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Bama Shoals said:
Indiana beat Oregon by 34. They beat us by 35. Oregon had more first downs and total yards than Indiana. Big difference in the game was turnovers. They had a pick 6, lost a fumble at their 5, and had a blocked punt at their 5. They were competitive at the lines of scrimmage. We were not. We weren’t really even competitive at all with Indiana. This is not true.
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They also were playing a couple of DB’s at tailback because of injury and people jumping into the portal.
 
KrAzY3 said:
I think the one thing that could sink his career at Alabama faster than anything else would be if he appears to be bad at the portal. In this era that's worse than not being able to recruit. So the pressure certainly is on, two bad portals in a row and all the pressure shifts to on-field results.

It's kind of like how recruiting used to work, if a coach was a good recruiter you'd try to give him a little longer because he seemed to be bringing in talent. If DeBoer looks bad in the portal, it's going to shorten people's patience considerably.
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When he came in with Morgan as a GM it did look like he was ahead of the game. The GM wasn't a thing everywhere just a couple of years ago.
 
Only thing worse than having your offensive lineman look at each other and say, after giving up a huge QB sack, “I thought you had him” would be a legal staff that says to each other , after a top portal player commits, “I thought you got him to sign that…”
 
BamaMoon said:
Green flags:

- I think we went 3-1 on the revenge tour this year thru the SEC. And turned around and beat OU the second time.

- Beat Georgia a second year in a row in the regular season, at their place - first year people said CKD couldn't win on the road.

- Won the regular season SEC and played in the SECCG against UGA.

- Make the 12 team playoff and advanced to round 2.

- Beat Georgia, UT, LSU and AU in the reg. season.

We did all of that with arguably the worst OL and RB situation we've had in years. And the second half of the season with a gimpy QB.

Them's some green flags IMO.
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I can’t disagree that those are positive achievements and some measures of successful results.

The end results haven’t been all bad and there have been high points.

The Regular Season SEC is not even a thing but it’s semantics I guess.

I guess some of the disconnect is what as fans we view as positive trends.

Yes we have had some positive results despite a lot of the small details in game not going right or unit play not being ideal. Less than ideal. Poor even.

We have won despite not playing well most of the time and not looking prepared most of the time.

I’m concerned about how we look as a team and how individual units are performing despite how often it’s ultimately bit us or not.

Imo we have been walking a tightrope between success and failure for two years and I’m not seeing things trending in a positive direction as if they will improve.

Dubose walked a tightrope but he had Shaun Alexander cover up a lot.

Won an SEC Championship in ‘99 and then had a come apart in ‘00

Those two teams weren’t worlds apart in the way they were coached or how they played every week.

Shula won 10 games one year. Had Brodie and Prothro and walked a razor’s edge and had a bunch of walk off FG wins.

Had a come apart because of how those teams were coached and prepared.

Just me I’m seeing a lot of under pinings that are very concerning with regards to preparation and unit coaching and team competitiveness on game day. We have focus problems. We have problems making adjustments.

Maybe CKD gets his footing. Maybe he gets a handle on the Portal and NIL and Play improves on game day.

I’m just not confident about it because we’ve seen how quickly things go south when the little things and preparation aren’t done right despite it still producing some positive end results.

We’ve seen it go south multiple times and not really seen it turn around out of nowhere.

But again you are right that it hasn’t been all negative.
 
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tusks_n_raider said:
I can’t disagree that those are positive achievements and some measures of successful results.

The end results haven’t been all bad and there have been high points.

The Regular Season SEC is not even a thing but it’s semantics I guess.

I guess some of the disconnect is what as fans we view as positive trends.

Yes we have had some positive results despite a lot of the small details in game not going right or unit play not being ideal. Less than ideal. Poor even.

We have won despite not playing well most of the time and not looking prepared most of the time.

I’m concerned about how we look as a team and how individual units are performing despite how often it’s ultimately bit us or not.

Imo we have been walking a tightrope between success and failure for two years and I’m not seeing things trending in a positive direction as if they will improve.

Dubose walked a tightrope but he had Shaun Alexander cover up a lot.

Won an SEC Championship in ‘99 and then had a come apart in ‘00

Those two teams weren’t worlds apart in the way they were coached or how they played every week.

Shula won 10 games one year. Had Brodie and Prothro and walked a razor’s edge and had a bunch of walk off FG wins.

Had a come apart because of how those teams were coached and prepared.

Just me I’m seeing a lot of under pinings that are very concerning with regards to preparation and unit coaching and team competitiveness on game day. We have focus problems. We have problems making adjustments.

Maybe CKD gets his footing. Maybe he gets a handle on the Portal and NIL and Play improves on game day.

I’m just not confident about it because we’ve seen how quickly things go south when the little things and preparation aren’t done right despite it still producing some positive end results.

We’ve seen it go south multiple times and not really seen it turn around out of nowhere.

But again you are right that it hasn’t been all negative.
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If you are like me you probably pay attention to Bama almost all the time. Sometimes it's easy to think we are the only ones with problems.

But as I watch other teams this year, most teams were wildly inconsistent. Save just a handful of teams, it was like a new season each game. Probably the result of NIL/portal. If not, why not?
 
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Cruloc said:
I'd be inclined to agree here, but the problem is we probably have some lower rated guys that would gladly come to Bama and give their all.....but are we hung up on higher rated kids that are getting courted by multiple big programs?

We have lots of open spots that need bodies....evaluations should have been ongoing for a while now. A lot of guys have already been picked up at this point. We may not have the 3 star guys to fall back on.
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All true, and I agree. We still have an opportunity if we have the ability to spot the talent that is out there. Last I checked, 30+ guys entered today and we still have almost a week of late entrants not to mention those from the canes that will enter once they lose to IOU. I am more hopeful than optimistic though.
 
TD7 said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/2010082154802532828
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From my understanding about how registration works at Bama, we can’t know if players are enrolled until they actually show up to class. Administration does this on purpose, I’m guessing, so media outlets/other teams can’t KNOW whether a player has actually enrolled.

Not sure how they are confirming that Smothers is enrolled or not.
 
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KrAzY3 said:
First, the cap is only for the University side. That's not the booster side, there is still no cap there.

Secondly, if the university has any common sense, and I assume they do, there will be a minimum for each player. This way you don't have to constantly fight to retain guys, you don't have to worry too much about team dynamics. For instance in this case you have 20 million right?

Only the biggest idiot on earth spends that for anything other than basketball and football. Because only those two programs generate revenue, it's revenue sharing right? You'd be an enormous moron to go spend it on some sport no one cares about. Anyway, for instance 100K per player, that's enough to pay 200 players. That's not really an issue, that's a negligible amount. The athletic department is in good shape, like I said enough to pay 47 million for a golf practice facility (those guys certainly don't need NIL, they can just bask in the glory of that obscene waste of money). So the scholarship end is no big deal.

So each guy you sign, each 3 star, you are outbidding basically every non-power conference from the start, all without doing any real damage to your NIL. I mean look at the numbers man, they have what up to 9 guys incoming? You spend 1 million out of 20 for depth, that's negligible.

And to reiterate the issue with waiting is the good sleeper picks get taken first! You do your evaluation, you make your moves, you don't sit on your hands and then get up late and go alright time to get to work.
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Well, we are handicapped on the booster side as we don't have a billionaire boosters, so pinning that on staff is... 🙄

If they are a sleeper, then they are under the radar anyways, so how would we know?:unsure:
 
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