I've lost most of my faith in this coach. Before anyone "But Nick Saban in 2007"s me, remember: he had nothing to work with. Deboer has had every opportunity. It's been seventeen years since we've had to watch inept coaching or playcalling or performance by an Alabama Team. 34-3. Let that sink in. Jalen Milroe...god where to start. And did Deboer at least ATTEMPT a QB change to try and salvage the f***ing game?! I'll watch vs. Mercer and pretend the season ends there, I *don't* have any hope for a win over Weagle in the 2024 Iron Bowl.
My biggest concern is that DeBoer wedded himself to Milroe and has never made any change. That reflects poorly on his judgment. But after what happened to Saban last season when trying to make that change, I can understand it. I'm not giving up on the staff until I see what they look like when they're not handicapped by such awful quarterback play. A lot of the problems we're seeing - frequent penalties, getting rattled on the road, tantrums on the field, etc. were going on at the end of the Saban era. I think the program has developed some cultural issues that extend beyond who is coach.
@@BamaRewind I think you're right. I can't find the exact quote but Nick said there was a lot of finger pointing and helmet throwing in the locker room after the loss to Michigan, and when he left he looked at Miss Terry and said "Why are we doin' this anymore?" I feel like 2020 or possibly 2021 were the last years he was 100% in control of the team. That's not a patch on him, I feel like players are becoming more arrogant and entitled, there's an NFLesque atmosphere descending on CFB at the P5 level of play...the reasons for this are NIL, but there's a lot more to it than that. It's a cultural shift, and it's one that ironically enough, Nick himself set in motion. Remember when he asked "Is this what we want college football to be"? Because I do. But I only understood after a few years what that question really meant. What it meant was: schools saw what only Nick Saban was able to accomplish. They saw the titanic gravitic pull that Bama had on the sport and they wanted a piece of that. No - they wanted all of that. To *get* it schools were willing to gut what their programs were, legacy, history, tradition, they were willing to burn mountains of cash to try and recreate what Nick was doing. When, prior to Nick Saban at Alabama, was firing a guy like Mark Richt even...a thing! He ran a CONSISTENT bowl game every year. SEC-E championships. He had the kind of record that back in the 70s or 80s would have terrorized CFB...but it wasn't "good enough" and they walked him out the door. And a whole lot of other teams did similar moves at different levels, all in the name of catching Nick Saban. So here we are at the end of 2024. Everyone will burn their own campuses down to fuel the next "dynasty", in a crude aping of Nick Saban's methodology. They'll destroy good enough programs in an effort to make them just like the 2009-2020 Crimson Tide. "Is this what we want college football to be" was not a question it was a _warning_ . And it fell on deaf ears.
@@thedungeondelver I think that's all true. A lot of the changes were also created by politicians and judges. We're now at a point where college athletes have significantly more power than their professional counterparts.
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I've lost most of my faith in this coach. Before anyone "But Nick Saban in 2007"s me, remember: he had nothing to work with. Deboer has had every opportunity. It's been seventeen years since we've had to watch inept coaching or playcalling or performance by an Alabama Team.
34-3.
Let that sink in.
Jalen Milroe...god where to start. And did Deboer at least ATTEMPT a QB change to try and salvage the f***ing game?!
I'll watch vs. Mercer and pretend the season ends there, I *don't* have any hope for a win over Weagle in the 2024 Iron Bowl.
You mean 24-3. But yes it was terrible
My biggest concern is that DeBoer wedded himself to Milroe and has never made any change. That reflects poorly on his judgment. But after what happened to Saban last season when trying to make that change, I can understand it. I'm not giving up on the staff until I see what they look like when they're not handicapped by such awful quarterback play.
A lot of the problems we're seeing - frequent penalties, getting rattled on the road, tantrums on the field, etc. were going on at the end of the Saban era. I think the program has developed some cultural issues that extend beyond who is coach.
@@BamaRewind I think you're right. I can't find the exact quote but Nick said there was a lot of finger pointing and helmet throwing in the locker room after the loss to Michigan, and when he left he looked at Miss Terry and said "Why are we doin' this anymore?"
I feel like 2020 or possibly 2021 were the last years he was 100% in control of the team. That's not a patch on him, I feel like players are becoming more arrogant and entitled, there's an NFLesque atmosphere descending on CFB at the P5 level of play...the reasons for this are NIL, but there's a lot more to it than that. It's a cultural shift, and it's one that ironically enough, Nick himself set in motion. Remember when he asked "Is this what we want college football to be"? Because I do.
But I only understood after a few years what that question really meant. What it meant was: schools saw what only Nick Saban was able to accomplish. They saw the titanic gravitic pull that Bama had on the sport and they wanted a piece of that. No - they wanted all of that. To *get* it schools were willing to gut what their programs were, legacy, history, tradition, they were willing to burn mountains of cash to try and recreate what Nick was doing. When, prior to Nick Saban at Alabama, was firing a guy like Mark Richt even...a thing! He ran a CONSISTENT bowl game every year. SEC-E championships. He had the kind of record that back in the 70s or 80s would have terrorized CFB...but it wasn't "good enough" and they walked him out the door. And a whole lot of other teams did similar moves at different levels, all in the name of catching Nick Saban.
So here we are at the end of 2024. Everyone will burn their own campuses down to fuel the next "dynasty", in a crude aping of Nick Saban's methodology. They'll destroy good enough programs in an effort to make them just like the 2009-2020 Crimson Tide.
"Is this what we want college football to be" was not a question it was a _warning_ .
And it fell on deaf ears.
@@thedungeondelver I think that's all true. A lot of the changes were also created by politicians and judges. We're now at a point where college athletes have significantly more power than their professional counterparts.