Bama Players Transferring (catch all thread)

[DzynKingRTR]

I have been diagnosed with a debilitating disease called "Sudden Broke Syndrome" for almost 15 years now. Prayers are appreciated.

Mine was more gradual.

 

[cbi1972]

Looks like I will have to go back to buying a program at the beginning of the season...

Cool, we could use a Phil Knight

 

[Coach D]

What makes the portal even worse is you have parents/close family making kids leave even when they don’t want to some times. Nasty business at the moment. Let it burn down at this point to me.

 

[TiderJack]

Well, you've either got the actual Don King: only in america movie.....or my favorite, the line from Rocky V when Richard Gant playing George W Duke (Don King basically)

So Mbakwe is going to play both ways now....because of Travis Hunter?

Heard he wants to play WR and the staff is talking with him about it so he may stick around and play with Ryan at WR. He is awesome with the ball in his hands.

 

[AlexanderFan]

Heard he wants to play WR and the staff is talking with him about it so he may stick around and play with Ryan at WR. He is awesome with the ball in his hands.

This ain’t Colorado and the cupcake squad they face.

I hope he stays, I hope he does well, but the SEC is tough to go both ways.

 

[Ledsteplin]

Now it looks like Damon Payne to the portal.

 

[cdub55]

Heard he wants to play WR and the staff is talking with him about it so he may stick around and play with Ryan at WR. He is awesome with the ball in his hands.

I know many of us have gave CKD a hard time for not being more "old school" with his approach with the players and team but this post here gives some insight as to why that may not necessarily work anymore. Players have all the leverage now. They dictate if they come or go, they dictate their position, etc. The coaches who will thrive, as long as the rules are allowing this type of behavior, are the coaches who can find a happy medium between empowering the players and holding them accountable to doing the things that win. As I've said before, it is an interesting time to be coaching football. To those of you who want to burn every bridge to every player who acts this way, good luck with winning with The Little Giants rolling out onto the grass come next season. To those of you who want to bow down to every demand every player has, good luck winning with an undisciplined and unmotivated group of players next fall. There are very few truths in life, mostly just our perspectives...and a lot of gray area!

 

[colbysullivan]

This is ridiculous

 

[Bamabuzzard]

This is ridiculous

Again, and people on here scoffed at the notion this was already going on with certain players the past two years. Yet now we're seeing concrete examples of it being posted online proving it true.

 

[crimsonaudio]

Maze is right:

 

[cdub55]

Again, and people on here scoffed at the notion this was already going on with certain players the past two years. Yet now we're seeing concrete examples of it being posted online proving it true.

But But But...what is your source? Are you in the locker room or know someone on staff?

 

[AlexanderFan]

Maze is right:

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He’d suit up right now for a honey bun and an Arby’s sandwich.

Wait, that’s me.

 

[KrAzY3]

Heard he wants to play WR and the staff is talking with him about it so he may stick around and play with Ryan at WR. He is awesome with the ball in his hands.

Depth at WR going into the bowl game is super thin anyway, so sure give him some reps for depth if nothing else.

 

[davefrat]

Again, and people on here scoffed at the notion this was already going on with certain players the past two years. Yet now we're seeing concrete examples of it being posted online proving it true.

I'll play devil's advocate.

The fact that there is concrete evidence of it happening now doesn't prove that it was happening in the past.

That being said, it's entirely possible that it was.

Time will tell.

 

[davefrat]

But But But...what is your source? Are you in the locker room or know someone on staff?

Heaven forbid anyone want substantive proof.

 

[davefrat]

Depth at WR going into the bowl game is super thin anyway, so sure give him some reps for depth if nothing else.

Well, our QB only throws the ball to two of the WR on the roster anyways, so does it really matter if we only have 3-4 for the bowlgame?

 

[cdub55]

Depth at WR going into the bowl game is super thin anyway, so sure give him some reps for depth if nothing else.

Short term, not a bad idea.

Long term, you don't invest seven figures in a guy for depth and a wish and a prayer. Hopefully our staff feels as if he has the potential to develop into an All-SEC or All-American type player at the WR position or we probably should have let him hop on over to OM.

 

[CB4]

He’d suit up right now for a honey bun and an Arby’s sandwich.

Wait, that’s me.

yeah but you probably demand someone “warm” that honey bun and want extra horsey sauce on that sammich.

 

[Cruloc]

I know many of us have gave CKD a hard time for not being more "old school" with his approach with the players and team but this post here gives some insight as to why that may not necessarily work anymore. Players have all the leverage now. They dictate if they come or go, they dictate their position, etc. The coaches who will thrive, as long as the rules are allowing this type of behavior, are the coaches who can find a happy medium between empowering the players and holding them accountable to doing the things that win. As I've said before, it is an interesting time to be coaching football. To those of you who want to burn every bridge to every player who acts this way, good luck with winning with The Little Giants rolling out onto the grass come next season. To those of you who want to bow down to every demand every player has, good luck winning with an undisciplined and unmotivated group of players next fall. There are very few truths in life, mostly just our perspectives...and a lot of gray area!

Old school is dead and buried. Its corpse is rotting.

New school is alive and well. It wants to play when it wants to play and how it wants to play regardless of how it might effect the team....because....rea$on$

 

[AlexanderFan]

yeah but you probably demand someone “warm” that honey bun and want extra horsey sauce on that sammich.