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The biggest SEC takeaways from Week 1 of 2025 - Saturday Down South
SEC Takeaways - Forget the Alabama you knew. It’s officially dead.
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The biggest SEC takeaways from Week 1 of 2025 - Saturday Down South
The dead period between Bryant and Stallings - and the dead period between Stallings and Saban - well, they in another one.
It was virtually inevitable, and I was almost reluctant to qualify it with "virtually." I don't think it's because DeBoer, or whoever "the next guy" was to be, can't win a national title at Alabama. But it's probably inevitable that Alabama fans aren't going to have the patience to wait for it.
I don't know where they got captain Gump and I don't care. He's clearly not a good fit for Bama and never was. I understand no one can fill Saban's shoes but IMHO, Bama could have done much better in their hiring process. Don't know what they were thinking.
Here's a telling stat. If you look at the Week 3 schedule on ESPN's website, it says tickets for our game against Vandy can be bought currently from $199. The Arkansas at Ole Miss game, for $97. South Alabama at Auburn for $75. Louisiana-Lafayette at Mizzou for $99. UTEP at Texas for $72. You get the picture.
But tickets for Wisconsin at Alabama can currently be bought from $37.
But tickets for Wisconsin at Alabama can currently be bought from $37.
Nope. Definitely wasn't gonna be a north midwesterner / rebranded west coast guy going to the SEC (and Alabama.....and following Saban...) that kept things going close to where they were. Whole new look to that team, and to be fair maybe some of that is the portal BS. Still though....their play is nothing close to how tough, technical and unrelenting as under Saban.
I am very curious about what Bama's actual NIL budget is, as it compares to others.
But yeah, this guy doesn't appear to be a fit at all.
Deboer has 4 losses to unranked teams through 14 games at Bama.
Saban had 4 losses to unranked teams in his 203 career games at Bama.
Bama fans are not going to put up with this very long. It will be calamitous if they lose to Wisconsin, setting them up for a 1-3 start after a presumed loss to UGA.
But, hey it's college football. No sport generates instant overreactions quite like college football. We very well may have a UNC/Bama national title game before it's all said and done.
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He was an integral part.
Which was a big problem with Alabama last year. They were 116th in college football with 7.4 penalties/game. Eight penalties against FSU is right on track to continue that trend.
We only have 2 games to go by, but except for the scripted first series against VT, I'm not impressed. We may win 8 or 9 games but it will be because of Sellers talent not the reputed offensive genius on the sideline.
I hope I am very wrong.
They are all members of the BCA Bad Coaches Association. To prevent pollution all bad coaches are recycled into assistants. Look at whammy. He got recycled 3-4 times
He took the Panthers to the SB as OC with Cam Newton at QB. That is why people thought he would be great with Sellers.
I think it’s time for people to realize that Alabama is Alabama when Alabama has a great coach. They were great under Bryant, Stallings, and Saban. Otherwise they’ve been OK and sometimes not even that.
Cam Newton didn't need Shula to win a national championship. I doubt Shula was the reason they reached a SB. Who's to say they wouldn't have actually won it all with a different coach?
Flash in the pan mainly due to the creativity of the quarterback - which will have to be the case now.
I read his Wikipedia resume and there were a couple of bright moments. And I know that coaches get fired. But seems like he was fired from every job he's ever had. Some could barely wait for him to be gone. These are the kind of coaches Shane can get. His Best Man, Loggains, and this guy. Personally I never had a problem with that guy at TCU.
An Alabama fan called Finebaum's show and said if Deboer was on life support, he would pull the plug and use it to charge his phone.
I'd be curious to know how much Alabama's NIL situation is due to lack of resources vs lack of urgency. It could just be that Alabama wasn't very aggressive in developing NIL b/c they didn't really need to. NIL or not, a good chunk of top recruits would line up to play for Saban's Bama.