Video: Pate on Bama's future under DeBoer

[Cruloc]

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

Josh Pate absolutely nails it!!!

 

[Tidewater]

"Man, our off-season workouts are not demanding." said no athlete ever.
I'm glad Montgomery feels that way, but Josh is right. Everybody says that.
The proof of the pudding is in the easting.

 

[4Q Basket Case]

This time last year, we were hearing how much the remaining players had "bought in." How together they were, how hard they were working, what a leader and unifying force Jalen Milroe was, etc., etc., etc.

Clearly none of that was the case, never mind what they were saying.

And Pate's absolutely right about DeBoer and staff trying to keep a team together in an era of perpetual free agency with no penalty whatsoever.

I'm reminded of 2007 -- Jimmy Johns literally dealing drugs in the Athletic Department parking lot. DJ Hall a known locker room cancer whose NFL report said he wouldn't go over the middle to pick up a $100 bill. Players selling textbooks for pocket money back when the NCAA actually meant something.

At the time the Academic Progress Rate (APR) actually meant something too. As in, if you didn't pile up enough APR points, you lost scholarships -- which Saban desperately needed for the rebuilding process.

Problem there was, among a bunch of components in the calculation, one provided that a player leaving the program counted the same as one flunking out of school. With the portal, that part has obviously changed in the intervening 18 years. But it was a big stinkin' deal back then.

Saban has said many times that if not for (1) the fact that he had to field a team, and (2) the APR, he would have shown many more players the door 2007. I suspect if you could inject DeBoer with truth serum, you'd get a similar statement about the 2024 season.

Regarding the current offseason, there are lots of yeah, buts.
It's different this year....
Yeah, but they said that last year.
Yeah, but LANK is gone
Yeah, but DeBoer is soft on discipline and S&C
Yeah, but he didn't have any choice.
Yeat, but (positive)...Yeah, but (negative)...lather, rinse, repeat ad infinitum.

Point of all that being, talk is cheap. None of us know the quality of the offseason prep that's going on inside Mal Moore Building or the true extent of team unity.

I fully expect six months of platitudes. But we won't know until at least August 30 in Tallahassee, or maybe September 13 when Wisconsin comes to Tuscaloosa.

I'd like to think it's better, but I need to see the results first.

 

[gtowntide]

Well let’s just think positive thoughts.

 

[bamadwain]

This kind of reminds me of the 2008-2009 teams as they have the ability,grit, and toughness, but do they have true leaders on this team we will know come FSU, then we can make a assessment

 

[Bamabuzzard]

I think Bama fans have learned that the last two years of "talk" coming out of the locker room in Tuscaloosa has been fool's gold. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. When I see it on the field, I'll believe it. Until then, I'm just rolling my eyes.