News Article: Former Bama QB Josh Palet discusses who replaces Saban

[JayBama_in_PCOLA]

Was he the ’26 water boy?

 

[TideEngineer08]

Titus Ryan, folks. 4.2 forty and if you threw it in the same zip code, he would catch it.

 

[jashleyren2]

In all seriousness, while we might not want a defensive minded coach right now, what if the game goes back to that, in 3-4 years? It doesn't seem it's headed that way, but none of us would have dreamt in 2010, 2011, 2012, that the game would become as wide open offensively as it is. Last thing we wanted to be was an Oklahoma, and yet, here we are. Hanging nearly 50 per game on opponents, giving up 28 to them. Times change, the game evolves, and what will work in year 5 might not be what works in year 10.

I'd just insist that we hire someone that has success at WINNING. At the college or NFL level. None of these homegrown, Auburn high school coaches. This is big boy, big time football. The only reason schools like USC haven't returned to success is that their focus is no longer on football. However, places like Penn State keep on keeping on, and that's because they love their football.

I can't explain Texas. No one can.

 

[CB4]

That first word is dirty.......no......

Sounds a medical condition most men my age experience.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

No. And I remember Billy Ray, Jonathan Richey, and David Valletto (who wasn’t a QB but an obscure name).

David was a DB. I think he was Carl Valetto's son. Here's my post from 2004...

I was a freshman in '57, so I was there for the transition from Ears to Coach Bryant. Only a few hung on, but they were turned into something like steel. There was a tackle named Carl Valetto, a kid from western PA, with a profile that earned him his nickname - "Moose." Carl probably weighed around 250 or so, broad-shouldered, huge for those days, and stood about 6'3" or so. He was one of the ones that Coach, for his own reasons, decided that he would run him off - or turn him into the sort of superman who could play the two-way ball that the rules required back then. Anyway, Coach starved him down to under 210. I had an evening accounting class with him at Bidgood, second floor. On practice days, he would barely be able to make it up the steps to the second floor. You had to feel sorry for him - but he stuck it out...

 

[BamaNation]

The game is now called Stump Selma and win CA's money.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

The game is now called Stump Selma and win CA's money.

@selmaborntidefan Name 3 walk-on QBs that became contributing receivers under Stallings.

 

[CajunCrimson]

How many Goode Neighbors have played for Bama?

State Farm pun not intended

 

[CajunCrimson]

@selmaborntidefan Name 3 walk-on QBs that became contributing receivers under Stallings.

Anything for a buck ?

 

[TideEngineer08]

@selmaborntidefan Name 3 walk-on QBs that became contributing receivers under Stallings.

Not Selma, but let me take a stab.

Chad Key. Ok that's it, that's all I can think of.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

@selmaborntidefan Name 3 walk-on QBs that became contributing receivers under Stallings.

David Palmer - he was a high school QB

Chad Key - he was actually the 2nd or 3rd string on the 92 team

I want to say Patrick Hape, but I may be wrong there.

 

[CrimsonProf]

I think Hugh Freeze's best Ole Miss teams are a good template for high octane offense with good and at times great defense. Don't want Freeze as coach, but that's a recipe to follow.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

David Palmer - he was a high school QB

Chad Key - he was actually the 2nd or 3rd string on the 92 team

I want to say Patrick Hape, but I may be wrong there.

Key was one I was thinking of, but wasn't there another Chad after him? Palmer was scholarship. I said walk-on.

 

[oldtimetider]

It really doesn't fit here...or maybe it does.... Jack O'Rear keeps coming to mind...

 

[Relayer]

My favorite backup QB was Neb Hayden. He was first a backup to Stabler, then Scott Hunter. When we played football as kids, I was always Neb Hayden.

 

[GrayTide]

2015-2018 that must have been the years I was doing undercover black ops in Lee County and could not watch college football. Or those years could have been when I was cruising the Pacific Northwest in my 1968 VW bus. I don't remember, but I can tell you I have never heard of him. Alabama best walk on QB would be current SEC referee David Smith.

 

[FitToBeTide]

David Palmer - he was a high school QB

Chad Key - he was actually the 2nd or 3rd string on the 92 team

I want to say Patrick Hape, but I may be wrong there.

Patrick played tight end, linebacker, and RB in HS. He high schooled with my kids.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Key was one I was thinking of, but wasn't there another Chad after him? Palmer was scholarship. I said walk-on.

Ah I missed that important detail.

then I don’t know. But I’ll remember I didn’t know....

 

[CB4]

My favorite backup QB was Neb Hayden. He was first a backup to Stabler, then Scott Hunter. When we played football as kids, I was always Neb Hayden.

I loved Neb Hayden. He wasn’t great by any stretch of the imagination but he always gave it everything he had. I remember him playing several games in 1970 when Hunter was injured.
I think Neb went into the ministry after he finished at Alabama.

 

[TideEngineer08]

Key was one I was thinking of, but wasn't there another Chad after him? Palmer was scholarship. I said walk-on.

Chad Goss. Who also returned punts.

Warren Foust, but I can't remember if he was a walk-on. And actually I think he played safety as well as QB.