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  1. My post was what non-autists know as “sarcasm”. No shit you have whines about the RB room. Strong work ignoring the consequences of actually bringing in this ethereal quality, proven, healthy back from the portal as well.
  2. Alabama is poor right now as it relates to NIL and renovations, but they're not a poor university. Allowing an employee to insist that you escrow the money due to their concerns about your solvency would get someone fired. They're unlikely to get pushed around by an agent/lawyer trying to force them into an escrow account. The whole point of negotiating something like a monthly payout is to avoid something else, like cash crunch by having to fork over the bulk of $60M to someone or a neutral account controlled by a third party.
  3. It's a hamstring injury, supposedly. Nope. What you see against Ohio State in Columbus in his first game back is what you're getting for the next two seasons, or just this one after Small Game Steve pushes the dude onto the trapdoor and pulls the lever, dropping him into the portal due to his lack of explosiveness.
  4. His contract runs through the end of 2031. I refuse to do simple math for a suspected adult. Even you should be able to figure it out using your jumbo indigo crayon and Big Chief tablet.
  5. Correct. I asked my buddy involved there at the dawn of legal NIL if $5M was too much for them to handle in the new era and they said "there is no way we could handle competing with that." Now, $5M seems quaint these days, but the problem hasn't really changed for them as the numbers have grown. They used to win recruiting titles each cycle with a budget between $500k and $1M depending upon the year. Ohio State and a few others had more than that, but Saban did actually get a discount most of the time.
  6. Look, I understand that a working knowledge of high finance isn't a requirement for apprentice forklift drivers, but a rudimentary understanding of the basics of cashflow management never hurt anyone.
  7. They were playing Ohio State with an ultra conservative gameplan. I just don't think you can take too much away from that one. Also, is there a Bijan in all of CFB this year? Or most years? I know you're a big Reuben Owens fan and that others here have been stanning for Jadyn Ott, but I don't see it.
  8. Is this some sort of challenge you’re issuing to Codaxx and Red Five, sir? If so, these are men who will absolutely meet the moment.
  9. I don’t take a whole lot away from the Ohio State game on the offensive end. The OL looked better than I hoped. Endries looks good. Other than that and Manning shitting his pants, not much there to consider. On the RBs, they just used their comfort guys, probably by plan. Good God, man. They’re not going to be the only guys getting carries. Those guys are high on quality P4 backs nonetheless.
  10. Six RBs isn't enough to your liking?
  11. Here's an article by one of their writers that goes into a little depth around the money situation at Bama. (Spoiler alert: it's not good) And that they won't be buying Deboer out any time soon.
  12. The guys on XM 84 have been bragging about Perkins all week after the Clemson game. Maybe he has a bounce back season. Not discrediting your thoughts because I am also a skeptic and he was absolutely a resource drain last year. Arkansas better be on the lookout, though. Regarding Worthy, the guy was ridiculously strong. He could also throw the ball like a QB. He's gifted, physically. On the NIL side, one of the most common reasons players leave programs is that they want more or the same money as the prior cycle and the program doesn't see them as worth that. They threaten to find someone who will pay what they ask and the school tells them "you should go do that". Obviously, Iamaleava is the best example of that drama, but closer to home is Amari Niblack, who wanted a re-up after a lost season. ATM was dumb enough to offer to make that happen after Texas passed.
  13. HOLY FUCKING SHIT!! You're intentionally drawing a comparison between 3 close losses to Georgia, Ohio State and Ohio State to losses to Vanderbilt (7-6), Tennessee (10-3), OU (6-7), Michigan (8-5) and unranked FSU? Can you elaborate on your thinking? Williams, per consensus on the Bama boards, is making $2.3M minimum this season. If you didn't get a chance to see him in the back half of last year or in the FSU game, that payout might make sense, but I don't see him being worth that. He weighs 170 pounds. Teams after the Vandy game last year started bullying him at the LOS and he struggled to get loose. The back 6 games of last year plus the FSU game, Williams has caught for 246 yards, 35 ypg, and 1 TD (another TD against mighty Mercer running the ball as well). SCar was their 6th game of last season and they were the first defense to fully mug the guy at the LOS. They devised a really smart solution heading into this season of putting him in the slot and having him run middle of the field slot routes. He went 5 for 30 and got knocked out of the game. He was a complete nonfactor even though, with 11 targets, Bama damned sure wanted that to be the case. So, yeah, maybe he heads elsewhere for more money, but I sure as shit hope it isn't Texas being willing to pay it. To the point about S&C, I do think the guy needs to add significantly more upper body strength, irrespective of whether that's a lot of additional weight (doesn't have to be). If S&C is broken at Alabama, him going somewhere else might really work, but I still wouldn't say that if $2.3M+ is the asking price.
  14. Some journalist, and I don't remember who, posted on X the other day that the payments would be monthly until the contract expired. If that's true, there's no lump sum to worry over, therefore canning him might actually be doable. I don't know if what that person wrote is true or not, but I thought that was plausible. If you're a coach and Bama fires a proven winner just 2 years into his deal, and Saban still looms large over the program, does being the next guy sound that appealing? Any coach on the list of candidates would know fully well that Bama didn't have the same NIL as other programs, putting significant risk on recruiting and retention. Yeah, they have a highly ranked class now, but their retention has been trash. They're always going to have to push and pull in one direction or the other.
  15. Am I the only one here who thinks that, ironically, if Nebraska had stayed in the Big 12 and Texas and OU left for the SEC anyway, that Nebraska would be the program benefitting the most in the new structure? They'd be playing in Texas every year, so recruiting would be vastly improved with that and games regularly in Florida as well. They'd be the sole blue blood within the conference and they'd have a lot of say. They'd likely also be primed to win at a higher clip. I don't know, maybe I'm crazy. I like thinking about that, though. They're effectively trapped in some nightmare regardless, I guess.
  16. That was texlarry. Yeah, the olds were all pissed on GoBig12. I was a lurker and not a poster during that period. Various candidates were brought up and rumored to be interviewing. A contingent of people wanted Mack Brown but didn't think he'd take the job because he was set up pretty well in Chapel Hill. My view was that that dude was a dream hire. I was pretty excited when he was hired. I never wanted Barnett and a lot of folks were "meh" on him. I wanted no part of Steve Patterson, Barnes, Strong, Herman (I'd slightly interacted with Herman and we lived near each other and folks who lived by him had nothing nice to say about the guy), Pierce or Sarkisian. I thought CDC, Garrido, Brown, Shaka Smart, and Schlossnagle were awesome hires. I'm pretty "meh" on Miller. Somewhere along the way, like I said earlier, I have realized that skepticism is always warranted and that personally, my initial reaction is to be ignored.
  17. Good points. Mack Brown was a slam dunk hire that worked out. They're out there, but it happens far less than surface thinking would tell you. These days, I just basically start with skepticism, because I've been wrong in either direction so many times. Like you, I thought Deboer would just keep Bama winning and I still wonder if he can pull that off, but time is not on his side. The Bama 247 site is an abattoir for all things Deboer. The writers are slamming him, boosters are sharpening their knives and talking to the $9.95ers, and ex-players are publicly running the current players and staff over. In the meantime, Deboer states yesterday to the press that he's "proud of his team" and "has their back". The "proud" comment is being shredded because that is the antithesis of something Saban would say after a humiliating defeat.
  18. The backup for the injured DT, Keenan, was Jeremiah Beaman. Beaman was a high 4 star in the 2024 class. He tore his knee up yesterday in practice and will be out for the year. On top of everything else, injuries are starting to mount for Bama. You hate to see it. The Crimson Tide are down to 6 healthy DTs. They have a junior starter in James Smith, 2 freshmen, a redshirt sophomore who has been a disappointment, a transfer from Florida who's done nothing and wasn't on last week's depth chart and then some other dude who didn't even travel last week. Thin isn't a descriptive enough word.
  19. Who is this Drew character? I like the non-Cowboy fan NFL thread idea.
  20. I expect to have a pretty good time tomorrow night watching that one, pretty much enough to be okay with not having CFB. Do Cowboys fans post a game thread? I might have to check that one out.
  21. I have never put my UT or Astro stuff away, for any reason. Don't be a coelenterate. My affiliation with Texas runs way, way deeper than any outcome on a playing surface. Holy shit.
  22. I thought you just weren't around much in order to avoid having to answer for the performance from your preseason "Best OL in the SEC" selection, the Alabama Crimson Tide. 😁 Who said they aren't actually going to watch the games? I feel like you're holding back a little. Dig deep and tell us how you really feel.
  23. I am biased because I have friends who were involved, but from the sounds of it, Deboer's S&C and Nutrition & Wellness programs have gone to absolute shit. The AD went in the week after Saban retired and fired the entire N&W group, including Saban's longest tenured direct report (and a longhorn). These programs going into decline has been discussed on Bama boards from the fan and insider perspectives and I've kind of been dismissive of it. Yet, last Saturday looked like more of the same from the end of last season, in which the opponent looked much more ready for the 4th quarter than Bama did. Anyway, I was looking at some things on the Michigan Insider board today and they had a write-up about Damon Payne, the DT transfer from Bama to Michigan who arrived last winter. The guy was highly rated as a recruit and then underperformed at Bama, especially last season. He had a really good game against New Mexico and he's surprised everyone up there with how much he's developed. Here's quite the telling quote from him comparing his situation at Michigan versus his time with S&C at Bama: “[Damon Payne] has done a great job of getting himself in shape. It's funny. We talked this week because we're playing Oklahoma. They played him last year when he was at Alabama, and there's a couple of clips of him on tape. And I said, ‘Man, you look different.’ And he goes, ‘Coach, we run a lot more here. We work out differently. I feel way better.’”
  24. I get all of that, but there are plenty of threads in which none of that is happening, including this one. Still plenty of good stuff on the general CFB front. I'll never understand why all of you guys go and read the game threads after a loss. I have quite literally never done that. It has to be utterly mind-numbing if it isn't infuriating.
  25. The writers on 247 have been foreshadowing the playing early of Fasusi and Fodje since the spring, and they've been touting this as a good thing. Fodje looked lost at times on Saturday. Not every highly ranked OL is Kelvin Banks. He's an exception to the notion that freshmen OL should be redshirted. Numerous people who evaluated both players, including before they were OU signees, said they'd need at least a year inside of whoever's program they signed with last December. So, wait, OU won the OL lottery not once, but twice, in the same signing period? Right. Fodje graded out at 61.2 for his first game against an FCS opponent. I wonder how that score is going to look after this weekend? The reality is that these guys are being rushed to play because OU has absolute dogshit for personnel on the OL. They let Bedenbaugh take a 3 year nap in recruiting and they've failed to fix that in the portal. Now they've got numerous injuries, again, and bad options, so here we go.
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