Diego Ricardo

That's good to hear because I feel like we're a bit thin at guard and that's assuming Holloway is back on campus.

Crazy how this is going to keep on happening because 70-80yos can’t end their political careers and go the eff home

Can’t believe the guy with a nazi tat who roughed up at least one girlfriend in the past also did some rape.

If you got FIFA in your country and your team is in the tournament, no better president to work within the corruption and graft of FIFA than Donald J. Trump.

We beat Georgia, Tennessee, LSU, and Auburn in the regular season. We got revenge for our only regular season SEC loss in the first road CFP win ever. The way the season began and end sucked but there is no doubt 2025 was a successful season on the bottom line analysis.

I didn’t like how things looked at times but winning is the goal not beauty pageant scoring.

People who do not think 2025 was a successful season are what I’m talking about when I said “message board poster wheels fall off” types.

Small money classes make sense. People don’t like when you consider anything but the “everything coming up tide” angle but it could backfire. That’s all I’ve been saying. Seeing most big recruits with their name attached to ours go the other way then saying “all according to plan” is fine and all but there are parts of the plan that nobody really controls. Of course, I think the backfire hinges on DeBoer putting a bad product on the field. While he’s had some stinkers, he’s basically produced an overall success team each year he’s been a HC. However, injuries are fickle and mean even more in this depthless era. So your team suffers the wrong injuries early enough in the season, it can turn miserable quick, fast, and in a hurry.

I hope so. I think we should definitely figure out how to adjust the offense to get talent on the field at tailback.

Last year we played 3 very Shula-era-esque tailbacks all season but felt that Dear at least had the juice to pop a big run or two per game. Gotta think that difficulty with picking up the offense kept him in 4th position despite being a better pure athlete than the 3 above him.

quote:

---

I don’t know what this looks like though. There’s nothing we can do from a money raising standpoint that other teams who already are ahead of us aren’t already doing.


I will personally absolutely hate the date an ad is placed on our jersey. But LSU is ready to put a tramp stamp on their garbage arse jerseys if it means Lane has an extra WR to throw to. Teams will be whoring out their stadium names and everything else so we’ll only be keeping up with the Jones’ while giving up the best traditions in the sports.


We have the highest social media following in major college athletics but those followers don’t seemingly have an appetite for helping the team be good in any way.

---

You're hitting on the big point. At some point, the brand and traditions behind college football is completely eroded away and it just makes more sense to follow the NFL exclusively. The NFL is not an anachronism stuck in an unworkable middle ground, it is a professional sports league fully aware of how to maximize competition in an equitable way that keeps even Jets fans hooked despite all logic saying they should abandon ship. All it takes is a few good picks or a free agency win and you're a contender in the NFL. However nobody can overawe the sport because they're a bigger billionaire than the others.

The University of Alabama has some hard problems to confront if our strategy does not turn out to be the path to consistent contention for championships. Too much of the University's financial stability is dependent on this place being a fun "student life" option. I deleted my post above because I expounded on this more than I care to given the subject area but I do not think it is politically feasible for the University to make an elite academics play if the athletics-based student life story flounders. Sure, we're better academically than we have been previously but I'm talking about making a stab at becoming like UT-Austin or Cal-Berkley...top public higher education institutions in almost every field.

quote:

---

Things are simply not as many think and say. Only time will tell if their approach will be successful. Their proven ability as great evaluators of talent is the key. I’m very optimistic and believe it is Alabama’s best, probably only, path to great success in the current environment.

---

Right, and I am only saying it is as easy to see how this strategy goes wrong as it is to see how it goes as planned.

I think the strategy is a valid one to attempt but it is higher risk strategy than frick you money

quote:

---

If it's this terrible next year I'll be panicking with the rest of you, but until that happens I think this class is just the reality of modern recruiting.

---

I’m of this mindset too. Doesn’t change that we’re playing a game dependent on a lot of ifs and buts with this roster past 2026. I understand the logic but if this season isn’t encouraging to the roster on campus then we may have attrition we weren’t betting on … and what then?