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I saw that stat and thought that's the difference in the two programs. We both recruit top talent but if you can get some to stay five years, there talent will be fully developed !

It's not the Superstars that wind up 5th year Seniors. The guys we played last night have just as many leave early as we do, but manage to hold on to everyone else.

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Delusional

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WTF are you talking about? I'm not complaining about players leaving for the NFL, Im complaining about the ones we sign that leave for other reasons.

I keep thinking that, but the year before was also a national champoinship

Getting Mosley and McCarron to stay was huge for Bama.

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Getting Mosley and McCarron to stay was huge for Bama.

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Fact ... Mosley an McCarron are the heart and soul of that team. Think of where we'd be if any two of Minter and Logan or Reid had had stayed.

2008: #1
2009: #1
2010: #5
2011: #1
2012: #1
2013: #1
and so far 2014: #1

2008: #11
2009: #2
2010: #6
2011: #6
2012: #18
2013: #6
and so far 2014: #15

The 2009 class at #2 played it's role on defense, the 2011 6th ranked class is now playing it's role on offense.

The 18th ranked 2012 class is showing why it was ranked 18th.

The 2013 6th ranked class is already showing promise early with Robinson and White. The 2014 class even with 75% of our remaining high profile targets, will still be a top 5 class.


I've went back and looked over it and the one bad year of 2012 is to blame for weak defensive play. Aside from 2008's 11th ranked class, We have been no worse than 6th in that time span. Couple it with the majority of the incredible 2009 class leaving last year + the 2010 class with Reid, Mathieu, Simon, and it was a perfect storm.

Of course all of it can't simply boil down to recruiting but this is the difference between Alabama and everybody else. This is the difference between a so so team, and a dynasty.

What happened the year before the 2008 disaster? What happened last year? Big difference.

To add to that, what did Bama do before that? What have they done the last 5 years? That's who you're competing with for all of the talent we're targeting.

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Getting Mosley and McCarron to stay was huge for Bama.

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Moseley staying was shocking. I don't know how they managed to account for the scholarship requirements with their incoming classes.

Whether people on here want to believe it or not, there isn't that much of a difference in talent between LSU and the team 2 states over. There were 3 huge mistakes in that game that really gave them all that they needed to finish us off. If we don't make those mistakes, it might have been a very different game. Our kids showed up to play and played with emotion. They just couldn't sustain it. You can't go into the #1 team in the country's house, make those mistakes and expect to win. What I seen was a better disciplined TEAM beat a team that's still trying to figure things out. The players seemed to just throw in the towel. Miles will right this ship. We will have at the very least, another top5 class.(most likely 1 or 2) I'm not willing to throw in the towel on CLM. When he has a UF type season it will be different. The defense will be better next year to pick up the slack from the losses on offense. Can't say the offense will take a huge step back cause we really don't know what we have in Jennings yet. He will have a year and a half under Cam come the beginning of next year. If we can find the receivers to pick up the slack, We'll contend next year. However our season is looking to be 15' and history says the same. 03' 07' 11' 15'. We just have to be patient. And yeah we lost the title in 11' but had we faced any other team. We undefeated national champions. End of rant. Fwiw I do believe that Les was out coached Saturday night, but there aren't many coaches in the country that wouldn't have been.