Chris Low and Andy Staples on3 article - Early in KDB’s tenure, real concerns are surfacing in Tuscaloosa.

[RollTide_HTTR]

I think he likely needs to go but I'm not out on him completely. Optimism is too much to ask of me though. He has at least the rest of this season to convince all of us. Hopefully we come out angry in this weekend.

 

[tusks_n_raider]

I think he likely needs to go but I'm not out on him completely. Optimism is too much to ask of me though. He has at least the rest of this season to convince all of us. Hopefully we come out angry in this weekend.

He fooled me once and then twice but not thrice.

I’m not falling for it anymore.

I’m getting madder by the day.

I KNEW that OU game was a bad game omen and so many kept saying that they didn’t care ultimately because they were giving him a complete mulligan for the year.

Even after getting beat by Mich’s backups..

Mulligan

No… no mulligans.

The team looks like they do because apparently they can do whatever they want and they get endless mulligans.

Their has been no accountability from the players to the HC and no accountability from the HC to the University, The AD, The BOT, The Alumni, The former players, The fans… nobody.

Where we are right now is everyone’s fault.

We all should have been this upset after OU but especially after Mich.

If he doesn’t get his act together and go 10-1 the rest of the way and make the CFBP then BYE.

He’s worn his welcome with me by a long shot.

I might be the one to start the Go Fund Me for that buyout and I’m dead serious.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

As for Lanning, if he can't win a NC at Oregon pretty soon, I think he'd consider a move back to the SEC or B1G. If he's wired right, he knows great coaches are measured in championships rather than bank accounts.

He's already in the B1g...

 

[BamaMoon]

He's already in the B1g...

Proof it's hard to keep up with how fast things have changed!

 

[jashleyren2]

True, lucky for Steele mental toughness and relentless pursuit were still a thing in Tuscaloosa. Seems we are in the prima donna softy era in T-town thanks to this regime.

I think we are the first big blue chip program to go down during this new era of college sports. It’ll sink in at other places too, eventually. It’s coming for Columbus, it’s coming for Austin, it’s coming for Miami, again.

 

[jashleyren2]

I really hope I’m wrong, but I don’t see DeBoer turning this around, even if he got a third year. He had eight months to make improvements and what we saw on the field Saturday were the same exact problems we saw last year, if not even worse. There’s no way he could have not known last year was unacceptable to the fanbase, yet here we are. Even after the game, he has to know his next press conference will likely be the most important and most watched of his career, and instead of looking prepared and focused, he’s stammering and looks confused. If he can’t even be bothered to take a few minutes to gather himself and anticipate likely questions for a less than ten minute presser, he’s probably not going to do what needs to be done to have his assistants and players ready for the rest of the season. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the team look better Saturday, but then another drop off for Wisconsin because he just hasn’t given any indication he can do better up to this point.

I tend to agree. Year 2 isn’t going to go well. Schedule is rough, and we play at a resurgent, odd year Auburn. That’s going to be a tough task. Year 3 may not look like great improvement either, and that will be the end of the patience an impatient fan base will have.

 

[lowend]

I think we are the first big blue chip program to go down during this new era of college sports. It’ll sink in at other places too, eventually. It’s coming for Columbus, it’s coming for Austin, it’s coming for Miami, again.

I think we're going to see the top of college football split into three tiers: the ones with lots of money, the ones with some money & tradition/history of success, and the also rans.

The top monied tier is going to made up of a much smaller number of schools that don't really fit together but want to spend massive money on players (think OSU, Texas, Oregon, but also SMU & Miami type teams).

The second tier is where Alabama, Florida, USC, etc. will fit. We have everything in place, except the finances to afford top tier players. We're not there yet, but we will be. This will also cost us top tier coaches. We'll be able to still get decent players; we might be able to knock off some of those top teams, but our days of being dominant forces are over.

The third tier will be the largest. These are teams with no money, no tradition, no facilities. These teams used to be FCS or at the bottom of FBS. These are the land grant schools, directional schools, etc.