I feel like you might be lumping me in with some other people, and that's part of why I made my post. My post was simply about results. For instance, I think something like 15 of the 20 guys that entered the portal from Alabama are signed. The inactivity and lack of signings from Alabama are not the norm. This is not a situation where we are being impatient. Alabama is being slow! This is definitive fact.
I'm not saying there is no plan, I'm saying it's unfolding very slowly and time is running out because players are being signed and the availability pool is getting smaller and smaller.
So, here are the facts we are being cry babies about, and as you pointed out this isn't in a vacuum so we are comparing what Alabama is doing to other programs and wondering what's taking so long.
Alabama has the lowest rated portal class in the SEC. In terms of raw signee numbers, they are one ahead of Georgia who only lost 12 players to the portal.
To understand how slow Alabama is on this, Alabama has 6, Georgia has 5, Tennessee has 9, next closest is 12. Their class is tiny, that's not up for debate that's just fact.
If we zoom out further, Alabama's portal class has slipped to 60th overall. The total number of additions ties them for third least in all of the FBS.
So when you say nothing the staff do will be right, that's not true for me. But, they'd have to do something! I am waiting for that avalanche of additions. I wouldn't even be here if I expected a dumpster fire, I actually had hope they'd get a good RB and make some upgrades on the offensive line. I didn't even start complaining here about this portal class until relatively recently.
Edit: No need to make a new post. No, I don't nor do I claim to. But after Alabama admittedly failed in the portal last year (supposedly what the GM said, not my words), and after Alabama rather publicly lost a commit and then whiffed on a few others, I'm just explaining, with actual numbers mind you why we're concerned.
You don't have to be concerned. You can be happy. You do you man, not trying to bum you out. Just providing an explanation, you can disregard it.
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