BamaBravesPackers

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You make some good points but I still disagree and I’ll put it this way: To make a 12 team playoff you need to go 10-2. For Alabama, that means win the games you are expected to win and split the competitive games. I think that is a very reasonable expectation.

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I understand on the surface why you’d say that, but there is only one team who has consistently been 10-2 or better during the 8 SEC game schedule years…UGA. And they have a 2 time NC winning coach, a talent rich state with no real in state competition for it, and a decade head start building the program prior to all the NIL/Portal changes. I’m not sure even he will be able to keep it up every year in the 9 game SEC years, but he has a much more experienced team than we do to start that run this year. Why do you think Kirby and essentially all coaches want the 24 team playoff?

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don’t get the idea that this is some sort of revelation.

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Little Benny, have you read the board today? :casty:

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don’t get what the point is

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Correct, you do not.

The point was stated prior to the season, and has not changed. It’s trying to educate the fanbase, so we don’t have dumb individuals expecting results that can’t happen, which then turns the individual into a toxic ranter at the staff, players, administrators, etc. because of their lack of understanding. Ignorant, toxic fans were a large part of our problems pre-Saban. I’d prefer to not go back to that if possible, but we’re clearly headed there.

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Development and long term plans are a thing of the past. Half this team will be on another roster next year and we will spend the first 3 games learning everyone's name. So, next year will be the same as last year, the same as this year and so on.

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That’s only half true. Ohio State, UGA, and Texas all have rosters and specifically QBs that were recruited in high school and developed. Texas rode the wrong pony at QB, UGA may have as well, and OSU’s just went down to injury (despite beating Indy).

Development can be done and supplemented with portal, but not if you don’t retain your roster and don’t retain your new QB for the 2nd year. We didn’t retain our QB for reasons already discussed, so we started over. We’re playing for 2027 unless we don’t retain Keelon or he gets hurt

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If the coaching staff doesn't have what it takes, why would 2027 be different?

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With enough talent and experience, sometimes coaching can be overcome. Chizik, Jimbo Fisher, Ed Oregon all have natties

No one wanted to listen, but a select few of us told you this was what we signed up for when we decided to go with a first year starter at QB for the 2nd straight year, coupled with the youngest OL in the league and a coaching staff that lacks the daily intensity and attention to detail it takes to avoid multiple letdowns a year in the SEC.

Some of us said we were playing for 2027 before the season started once Simpson went pro, and that 9-3 was our most likely record with 8-4 and 10-2 on the table.

With the massive inexperience on offense and coaching staff deficiencies, together with the uber talented players we have, the range of outcomes each game is pretty wide. We could win out from here, we could beat LSU in Death Valley and drop the Vandy game the next week, or we could lose in Death Valley and lose to AU at home in their Super Bowl due to not stopping the run (and poor coaching preparation/decisions). Literally nothing has changed from expectations since the season started, and it’s playing out exactly as the knowledgeable posters said it would.

Now, back to not posting due to Chicken and the non-Bama moderators.

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On the bright side, 1 run should be plenty to beat Bama on Monday.

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Maybe 2. Have to assume we get lucky at some point.

The extension was given for a reason. Think he mainly can’t lose to AU, that’s by far the most important game but especially when you’re teetering on the fan perception meter.

9-3 with a win over AU would be a decent rebuilding season for fans that aren’t idiots. 8-4 is on the table, though, and a loss to AU would cause this board to go nuclear

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Nope. That cash is going to roster retention because the team is so young. It's the reason the class is so small.

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Correct.

It’s also correct that a team that young means it’s a rebuilding year, but that will make posters on this board irrationally angry.

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Wow. Bama. That was unexpected.

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Said none of the knowledgeable Bama or baseball fans.