Bama Game Thread: Tua Announcment - Watch Live & Discuss (11am CT)

[B1GTide]

While I hope he does, I just can't imagine Najee staying. I don't think he can significantly improve his draft stock, and the likelihood of him winning a Heisman is very remote. It's not like we are going to go back to 2015 on offense and hand the ball off to him 30+ times a game against our tougher opponents

He has Heisman numbers in the games after Tua got hurt - in this offense - without 30 carries a game.

 

[Con]

Good for Tua. I am happy for him, but I will miss him. This was probably the best decision for him because I wouldn't have wanted to see him get hurt again in college.

 

[CrimsonForce]

No matter how good he looks in practice, Young will have to show it in an SEC game before he would be considered over Mac. Mac just wiped the floor with a very, very good Michigan defense. He is a known, and good enough to win the SEC.

Young will get game snaps, and we will know what is there at some point in the season, but unless Mac regresses, it is his job.

Michigan was ranked #25 in total defense. Not sure I would call that very, very good..

 

[VirginiaTide57]

CBS sports says over 70 players have declared for the draft. That's a lot of guys getting first round grades.

 

[tusks_n_raider]

I'm not super familiar with the culture and I'll try my best to ask this in a respectful way....

When are these young men allowed to make life decisions for themselves? I mean Tua is 21 and in a few months will be 22.

Do they get to pick their Wife? When they do have a Wife and Children of their own do they still have to defer to the Senior most Male in the family?

This whole dynamic is so completely foreign to me and I confess to just not understanding it at all.

 

[Bubbaloo]

Tua had 2 choices. Neither choice could be wrong. Even time will not tell us whether he made the correct one. There is no way to know where the other path may have led.

 

[VernonTider]

I havent read all the post , but you watch , Taulia is going to L8U and with Joe Brady as offensive cord, they most probably going to be tough again next year .

Really?

 

[The Ols]

I havent read all the post , but you watch , Taulia is going to L8U and with Joe Brady as offensive cord, they most probably going to be tough again next year .

So you think that the Saints draft Tua??? That's not out of the question...

 

[Power Eye]

He has Heisman numbers in the games after Tua got hurt - in this offense - without 30 carries a game.

You're probably right that he would have as good of chance as any non-quarterback going into the season, but it has become a QB award, unless you are an Alabama runningback....I'm arguing with myself now.

 

[FairlyAmazing]

Wish him the best.

Great player, for sure.

 

[rgw]

I sense that Najee is going to go. No reason for him not to other than unfinished business on the college football field. He's going to be a great pro. Derrick Henry has demonstrated that backs built like Najee can flourish in the league.

 

[B1GTide]

Michigan was ranked #25 in total defense. Not sure I would call that very, very good..

Really - I see them as #11 in total defense.

Maybe you meant scoring defense where they are #25 (thanks to Alabama and OSU ).

 

[CrimsonForce]

Really - I see them as #11 in total defense.

Maybe you meant scoring defense where they are #25 (thanks to Alabama and OSU ).

Well yea, but if you take out their shutouts or near shutouts against Rutgers, Iowa and Maryland then the number would be a lot higher. They had a solid defense but gave up points and yards to the few teams they played with good firepower - 35 to Wisconsin and Alabama and 56 to OSU..

 

[TideEngineer08]

I'm not super familiar with the culture and I'll try my best to ask this in a respectful way....

When are these young men allowed to make life decisions for themselves? I mean Tua is 21 and in a few months will be 22.

Do they get to pick their Wife? When they do have a Wife and Children of their own do they still have to defer to the Senior most Male in the family?

This whole dynamic is so completely foreign to me and I confess to just not understanding it at all.

I'm in the same boat. But I will say that we've now learned that the decision making parts of the brain do not fully develop until the mid-20s. (I think we all knew this long before science gave evidence, even if it was in hindsight as we aged). Knowing that, perhaps they've got a good thing going.

 

[B1GTide]

I'm in the same boat. But I will say that we've now learned that the decision making parts of the brain do not fully develop until the mid-20s. (I think we all knew this long before science gave evidence, even if it was in hindsight as we aged). Knowing that, perhaps they've got a good thing going.

My problem - when parents make decisions for their adult children, the consequences land on the kids, not the parents. I have no problem with other cultures, but that doesn't mean that I would choose them.

 

[bamacon]

So you think that the Saints draft Tua??? That's not out of the question...

Unless he gets some disastrous news about his hip there is simply no way he'd drop that far. Let's just look at the draft board and see how many teams need a QB and I mean need one NOW...

1​	Bengals (QB)	2-14	0.553​
2​	Redskins	3-13	0.502​
3​	Lions	3-12-1	0.506​
4​	Giants	4-12	0.473​
5​	Dolphins (QB)	5-11	0.484​
6​	Chargers (QB)	5-11	0.514​
7​	Panthers (QB)	5-11	0.549​
8​	Cardinals	5-10-1	0.529​
9​	Jaguars (QB)	6-10	0.484​
10​	Browns	6-10	0.533​
11​	Jets	7-9	0.473​
12​	Raiders (QB)	7-9	0.482​
13​	Colts (QB)	7-9	0.492​
14​	Buccaneers (QB)	7-9	0.500​

 

[BamaMoon]

Redshirting a 3 year player is stupid.

First...congrats to Tua...hope he signs a HUGE contract...we will tell others how we remember him at Bama like older guys now do with Joe Willy and Snake.

B1G, you might be right about this, but one thing that has changed with the 4 game redshirt rule is CNS/Sark can plot a plan to see if BY is ready to play without risking a year.

 

[TideEngineer08]

Looking at that draft list, it's hard to see him falling out of the top 10.

 

[B1GTide]

B1G, you might be right about this, but one thing that has changed with the 4 game redshirt rule is CNS/Sark can plot a plan to see if BY is ready to play without risking a year.

True, but BY is going pro in 3 years, so Alabama can redshirt him if they want, but it just translates to fewer snaps that you get from him while he is there.

 

[CajunCrimson]

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