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But the way the game of team building has gone has lost me. It used to be fun to watch guys develop and kind of know your team year over year.

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In defense of our coaching staff, I think that's what they want too. We've had fantastic retention. I hate what it's all becoming, but if the team is full of guys who we can genuinely consider our guys and not mercenaries I'll keep watching even if my emotional investment isn't there anymore.

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and another who grew up being called “Bama”

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If you assume he was such a huge fan because he's just a frontrunning clout chaser trying to talk shite on social media his interest in the programs he's showing interest in, while simultaneously having absolutely none in a program he claims to be a huge fan of, suddenly makes a ton of sense.

Sabb, like I said, appears to be a miscalculation though. If he's all about the bag, and his choice of Oregon says he is, that's something that should have been picked up on before signing the middle brother who likely won't ever play a meaningful down here. It's like if we had taken Keenan Allen's brother back in the day and he still went elsewhere, which is if course why Saban didn't do package deals like that.

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I understand the smaller class/retention but I don’t see how you can punt on an entire recruiting cycle and think that’s a great strategy.

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It's not a great strategy. I just think unless you are a top ~5 NIL job (Texas, Aggy, Oregon, Miami, Ohio State, Texas Tech) there isn't a great strategy for approaching this bullshite. Unless you literally have enough money to pay a kid more to sit on your bench an extra year than anyone else can pay him to start, every approach has at least one huge downside. The downside to our approach is that if you are going to prioritize the guys already on the roster there are going to be cycles where there's literally nothing to sell besides the program itself. You can't sell early PT because you're loaded with underclassmen. You can't offer money because most of it is earmarked for end of year raises. The vast majority of current day recruits don't give a frick about things like history, prestige, development, playing in the best venues in the country, etc. because they can set themselves financially for life without ever making it to the NFL now. If you don't have PT or money to offer, you just don't have much to recruit with. 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.

Truth and candor? A stupid a-hole substitutes his politically driven narrative for objective reality, gets rightfully called out on it, doubles down, and he stands for "truth and candor"? Give me a fricking break. We were back in the title game again the very next year BTW. Let's hear the explanation for that one.

Dad's hops are definitely there. Now he needs to shoot 3s that well and he'll make bank in today's NBA.

I think you're selling BRob a bit short. Among 2021-present Alabama RBs I'd say BRob is closer to Gibbs than anyone else is to BRob. 1600+ yards from scrimmage, 5 ypc, and 16 TDs is elite production.

Of course you don't. Let me guess. "His film isn't impressive"? To whom else would you compare a small-ish YAC merchant who runs clean routes, tracks the ball well in the air, and has more than enough speed and elusiveness to give you a weapon on jet sweeps, WR screens, and reverses?

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I’ll be concerned if we aren’t a transfer portal player either and this continues into 2028 class.

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Same. There is nothing really concerning about our roster situation unless we have back to back classes full of these kind of long term developmental signings, start struggling to retain the guys we want, and aren't active in the portal. Saban style roster construction just isn't realistic anymore. Stacking maximum talent every single class either means spending huge money on guys who don't play or constantly losing your backups to the portal.

Sure there are, but corrections probably has one of the lowest proportions of good people of any job in America. Prisons are even worse than local jails. For every decent person who treats the inmate population like fellow human beings you have half a dozen or more sociopaths straight out of the Shawshank Redemption. That entire industry, and an industry is exactly what it is, is designed to be a human suffering machine that slowly destroys people. Our criminal justice system is a disgusting joke straight out of an uncivilized, 3rd world hellscape.

Unfortunately when the collection plate goes around the Alabama NIL fund has to take a back seat to the serious issues of our day like men in women's sports, vandalism of our national monuments, and the Haitian dog eating epidemic.