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What makes me laugh is when Saban's replacement is discussed, Kiffin's name is always the first one thrown into the hat. What a joke. No way. Bama should never consider Kiffin as Saban's successor. Sark should be the man. Texas looked like the best team in the country last night against Baylor. What a dominating performance. Sark and Texas are for real and Sark and his Texas team are showing shades of the Bama 2020 team.
It was as good as any defense in the country yesterday evening. It dominated the game and predicated the outcome.
The defense is for real and one of the best if not thee best in the country. The offense is average and that's as good as it will get all season. The defense will have to carry the day and season for Bama. But can Bama be consistent week in and week out? I don't think they can be so we will see a vacillation in performance from week to week and Bama will lose some of those games. I predict Bama loses at least two more games and will end the season with at least three losses.
It's sad and pathetic when you have to praise a guy for such an average performance because you're happy he didn't screw up too badly. Bama's defense, collectively as a unit, were the stars of Bama's victory over Ole Miss. Ole Miss's defense is apparently worse than South Florida's defense considering South Florida only spotted Bama 17 versus Ole Miss's spotting Bama 24. Golding is a bum no matter where he coaches.
Swagger back? Someone put a muzzle on this guy. The story of this game wasn't Jalen Milroe and the offense. Ole Miss isn't noted for its defense. Tye story was Bama's defense. It was, simply put, impressive in every way. To hold a team that was averaging over 50 points a game to 10 points says it all. Bama's defense dominated. This is back to Bama's roots. Average offense coupled with the nation's leading defense.
The problem isn't as much who is qb versus the coaching. The coaching is horrendous. The offensive line is clueless. They don't know what they're doing. It's a waste of talent. They are not being developed. That pretty much applies to the entire team. Wasted talent. Saban is running a halfway house for wayward coaches. Standard? What Standard? This is the Standard folks, or what's come of it. Finebaum is wrong about Milroe. Simpson is the guy despite being a red shirt freshman. He showed glimpses yesterday despite having no time to throw or react because of a porous, non-extstent offensive line.
No, Kirk, Bama will not learn from this. Saban is beyond learning at this point. He's a stubborn cus who fails to see his flaws.
Yes, the Bama dynasty is done. Saban peaked three years ago. Accept it. How much more evidence do you need?
Yes it is over. The season is over and Saban is over and the Bama dynasty is over. Done. Put a fork in it. Saban's sauce does not work in this new era of college football. You would think Saban would have learned a valuable lesson with the Jalen Hurts fiasco. No more quaterbacks who are run first and run always and can't read defenses or pass worth a lick. What does this moron do? He selects another Jalen Hurts but this Jalen Hurts 2.0 is a poor rendering of 1.0. With a quarterback that does nothing but run, run, run, you effectively paralyze the rest of the offense. It atrophies from lack of use and development. All your eggs are in one basket — the quarterback and the quarterback is one dimensional. The offense becomes helter skelter improvisational chaos. Ole Miss will be the next Bama loss in two weeks. Wait for it. It's coming. I've been calling this for several years now hence my name. Peak Saban was three years ago when they won a Natty with Mac Jones and Sark as offensive coordinator. Despite Bryce Young, it's been a slide down the other side of the peak ever since and the slide continues. Saban will taint his legacy in the next several years because his ego will fail to see what is so obvious to anyone with more than a brainstem up top.
Most of these first games are like preseason games in the NFL, meaning until they play a challenging opponent, we just don't know for sure. We'll see how it all plays out next week against Texas. Yeah, Bama was disciplined and well-balanced against Middle Tennessee State which is a good sign, but Texas will be its first real true test under pressure from a challenging opponent. We'll see next week if Bama passes its first test. Yesterday was just a quiz and Bama got a 100.
You are exactly right. I turned it off at the half and truth be told, I almost turned it off when Georgia went up 24-7. The selection committee has egg all over its face. This bombed in a big way. Bama would have given Georgia a fight. TCU looked like a junior high team against Georgia last night. It was a pathetic performance, almost as though they all were paid to throw the game.
Yesterday was exciting to watch, but I’ll be a monkey's uncle if someone didn’t spike all four teams’ defenses’ Gatorade with LSD.
All these dopes championing the committee and salivating at the demise of Bama has a dynasty are cheering for the death of SEC as a dominant conference and don't know it. The changes that are taking place and that are coming means the SEC will come into parity with the other conferences considering the increase in the velocity of money and personnel around the college football. Dynasties were possible because of static structures in place that thwarted the velocity of money spread around to various programs and to players and that thwarted player mobility. Those structures have been, and are being, eliminated and now that SEC talent coupled with NIL as a recruitment tool and the portal can go anywhere if not given their chance immediately and anywhere means outside the conference. Goodbye Bama dominance and goodbye SEC dominance. Just as so goes GM so goes America, so goes Bama so goes the SEC and so goes college football.
The Chair is a piece of garbage. An opportunist. A bumbling bureaucrat helping to ruin college football. He has no right and no business criticizing my coach on my behalf. Bama under Saban's reign has been incredible for college football and this guy is gleeful about putting a knife in that. What comes next for college football will not be better. It will be many times worse and guys like this Chair are in large part the reason why. They have killed the golden goose and there will no longer be any golden eggs or in the least far fewer of them.
The committee did not get it right. Georgia will thump both OSU and the winner of the Michigan-TCU game on its way to two national championships in a row. Apparently, this is the outcome the committee prefers. It never should have co me to this, Nick. Your recalcitrance is the reason why. You've surrounded yourself with sycophants who only tell you what you want to hear. Your coaching staff sucks. Your ability to recruit cannot overcome that and that's a shame because it's such a waste of talent.
Why are you so afraid? Clearly you Georgia fans are shaking in your boots. You know Bama is one of the four best teams and you know Bama is the ONLY team that COULD beat you.
Despite my concerns about my team and how critical I've been of it as of late, I agree with you that Bama is still, despite its shortcomings, one of the four best teams in the country. Here's my Final Four. 1. Georgia 2. Michigan 3. Alabama 4. TCU That third and/or fourth slot is between USC, OSU and Bama and the deciding factor is who would give either Georgia and/or Michigan the, depending on the slot, the best game. Hands down the answer is Bama. Ohio State was manhandled by Michigan and you know it will be manhandled by Georgia. No way USC can hang with either team. Utah took it to them and outplayed them. Think what Georgia and/or Michigan will do to USC. If the CFP wants the most bang for the buck, and wants the most exciting playoffs there can be, Bama is the team. However, per usual, politics will more than likely prevail and college football fans will be shortchanged and the playoffs will be three lopsided blowout games and Bama will not be part of it.
It's not boring for a Vols fan this season because they knocked off a dynasty. When there are no more dynasties to knock off, no more goal posts go in the river. There are no more dynasties to knock off, so the river in Knoxville will be goal post free from here on out.
I agree there should be a 12 team playoff, but complete parity is manifesting. I think a balance between parity and dynasty works best. If that balance tips too much in either direction, it gets boring real fast unless you are a zealous fan. The balance is tipping hard to too much parity.
As critical as I've been about my team, at least they make it exciting. Ohio State didn't make it exciting when it got blown out by the lumbering Michigan offense. Yes, Bama lost to Tennessee but hell, it was awesome game to watch. Same with the Texas game Bama almost lost — Bama made it exciting to watch. Every game Bama has a chance to win it or lose it and many of their games are too close for comfort but they're exciting. The CFP needs to decide if they want an exciting college playoff or if they want a boring lopsided playoff with three blowout games. Bama does not get blown out. The same cannot be said for any other team than Georgia. TCU is going to be like Cincinnati last year. Overhyped and when it comes time to own up to the hype, TCU will falter. Same with USC. I have no doubt if and/or when Michigan plays Georgia, the outcome will be almost identical to last year's game where Michigan got thumped.
This is the future of college football and the future is now. Total parity. No more dynasties. Boring, in otherwords. But hey, Vegas likes it. Vegas subsumes everything and ultimately ruins it. It finally got to college football. Maybe the Saudis will make a play for it.
Defense for both these teams was and is an obvious afterthought. Offense ruled the day and the Seminoles' offense was the better of the two.
If Auburn has chosen him as their next head coach or chooses him as their next head coach, they deserve what they get. This guy is a clown. He will never win a national championship because he has never and will never grow up. I hate to say this, but I do believe Hugh Freeze would be a better pick IF Auburn wants to be not competitive but a threat in the next several years.
The freak spends way too much time on social media. This is one of several reasons Kiffin will never win a national championship no matter where he's coach and it's why Ole Miss got spanked this past weekend. Hey idiot, get off social media and coach you moron.
Auburn is not the same team it was six weeks prior. Chrysler Williams has lit a fire under this team. They are highly motivated to play for him and give it their all. Considering Bama struggled this past weekend against Austin PeeWee, Auburn could pull off the upset. We'll see. Either way, no doubt the obstinate, recalcitrant Saban will continue on next season with O'Brien and Golding and the results will be even worse than this year. Down goes Frazier and down goes Saban.
Throw spaghetti against the wall and see what sticks.
He did do that, well, two years at least, but that was before the Saban Era when Bama sucked the big one. Let's see if he can do it this year. If he does, I will refer to him as Tesla Williams from then on.
Derrick is Da Man!! He's a stud. This is what I expected from him in the NFL and he's meeting those expectations. Derrick represents what Bama Football once was but is no more and never will be again. RIP, Bama Football. It was awesome while it lasted.