EastTXTide

The transition after Saban’s retirement could have been much worse but let’s beat Vanderbilt first then revisit this topic?

Portal. Without the portal, NIL is basically a four year contract, which is reasonable.

Pretty simple, we did not invest like we needed to in the OL last portal cycle. We brought in entirely new players but it is looking like we just replaced mediocre linemen with more mediocre linemen.

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Dont be fooled by Bama dosent have the money.

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Our GM publicly said the narrative that Bama is poor is false, so yes, we do have the money.

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You really, really don’t understand college football. No one in the SEC with a 9 game SEC schedule is going to make the playoffs every year unless they have all of the following: 1) the top 2 highest NIL budgets in the league and top 5 in the country; 2) one of the 3 best coaches in the country; and 3) good injury luck every single year.

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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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Literally no one suggested we should. If we do, it will be due to ignorant, toxic fans that cause the majority of good coaches to not want to be here. We don’t have the NIL money to be the top job the way we were pre-NIL. Less reason for top coaches to put up with an out of touch fanbase

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I don’t think anyone expected or is demanding another Saban dynasty but I think it is reasonable to expect the University of Alabama to (1) look like they care and practiced the prior week and (2) make a 12 team playoff every year. I don’t really see how those expectations are ignorant or toxic.

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Right before signing his National Letter of Intent in December, powerhouses like Texas, Colorado, and LSU all stepped in with massive late NIL offers to try and flip him, b

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No major recruiting service has a Texas or LSU offer listed. The people defending 12 after the countless turnovers and back breaking sacks probably said Buchner needed more time to develop.

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fricking retarded. 6A Texas state champion, number one player in Texas and Gatorade player of the year had 0 offers?

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(1) You described Jackson Arnold
(2) Show me another blue blood programs that offered him. There are none and it’s apparent there is a reason for that.

Say what you want but Cochran’s teams won’t be soft and come out flat like Deboer’s teams.

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Then it’s the age old question since Deboer got here, who is better that’s an option?

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Cochran has head coach experience now. His teams won’t play soft and come out flat. He would be a cheap hire too so we could fund the DeBoer buyout.

and had exactly 0 offers from other blue blood programs. People talked about this guy like he was the next Bryce or Tua but he is actually way closer to Tyler Buchner. The guy is nowhere close to even Milroe, who won an SEC championship and was an elite runner.