Moore's Actions at the end of the game...

[BamaMoon]

“We have handled it, and I’m just going to say this about Malachi. What he did, he has gone above and in taking ownership in it. This is pretty much immediately after the game to this morning, things that are all prompted by him, but also part of just our conversations.
I think the thing I want to make sure Bama fans know is that this guy has been rock solid and been a critical, critical piece, along with others, there are some others as well, of keeping this thing together since January. When a lot of guys chose to leave, this guy stood firm. This guy loves Alabama football, he works relentlessly out there every single day on the football field.
The questions asked about me, the passion, frustration, I mean that’s what you saw from him. Was there some things that he regrets and wishes he probably didn’t do? Yeah, but he’s owned up to it and we’ve handled it internally and still handling it internally. He’s a first class guy, he’s out in the community weekly. That’s just part of who he is, doing things to give back, understanding the platform he has.”— Kalen DeBoer

Sounds like Coach is on this. I like what he said. Sounds like there are ongoing consequences and awareness of how serious it was.

Good for MM. I fully expected a public apology!

 

[Tupelo-Bama-Boy]

If I were CKD, I would sit down with Malachi and make him tell me what he did wrong. Make him tell me what his punishment should be, and if it involves anything less than running stadium steps and sitting out the USCe game, then he needs to pack his bags.

That would be very gracious of CKD and the very least I would expect. I'm 64 years old and very, very old school. I can only imagine what Coach Bryant or Coach Stallings would have done. But as a coach, if a player dosen't come off the field when I tell him to, he never gets back on the field.

 

[crimsonaudio]

Pavia just said the reason the pre-game hand-shakes didn’t happen was because we they met our guys for the coin toss the Bama players were talking mad smack and telling them we were going to do them like and FCS team and it ticked them off… understandably.

This makes me even more angry than I already was.

We absolutely did not take them serious which was already bad but to openly disrespect them during the coin toss where your supposed to show some sportsmanship is just disgusting.

I’m assuming MM was apart of this too since he’s a Captain and presumably JM as well.

We have a culture problem going on.

This ain’t good.

Same thing that happened before the Utah game before they embarrassed Bama in the Sugar Bowl.

Reminder: that team went on to win three of the next four NCs.

 

[Tidewater]

Pavia just said the reason the pre-game hand-shakes didn’t happen was because we they met our guys for the coin toss the Bama players were talking mad smack and telling them we were going to do them like and FCS team and it ticked them off… understandably.

This makes me even more angry than I already was.

We absolutely did not take them serious which was already bad but to openly disrespect them during the coin toss where your supposed to show some sportsmanship is just disgusting.

I’m assuming MM was apart of this too since he’s a Captain and presumably JM as well.

We have a culture problem going on.

This ain’t good.

I remember Warren Sapp talking smack and dancing after making a play as the Sugar Bowl was winding down with the underdog Crimson Tide holding a commanding 34-13 lead.
An Alabama player went to the dancing Sapp, tapped him on the shoulder, and pointed to the scoreboard.
That's cool.

 

[mlh]

That would be very gracious of CKD and the very least I would expect. I'm 64 years old and very, very old school. I can only imagine what Coach Bryant or Coach Stallings would have done. But as a coach, if a player dosen't come off the field when I tell him to, he never gets back on the field.

Yeah, I'm having a real hard time justifying his refusal to leave the field and the way he waved dismissively at his coach. I would certainly pull his status as team Captain. I would probably suspend him for some period of time. I'd also put him at the bottom of the depth chart and make him work his way back up.

If there are no consequences for your actions, there are no rules. This is the kind of thing I would expect from Colorado, not Alabama.

 

[Tupelo-Bama-Boy]

Well for the most part those 80s-90s Miami teams backed up their antics until the ‘93 Sugar Bowl and I don’t remember them ever losing to a team comparable to Vandy but I get what you mean for sure and we don’t want guys being disrespectful at all.

If what Pavia is saying is true we are more like Colorado with Shadeur Sanders talking smack before a game and then being down and losing because you didn’t back it up and then showing your butt because the other team clowned you and made you eat your pregame talk.

It paints a much worse image than I already had about our Leaders.

This about sums it up for me. I don't know if CKD has lost this team, but this team has lost me. It started last season when Saban said, "the team chose the starting QB." Born in 1960 and been a Bama fan all my life. Not the game I once loved.

 

[mlh]

CKD is in a tough situation. When he says MM was instrumental in holding things together during the transition, he's truly beholden to MM. But he can't let that upset the team structure. MM is not a coach. He doesn't have the authority to overrule the call to substitute. What's next? CKD sends in a play and JM shakes him off, like a pitcher shaking off the sign from the catcher?

I'm sure this is a situation that CKD has never faced before. How he handles it will determine his success and longevity as Bama's HC. He can't "lose the team" but he also can't "lose the fanbase."

 

[Bamabuzzard]

CKD was quoted as the situation "is continuing to be dealt with". So I'm under the impression he didn't give him a day off to play video games and eat ice cream cones. It sounds like there is discipline in place.

 

[BoSox Tider]

I can only imagine what Coach Bryant or Coach Stallings would have done. But as a coach, if a player dosen't come off the field when I tell him to, he never gets back on the field.

A caller on Feinbaum today asked the same question. PF said CBP would have called a timeout, sent an assistant coach onto the field to haul the player's butt off, and he wouldn't have played again for a month.

 

[crimsonaudio]

A caller on Feinbaum today asked the same question. PF said CBP would have called a timeout, sent an assistant coach onto the field to haul the player's butt off, and he wouldn't have played again for a month.

That's great. Football has changed massively in the 40+ years since he coached.

Listening to people pontificate over what someone would have done multiple generations ago is both pointless and tiresome.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

That's great. Football has changed massively in the 40+ years since he coached.

Listening to people pontificate over what someone would have done multiple generations ago is both pointless and tiresome.

If I recall DJ Hall was "suspended" for the 07 ULM game then as the game got to be in question Saban lifted his suspension and played him. Am I recalling right?

 

[crimsonaudio]

If I recall DJ Hall was "suspended" for the 07 ULM game then as the game got to be in question Saban lifted his suspension and played him. Am I recalling right?

There are several times players acted similar to MM under Saban and got no (public) punishment. Punches thrown, etc.

It's like people only have this august memory of Saban, Bryant, etc and have completely forgotten the similarities to DeBoer.

"Back in my day..."

 

[cdub55]

There are a million ways to skin a cat. Just look at Sabans great friend Tom Izzo. Regarded by all accounts as one of the "goats" in college basketball and openly lets his player get into yelling matches with him. He says he loves the passion. Saban also had a sense of this where he wanted his players to have ownership and passion for the game and the team. There is a thin line between love and war and sometimes that passion becomes toxic in the right environment on any given Saturday. As I have said before, let the coaches handle it and we can judge the results as we see fit.

 

[Tidewater]

There are several times players acted similar to MM under Saban and got no (public) punishment. Punches thrown, etc.

It's like people only have this august memory of Saban, Bryant, etc and have completely forgotten the similarities to DeBoer.

"Back in my day..."

That got me thinking, if you were to go back in time, pick up Coach Bryant in a time machine and plop him down in Tuscaloosa the day Coach Saban retired and Bama were to hire the same young Bryant Bama hired him to replace Coach Saban (in other words, do not change today's laws, customs, and attitudes, just bring that Bryant forward), he would make a very poor coach. He would run so many players off losing to Vandy would be the least of Bama's problems.
There was a context to Coach Bryant's success in the 1960s and 1970s. Take him out of his context, and he probably would not work out well.

 

[cdub55]

That got me thinking, if you were to go back in time, pick up Coach Bryant in a time machine and plop him down in Tuscaloosa the day Coach Saban retired and Bama were to hire the same young Bryant Bama hired him to replace Coach Saban (in other words, do not change today's laws, customs, and attitudes, just bring that Bryant forward), he would make a very poor coach. He would run so many players off losing to Vandy would be the least of Bama's problems.
There was a context to Coach Bryant's success in the 1960s and 1970s. Take him out of his context, and he probably would not work out well.

To be fair, that isn't really fair to Coach Bryant or to anyone who played or coached in the past. What made them great a lot of times is that they could "read the room" and get the most out of people based on the set of norms and circumstances that they were handed. To assume they wouldn't adjust may be true, but we will never know one way or the other. You see it in today's game where a coach may have started out years ago being a little more old school, and they are still coaching today with a tweaked coaching style. The great ones adjust.

 

[Tidewater]

To be fair, that isn't really fair to Coach Bryant or to anyone who played or coached in the past. What made them great a lot of times is that they could "read the room" and get the most out of people based on the set of norms and circumstances that they were handed. To assume they wouldn't adjust may be true, but we will never know one way or the other. You see it in today's game where a coach may have started out years ago being a little more old school, and they are still coaching today with a tweaked coaching style. The great ones adjust.

Maybe, but the same comment goes for people calling on Finebaum and offering what they believe Coach Bryant would do with Malachi Moore after Saturday.

And if Coach Bryant did not adjust his style to fit today's context, he would be a very unsuccessful coach and be gone in 2-3 years, so nobody thereafter would care "what Coach Bryant would do" any more than Finebaum listeners today call in to say what Mike DuBose would do after Saturday.

 

[Cruloc]

Smack talking at the coin toss......can't say I like that at all.

Is it a culture problem with most of the team still being Sabans guys and DeBoer playing things with kid gloves because those guys stayed? I imagine they've pushed to see where the new boundaries are....probably have talked amongst themselves several times and said "Saban would have never allowed that"

 

[BamaMoon]

Paul Finebaum as been patiently waiting for CKD to lose a game so he could do his thing.

He's a professional pot-stirrer. That's what he built his career on!

 

[CrimsonNagus]

We will see how it all plays out real soon. USC ain't no pushover either. This is a turning point for the season, only question is which way does it turn. Could this be our UF loosing to Ole Miss moment? Do we have a Tebow like leader that can inspire this team going forward? We will see.

The last thing I'll say about MM is, I wish he had gotten fired up earlier, like say during halftime and focused it towards his teammates. Getting fired up or mad when the other team is taking a knee is way too late.

 

[mlh]

We will see how it all plays out real soon. USC ain't no pushover either. This is a turning point for the season, only question is which way does it turn. Could this be our UF loosing to Ole Miss moment? Do we have a Tebow like leader that can inspire this team going forward? We will see.

The last thing I'll say about MM is, I wish he had gotten fired up earlier, like say during halftime and focused it towards his teammates. Getting fired up or made when the other team is taking a knee is way too late.

This is an excellent point. I didn't really pay attention, but I didn't notice anyone on our sideline showing much leadership. I saw a lot of frustration and a lack of composure, but no one stepping up. JM is big about leading the team out on the field and greeting everyone as they come off the field. But does he ever rally the team when it gets tough on the field? Maybe he does and I've missed it.

I feel like we need an alpha dog on offense. I think MM may be the alpha dog on defense, but he needs to keep his head and not lose control like he did against Vandy.