re: You all owe Michigan.

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when he was hired in 2024, he absolutely was, now I'm not so sure since apparently he and Grubb are allergic to running the football

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Anyone who is being objective about either our functional limitations last year or the analytics related to attempting it consistently understands why Bama didnt run the football last year: we were nationally and from a program perspective historically inept at doing it.

As I see it Bama was basically a team that was nationally elite for a short time at intermediate and short passing and offensively legitimately bad at everything else due to injuries and talent.

That OL was the end result IMO of horrible talent identification for the post Brent Keys era at Bama and a really bad coaching hire by DeBoer. Whether it gets fully fixed this year remains to be seen, but being mad at Bama for not running the ball last year to me is like getting mad at a basketball team that shoots 25% from outside for not taking enough 3s.

So while some Bama fans are like "why were we bad at running the ball?" IMO the real question should be given that horrible OL, mediocre RB room, injuries/head case issues at WR/TE/QB is how the hell did we end up in Atlanta/win a game in the CFP and what would CKD do with a quality OL and a healthy elite Ty Simpson / KR level QB?

Nil and portal sent him to retirement.

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Your gold standard Ohio St team got punked by the worst UM team

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Thanks for motivating that team to win a national title?

Do you think Auburn fans beat their chest for beating both UGA and Bama in 2017 to watch them play for the national title? it's certainly not the flex you think it is

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Nice contradiction

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It's not a contradiction at all. Alabama was still winning football games but they weren't nearly as dominant wins as they had once been. They were no longer as physical on the line of scrimmage and couldn't run the ball between the tackles as consistently as they had in the past. Alabama also became more mistake-prone, turning the ball over and committing penalties at the worst possible moments. These were things that hadn't happened with previous Saban teams.

Many Alabama fans were talking about these very things in 2022 and 2023. In fact, if you go back and look through some threads from those seasons, you will find me saying that it was time for Saban to retire. I wasn't the only one either.

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Bama won a game in the playoffs, played for the SECCG, beat all its rivals and had a top 5 recruiting class last year then you tried desperately to hire our head coach. WTF are you talking about?

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Be honest, are you really happy with back to back 4 loss seasons?

And before you send a retort about LSU’s recent poor performances, no LSU fans were obviously not happy with the BK era.

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how the hell did we end up in Atlanta

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4-way tie for 1st and you had tiebreaker over Georgia and Georgia had tiebreaker over OM in H2H, A&M played a very weak SEC schedule so had no chance in the tiebreaker for opponent win pct

Also, won a bunch of conference games you probably shouldn't have to teams that weren't that great in retrospect and who hung around or even led - yeah they were ranked at the time you played them but that didn't really hold up did it?

though the UGA and Vandy wins did age well with how those respective teams finished and UGA exacted revenge for the SEC crown

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win a game in the CFP

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I get that all the Bama fans and KDB defenders like to use this to prop him up despite that Bama royally sucked running the football the 2 seasons he's coached there and would've sucked worse if Milroe wasn't QB1 in 2024 but...

let's be real: as satisfying as it was to see OU snap Bama's BDS win streak when it happened, OU was one of the odd teams in the playoff along with the G5 teams - their offense CRATERED after Mateer suffered his hand injury early on.

Elite defense, abysmal offense, they won a majority of their games, including the one at BDS, playing a very ugly, Iowa-esque brand of football, the LSU game at the end of the season also being a prime example and that LSU team was a shell of what started the regular season obviously. It's really not much to hang your hat on that you beat 2025 OU in a CFP game.

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what would CKD do with a quality OL and a healthy elite Ty Simpson / KR level QB?

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Probably what we saw his final year at UW but with a lesser record given the competition UNLESS they get gifted the easy schedule they presently have for 2026

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Be honest, are you really happy with back to back 4 loss seasons?

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2025 Offense (circa SECCG):
QB: injured
RB: injured
WR1: injured
WR2: injured
TE1: injured
TE2: injured
LT: 1st rd
LG: undrafted
C: injured
RG: injured
RT: TF

Given our injuries and OL last year winning a game in the CFP was over performing.

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Next to winning all those close games against conference opponents who very clearly should've beaten you but for some miraculous plays on your part and/or dumb plays on theirs - UGA, Mizzou, South Carolina, Auburn

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You're describing nearly every conference game in the SEC and looking for reasons to detract from Alabama rather than being objective at all.

How does a team win close games? Coaching.

Who blew everyone out last year in the SEC? No one.

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I’m no Bama fan, but Michigan was the biggest laughing stock in college football this off-season

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Texas Tech says hello.

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tide06

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So is that a yes?

Who do you blame for your poor roster construction?

Somehow after Saban’s first season he dodged ever losing 4 games.

I’m sure you see the pre-season rankings that have Bama at ~7th in the SEC this upcoming season…