scholarship so not sure how much he knows the coach.

 

[Special K]

I don’t know if anyone here posted that. Now , if that was said on social media maybe you should post it there.

You obviously haven't read all the posts, lol. Of course I'm paraphrasing, but just about everything I mentioned was said in some way, shape, or form over the last 48 hours on this very board.

 

[Mystical]

I just watch games and observe. Did not mean to ruffle anyone's feathers but that is my observation. I'd prefer a QB that distributes the ball to the playmakers we have, which is his job. But hey, I will roll with anyone that they trot out on the field but I will make observations.

You did not. If my response came off as you did I apologize.

 

[CullmanTide]

Washington didn’t offer Sayin a scholarship so not sure how much he knows the coach.

Well they are going to get acquainted real good in the coming weeks.

 

[CoolBreeze]

You did not. If my response came off as you did I apologize.

Good deal! I admire your passion about our players. That is what makes this place so special. Hope we have our new coach sowed up and we can all roll our sleeves up and get back to work! RTR!!!

 

[KrAzY3]

One bright spot is the fact that Saban will still have an office and some involvement. In a perfect world, DeBoer would have been Saban's OC for a couple years (imagine him instead of BoB as OC), and in doing so he'd really be integrated into the region and the way Alabama recruits and so on.

Saban is a recruiting genius. He's a defensive genius. If he stays in his lane (no gameday stuff, no offensive stuff), he could go a long way in helping DeBoer maintain what Saban built.

I'm not of the mind that Saban needs to get out of the picture completely, he's the greatest college football has ever seen. Anything he wants to dabble with will be improved, or as the case may be maintained.

 

[B1GTide]

One bright spot is the fact that Saban will still have an office and some involvement. In a perfect world, DeBoer would have been Saban's OC for a couple years (imagine him instead of BoB as OC), and in doing so he'd really be integrated into the region and the way Alabama recruits and so on.

Saban is a recruiting genius. He's a defensive genius. If he stays in his lane (no gameday stuff, no offensive stuff), he could go a long way in helping DeBoer maintain what Saban built.

I'm not of the mind that Saban needs to get out of the picture completely, he's the greatest college football has ever seen. Anything he wants to dabble with will be improved, or as the case may be maintained.

I would love to hear that Saban is managing the NIL structure for Alabama. He could raise more money than anyone else in the country if that became his focus.