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Literally said I get the call on the follow through after the initial contact and it was called properly. I guess I’d be asking too much of an LSU fan to show some reading comprehension skills. Carry on.

Haha whine all you want. Contact initiated Turner’s face to Daniel’s shoulder/chest. Textbook. If you have an issue with the follow through, fine. I get it. And it was called properly. But when you go to whine about the officiating, just watch the left tackle on this very play rip Turner’s jersey off before he got loose and hits Daniels, remind yourself it wasn’t called, and then STFU.

@EKingGill The fact you can't see the difference between Saban making a public comment about the NIL money his current players are making and Texas A&M boosters forming a collective and making definitive offers with terms and conditions to high school kids to entice them to come to A&M is hysterical. You might as well start every post with "I'm too much of an Aggie homer to make any impartial statements" before every comment you make if you can't understand the difference in those two situations.

Saban's choice of the word "parity" a week or so ago wasn't the right word to make the point he was trying to make about the way NIL has turned college football on its head and how out of control this all could get if it continues to go unchecked. He can and should be rightly criticized for that comment. What he said last night was spot on and even Jimbo agrees things need to be "even" across the board regarding rules and enforcement. Sure, A&M didn't do anything "illegal" under Texas law, but Texas law is different than NCAA rules, and A&M 100% bought their recruiting class with NIL collectives that promised players specific deals that they'll make over the next 3-4 years. Any A&M fan that acts like that's not how that happened looks as childish and ridiculous as Jimbo did in his temper tantrum conference today.

Surely with so many NFL players rushing out to report how much money Alabama offered them to come there while Saban was coaching, you have specific examples of exactly who has come forward, right? Surely you can name names? No? That's what I thought... Because you see, if these guys start coming out and saying Alabama offered this or that or some random 6-figure amount for them to come play there, and they ultimately decided to go somewhere else, the next question is... so how much money did the school you ultimately chose pay you, because common sense says you didn't turn away from 6-figures to play for (insert school here) out of the goodness of your heart or integrity or school pride? And that creates problems for the university they played for.

I'll agree with you on Boutte... for now. If either Burton or Harrell come in for Bama and have a Jameson Williams type season, I could see them jumping Boutte if he doesn't stay healthy/the red flags don't fall by the wayside with BK.

I shouldn't be surprised this concept is too difficult for a cow college fan to understand, but maybe if you use your fingers and toes you can follow along. 1) What does this have to do with football? No one has even remotely tried to act like we are or should be some baseball powerhouse. We've been pretty bad for a while now, and even when we MIGHT be good, we play in a conference and division that's even more of a nightmare to play in than it is for you also-rans in football. Theoretically Bama could be like a top 25 team right now in the country and would still be in the bottom half of the conference. That's how difficult it is to come from behind in this league. 2) No one said we thought we were going to sweep State GOING INTO the weekend. I can guarantee you literally no realistic Bama fan thought that. We had hopes of taking 2/3 maybe, but you don't go to that park and just walk out with a sweep, especially when you're Bama baseball. Our "we should have swept the series" comments come only from the way the series ACTUALLY played out. This is a really simple distinction and the fact that you can't grasp it is quite telling. 3) I'm sorry you thought State ever had a chance of beating a pissed off Bama team. That actually is pretty pathetic. That said, it's a completely different set of circumstances when compared to what we're talking about here. You thought you had a chance to win going into the game, which was an admittedly moronic pipe dream, but you never had a chance during or near the end of the game. State never led, was down by 11 after the 1Q, down 14 at half, 26 after 3Q, and never even scored a touchdown. It was a complete beatdown. Never close. Alabama was literally an out a way with a 2-run lead on Friday and 3 outs away Saturday with a 3-run lead, and then blew it. To make this comparison simple for you, in football, that would be like State leading Bama at Bryant Denny by 7 with 5 seconds left and Bama connects on a hail mary from the 50 and THEN scores a two-point conversion to win the game. It's. Not. The. Same. Thing. Maybe if Bama takes Friday and Saturday then Sunday plays out differently with the teams in different mindsets, but there's a difference between wondering how different an entire game could have been and wondering what could have been if you didn't blow two multi-run ninth inning leads because your dumba** coach sent a pitcher back out to the mound that had already been shelled the inning before.

WTF are you talking about? Alabama was literally 4 outs away from a sweep. They blew a 2-run, 2-out lead in the 9th on Friday and a 3-run lead in the 9th on Saturday, thanks primarily to atrocious pitching decisions by our head coach. Dumba** talking bout “our series to sweep”. Child please….

Cooper left Alabama following the 2014 season. Mac Jones and Tua were true freshmen at Alabama in 2017. Hard to be an Alabama "reunion" when Mac and Tua were both sophomores in high school the last time Coop wore crimson and white.

He does one mean Electric Slide, but in 15 years, I have yet to seen him grind on a teenage boy to try to get his signature on an LOI.

Have you ever looked at their history prior to Saban?

I guess simple facts and stats are above your level of intelligence so the only thing you can respond with is some knuckle-dragging drivel. Just move on child. There's nothing for you here.

17/26 for 224 yards, 2 TD's, 0 INT, and a lost fumble. I wouldn't call that a "huge" postseason performance, so much as I'd call it a solid performance that didn't put the defense in a bad spot and lose the game, which is all that's every really asked of Bennett. That's probably because it's all he's capable of. You can't expect him to win a shootout for you. In 2 years, Bennett is 18-3 as the starter. In the 18 wins, the opposing team has scored more than 20 points only once (Tenn scored 21 in '20). In those 18 wins, he has 31 TD's and 7 INT's- a 4.4/1 ratio. In the 3 losses, the opponent has reached north of 40 in each game and UGA scored no more than 28 (24 against Bama '20, '21 and 28 against UF '20). In those 3 losses, he has 6 TD's and 6 INT's, a 1/1 ratio.

@Wildhogzz, last I checked the "big game" is won by a team, not an individual, so that's not dispositive of which individual should be ranked ahead of another, particularly when those individuals never share the field at the same time. If simply winning a game meant you had the better QB, then Bo Nix was better than Jefferson, Calzada should be ranked over Young, Garoppolo is better than Rogers, and Eli Manning was better than Brady. It's also pretty evident he doesn't deserve to be ranked the #1 QB in the SEC going into next season when his own fanbase is pretty much 70/30 unhappy with his decision to come back. They know his ceiling is limited and can only get them so far without a generational defense to set him up with short fields all season long when he can lean on the running game to grind a clock and hit open receivers in PA. If they come across a fully healthy offensive power (e.g. Bama and UF '20, Bama in the SECCG '21) and they have to win a shootout, he's never shown he's capable of doing that.

Looking for him to be a Jameson Williams replacement is the wrong way of looking at it. I see Burton as instantly replacing John Metchie with the possibility of a ceiling much much higher if he stays healthy. Great all-around receiver with very good speed, solid quickness, and great route running capabilities.

Iona is 9-2 with a NET ranking of 52. They were a quad 2 game. Bama shouldn't have dropped that game, but calling that a "bad loss"- at least in terms of tournament resume- would wrong.

Alabama primarily scores two ways- 3-pointers and in the paint/at the foul line. 95% of their 3PT attempts come from screens or kickouts. Very little isolation/player creating their own three, which means the looks they get are usually quality looks based off of movement. That in turn feeds the pick and roll/pop game, and of course there's transition points when they get out and run. The Iona loss boils down to 2 simple things, one much larger than the other: 1) missed free throws and 2) significant drop off in 3PT attempts. Alabama averages 28.2 3PT FG attempts per game through 9 games. That number jumps to 31.2 if you remove the Iona and Houston games, their two closest games by far. Against Iona they shot 17 threes, and against Houston they shot 18. The difference between the win against Houston and the loss against Iona is Alabama made 77.4% of its free throws against Houston (24/31) compared to just 52% against Iona (13/25). And that's not even accounting for how many front-end 1-and-1's Alabama missed. Bottom line, if Alabama gets off 25+ 3PT attempts given the amount of quality looks and quality shooters they have and/or they make north of 70% of their free throws, they're going to be extremely difficult to beat, no matter who they're playing.

Also helps that 6 of Auburn's 9 games thus far have come against quad 3 and quad 4 competition.

"Bama fans point to Anderson’s nation-high 31.5 tackles for loss as evidence he’s more deserving than Hutchinson. But a lot of those came against inferior opponents — Anderson has 15 TFL against teams with winning records." So basically half of Anderson's TFL's have come against teams with winning records (7 games) and half have come against teams with even or losing records (6 games). Cool. That was a great way of showing he shows up equally against good and bad competition.

It was long past time for Bama to return to it's place as one of the conference's top basketball programs year in and year out, and it seems like we hired the right guy to do it. Still trying to get used to being "the hunted" in round ball, but as long as Nate Oats is at the Capstone, it certainly appears that's exactly what we'll be, and I'm here for it. Have a REALLY tough OOC schedule this year, but that will only make us a better team by the time SEC play rolls around. Really excited to see if we can follow-up that Sweet Sixteen run with a shot at the Elite Eight or Final Four. Even typing that sentence is still odd. RTR

I clicked on this fully expecting it to be a situation where, in the madness of it all, there was a flash of a body in front of the officer and he just took it out not thinking trying to do his job to protect Coach. But that POS locked it, pulled up the forearm, and charged into her. F*** that guy.

So let me see if I have this right.... 6 seasons after Kirby Smart left Alabama... after his defense gave up 550 total yards of offense and 40 points to Clemson in his final game there... a year after Kirby's defense, with the exact same players you listed above, gave up 560 yards of offense and 41 points to Alabama... 9 months after Alabama's defense DOMINATED Ohio State in the CFP national championship game... one week after Alabama's defense held perhaps the most prolific offense in college football to less than 300 yards of total offense and 21 points (14 of which came in the 4th quarter garbage time after Bama was up 5 TD's)... you think Alabama "can't play defense anymore" because Kirby Smart isn't in Tuscaloosa anymore? BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I think the Cincy QB is BY's biggest challenger. All the other guys mentioned will lose one or more games in the remainder of the season but Cincy should be there undefeated at the end, possibly with a spot in the Playoff, and Ridder (think that's right) had a pretty solid game against Notre Dame. He'll pile up numbers against inferior competition, the question will be if he gets enough publicity into December to get the voter support.

LSU is more likely to finish the season 3-9 than they are 9-3. Most likely outcome is probably 5-7, 6-6 at best.

Bama haters before the season: "Bryce Young will struggle. He doesn't have all that 1st round talent. Smith, Waddle, and Najee are gone. He'll struggle, especially early on." Bama haters 5 weeks in: "Bryce Young is a product of the system. He's just a game manager. Anyone could look good with all that talent around him!"

"So far, the plan for Young as a passer looks more like the plan for a young Jalen Hurts in 2016-17" This is so far off it's incredible. Jalen was rolling out and given one-read throws and then taking off. Bryce is given full-progression, multi-level route trees to work with. Bryce has thrown for 225+ yards in all three games and a total of 811 yards. Jalen Hurts did that once in his first four games (three starts) and that was against Western Kentucky, and his total passing yards in his first three starts was 609. Bryce has also thrown 10 TD's in his first three starts compared to Jalen's 3. And none of those numbers have anything to do with Bryce throwing a lot more either. In their first three starts, their passing attempts total 91 (Jalen) and 100 (Bryce). If you want to criticize the offense's current lack of execution on deep throws (whether that be inaccurate throws, drops, etc.) then that's fine, but comparing the offense and game plans Bryce Young is operating to what Jalen Hurts was running in 2016 is just uneducated, lazy, inaccurate analysis.

It's cute that Derek Stingley is getting some "dark horse" Heisman hype now that his father, Devonta Smith, has graduated and moved on to the NFL.

"He's one of the worst former Heisman winners in the NFL right now." Not sure I can think of a more ignorant way to categorize a guy just to try to slight him. Heisman winners currently in the NFL: Ingram, Newton, Winston, Mariota, Henry, L. Jackson, Mayfield, Murray, Burrow, Smitty. Compared to other RB's, he's only behind the best RB in the league. "Compared" to QB's... not really sure how you even do that, but he's had a better career than Winston or Mariota, from Jackson to Murray, those guys are too young to make a career comparison, and Burrow and Smitty basically or actually haven't had a chance to do anything. That doesn't even account for RGIII or Johnny Football who have been out of the NFL longer than Smitty and Burrow were even in college.

Also... "Shane Bolden"... ouch...

I know this is a regular series, but doing this for Alabama's 2021 offense in relation to 2020 is the same as doing it for LSU's 2020 offense in relation to 2019: unfair. Those situations ought to be re-named "Not as good" or "Holy **** they did it again"