Was the season a success anyway?

[tideindc]

NO!

 

[countrytider]

Ole Miss beating Georgia makes our loss slightly more bearable.

 

[Power Eye]

Losing two of our last three games to the tune of a combined 66-10 is NOT what I envisioned at the start of the season!

I guess it’s a philosophical difference. I personally don’t care how much we lost by. I doubt UGA fans are finding much solace in losing by 3 in the quarterfinals right now.

 

[rolltide_21]

Yes. Took a step forward this year. Keep recruiting and make adjustments/changes.

 

[countrytider]

Yes. Took a step forward this year. Keep recruiting and make adjustments/changes.

As long as we keep recruiting well, we just have to trust changes will be made as needed.

 

[rolltide_21]

As long as we keep recruiting well, we just have to trust changes will be made as needed.

 

[RollTitanRoll]

Should be to anyone born before 2000.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

Depending on one's standards depends on whether this season was a success or not. There were successful moments during the season, but overall, there were too many black eye moments to get me to check the box of successful season. We got blownout three times this season, two of them on the biggest stages. The staff wasn't capable of even getting the OL fixed a little bit. We got worse as the season wore on, a pattern that occurred last season. This staff was incapable of putting together any consistency in performances. Just too much up and down for my tastes. Too many games where the team lacked focus in periods of the game.

I dont have much confidence DeBoer can make the changes necessary to get us to championship level. He doesn't demand excellence from his team and that is obvious in how theyve played for two years now. He, in my opinion, is a stop gap for the next coach. He'll probably be here three to four years, at the MOST five. We'll look great for a few games, lay a massive egg two to three times a year, make the playoffs here and there. But Im not making reservations for semi finals or championship games. He just doesn't demand what's needed to be champions.

 

[bamamc1]

Sports Center roasting going for it early and calling a completely idiotic play.

 

[bamamc1]

I just sat here and watched Ole Miss with a Division 2 transfer QB, beat UGA tonight. We’re supposed to still be waiting on Deboer to “get his players.” My rear end. If we’re depending upon the former bag man at Michigan to manage our roster, GOOD LORD PLEASE HELP US.

 

[drmikeh]

I don't want to see DeBoer leave. I'm still hopeful that he will be a fast learner. But he has a lot of learning to do. The most frustrating thing about this season is that the OL play has been bad all year and it never got fixed. The Film Guy tried 3 times to figure out why we couldn't run the ball. He identified that the OL didn't seem tough enough and that Jam Miller was taking too long to hit the hole, but eventually Brooks just shook his head as if the total lack of a running game was still a mystery.

Grubb relies too much on trick plays and schemes while we are not executing on the fundamentals. Sometimes you would see the QB or the RB getting swarmed with 2 or 3 offensive lineman just standing around looking at each other instead of finding someone to block. It was maddening, and it never got addressed.

I'm fairly proud of our defensive play, considering how many times they were asked to save the day.

 

[rolltide7854]

Going into the season I think everyone knew we had to have improve on the OL. That was a complete failure. We had too many pass rushers almost untouched getting to Simpson. We needed the running backs to pick up the yards that we were getting from Milroe. Once again a total failure as the line got little push and the RB's weren't improved over last year. Simpson was an improve over Milroe's passing but Milroe's yards rushing negated any improvement. At least with Milroe we were a threat to bust a big play. So offensively I say this season was a failure.
Defensively we showed some improvement but defense wasn't our main issue.

 

[CrimsonTheory]

As long as we keep recruiting well, we just have to trust changes will be made as needed.

The recruiting is not the issue, imo, it's the developing part that is an issue.

 

[JayBama_in_PCOLA]

Made the playoff, won a game. Headed in the right direction. Yes, successful year. Bad taste left though. That is all.

 

[OconeeTide]

never ever leave out whipping LSU!!

Oh yeah, forgot about that LOL.
Man, they have become irrelevant..

 

[CajunCrimson]

how many games per year are we willing to accept looking unprepared and uninspired? If we are ok with that number being 4 or higher, then Kalen is our man.

Two years in, I’ve seen enough.

He is the football version of Anthony Grant.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Milroe didn’t win a SEC championship?

Yes, Jalen Milroe won an SEC championship, which has about as much salience as "Dan Marino won the AFC Championship for the 1984 Dolphins."

That is not the expected standard around here, and he was as much of the problem as he was a fair to middling player who could sometimes run like a deer and pass like one as well.


Please note this is the only time in world history Milroe and Marino will ever be mentioned in the same breath.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

The problem isn't the record.

The problem is how we looked achieving that record.

Even at Alabama, with our high standards, you can still have a good season (sometimes even a really great one) that does not end in a national championship. 1977, 1985, 1989, 1994, and even 2019 are good examples.

Once upon a time, you could hang your hat on, "yes, this was a rough year, but we have 20 solid freshmen coming up and year after next we are going to be damn good, might even win it." The transfer portal has ended that type of building job.

And the decline began before DeBoer got here, too. Our offensive line hasn't been jack squat (with a few stellar game exceptions) since the 2020 national title game. Our play calling looks like a mental institution is polled with a phone vote before each snap, our game strategy (the 4th and 1 early) looked like a one-armed cokehead playing Madden, and I've seen better pass protection in bars where the bouncer doubled as a pimp.

"Oh, but we've got a bunch of four and five stars!"

Yep - and 4- and 5-stars won WW2 and lost Vietnam, too.

 

[bamamc1]

The problem isn't the record.

The problem is how we looked achieving that record.

Even at Alabama, with our high standards, you can still have a good season (sometimes even a really great one) that does not end in a national championship. 1977, 1985, 1989, 1994, and even 2019 are good examples.

Once upon a time, you could hang your hat on, "yes, this was a rough year, but we have 20 solid freshmen coming up and year after next we are going to be damn good, might even win it." The transfer portal has ended that type of building job.

And the decline began before DeBoer got here, too. Our offensive line hasn't been jack squat (with a few stellar game exceptions) since the 2020 national title game. Our play calling looks like a mental institution is polled with a phone vote before each snap, our game strategy (the 4th and 1 early) looked like a one-armed cokehead playing Madden, and I've seen better pass protection in bars where the bouncer doubled as a pimp.

"Oh, but we've got a bunch of four and five stars!"

Yep - and 4- and 5-stars won WW2 and lost Vietnam, too.

2026 is only on day 2 but it’s going to take a staunch effort for anyone to top this post!

 

[tusks_n_raider]

It was absolutely a failure with an exclamation tacked on at the end.

We opened with a 2 TD loss to a 5-7 FSU team.

Inexcusable.

That ‘Run’ we went on vs Top 25 SEC teams didn’t age well.

Mizzou and Tenn both finished 8-5 and Vandy more or less got exposed near the end even with a 10-3 finish.

UGA we traded wins but they actually won the one that really matters by winning the SEC Championship.

OU we traded wins so it’s a wash I guess.

But we had so many games where we looked completely unprepared and then show almost no ability to adjust and especially on Offense.

We are a SOFT SOFT team that only sporadically plays well off of emotion from momentum swings and that’s not sustainable.

We got absolutely EMBARRASSED by both UGA and Indiana and it’s just unacceptable.

Of the numerous Saban Disciplines left standing going into the quarterfinals (except for Pete) you could put their names on a piece of paper on a wall and throw a dart and hit a name that builds a WAY tougher team than what we have now.

This PAC-12 staff needs to go.