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Alabama: Nick Saban Feels 'Really Good' About QB Tyler Buchner's Development

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Evil Crimson Dragon said:
That is the one thing about Saban I have never understood.............put them in and let them get experience, and not waste away on the sidelines. You put all the practice snaps on one QB, and he goes down, then you have a potential disaster and confidence broken QB
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Yeah, Mack Brown learned that lesson in the NCG in 2009...:cool:
 
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BamaMoon said:
What advantages would there be transferring in the middle of the season? Even if he's unhappy, what good would it do? He's a few weeks into his classes and the football season is already into week 3. And would another team want a discontent player to come busting into their QB room in the middle of the season? Wouldn't he have to wait to next fall to play anyway?
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Unless there is some sort of deadline or saving future eligibility time, I can't see any advantage.:unsure:
 
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gman4tide said:
And the uTex backup qb turned out to be a gamer and made a heckuva ballgame out of it!
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True, but played McCoy far too much during the season in garbage time for Heisman stats. The backup could have gained valuable experience during that time. :cool:
 
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He was great going against the 1st string defense in the last scrimmage. But in the spring he just tried to hit the deep ball like Milroe did but was not looking for reads over the homer.

I had heard it from a guy who works around them every day saying if Simpson ignored Milroe’s arm talent and just focused on reads then he would have had the job exiting spring.
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It sounds to me if this is the case then Simpson can be saved at this point.
 
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RTR2u said:
It sounds to me if this is the case then Simpson can be saved at this point.
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I agree..................get him aside and work with him on the issues of not being able to let mistakes go, then tell him to be himself and play like he is capable, not how someone else plays
I remember 2017 when Tua got sacked to make it 2 and 26.................no panic in his eyes, even though Saban was livid.........he just teed up and won it
 
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Bamabuzzard said:
This is the problem I have with the current state of the transfer portal. The recruiting hours and money that goes into it only to have a material % of those classes that the money was spent on, leave.

Here's an idea, any school (including Bama) that takes a kid from the transfer portal has to pay the outgoing school a transfer fee to compensate for the resources (time, money, etc.) lost from recruiting him. Since we're no longer going to "punish" a kid for transferring by making him lose a year of eligibility, then the school that is getting him has to have some skin in the game. If we want to run college football like a business and treat the kids like the business world treats adults, then let's do it.
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We are creeping closer and closer to an "NFL Light" model. Opening up the floodgates of the transfer portal and NIL have combined to bring us closer to it faster than we could have ever imagined. I think you're onto something here - and this falls just barely short of instituting player trades and waiver wires. Sure seems like that's where were headed - and I hate it.
 
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I just wish CNS would stop the motivational speakers and the psych-bable coach speak. If a player isn't doing his job chew his butt out and sit him on the bench. Let the starters know that if they are going to play half-heartedly then they may be replaced with a younger player that is willing to give 100%. Evidently, the self-assessing that CNS keeps talking about isn't working. The long-standing culture of Alabama football needs to return and it needs to return in a hurry.
 
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Special K said:
We are creeping closer and closer to an "NFL Light" model. Opening up the floodgates of the transfer portal and NIL have combined to bring us closer to it faster than we could have ever imagined. I think you're onto something here - and this falls just barely short of instituting player trades and waiver wires. Sure seems like that's where were headed - and I hate it.
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The only way to keep it from going there is to go back to instituting the losing one-year eligibility on transfers. If we're not going to do that, then something has to be done because athletic departments are literally spending millions on top of millions of dollars to recruit the best players only to run the risk of them leaving after one year if they're not happy. It's just too volatile of a landscape.
 
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