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5 hours ago, closetojumping said:

What is your use of the word "actually" meant to imply here? That setting Williams up to be bracketed on the reg is actually strategically intelligent?

While losing a game your team was thoroughly dominated in.

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On 9/4/2025 at 12:28 PM, Not a Sock said:

I can see Ryan Williams ending up on a similar path to Harold Perkins. Be a 5* recruit, play absolutely out of your mind during a game your freshman year, be declared a generational talent and then proceed to not do much and play out of position while being a massive NIL resource sink.

Seems like the kind of player Tech would love to overpay for and then crow about their portal prowess. 

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On 9/4/2025 at 2:57 PM, DFW Horn said:

DeBoer was a fool to leave U-Dub for this situation. But he'll enjoy the buyout life for a while before he lands his next gig. The money and Bama's pedigree were too good to pass up.

Nobody taking a $63M guaranteed deal is a fool. 

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On 9/4/2025 at 12:31 PM, Bama Llama said:

I have witnessed Alabama football doing some desert wandering a few times in my 65 or so years of relatively focused and sentient observations. I don’t trash opponents (with one notable exception) and I don’t bail on coaches and bitch about them after the fact.  I don’t give one shit what anyone says on Finebaum or social media.  I am thankful for the effort Paul Bryant, Gene Stallings and Nick Saban put forth when they coached in Tuscaloosa. I am hopelessly addicted to following this team come what may. I was not shocked to see Bryant or Saban retire, don’t blame either of them for wanting peace in their lives. Bryant smoked too many unfiltered Chesterfields to have a retirement break.  I hope Saban has many years and doesn’t make the mistake of returning to corching. I am keeping my promise to give Kalen DeBoer a two year pass and hope he finds success here or somewhere.  All this ridiculing by ignorant deconstuctive critics accomplishes nothing. Poor Mike Shula had a meh first press conference, after which Finebaum and other muckrakers said he was not a good “fit.” I say all comparisons are odious and we should light a few candles rather than curse the darkness, or we’ll be wandering in the darkness for a dozen years like the Burnt Orange after Pasadena. Never give up or give in. Never concede.

i went down to the Swamp in 1991 and saw Stallings’ second Bama team get crushed 35-0, and all you heard was get rid of Stallings, he was a loser in the NFL, he’ll never win at Alabama. The next week we had an ugly win over UGA at Bryant-Denny, and didn’t lose again for 29 games. Patience, motherfuckers!

 

You’re a good fan. You remind me of one we used to have many years ago, Cowboy3949 (RIP). He posted once, “Running down your head football coach in public leads to positive outcomes like talking bad about your wife in public”. 

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On 9/5/2025 at 10:31 AM, closetojumping said:

What is your use of the word "actually" meant to imply here? That setting Williams up to be bracketed on the reg is actually strategically intelligent?

No I just meant it's hard to tell because it was one game at a new position and he was doubled the entire time with net positive results. I agree he looked pretty beat up but that could have happened to anybody. 

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Questionable this week for Bama's home game against Wisconsin in which Bama is currently favored by 21.5 points:

-WR Ryan Williams (concussion)

-RB Jam Miller (shoulder) - Deboer said he will probably play this weekend.

-DT Tim Keenan (Ankle/Tightrope Surgery) - unlikely

-OLB Jah-Marien Latham (lowerl leg injury) - unlikely

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On 9/5/2025 at 9:05 PM, statsman said:

You’re a good fan. You remind me of one we used to have many years ago, Cowboy3949 (RIP). He posted once, “Running down your head football coach in public leads to positive outcomes like talking bad about your wife in public”. 

I dunno what, if any, influence bitching about Strong or Herman had, but the ultimate outcome was getting rid of them both. I'm okay with that reality. 

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My daughter was a freshman at UA during the brief Price “era.”  He had a habit of turning up semi-hammered at the coded gate of his on campus condominium at the same time as coveys of lithe, nubile coeds coming in from bar crawling, asking if they could punch the code to open the gate to the elevator because he had forgotten what day it was.  My daughter was not one of the coeds and no pics, you sick fucks.  The players LOVED Mike Price and lobbied the AD to keep him even after the Pensacola strippers incident.  Shades lof Hugh Freeze!

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2 hours ago, Bama Llama said:

My daughter was a freshman at UA during the brief Price “era.”  He had a habit of turning up semi-hammered at the coded gate of his on campus condominium at the same time as coveys of lithe, nubile coeds coming in from bar crawling, asking if they could punch the code to open the gate to the elevator because he had forgotten what day it was.  My daughter was not one of the coeds and no pics, you sick fucks.  The players LOVED Mike Price and lobbied the AD to keep him even after the Pensacola strippers incident.  Shades lof Hugh Freeze!

I’ll never forget watching that press conference where he stepped down. Multiple players were there in support of Price. One of my favorites of that era, Shaud Williams, was sobbing. Dark days for the Bama faithful. 

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It's actually kind of funny that Price only really missed that one season. He slid right into that UTEP gig and coached there for a decade. And he still has a helluva story to tell.

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7 hours ago, Blotto said:

It's actually kind of funny that Price only really missed that one season. He slid right into that UTEP gig and coached there for a decade. And he still has a helluva story to tell.

His stripper companions literally ordered two of everything on the room service breakfast menu, using his UA credit card. 

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12 hours ago, squib said:

I’ll never forget watching that press conference where he stepped down. Multiple players were there in support of Price. One of my favorites of that era, Shaud Williams, was sobbing. Dark days for the Bama faithful. 

"oh shaudie...you're just so cute and don't you know it."

 

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To open the 2002 game in Fayetteville, Arkansas kicked the football out of the back of the end zone.  On the first play from scrimmage, “Shaudie” took a draw play 80 yards to the house, untouched.  Pound for pound, that guy was one the best college football players I ever saw.  Tough, fast, sure handed.  His tearful argument to keep Mike Price was eloquent but the die had been cast. I’ll remember Shaud when our defense tries to handle Mike Shula’s offense at South Carolina in a few weeks.

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2 hours ago, Bama Llama said:

To open the 2002 game in Fayetteville, Arkansas kicked the football out of the back of the end zone.  On the first play from scrimmage, “Shaudie” took a draw play 80 yards to the house, untouched.  Pound for pound, that guy was one the best college football players I ever saw.  Tough, fast, sure handed.  His tearful argument to keep Mike Price was eloquent but the die had been cast. I’ll remember Shaud when our defense tries to handle Mike Shula’s offense at South Carolina in a few weeks.

Shaud was a stud. Came out of Andrews in West Texas a bit small and under ranked. He had a great freshman year at Tech and then got injured and transferred to Bama after his second year (back when you had to sit a year). I think he also hadn’t signed up to play for Leach and wanted to be at the center of a rushing attack. 
 

Under Spyke Tech had some really, really solid RBs. Bam Morris, Byron Hanspard, their own Ricky Williams. After his freshman year folks thought Shaud would be the next one and he was- for Bama. 

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It's Kane Wommack vs. Diego Pavia in Tuscaloosa. There's a formula out to beat Kalen DeBoer's Alabama and Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia knows it by heart, because he invented it. In Vandy's 40-35 upset of then-No. 1 Alabama last season, Pavia totaled 40 combined rushes and passes, while Alabama ran 45 plays... total.

In their 24-3 win over the Tide last November, Oklahoma called just 11 pass plays to 25 runs for Jackson Arnold. In their 31-17 win over the Tide to open this season, Tommy Castellanos completed just nine passes for 152 yards while carrying the ball 16 times. Alabama's defenses have consistently struggled to contain the quarterback run game dating back to the Nick Saban era, and that has not changed when the defense changed hands to Wommack. They're often confused and a step slow to react, and also high on their own supply. Last year's Vandy loss came the week after the Georgia win (sound familiar?), and Oklahoma two weeks after the Tide beat LSU by nearly 30 points in Baton Rouge. The Michigan and Florida State losses came after long layoffs. 

So, there's a lot to like here if you're No. 16 Vanderbilt (3:30 p.m. ET, ABC). And for as dangerous as Vanderbilt is in the run game, the pass game has added a new element to punish wandering eyes. Last year, the 'Dores completed 30 passes of 20-plus yards across 13 games; they're already at 20 through five contests this year. 

The problem for Vandy, however, is that if we're aware of all this, No. 10 Alabama is, too. The Commodores are not going to sneak into Bryant-Denny Stadium undetected and disrespected. And for all the struggles DeBoer has had, they've all come away from home. He's 9-0 at home. If Alabama jumps out early, it's tough to see Vanderbilt overcoming event a modest deficit on the road.

But let's say Vandy's up 14-7 midway through the second quarter, goes on a 7-minute drive to set up a field goal with a minute and a half left before halftime, and Vandy gets the ball to open the second half. Alabama is going to feel like it's drowning on dry land. 

The stakes for Vanderbilt. Officially, this is the biggest game since Oct. 4, 2008, when GameDay came to Nashville for No. 13 Auburn at No. 19 Vanderbilt, a game the 'Dores won and moved up to No. 13 before dropping their next four on their way to a 7-6 finish. Vanderbilt also enjoyed back-to-back 9-win seasons under James Franklin, ending both 2012 and '13 in the AP Top 25. So it's not as if you have to go back to ancient times to find successful Commodore squads.

But, c'mon. A win here likely vaults Vanderbilt into the AP top-10 for the first time since 1947 and fully moves Clark Lea's team into the upper echelon of the conference. They are by no means home free with a win here -- after a bye, Vandy gets LSU, Missouri and Texas in succession -- but if you can beat Alabama at Alabama, who can't you beat? 

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